SAP Commerce Cloud Updates in 2024: A Not-So-Brief Summary for Technical Users

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Introduction

SAP Commerce Cloud has undertaken a dynamic journey marked by monthly release updates since version 2211. These releases consistently introduce new features and functionalities, alongside critical bug fixes, security enhancements, and compatibility improvements. Detailed summaries of these incremental advancements are available in the monthly release notes and in the major new feature announcement table, which include comprehensive details and links on the standard "What’s New" help page.

If you haven't had the opportunity to keep up with the monthly summaries or delve into the new features detailed in the feature announcement table, this blog post aims to provide a not-so-brief summary of the latest features released from version 2211.16 (December 2023) to 2211.31 (November 2024). This is especially geared towards Technical Users (developers/consultants/architects) seeking a thorough but quick understanding.

Please note:

• Version 2211.30 (released at the end of October) is also included. It serves as a preview of the forthcoming 2211.32 version (scheduled for release in December). Preview releases are intended solely for non-productive testing purposes and are NOT authorized for deployment in live environments.
• Additionally, this blog post can be used as study material for the SAP Commerce Cloud Developer 2411 Stay Certified program. This will help you keep your SAP Commerce Cloud Developer Certification current.
• For those interested in understanding the updates from a business user's perspective, be sure to check out the other blog post: What's New in SAP Commerce Cloud: Key Feature Updates for Business Users in 2024.

We will review the following topic areas to highlight the most important features released in 2024:

• Upcoming Technical Updates
• Core Platform & Framework
• Security
• SAP Commerce Cloud in the Public Cloud
• AI Applications
• SAP Commerce Cloud, composable storefront
• Backoffice
• Product Content Management
• Commerce Module
• Customer Support / Assisted Service Module
• B2B
• Commerce Web Services & OCC API
• Data Hub

Let's get started!

Upcoming Technical Updates

A series of upcoming technical updates are planned to enhance performance, security, and usability. Here's a detailed look at what's in store:

1. JDK 21 & Spring 6 Upgrade

In the September 2025 update, SAP Commerce Cloud will upgrade its framework to JDK 21 and Spring 6. For customers running the August 2025 version on JDK 17, the validity period will be extended from six to twelve months, with security fixes provided until the end of Q2 2026. This is to ensure a smooth transition and maintain security standards.

2. Deprecated Accelerator UIs and OCC Template Extensions

• The Accelerator storefronts(UIs) and related addons (such as: yacceleratorstorefront, acceleratorstorefrontcommons, b2bacceleratoraddon, financialacceleratorstorefront, etc.)
• The OCC Addon template extensions (e.g. yoccaddon, or any extensions based on it) ,

were deprecated in 2205 and now SAP has announced that these UIs extensions, addons and templates will be officially deleted in Q3 2028, providing ample time for customers to transition to newer alternatives.

3. Deletion of Deprecated Cockpit Extensions

The removal of deprecated cockpit-related extensions (such as cockpit, admincockpit, cmscockpit, productcockpit, yacceleratorcockpits, etc.) is planned for Q3 2025. Users are advised to update their configurations to ensure continued functionality and support.

4. OAuth Replacement

Starting September 2025, the OAuth extension will transition to the Spring Authorization Server. UI and APIs will be updated to utilize the latest Spring Security support for OAuth2. The Spring Authorization Server does not support the Resource Owner Password Flow or Implicit Flow, following current OAuth security best practices. Existing usages of these deprecated flows must migrate to the Authentication Code Flow.

5. Composable Storefront Update

From February 2025 onwards, you must update to the latest version of the composable storefront, which includes Angular 19.

6. SmartEdit Upgrade

SmartEdit has been upgraded from Angular 15 to Angular 17. Further, it will be upgraded to Angular 19 starting June 2025. To ensure seamless functionality, make sure to update your SmartEdit customizations accordingly.

(Notes from here: The following feature updates have already been included in the released versions.)

Core Platform & Framework

1. Tomcat 9 Upgrade

We’ve moved from Tomcat 8.5.x to the more robust Tomcat 9.x, enhancing security and ensuring compliance as Tomcat 8.5.x approaches its end-of-life in March 2024. Notably:

• Tomcat 9 supports Java Servlet 4.0 instead of 3.1.
• Additionally, the deprecated "org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" protocol handler has been removed. Please adjust your custom server.xml configuration or take note of this change when creating custom connectors through the Tomcat API.

