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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.

see shopping cart

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

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

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

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

In 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.

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

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