Introducing AEM Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) cif-intro
A commerce solution can be anything from a commercial solution such as the Adobe Commerce Cloud to a set of custom commerce services. The integration is highly dependent on the use-case and ecosystem. It usually affects various systems and comes in many different varieties:
- Integration of a complex and dynamic ecosystem (for example product catalogs)
- The business must manage product content with its own lifecycle in an efficient and omnichannel way
- Building complex and personalized shopping journeys for various heads
- Ability to quickly adapt and innovate on the back- and front-end
- Running a scalable and stable E2E infrastructure that is built for peak performance (flash sale, Black Friday, …) including unified search and cache management
This complexity opens up the door to potential point of failures, increased TCO, delays, and reduced value realization. These reasons have led to the development of the Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) which is an add-on for the Experience Manager. CIF extends the Experience Manager with commerce capabilities and standardizes the integration with a commerce engine. The result is a future-proof, stable and scalable solution with lower total cost of ownership (TCO). It unlocks technical and business innovation with agile tooling and seamlessly integrated features to build compelling commerce experiences.
CIF Benefits cif-benefits
CIF provides out-of-the-box commerce core components that reduce the need for custom code, accelerating the time to market for brands. All core components are integrated out of the box with Adobe’s client-side data layer to hydrate customer profiles, such as the unified profile. This profile captures in detail a visitor’s behavior, which can be used to predict and personalize the customer journey in real time.
The CIF add-on brings product context into Experience Manager and provides authoring tools such as a product console and product/category pickers that empower the marketer to create and deliver shoppable experiences in Experience Manager without relying on the developer. Advantages include:
Experiences experiences
Powerful CIF tools in AEM enable content creators to rapidly build rich and personalized commerce experiences in a scalable and delivery agnostic way to capitalize on business opportunities.
Time-To-Value (TTV) ttv
CIF accelerates project development with AEM Core Components, AEM Venia reference storefront, AEM Project Archetype, and integration patterns for PWAs (Headless content and commerce).
CIF is built for continuous innovation with an always up-to-date add-on, allowing you to access new and improved features.
Integrations integrations
Connect your ecosystem (for example, commerce solution) with the Experience Cloud using Adobe I/O Runtime, a micro-service based server-less PaaS, and CIF’s reference implementation.
Proven Patterns and Best Practices proven
CIF supports you with standardized integration patterns based on best practices. This helps you be successful today and is flexible to grow with your and adapt to future requirements:
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Eliminates typical challenges around product catalog integrations that may occur, for examples:
- Performance issues with increased catalog volume or complexity
- No access to staged data
- Need for real-time product data and experiences
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A growing digital maturity results in a need for experience management
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- CIF comes with product experience management capabilities that can be incorporated incrementally without additional IT effort.
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Ready for omnichannel
- CIF supports a variety of touchpoint technologies (server-side, hybrid, client-side) with patterns, accelerators and core components.
Journey journey
If you are following a Commerce Journey, go to the next step: