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Commerce Server 2009 comes with a new, production-ready, out-of-the-box, color-neutral Web site that allows businesses to get their stores live and merchandise moving more quickly. New page templating features mean organisations can change the look and feel of a site just by pointing and clicking. To help businesses stay nimble, Commerce Server 2009 enables fast and easy information-editing and smooth content management with workflow approvals with Microsoft SharePoint Commerce Services. The new Commerce Server also helps address the specific needs of everyone involved in the planning, maintenance, and execution of an e-commerce strategy—whether you are a developer, IT pro, designer, marketing manager, merchandiser, or customer service representative.

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» Commerce Server 2009 Datasheet

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New Features

• Get your site up and running quickly with reduced time to market - New Default Site and easy skinning features help get you into production fast, allowing you to focus on selling merchandise.

• Benefit from centralised, cross-channel management - Whether your customers shop using a computer, a mobile phone, a gaming system, or other channels, Commerce Server 2009 introduces full, multi-channel support, allowing you to centrally manage your cross-channel strategy.

• Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - With more than 30 new Web parts and controls available, and integration with Windows Live Services, including Microsoft Virtual Earth, Commerce Server 2009 allows you to choose a range of new features and functions. The modular design allows you to quickly add or remove functionality without impacting the entire site.

• Take advantage of role-specific functionality - Commerce Server 2009 integrates with Office SharePoint Server 2007 through Commerce Services—a benefit for merchandisers and marketers. It also provides improved design templates and commerce Web parts and tools for site designers, while offering a new Commerce Foundation for developers and IT professionals.

• Engage and interact with customers using enhanced Web 2.0 community features - Use the contemporary, out-of-the-box Web site with built-in product reviews and ratings to interact with customers. Leverage the community functionality in Office SharePoint Server 2007 to further engage your customers through forums, blogs, and wikis.

• Personalise your e-commerce experience - With easy, standards-based design, extensibility, and integration capabilities, Commerce Server 2009 provides the flexibility to create e-commerce solutions that best suit your business needs.

• Enhanced analytics - Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, the reporting engine in Commerce Server, enables the creation, management, and delivery of both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based reports displayed through Office SharePoint Server 2007.

• High availability and performance - Support for Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit gives access to higher performance servers and helps you support large, complex catalogs.

• Easy customisation - The new Commerce Foundation adds more out-of-the-box functionality and presents a new, unified working and extensibility model to allow for quicker customisation and integration.

• End-to-end connectivity - Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapters help solve the issues of communication with other line-of-business applications and trading partners, allowing for bidirectional synchronisation and orchestration of order, catalog, inventory, and profile objects.

• Deeper ties with your legacy systems - The new Commerce Foundation unifies the calling surface so you can easily add third-party, best-of-breed features, such as payment providers, fraud detection, address verification, tax services, and other services, into the unified calling model.

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Features

Reduced Costs in Site Development and Deployment

Businesses must move quickly to take advantage of new opportunities, and with Commerce Server 2009, it’s never been easier to put your e-commerce plans into action. Using the new Default Site and skinning features of Commerce Server 2009 helps you get your site up and running promptly, so you can start selling right away. Adding features and making improvements in real time has never been easier, and the new modular design means changes can be made without interfering with site performance.

• Greater reach through multi-channel awareness
• More than 30 out-of-the-box e-commerce Web parts and controls—giving you building blocks for constructing and updating your Web site
• Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and Windows Live
• Pre-built default site features, including browsing, searching, site maps, mini-carts, and check-out
• Easy-to-incorporate visual themes and site skins
• Ability to quickly create microsites
• Single sign-on capabilities

Customised User Experience

Whether you are a marketer, an IT professional or a designer, Commerce Server 2009 is designed to address your needs.

• Marketing managers and merchandisers: Web site management is made easy with adjustable site and page templates, while the new Channel Configuration process allow managers and merchandisers to quickly create event-specific sites.
• Customer service and business managers: Benefit from a single view of the customer, enhanced search and update features, and access to ordering activity. Commerce Server 2009 also provides advanced analytics through integration with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Designers and developers: Take advantage of new Web parts and templates and near-seamless integration with Microsoft Expression design software. As well, the new Commerce Foundation unifies the run-time calling model across all Commerce Server systems.

Greater Reach, Better Shopping Experience

The rise of Web 2.0 has changed the way businesses interact with shoppers. Inviting customers to be part of a community personalises their shopping experience and helps build loyalty, and that is why Commerce Server 2009 is designed to help businesses build deeper and more rewarding connections with their customer community. Use the out-of-the-box Web site with built-in product reviews and ratings to interact with your customers right away. Leverage the community functionality of Office SharePoint Server 2007 to further engage customers through forums, blogs, and wikis.

But that is just the beginning. Commerce Server 2009 also helps connect businesses to a comprehensive ecosystem of services, tools, and technologies. And, with support for Microsoft developer tools, Expression design software, and Silverlight, companies can deliver the next wave of innovative, dynamic applications that today’s shoppers expect.

• Set up different marketing campaigns for different brands
• Manage a single site or multiple sites from multiple catalogs
• Profile administration features for shoppers and managers
• Display product reviews and ratings

Support and Extensibility

With support for the latest server technologies, Commerce Server 2009 enables IT professionals to better leverage their legacy systems and more easily integrate with enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), or supply chain management software—and to do so in a way that’s as secure as possible.

• Tools and performance to ensure your e-commerce application is always up and running
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support and profile data encryption with a Security Configuration Wizard
• 64-bit and Windows Server 2008 support

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System Req.

To use Commerce Server 2009 Standard and Enterprise Edition, you need:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP2, or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2, and Microsoft Windows critical updates
• IIS 6.0 with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or IIS 7.0 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 already installed (any version)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 Standard and Enterprise (32-bit or 64-bit) or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) SP1 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) SP1 with December 2008 Cumulative Update

Note: Commerce Server 2007 is included with your purchase of Commerce Server 2009.