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07-20-2023, 08:02 AM
I have an e-commerce "platform" thats made up of various components. From a business POV we run a single warehouse/distribution that has multiple sites targeting specific industries. Each site is its own business unit and has silo'd data.
A quick explanation of what each component is would be;
- Logistics: A WCF project that contains all the logic and data storage for our warehouse to accept new shipments, print customer orders, dispatch them out the door, etc.
- Site Application: A WCF project that contains all the logic and data storage specifically for that sites audience. It receives a product feed from the Logistics component about what it's allowed to sell (and price, etc). Customers view those products, submit an order and the order is sent to the Logistics layer to be dispatched.
- Admin App: An MVC project that communicates with both projects based on user permissions to manipulate the data across each system (customers, orders, products, etc).
- Web UI App: This needs to communicate with the site app system to retrieve customer, product, order, etc data.
Now where I need some suggestions is how to implement the web UI. I want it to run on a CMS-framework so that our marketing guys can manipulate the pages themselves without needing IT help, etc.
After looking at Orchard, Umbraco, Sitefinity, Kentico and Sitecore I'm wondering if what we need is more of an e-commerece frontend like nopCommerce or Virtocommerce. However both of these are the full package which include inventory management, customer management, order management, etc which in our situation is controlled within the site app component.
If I could sum up the requirements of the web UI it would be that it needs to support a templating system for layout, page/blog management and plugin support to communicate with our app.
My question is; Is there a solution available that matches my requirements or should I pick a CMS like Umbraco that we can customise heavily to support that need?
Thanks!
A quick explanation of what each component is would be;
- Logistics: A WCF project that contains all the logic and data storage for our warehouse to accept new shipments, print customer orders, dispatch them out the door, etc.
- Site Application: A WCF project that contains all the logic and data storage specifically for that sites audience. It receives a product feed from the Logistics component about what it's allowed to sell (and price, etc). Customers view those products, submit an order and the order is sent to the Logistics layer to be dispatched.
- Admin App: An MVC project that communicates with both projects based on user permissions to manipulate the data across each system (customers, orders, products, etc).
- Web UI App: This needs to communicate with the site app system to retrieve customer, product, order, etc data.
Now where I need some suggestions is how to implement the web UI. I want it to run on a CMS-framework so that our marketing guys can manipulate the pages themselves without needing IT help, etc.
After looking at Orchard, Umbraco, Sitefinity, Kentico and Sitecore I'm wondering if what we need is more of an e-commerece frontend like nopCommerce or Virtocommerce. However both of these are the full package which include inventory management, customer management, order management, etc which in our situation is controlled within the site app component.
If I could sum up the requirements of the web UI it would be that it needs to support a templating system for layout, page/blog management and plugin support to communicate with our app.
My question is; Is there a solution available that matches my requirements or should I pick a CMS like Umbraco that we can customise heavily to support that need?
Thanks!