Product Taxonomy
Essential knowledge
Changed on:
13 Feb 2024
Overview
The Fluent Commerce Product Taxonomy provides a structured overview of the diverse “components” that constitute our platform and products. This taxonomy is designed to clarify how various elements—from foundational services and frameworks to distinct products and their features—interconnect to form comprehensive, flexible, scalable “solutions” tailored to address diverse business needs.Key points
- The Fluent Commerce Product Taxonomy provides an overview of the diverse "components" that constitute our platform and products.
- These "components" are grouped by categories:
- Platform
- Product
- Capability
- Features
- Services
- Frameworks
For a deeper exploration and in-depth explanations of our Platform and Product terminology, visit Comprehensive Definition of Product Terms.For concise definitions and essential terminology overviews, visit the Glossary of Key Terms.
Taxonomy
Illustrated view of the interconnectedness of all Fluent Order Management Cloud Platform components.Platform
At the core of our ecosystem, the platform provides a robust set of technical capabilities that are leveraged by the products built on top of it. These capabilities include a set of services and frameworks that are the building blocks that accelerate the development and deployment of solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.Product
Our products, including Fluent Order Management and Fluent Big Inventory, offer standalone or integrated solutions equipped with pricing models and service level agreements. Designed to work in tandem or individually, these products address specific market demands, offering versatile, high-value solutions to our customers. Customers purchase Products.Fluent Commerce Products are:- Fluent Order Management
- Fluent Big Inventory
Capability
Reflecting the aggregate set of features, capabilities illustrate how Fluent Commerce delivers solutions to business use cases. They embody the practical application of our platform's strength in solving real-world challenges.Capabilities can be accessed through a Reference Module.Reference Module
A Reference Module is a collection of OMS capabilities grouped by functional area. A reference module includes Settings, Rules, Rulesets, Workflows, Web App Manifests, UI Components and Structural data such as 'roles'.Features
Directly interacting with end-users, features are specific functions within Fluent Products that can be configured and extended to suit varying requirements, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.Services
Services are essential operational elements that power our platform and products.Services ensure the seamless functionality and scalability of our solutions.Examples of Services on the Fluent Commerce Platform are:- Orchestration Engine
- APIs
- Logging
- Single Sign On
- Cloud Infrastructure
Frameworks
Frameworks are a set of functional and technical tools for our Partners and OMX Builders (those who extend Fluent Features) to create additional capabilities.Frameworks on the Fluent Commerce Platform are:- Workflow Framework (Workflow Builder)
- Workflow Templates
- Rule Library
- OMX Workflow Patterns
- Rules SDK (Software Development Kit)
- UX Framework (UI Builder)
- UI Templates
- UI Component Library
- OMX Design System
- Component SDK
- Connect Framework
- Reference Connectors
- Connect SDK
