What is Point Of Delivery or POD?

 A Point Of Delivery or POD refers to the Demandware hardware deployed in a data centre. A POD contains multiple state-of-the-art application servers, database servers and the clustering and backup infrastructure to support multiple client Realms.

·       Each POD is hosted in a third-party data centre.

·       Demandware partitions PODs into realms, which are associated with a given customer.

·       A realm can contain one or more eCommerce sites (a.k.a, storefronts).

·       A typical merchant using the Demandware platform will operate in a single realm.

Within that one realm, the merchant and developer can develop, stage, and deploy multiple sites.

 

What is Demandware?

Demandware is a SaaS platform specializing on eCommerce.

The term SaaS (Software as a Service) is used to define the method of delivering software to a customer. Software and applications are hosted on the internet and delivered to customers who pay for access.

Software updates are performed on the hosted platform without customer intervention required.

Using cloud technology, Demandware provides an on-demand platform architecture that is designed to handle traffic spikes by automatically allocating additional capacity as needed.

All Demandware clients pay a monthly fee to Demandware for utilizing the application to sell their products.