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Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen
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Jonathan Bowen

Jonathan Bowen is an E-commerce and Retail Systems Consultant and has worked in and around the retail industry for the past 20 years. His early career was in retail operations, then in the late 1990s he switched to the back office and has been integrating and implementing retail systems ever since. Since 2006, he has worked for one of the UKs largest e-commerce platform vendors as Head of Projects and, later, Head of Product Strategy. In that time he has worked on over 30 major e-commerce implementations. Outside of work, Jonathan, like many parents, has a busy schedule of sporting events, music lessons, and parties to take his kids to, and any downtime is often spent catching up with the latest tech news or trying to record electronic music in his home studio. You can get in touch with Jonathan at his website: www.learnintegration.com.
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Our first worked example will look at the product data required to display products on the website. Product content is the data that is displayed on the website, for example; product names, product descriptions, prices, and product attributes. It also includes data that is not displayed, but is required for the proper functioning of a website: SKU IDs and categorization data. We will start by looking at the conditions related to the product's catalog import and derive the integration job requirements from there.

  1. The website has a standard catalog import format-an XML file. All product data coming into the website platform must be presented in the standard catalog import format.

  2. The website has a file import process. A file named catalog.xml is placed onto the website's server in a directory named /imports/catalog. The import process runs on an hourly cycle and checks for an appropriately named file in this directory. If a file is present, the process picks up the file, imports...

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Jonathan Bowen

Jonathan Bowen is an E-commerce and Retail Systems Consultant and has worked in and around the retail industry for the past 20 years. His early career was in retail operations, then in the late 1990s he switched to the back office and has been integrating and implementing retail systems ever since. Since 2006, he has worked for one of the UKs largest e-commerce platform vendors as Head of Projects and, later, Head of Product Strategy. In that time he has worked on over 30 major e-commerce implementations. Outside of work, Jonathan, like many parents, has a busy schedule of sporting events, music lessons, and parties to take his kids to, and any downtime is often spent catching up with the latest tech news or trying to record electronic music in his home studio. You can get in touch with Jonathan at his website: www.learnintegration.com.
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