SAP Commerce

SAP Commerce (formerly SAP Hybris Commerce) is part of the Customer Experience (CX) portfolio under the SAP C/4HANA suite.

Due to the design and business purpose and the nature of SAP Commerce, the installation, deployment, and additional development code is much more suited to a DevOps way of working. Project teams often use agile SDLC/PM methodologies (such as Scrum or SAFe). As an example of the flexibility, SAP Commerce runs across multiple different Operating Systems that are supported by SapMachine, a downstream OpenJDK release that is maintained and supported by SAP.

Therefore, deployments of SAP Commerce are available in different variants; we detail the following to assist understanding what IBM Cloud® for SAP can provide:

SAP Commerce "on-premises edition" variants:
- SAP Commerce "on-premises edition" with on-premises data center
- SAP Commerce "on-premises edition" on Cloud IaaS
SAP Commerce Cloud (PaaS solution) variants:
- SAP Commerce Cloud hosted on SAP Infrastructure (also known as CCv1 using VMs)
- SAP Commerce Cloud in the Public Cloud (also known as CCv2 using Kubernetes)

Within the IBM Cloud® for SAP portfolio, infrastructure is supported for SAP Commerce "on-premises edition" on Cloud IaaS.

This solution involves an installation of the SAP Commerce software onto Cloud IaaS, according to SAP installation and best practice guidance:

For a typical development environment of SAP Commerce, it is straightforward (compared to other SAP software) to shut down the instantiation/s and reduce costs outside of business hours through less Cloud resource consumption; however, depending on the implementation the time to start again can be significant. This decision is required by the project team, and might not be suitable if a worldwide development team is in-place.

More information is available on cxwiki.sap.com and sap.com/cxworks.

IBM Power Virtual Servers are not available for SAP Commerce