Commerce Server Catalog as an Edge Catalog

Sitecore Commerce 8.0 powered by Microsoft Dynamics® uses the Sitecore Commerce Server Catalog system as an Edge Catalog, which takes advantage of current and future investments in integrating the Commerce Server catalog subsystem into Sitecore by using a customer Sitecore Data Provider.

The Synchronization Service extracts product catalog data from Sitecore by using Commerce Server run-time APIs, and transforms the data into the XML catalog import file format used by Commerce Server. During the transformation, the data can be extended to add other value added processing, or to integrate with information from other subsystems.