Dynamicweb 9.4January 2018

9.4 release headlines

• Extended PIM functionality and features• New user management and permissions• Customizable Marketing dashboard• D365 and LS Retail integrations• GDPR update and release plan• Item folders for displaying sub items in

searchable and sortable lists• New order discount option – “buy 3 and get 50%

of the cheapest”

Content and Marketing

New user management and permissions model

• Create specific user groups and roles such as ‘Editor’ or ‘PIM Product Manager’

• Define different sets of user fields, icons hierarchies and permissions for different roles

User and grouptypes

• Focused user experience for user and group editing

• Support different concepts of user workflows

• Define which fields to beeditable for the different userand group types

• Define icon and colors to support visual guidance

• Control structure rules

Role-basedpermissions

• Define different roles for backend users

• Assign specific permissions targeted the specified roles

• Let users access an interfaced tailored to their specific role

Marketing improvements and dashboard• New configurable marketing

dashboard for keeping track of key data

• Monitor email subscribers, page visits and use flexible query widgets to extract data from your indexes

Content and Marketing UI improvements• New visual and simple

interface for adding paragraphs

Easier way to handle multiple items• List items (subpages) on page

– instead of in the menu

• Choose visible fields and sort items based on values

• Makes it easier and more manageable to handle language versions, URLs, meta data etc.

Before

After

EcommerceDynamicweb 9.4

New discount options

• Add ‘discount stickers’ to highlight campaigns – like ”Black Friday” etc.

• Apply discount to specific products found through Queries (dynamic searches) –like “Products in winter 2018 campaign”

• New discount option – ”buy 3 get 50% of the cheapest”

Payment provider update

• Altapay payment provider supporting the full stack of payment features - like partial captures, saved credit cards, returns, partial returns etc.

• Quickpay support for Partial and Full returns

• General support for TLS 1.2 for improved security compliance (GDPR)

PIMDynamicweb 9.4

• Fewer applications, integrations and systems

• Fast and inexpensive to implement and maintain

• Comes with both frontend and backend access

• Manage product relationships (unique capability)

• Live frontend preview (unique capability)

Dynamicweb PIMadvantages

ChannelsAll-In-One Platform

PIM

Data Sources

ERP / CRM / PIM

Suppliers

Personalization

Development Platform

Integration Framework

Content Ecommerce Marketing

Website Mobile

Email Marketing

Social Media

Online Store

Self ServicePortal

Typical PIM setup

• 3 separate applications and integrations between ERP, PIM and Ecommerce

• Means multiple systems that require separate handling and expertise, and typically more technical experience

PIM Ecommerce

ERP

1 2

3

Inexpensive implementation

• One digital platform = no integration work

• Easier to implement = cheaper

• Open framework for integration to external sources

• Standard Integration framework to Dynamics AX, NAV and D365

ERP PIM + Ecommerce

1

PIM headlinesin 9.4

• Version control on products

• Enhanced workflow mechanism

• Extended functionality for product enrichment

• Combine products into families/containers

• Improved user rights management (platform feature)

Product Versioning

• Maintain and enrich products without influencing the published version of the product

• Proofing on draft content for optimized approving process

• Use comparison tool to keep track of changes with highlighting feature

• Approving (publishing) a product automatically archives previously published versions

Product workflows

• Create general workflows to ensure a consistent product maintenance

• Workflows can be defined to support individual product types

• Setup automated email notifications on each individual task defined in workflow

• “Product preview” function extended with new Approval Window

Product enrichment

• Bulk-Edit now available for product variants & language versions, and across all fields – visible or hidden

• Use ‘Product Properties’ to add attributes to products independent of the group structure and product type

• Set individual images across languages and product variants

• Improved import / export to Excel functionality – including language specific field names

Product maintenance

• Combine products into families/containers to control and optimize product relationships directly in Dynamicweb PIM rather than in your ERP system

• Flexible page-sizes in ‘Multi edit view’ for improved performance, based on a customizable calculated value across languages and fields

• Improved user management options for defining user roles and rights

RoadmapNew projects and release plan

• Industry solution for medium and large retailers

• Proof of concept mid February 2018

• User information• Click and collect• Customer center• Loyalty points• Product information

• Planned releases• March: LS Retail Beta I• June: LS Retail Beta II

• D365 Public Beta II release on February 27, 2018 and will include:

• Batch: • Products, groups, category

field values, price, stock and related products

• Orders, customers and address

• Languages, currencies, units and manufacturers

• Live:• Product price and stock• Customer prices and

discounts• Orders (cart)

GDPR compliance

• New tools and features for supporting GDPR compliance

• Consent app:• Collect consent• Display consent• Withdraw consent

• Data protection app:• Right to access• Right to be forgotten• Right to portability

More information and material:

www.dynamicweb.com/gdpr

Release plan 2018DATE RELEASE

February 27 Rapido 2.0 & Digital Warehouse (PIM)

February 27 D365 Public Beta II & Documentation

March 27 LS Retail Beta I

April 24 Monitoring and Health

June 26 Rapido 3 + LS Retail Beta II

August 28 Dynamicweb 9.5