2. JUnit 5 Support:

JUnit 5 support is now available, offering a modern and more flexible testing framework. By adopting JUnit 5, SAP Commerce Cloud enables you to enhance your tests through various new features and improvements provided by the latest version of the testing framework. These include annotation-based coding and parallel test execution. Make sure to check Upgrading to JUnit 5 for more details, especially, remember to set the following property to make sure tests are run by the ant yunitlauncher task instead of yunitint.

tests.runner.legacy=false

3. Library Updates

• Spring Session has been elevated from 1.3.5 to 2.7.4.
• Jersey has been updated from 2.34 to 2.43.
• Fastutil has been updated from 6.5.16 to 8.5.13.
• FindBugs Annotations 2.0.0 library has been phased out with the 2211.30/32 update.

4. Open Payment Framework Module

In 2211.30/32, the new low-code environment: Open Payment Framework has been introduced for integrating your go-to digital payment service providers seamlessly into transactional and acceptance payment flows. Connect payment solutions effortlessly with SAP commerce Cloud. Equipped with an intuitive user interface for configuring payment integration and customization, this cloud-based services framework will provide a powerful alternative to the current extension-based approach for enhancing payment functionality. Let's look forward to its further development announcement in H1 2025!

5. Validation of Attributes for Multiple Languages

Previously, the most restrictive constraint was validated across all languages for a single attribute. The new update ensures that constraints are evaluated separately for each language, offering more precise validation tailored to multilingual sites. This is achieved by ensuring that  the java.util.Set returned by javax.validation.metadata.ConstraintDescriptor.getPayload() also contains language-specific payloads.

6. Type System Query Results Region Cache

A new dedicated region cache for type system query results minimizes database calls, resulting in better performance and faster storefront responsiveness.

As a result, the default setup of the SAP Commerce Cloud Region Cache contains the following six regions:

1. Type system region: for type system items
2. Entity region: for entities of all types except type system ones
3. Query results region: for all query results
4. Type system query results region: for results of queries containing references to the type system items (the first region)
5. Media items region: for all media items
6. Session region: for HTTP sessions

7. Error Handling During Initialization

It is now possible to control whether the initialization or update process should stop on data creation errors by setting:

system.setup.create.data.fail.on.error=true

This ensures smooth operations while catching configuration issues early.

8. Disabling FlexibleSearch Restrictions

In 2211.30/32, you can globally disable FlexibleSearch restrictions for individual users and retain only group restrictions using:

flexible.search.disable.individual.search.restrictions=true

This boosts performance by reducing database calls. However, it also disables any intentionally created user-specific restrictions.

In addition, it's also possible to further disable individual restrictions for specific user groups, use:

flexible.search.disable.individual.search.restrictions.for.members.of=groupA,group

Please note, if no groups are listed, restrictions are disabled for all users.

Security

1. Advanced Password Security

To enhance security, deprecated password hashing algorithms like MD5, PBKDF2, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 have been deactivated by default. The new preferred default is the Argon2 algorithm, replacing bcrypt. This transition introduces a configurable rehashing mechanism on login, controlled in the advanced.properties file, with:

legacy.password.encoding.enabled=false

Any attempts to use unsafe password encoders will now be flagged with an exception in the log, ensuring your passwords are always handled securely.

2. Session Invalidations for Enhanced Security

Now you can ensure that HTTP sessions are invalidated immediately after a password change, preventing old sessions from remaining active. By setting the property (default is false):

invalidate.current.authentication.on.password.change=true

both the session and the token used during the password change will be invalidated instantly, mitigating risks associated with session hijacking.

3. One-Time Password (OTP) Functionality

Elevate your security measures with the support for one-time passwords (OTP). This feature introduces robust two-factor authentication (2FA), adding an extra layer of security by validating the ownership of the given email during customer logins.

Specifically, with

otp.customer.login.token.max.verification.attempts=3 #(default)

you can set the maximum number of failed login attempts for the one-time token generation (to prevent Brute Force Attacks). In addition, to enable OTP in SAP Commerce Cloud, composable storefront, please see Login with Verification Token.

4. Mutual TLS (mTLS) Support

The addition of mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) allows for bi-directional authentication of connections on environment endpoints. This feature not only uses certificates for secure client access but also enables endpoint-specific domain configurations, enhancing security, especially when integrating with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).

