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Oracle iStore allows businesses from all industries to establish business-to-business (B2B) andbusiness-to-consumer (B2C) electronic commerce. It provides merchants with an easy-to-useinterface for setting up Internet-based sites that capture and process customerorders. Byintegrating with other Oracle products provides a broad range of ecommerce capabilities

Implementing Oracle iStore lets you: Build, test and launch sophisticated online stores in multiple languages and currencies Provide a full range of online purchasing capabilities Deploy sites in business partner , business-to-business and business-to-consumerscenarios Target different customer segments and/or organizations Capture and track customer information and activities View reports about the activities in the online stores

Site administration

i. Create and maintain any number of sitesii. Easily duplicate sites, catalog and content

iii. In Preview mode, immediately preview sitesiv. Configure the display order of site names as they are presented in the Customer UIv. Utilize powerful search utilities built into each main pagevi. Target different customer segments with different sites and catalogsvii. Support globalization features ,such as multiple languages and currenciesviii. Brand each site differentlyix. Provide different content for the same product on different sitesx. Enable different payment and shipping methods for each sitexi. Set different price lists on each site for each user typexii. Set attributes at site levelxiii. Restrict sites via user responsibilitiesxiv. Set organization level access control

xv. View site reports

The Catalog is a flexible tool which supports multiple languages and currencies.Highlights include:i. A section heirarchy that can be as simple or complex as your business requirementsnecessitate.Products "hang" on nodes of the section hierarchyii. Ability to control the browsing experience of the customer through section andsubsection presentationiii. Cross-sell capabilities using the seeded Related items relationship and support for a

variety of other relationships between products,sections and inventory categoriesiv. A built-in search utilityv. Product search can support both Section Search and Category Searchvi. Optional integration with Oracle interMedia allows you to set up a powerfulproductsearch in the speciality sitesvii. A Display Template galleryviii. Configurable bins to which you can map your own JSPs.Several of the bins are preseeded

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with contentix. Ability to construct targeted catalogs accessible to segments of customersx. Ability to exclude catalog portions from specific sitesxi. Product autoplacement featurexii. Support for several product typexiii. Flexible pricing supportxiv. Optional integration with Oracle marketing allows you to create and maintain Inventory

Highlights include :i. Hundreds of configurable Display Templates present the Customer UI.This allows youto alter the look and feel of speciality sitesii. Re-usable conent components and media objectsiii. Easy-to-use interface for mapping source files to the media objectsiv. Components and objects that are organized by type of display they effectv. Framework for reusing a single source file in any number of site catalog pagesvi. Ability to map content to specific sites and languages combinationsvii. Easily update files which display in the speciality sitesviii. Optional integration with Oracle Content Manager to provide content item creation,versioning, approvals, and a translational interface

Site ReportingHighlights include:i. Business Reports and Bins present the following data:- Number of orders placed for a given time period- The types of users making purchases and the top customers- Top product sales for specific time periods- Number of shopping carts converted to ordersii. Operational Reports and Bins present the following data:- Product assignment and published/unpublished status reports- Section assignment and published/unpublished status reports

Automated User CommunicationsOracle iStore automatically delivers e-mail notification messages to the appropr

iate user forsuch events as:i. Orders placed or cancelledii. Contract negotiationsiii. Shared cartsiv. Forgotten passwords and login assistancev. Registration confirmationvi. Sales assistance requests

Automated User CommunicationsOracle iStore automatically delivers e-mail notification messages to the appropriate user forsuch events as:

i. Orders placed or cancelledii. Contract negotiationsiii. Shared cartsiv. Forgotten passwords and login assistancev. Registration confirmationvi. Sales assistance requests

Background Data ManagementSeveral supplied concurrent programs in Oracle iStore automatically refresh databetween

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business objects.For example:- Lead import concurrent program pulls customer data from orders and expired carts intodatabase tables for use in other Oracle applications- Product search concurrent program automatically populates necessary tables with productupdates for use in the Customer UI product search- Reports refresh concurrent program supplies automatic updates of transactionalandoperational data about the sites