IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce
The IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce, or Management Center, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, and others).
Other business user roles, such as Customer Service Representatives, use WebSphere Commerce Accelerator to perform business operations, such as managing stores, inventory, fulfillment, orders, returns, payments, and auctions.
Management Center tools
The following table summarizes the tools that Management Center provides.If you are ... | You can use the Management Center ... |
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Managing catalogs and merchandise | Catalogs tool
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Managing promotions | Promotions tool
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Managing marketing campaigns | Marketing tool
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Managing assets | Assets tool
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Managing installment rules | Installments tool
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Managing stores | Store Management tool
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Managing catalog filters, price lists, and price rules | Catalog Filter and Pricing tool
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Managing tasks that you perform in Management Center |
Tasks tool
Workspace Management tool
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Managing layouts for store pages | Page Layout tool
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Creating pages and layouts, and managing layouts for store pages | Commerce Composer tool
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Management Center menu
You can access the tools from the Management Center menu. The following screen captures show the menu contents for the base Version 7 Management Center and for each feature pack. The screen captures show how the menu evolved as new tools are added to Management Center.
Each tool displays in its own tab within the Management Center:
Management Center roles and access
Role | Management Center tool access |
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Account Representative | Catalogs (read-only) |
Sales Manager | Catalogs (read-only) |
Channel Manager | Store Management |
Marketing Director Note: In addition to all the
access privileges of the Marketing Manager role, users with the Marketing
Director role can also download exported customer segment information,
such as email addresses, to a local file system. |
Catalogs (read-only) |
Marketing Manager | Catalogs (read-only) |
Seller | Catalogs |
Site Administrator | Catalogs |
Product Manager | Catalogs |
Category Manager | Catalogs |
Buyer (seller side) | Catalogs |
Developers familiar with the Management Center framework can also customize it further to suit their business needs.