5. Enhanced Protection Against Brute Force Attacks

Introducing 'SAPBruteForceOAuthLoginAttempts', a new model to log failed OAuth client login attempts separately from the existing 'BruteForceLoginAttempts' model. Please note, this requires an update to your database (by deploying a new build with the migration data mode) to reflect changes.

Additionally, in 2211.30/32, it's possible to disable the admin user login via:

admin.login.enabled=false

This can be used as a preventive measure against brute force attacks. This update improves security by ensuring that admin privileges are safeguarded from unauthorized access attempts. But do remember to have other admin users that are part of the admingroup so that the admin privileges are not lost completely.

6. Logging Enhancement

To keep a closer eye on configuration changes, the 2211.30/32 update ensures:

1. All assignments where permissions are granted, removed, or denied are now logged in audit logging. This enhancement allows for easy retrieval of change information, facilitating better control and auditing of internal processes.
   
2. Modifications to Backoffice widgets and cockpit configuration (e.g. via Application Orchestrator/F4) are stored in Media Storage and can be viewed in systems like Open Kibana for CLS Logging (via specific keyword: BACKOFFICE_CONFIGURATION_CHANGE), enabling admins to track and compare changes.

SAP Commerce Cloud in the Public Cloud

1. Self-Serviced Scalable Sandboxes

With the latest updates, SAP Commerce Cloud offers you self-service capabilities to scale your capacity entitlements directly through the Cloud Portal, eliminating the need to rely on SAP Support. You can now granularly ramp up or dial down services within non-production environments by adjusting factors like the number of instances, CPU, and memory requirements. Specifically, you have the freedom to:

• Scale Database and Node Pools: Easily upsize your non-production environments to production size for performance and load testing or downsize to a minimal footprint for cost-saving purposes. This enhanced control ensures you can manage your environments as per your exact needs.
• Scale Service Resources: Manual scaling is now possible, allowing you to set resource limits, parameters, and base replica counts for individual services. This means you can allocate CPU resources to handle increased demand or scale back when demand decreases.

Please note, you'll need to have 1) a scalable, non-live, non-production environment, 2) available consumption credits (coming next), 3) hold the CUSTOMER_SYS_ADMIN role to manage the self-service scalable sandbox.

2. Consumption Credits

Consumption credits are available and sold as Capacity Units, enabling you to self-scale your non-production environments. This self-service mechanism brings more flexibility, and the provided Capacity Units Estimator helps you make informed decisions with estimates for scalable sandboxes.

3. Consumption Reports

Get deep insights into your storefront orders with comprehensive consumption reports (not consumption credits reports). These reports detailed order information and values, helping you to check if your business operations fit within the contracted limits with SAP. The reports can be accessed via the new cloud extension: ordermetricsbackoffice, and only users with consumption authority can access with read-write privileges in Backoffice.

4. Individual Pod Restart - Restricted Availability

Address issues swiftly without service disruption by leveraging the new self-service option to restart individual pods within your Kubernetes clusters. This feature lets you manage pod-specific concerns efficiently through the Cloud Portal.

5. Canary Deployments

Enhance your deployment strategy with canary deployments. This method is an extension to blue-green deployments, allowing you to progressively shift a percentage of live traffic to a new deployment. Once validated, you can seamlessly make this new deployment the primary one. Please note:

• Remember to purchase consumption credits to enable canary deployments
• Although this feature is available for both Staging and Production environments, it is only practical to use it on Staging if you want to practice the process.

More information can be found on the FAQ page about canary deployments.

6. New Scheduled Activity APIs - Restricted Availability

New APIs have been introduced for scheduled activities, providing advanced management options:

• Managing Upgrades: Plan your environment upgrades conveniently using the scheduler feature in the Cloud Portal.
• Scheduling Disaster Recovery Upgrade: Schedule upgrades for your disaster recovery package efficiently to ensure minimal disruption.

7. Private Link Service

The Private Link feature has been enhanced to facilitate secure connections between SAP Commerce Cloud and customer-owned Azure subscriptions. It's possible to create:

• a Private Link Endpoint to connect SAP Commerce Cloud endpoints to endpoints and services in a customer-owned Azure subscription. In addition: the newly increased endpoint limit now allows up to 25 endpoints per Commerce environment, extending from the previous cap of 5.
• a Private Link Service to connect endpoints in one or more customer-owned Azure subscription to SAP Commerce Cloud endpoints and services.

