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A channel application for all administrative tasks, including organization management, channel management, catalog management, content management, etc.

The term back office is valid until Enfinity Suite 6. For Intershop 7/Intershop Commerce Management, use the specific management tool name, like Commerce Management.

An accumulation over time of work waiting to be done.

A bank account is a financial account with a banking institution, recording the financial transactions between a person (customer) or a company (client) and the bank.

A bank account will be identified by

• account owner (first and last name)
• national identification
  • account number
  • bank identification number (German: Bankleitzahl)
• international identification (across national borders)
  • international bank account number (IBAN)
  • bank identifier code (BIC)

The BIC code (also known as SWIFT-BIC, SWIFT ID or SWIFT code) is a standard format of Bank Identifier Codes approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It is the unique identification code of a particular bank. These codes are used when transferring money between banks, particularly for international wire transfers, and also for the exchange of other messages between banks. The codes can sometimes be found on account statements.

There are two types of BIC: 8 character BIC (also called "BIC8") and 11 character BIC ("BIC11"). A BIC8 identifies a financial institution in a country or a location. A BIC11 identifies the financial institution’s branch.

The structure of an 8 character BIC: bank code, country code, location code

The structure of an 11 character BIC:
Optionally, an 8 character BIC can be extended to an 11 character BIC by adding a branch code.

in Enfinity Suite 6's CMC, the process of first merging a content asset version of an outdated edition with the root edition and then removing the outdated edition

see shopping cart

The basket calculation framework of Intershop 7/Intershop Commerce Management is a framework that covers all tasks required when calculating baskets (shopping carts) or order-xs. The idea behind this framework is the spreadsheet functionality - values are stored in cells, and you can define rules to be executed once a required value is available.

Generally, batch processing is execution of a series of programs ("jobs") on a computer without manual intervention. In Enfinity Suite 6, Intershop 7 and Intershop Commerce Management, it refers to the bundled processing of mass data.

container that saves all changes and states that bids adopted during an auction

Black-box testing is a method of software testing that tests the functionality of an application as opposed to its internal structures or workings (see white box test).
Specific knowledge of the application's code/internal structure and programming knowledge in general is not required. Test cases are built around specifications and requirements, i.e., what the application is supposed to do. It uses external descriptions of the software, including specifications, requirements, and designs to derive test cases. These tests can be functional or non-functional. The test designer selects valid and invalid inputs and determines the correct output. There is no knowledge of the test object's internal structure.

A bonus card, loyalty card, rewards card, points card, advantage card, or club card is a plastic or paper card, visually similar to a credit card or debit card, that identifies the card holder as a member in a loyalty program. Loyalty cards are a system of the loyalty business model.

In Enfinity Suite 6, a product pricing means to complement marketing activities in the consumer channel - consumers can collect bonus points granted for products and then redeem them for other products. With bonus points, each product defines a bonus point value and a bonus point price.

Generally, bonus points are a part of loyalty programs. The consumer can collect bonus points under certain conditions defined by the client.

The precondition to collect bonus points have to be considered. That could be:

• special products
• restricted customer group
• certain time period
• based on a total order value

The influence of returns or order cancellation on the collected bonus points have to be considered.

in product pricing, the parameter that specifies how many bonus points a user needs to redeem in order to buy this product

in product pricing, the parameter that determines how many bonus points a user will earn when buying this product

Generally, bootstrap (or "bootstrapping") can refer to any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, finance, etc., see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(disambiguation).

In the context of Intershop 7/Intershop Commerce Management, two concepts are relevant:

1. In the Gradle-based software deployment (see continuous integration), bootstrap refers to a minimum initialization, which is intended to load the (complex) deploy-settings-gradle script of an assembly. It then hands over to this script for the actual deployment process.
2. Bootstrap is the name of a JavaScript-based front-end development framework, a free collection of tools for creating web sites and web applications, which is used for the Intershop Contact Center UI.

In a source code management system, a branch is the duplication of an object (such as a source code file, or a directory tree) so that modifications can happen without interfering with the originating branch ("parent" branch).

Branching generally implies the ability to later merge or integrate changes back onto the parent branch.

For specific purposes, there can be feature branches or stabilization branches.

Logos, colors and other settings that define the look and feel of a channel application (storefront of a webstore), see application branding

Generally, a means to define spending limits for users or certain parts of an organization within a definable time frame.

In Intershop 7/Intershop Commerce Management, promotions can be assigned a budget, which if spent takes the promotion offline regardless of other settings.

the fact of exceeding a given budget amount

Depending on the context, "build" may refer to

• the process of converting ("compiling") source code into deployable components (see build process)
• the result of doing so, i.e., the produced executable software or the deployment component, which is ready for being combined with others in an assembly process.

The process of converting ("compiling") source code into executable software.

