Multisite Commerce: Proven Principles for Overcoming the Business, Organizational, and Technical Challenges

Chapter 15. Sharing Data

Key Concepts

Associate data assets with sites

Create sites within authorization domains

Allow sharing of data among multiple commerce sites by using Model Sites

This chapter explores the techniques that you can employ for multiple sites to share data. Certainly, it is not our goal to give a complete design of a commerce application. This task would be too big for this book, and also with the creativity of computer engineers, many good designs can work for a multisite commerce application.

Our purpose is to give a number of key ideas and suggestions that have been proven in the past to be effective when incorporated in commerce application architecture and design. We focus on helping make the application ...