8. Web Two-Factor Authentication

The Cloud Portal now supports secure sign-in using web-based two-factor authentication, in addition to time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). This update enhances user security during the authentication process.

9. Updated Cloud Hot Folders

Since the Microsoft Azure Storage Client SDK 8.6.6 will be replaced with selected Microsoft Azure Java Client 12.x libraries in by Q1 2025, the Cloud Hot Folders extension has been updated, and the new libraries are now available to facilitate the transition. You can check the details about the cloud hot folder extension here.

10. Extended Backup and Restore Capability

The backup and restore functionality of SAP Commerce Cloud now extends support to Azure SQL, Azure SQL Hyperscale, and PostgreSQL databases. This wider support ensures your data backup and restoration needs are comprehensively met.

AI Applications

1. SAP CX AI Toolkit

Launched publicly in Q2 2024, the SAP CX AI Toolkit represents a significant leap towards integrating advanced AI capabilities within the SAP CX ecosystem. This cloud-native solution brings the power of generative AI (Gen-AI) and sophisticated data analysis to your fingertips, enabling a transformation in how businesses utilize product data and customer interactions.

For SAP Commerce Cloud, the toolkit employs Gen-AI to elevate standard product information into engaging, enriched content that effectively guides and supports customers throughout their buying journey. Key commerce-related features available within the toolkit include:

• AI Product Tagging/Descriptions: Automates the creation of detailed product attributes and descriptions, saving time and ensuring consistency.
• Visual Search: Allows customers to search for products using images, making the shopping experience more intuitive and engaging.
• AI Product Images: Generates high-quality product images, enhancing visual appeal and helping customers make informed decisions.
• AI Tools (for Commerce Cloud): Role-specific prompts utilizing Commerce data to support product discovery Q&As (ask about this product), generate blog, social media posts and product banner texts.

For more information about the complete list of features, visit the SAP CX AI Toolkit Features page as well as the User Guide (for details about how to use the features).

In addition, if you need to set up the integration between SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP CX AI toolkit, you can check this blog post for a step-by-step guide.

2. Intelligent Selling Services for SAP Commerce Cloud

Intelligent Selling Services have been further enhanced with the following features:

• Recent Searches support is integrated into the search box in SAP Commerce Cloud, composable storefront. This intuitive addition allows users to view previously used search terms, facilitating quick access to relevant results.
• Trending Search Terms support is integrated in the search box of SAP Commerce Cloud's composable storefront, displaying the most popular search terms even before users begin typing. This feature assists shoppers in quickly discovering relevant products, enhancing the customer experience, and boosting sales.
• Guided Tours for Enhanced User Experience: have been provided based on SAP Companion guided tours to show how to effectively use Intelligent Selling Services alongside the UI elements:
  • First Steps in Intelligent Selling Services: This tour guides you through creating the essential components of Intelligent Selling Services.
  • Product Mix Creation: Learn how to create your first product mix within Intelligent Selling Services.
  • Strategy Creation: Develop your strategy to align Intelligent Selling Services with your business goals and customer preferences.
  • A/B Test Creation: Set up A/B tests to compare the performance of different product mixes, allowing you to optimize your offerings based on data-driven insights and make informed decisions that resonate with your audience.

SAP Commerce Cloud, composable storefront

1. New Version Format for SAP Commerce Cloud, Composable Storefront

From version 2211.19 onward, the composable storefront has synchronized its versioning system with SAP Commerce Cloud. This alignment ensures seamless integration and consistent updates across the platform.

2. Enhanced CAPTCHA Support

To bolster security and user experience, composable storefront now includes enhanced CAPTCHA support. This technology ensures that only real users engage with online functions, effectively blocking automated bots that could spam websites or abuse online forms. The updates include a Generic CAPTCHA Provider Plug-In point for the CAPTCHA OCC APIs, replacing the deprecated Google ReCAPTCHA Integration.

Backoffice

1. Enhanced Backoffice Deep Link Functionality

The latest update brings significant improvements to the usability of the Backoffice deep link feature. This enhancement is particularly exciting for those who rely on efficient navigation and quick access within the Backoffice environment. A new "Copy Deep Link to Clipboard" button has been introduced on Backoffice pages.

With just one click, you can now seamlessly copy the automatically generated deep link URLs for the current page and perspective directly to your clipboard. This not only streamlines your workflow but also ensures you have quick and precise access to specific Backoffice sections when needed, enhancing productivity and user experience.

