Keypoints
Environment at scale
A commerce environment can be created or destroyed in minutes using a UI process
Lower environment can be schedule to be available on working hours only
Commerce components can be enabled or disabled based on project needs in order to manage resources and costs
Self consistent Team
The development team can entirely rely on itself and focus on project activities
Project team can perform standard IT task with minimum devops support
Project team can create and destroy environments, deploy custom images, activate/deactivate components, perform basic troubleshooting
DB schema decoupled
DB schema generation decoupled from deployment
Database schemas created with a UI wizard and stored in a blob storage with metadata
Ability to associate a database schema containing different sets of data (catalog, users, etc) to any commerce environment
From Zero to Hero
As Is vs Crowlify out of the box HCL commerce setup
Docker Images
Manually download HCL commerce Docker images
All binaries are already downloaded
Helm chart
Manually download HCL Commerce Helm chart
Commerce Helm chart already available
Kubernetes cluster
Setup Kubernetes cluster in public or private cloud considering Commerce requirements
Kubernetes cluster available in Crowlify or using an existing customer service account
Database Server
Setup database infrastructure
Database servers available in containers for lower environment (free for Oracle)
Database Schema
Setup Commerce schema for the project
Commerce schema created via UI wizard
Continuous Delivery
Setup continuous delivery process
Continuous delivery by design in Crowlify
Total time
Estimation: 4 to 8 weeks
Estimation: 2 hours
As is commerce setup
With Crowlify
Details are not details
Build
Crowlify simplifies the build process of HCL Commerce custom images connecting to the customer custom code repository and implementing a basic continuous integration process integrated with the product
Data Processes
Crowlify API are abstracting the Commerce data command line utilities complexity transforming a data engineer task in a simpler office operation
Automatic Tests
After every deployment, a set of automatic tests is executed to validate it and all test results are shown in a dedicated test dashboard
Cloud Infrastructure
Crowlify hides the complexity of a HCL Commerce kubernetes deployment and allows to control the costs of operational environments scheduling their availability, especially for lower environments
The reasons why
For new or existing HCL Commerce customers, Crowlify is the accelerator that hide the cloud and Kubernetes complexities and clear the path to a true Commerce composable solution
Simplified Operations
Crowlify is an operation platform that simplifies the process of creating and handling HCL Commerce environments without the need for a dedicated DevOps team. This reduces the knowledge gap for retail customers to be introduced to the Docker-Kubernetes world.
Cost Savings
With Crowlify, customers can optimize their environment usage without keeping the infrastructure always on, aligning the availability to business hours.
Time to market
With Crowlify customers can put the business features at the center, turning on ephemeral Commerce environments whenever a feature needs to be released.
Security
Crowlify provides a secure and reliable platform for managing HCL Commerce environments accessing the customer infrastructure or using an internal hosting with a sandbox approach.
Smoother migration
We created a migration pattern to help the customer end to end, moving to the new version and using Crowlify to reduce the impact on introducing a new technology stack.
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A strong team behind
Our team is made of experienced professional with a successful track record on HCL Commerce projects. Their experience brought us to understand our clients needs and produce the best HCL orchestrator.
+100
eCommerce projects handled
8
HCL Commerce versions managed
400
Years of experience in HCL Commerce field
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