Hybris Software Platform Review for Ecommerce

Hybris Software Platform Review for Ecommerce

“Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.” – Michael Pollen

You can check any linked in groups, forums, blogs, articles, reports associated with ecommerce. All of them have one common thing to discuss.  IS HYBRIS SOFTWARE THE BEST THING WHICH HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ECOMMERCE?

Experts from different technical backgrounds have given their opinions on this subject. Some definitely agree with statement while others don’t. I have been searching for a definite answer to this question for past couple of months and I have come across a lot of inputs from various sources. I thought it would be a good idea to collate such inputs at a single location and then ask readers to comment on this information.

So lets begin ..

Let’s find out what people who agree with the statement that hybris is the next big thing, had to say to support their belief.

1)      IBM’s server/mainframe business is dying:  This happens to be a very compelling statement.  IBM’s recent financial reports suggest that their server business is going down and most likely it is not going to recover as clients are switching to cloud. Therefore, IBM won’t be able to push WCS as strongly as it used to do. This gives SAP, the chance to exploit ecommerce space with hybris. However, I have also seen some IBM experts vehemently denying this fact. They say that have around 3000+ customers worldwide which is quite large when compared to hybris.  Some of these experts are confident that IBM WCS will maintain its lead for a long- long time

2)      Hybris has the most flexible technical architecture when compared with other enterprise level counterparts:  Many experts felt that Spring MVC architecture used by hybris software platform is far more flexible than others. Surprisingly, not many IBMers came forward to counter this statement. In fact, I have seen experts from Oracle ATG claiming that ATG is more flexible. Another counter same from Magento experts who are really very confident about the flexibility offered by Magento.

3)      Technical complexity associated with hybris for hosting is much lesser:   In one of the linked in discussions, an expert mentioned that IBM developers require some sort of Black magic while hosting applications .  No one from IBM WCS came forward to counter this argument.

4)      Strong partner network: Experts also feel that hybris has been successful in establishing a very strong partner network, in a very short time. But then many experts have also mentioned that IBM and other platforms too have similar networks.

I haven’t come across any expert who has criticized hybris but then I have seen experts believing in one common mantra and i.e. to understand, what out of the box (OOTB) means even before you choose a platform. These experts feel that performing more customizations leads to unnecessary complexities and overheads. Therefore any platform for that matter should only be customized to an agreeable limit. In other words, do not try to fit the ecommerce platform to your requirements but rather try and fit your requirements to platform.

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