Product Content Management

1. Multi-Dimensional Products

The SAP Commerce Cloud now supports Multi-Dimensional Products within composable Storefront, allowing customers to explore and select products based on custom dimensions that suit their needs. But please note, Composable Storefront does not support the simultaneous use of multi-dimensional products and basic variant features (typically referred to as B2C product variants).

2. Product Visibility Control

Enhancing organization and efficiency, the 2211.30/32 release introduces robust Product Visibility Control within Backoffice. This feature empowers administrators to restrict the visibility of products to specific users or user groups based on their Category and Catalog Version. This targeted visibility is specifically advantageous for managing multiple product catalogs and tailoring access for various customer segments, particularly in B2B scenarios.

In order to enable product visibility control, you'll need to 1) set visibility based on Category or Catalog version, 2) configure the related index field and run the full indexing CronJob, and 3) enable pre-defined related search restrictions. More details can be found e.g. here.

Commerce Module

1. Search Engine

The Solr application within Commerce Cloud has undergone significant updates. The default version has been upgraded to Solr 9.5, meaning the existing builds with version 9.2 are unaffected, but it will no longer be selectable for new builds in the Cloud Portal

More importantly, to leverage the latest advancements and security features, we highly recommend upgrading to Solr 9.7, which is officially supported in the 2211.31 release. Upgrading to Solr 9.7 is crucial as it provides the highest security standards and performance enhancements, particularly beneficial for customers managing a large volume of collections. Migrating to this version will require some effort, but the benefits outweigh the transition costs. For more detailed instructions on upgrading to Solr 9.x, visit the Upgrading to Solr 9.x page.

2. Keyword Redirects

The Keyword Redirects feature in the Composable Storefront allows you to define specific words that, when searched by customers, redirect them to certain search results, such as URL targets or individual products/categories. This enhances the user experience by guiding customers directly to relevant results, making the search process more efficient and user-friendly.

3. Promotion Engine

Be prepared for changes in the Promotion Engine as Drools 7 approaches its end-of-life (EOL) in May 2024. To address this, Drools has been upgraded from version 7 to version 8. This upgrade is crucial to align with the most recent standards and improvements in rule processing. If you have custom implementation, please check Upgrading to Drools 8 for more details.

4. Validation Constraint for Containers with Identical Products or Categories

A new constraint called 'PromotionSourceRuleConditionConstraint' has been introduced to mitigate the risk of infinite loop issues within promotion rules that deal with containers holding identical products or categories. This enhancement ensures stability and prevents potential disruptions caused by recursive promotion rule evaluations.

Customer Support / Assisted Service Module (ASM)

1. ASM Enhancements in Composable Storefront

ASM has been enhanced within the composable storefront framework. This empowers customer service personnel to deliver real-time sales and service support seamlessly and efficiently, example enhanced features are:

• Customer 360-Degree View for Product Reviews: Customer Support Agents now have a more focused view of Product Reviews, they can only access reviews for products within the current site's product catalog. This streamlined access ensures that agents provide relevant support based on precise product feedback.
• Customer Search Enhancement: In B2B context, Customer Support Agents are now restricted to viewing only B2B customers when operating in a B2B site. This prevents agents from inadvertently performing operations on behalf of B2C customers in a B2B environment, which could lead to unauthorized access issues and checkout errors.

For a full list of all the supported features of ASM within the composable storefront, please visit the dedicated features development page.

B2B

1. Commerce Quotes

SAP Commerce Cloud composable storefront now enables B2B buyers (as well as sales) to create and manage quotes, providing a streamlined mechanism for negotiating the final price of an order. This robust feature enhances the flexibility and efficiency of the B2B purchase process, allowing buyers/sales to easily submit quotes and engage in price negotiations directly within the platform.

2. Get Quote Details Without Creating Empty Cart

To optimize system performance, a new toggle:

toggle.quoteWithoutCreatingNewCart.enabled

has been introduced. When activated, this feature ensures that no empty cart is created while retrieving quote details, thus enhancing the efficiency of the quote API. This is particularly beneficial for maintaining streamlined operations and reducing unnecessary data overhead.

3. Controlled Editing for Quotes' Linked Carts

Featuring a new toggle:

toggle.cart.quoteStatusValidation.enabled

this update ensures that the quote's linked cart can only be edited when it is in certain predefined statuses. With the toggle set to true, this functionality supports merchants in working more efficiently by preventing unauthorized or erroneous changes to quotes during critical stages of the sales process.