In the Intershop 7 context, several build process types were employed (up to Intershop 7.4):

• smoke build
• rolling build
• latest build

Beginning with the continuous integration support for Intershop 7 and Intershop Commerce Management, Intershop replaces this approach with

• snapshot build
• nightly build
• release build

In software engineering, a build server is a machine on which a software project can be continuously built  from changes changes to development artifacts that are committed to the VCS.

A business activity is one workflow sequence of a business use case. It reflects a business concept and can cover different system use cases. A particular business activity can be performed in the context of multiple business use cases, like, for example, the BA "log in customer".

A business address is an address of a business office or a company.

Up to Enfinity Suite 6.4, a pre-defined channel type that enables sales organizations and partners to offer goods and services to business customer organizations, to interact with business customer organizations and to receive orders from them.

This concept has become obsolete with Intershop 7.

The business channel component within the sales organization back office, used by administrators of the parent organization that hosts the business channel. This plug-in allows for managing customers, channel catalogs and products, content and orders.

In Intershop 7/Intershop Commerce Management, a customer type that represents a business. As opposed to individual customers, business customers

• can be assigned multiple users, which can be managed
• are presented net prices by default
• ...

Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. Business intelligence may also refer to the collected information itself.
BI applications provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence applications are reporting, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarks, text mining, and predictive analytics.

Generally, the logical representation of an entity of the real world. From a developer's perspective, a business object (a.k.a. "domain object") represents a logic entity in a given domain, including attributes, relationships, business rules/logic, policies and constraints.

See business object layer.

The business object layer provides an explicit business-oriented domain model as an API. In a picture that shows the typical architecture layers of a business application, it can be located on top of the persistence layer (or data layer), and below the application layer that forms the actual application from a reusable domain layer - the business object layer.

It forms a new level of abstraction over the persistent state of objects. It comes with concepts to change and extend the behavior of business objects without breaking the cartridge API barrier. It hides the underlying internal implementation, which can still be based on the existing ORM model, or on any other back end. It also provides a more object-oriented view on the available business functionality, which, for example, makes user interface development much easier.

The business object layer provides an explicit business-oriented domain model as an API. In a picture that shows the typical architecture layers of a business application, it can be located on top of the persistence layer (or data layer), and below the application layer that forms the actual application from a reusable domain layer - the business object layer.

It forms a new level of abstraction over the persistent state of objects. It comes with concepts to change and extend the behavior of business objects without breaking the cartridge API barrier. It hides the underlying internal implementation, which can still be based on the existing ORM model, or on any other back end. It also provides a more object-oriented view on the available business functionality, which, for example, makes user interface development much easier.

A business partner is an actor (a person or a company) who initiates actively a business use case or is involved to perform the business use case or a part of it.

Generally, a business process is a collection of related, structured business activities that produce a specific result (serve a particular goal) required to reach the (e-commerce) company's business goals. It is a bracket for different business use cases related to the same topic, like order management, product management or fulfillment.

In the procurement business model, relations established between buying organizations and suppliers to allow the buying organization to access and order from supplier catalogs.

A business role reflects a group of persons performing the same business activities of a business use case.

Up to Enfinity Suite 6.4, a front-end channel application of the business channel, used by administrators and buyers of customer organizations. The business storefront allows for organization management, requisition approval, product search and comparison, and requisition and order tracking.

This concept has become obsolete with Intershop 7.

Business tracking is a framework that collects and provides event data for defined events to third party applications (web analytics engines and recommendation engines, which collect data, generate reports and present the results). The business tracking framework defines events that can be triggered, provides components to developers, and offers interfaces and managers for web analytics engines or recommendation engines respectively.

As opposed to the system use case, the business use case describes a business sequence (as part of a business process), which is triggered by an active business actor and which generally results in a benefit from the business point of view.

In management, business value is an informal term that includes all forms of value that determine the health and well-being of the firm. Business value expands concept of value of the firm beyond economic value to include other forms of value such as customer value, supplier value, partner value, and managerial value. Many of these forms of value are not directly measured in monetary terms.
Business value often embraces intangible assets not necessarily attributable to any stakeholder group. Examples include intellectual capital and a firm's business model.
(taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_value)

Intershop produces business value by delivering:

• software (product, functional and non functional product improvements, documentation)
• services (consulting, support, training, shop management, online marketing, customer service, etc.)
• events (exhibitions, conferences, educational cooperations)

In B2B scenarios, a buyer represents a user role of a business customer with the permission to create orders.

catalog made available to the buyers in a buying organization

an item (i.e., a topic) in RFQ template questionnaires to be completed by the buyer

Enfinity Suite 6 actor that represents a self-contained business organization acting on the buy-side of the procurement model

A front-end channel application of the procurement channel, used by all users of buying organizations, regardless of their particular role (administrator, approver, buyer, order manager.) Depending on the role, the buying organization front end allows for managing the organization, products and catalogs, approval workflows and budget escalations, requisitions, and auctions and RFQs.