Upgrades
Upgrading any software product that powers unique, differentiated customer experiences can be hard. From its inception, Elastic Path has embraced this challenge and developed tools and techniques to streamline and accelerate both the customization and upgrade processes. This obsession with agility empowers enterprises to build exactly what their customers want, while keeping the cost and effort of future upgrades low.
Be Empowered
In many ecommerce implementations, custom work is often embedded within the enterprise platform itself, creating a maintenance and support nightmare. When repairs or upgrades are necessary, customizations must be detangled from the core software, adding substantial cost and effort to these activities.
To solve this challenge, the Digital Commerce Engine includes a complete binary-based development environment based on Maven that insulates the platform from custom work to simplify deployment, support, and upgrades. Instead of making changes directly to the Digital Commerce Engine, developers maintain separate binaries for their extensions and modifications, while Maven systematically overlays them to generate the final product. Using this approach, enterprises are free to pursue extensive customizations without fear of creating maintenance and support headaches down the road.
Be Agile
With Maven streamlining the customization and upgrades, enterprises can focus on creating revenue-generating features faster and with less cost. The ease and predictability of the Elastic Path upgrade process empowers you to choose a continuous improvement cycle that matches your roadmap, not ours. Most importantly, all of your investments in custom features and extensions are protected even as the Digital Commerce Engine evolves.