4. Return Subtotal Without Order Level Discount

For precise financial reporting and analysis, a new field sapSubtotalExcludingOrderLevelDiscount can now be returned during quotation. This field shows the subtotal of an order excluding any order-level discounts. Complementing this, a feature toggle

toggle.quoteSubtotalExcludingOrderLevelDiscount.enabled

allows users to enable this functionality as needed, ensuring accurate and transparent financial data is provided during the quotation process.

Commerce Web Services & OCC API

1. Querying Products in Batches

The Products OCC API has been enhanced to support querying products in batches using filters. By specifying the filters parameter when invoking the GET /products/search endpoint, you can now efficiently query products in batches. These filters are based on the properties or fields defined in the index type configuration attached to the base site.

2. Retrieving Product Details

Improvements have been made to the performance of retrieving product details via the OCC API. Now, background populators can be selectively invoked based on the requested fields parameter. The following toggle should be set to true to activate this feature:

toggle.occ.retrieving.product.performance.improvement.enabled

This enhancement boosts efficiency by saving time and enhancing the overall user experience, thus providing a more prompt and reliable service for accessing product information.

3. Real-time Product Availability Retrieval

In the 2211.30/32 release, a new endpoint (Get /{baseSiteId}/productAvailabilities) has been introduced that allows customers to retrieve real-time stock availability information for requested products in specified units. This endpoint returns a comprehensive list of items, each indicating the stock status and quantity of the specified products. This enhancement ensures real-time inventory visibility, enabling more informed purchasing decisions.

4. REST API Endpoint for Quotes

A new OCC API endpoint for SAP CPQ Quotes to retrieve attachments associated with a given organizational document based on the provided attachment identifier has been introduced. This feature empowers sales representatives to review and generate proposal documents for quotes created by B2B users, enhancing workflow efficiency and document management.

5. API Enhancement for Bundles

• An EntryGroups field has been exposed from order and quote-related endpoints, enabling the frontend to display bundled components as a package rather than as separate products. This feature needs to be activated via the toggle:

  toggle.generateEntryGroupsInOrderAndQuotePopulator.enabled

  This feature makes it only easier for consumers to purchase bundled products, boosting sales, but also enhances their shopping experience by grouping related items together.
• An update to the OCC API now provides the technical capability to inform customers which products are disabled based on the 'disable product' bundle rules. This is implemented with 2 additional properties sapAddToCartDisabled and sapAddToCartDisabledMessage. This enhancement prevents 'disabled products' from being added to the cart when editing bundle selections, streamlining the shopping experience and improving customer satisfaction.

Data Hub

1. V2 Default Endpoint

With the 2211.24 release, Data Hub introduces a new V2 endpoint, driven by the robust Spring Web model-view-controller (MVC) framework. This enhancement promises improved performance and scalability for handling complex web requests and responses. By December 2024 (2211.32), this V2 endpoint will be the default, streamlining processes and bringing a more unified experience to users.

2. EhCache 3 Support

Data Hub has undergone a upgrade from EhCache 2 to EhCache 3, enhancing caching capabilities and overall system reliability. This update also includes replacing Hazelcast with the more streamlined EhCache caching, simplifying the architecture. These changes not only improve caching efficiency but also reduce the complexity of managing cached data, ensuring smoother operation across the board.

Summary

This blog post delves into the highlights of SAP Commerce Cloud updates for the year 2024, starting from version 2211.16 to 2211.31 (as well as 2211.30/32), specifically designed for technical users. It covers upcoming technical updates and enhancements across various areas, including Core Platform & Framework, Security, SAP Commerce Cloud in the Public Cloud, AI Applications, composable storefront, Backoffice, Product Content Management, Commerce Module, Customer Support/Assisted Service Module, B2B, Commerce Web Services & OCC API, and Data Hub. The primary objective is to provide Technical Users with a comprehensive understanding of the platform's evolution, enabling optimal utilization of its enhanced features and capabilities.

To dive deeper into all the exciting released and upcoming features, check out the comprehensive SAP documentation linked throughout this post. Additionally, don't miss the official "What's New in SAP Commerce Cloud in the Public Cloud" portal page for even more insights.

I hope you find the information valuable and wish you an enjoyable learning experience!