Feature Comparison of Commerce Server Versions

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For the latest version of Commerce Server 2007 Help, see the Microsoft Web site.

This topic provides a comparison of features for Commerce Server systems, applications, and tools for the following versions of Commerce Server:

Commerce Server 2007
Commerce Server 2002 Enterprise Edition, Feature Pack 1
Commerce Server 2002 Enterprise Edition
Commerce Server 2000

For a comparison of features supported in the various editions of Commerce Server 2007, see Commerce Server 2007 Editions.

Feature comparisons are grouped under these broad categories:

High Availability Features
Commerce Server Systems Features
Business Management Applications Features
Business Analytics Features
Administration and Operations Tools Features
Development Platform and Integration Features

High Availability Features

The following table summarizes the high availability and system integration features available in Commerce Server 2007 and earlier releases of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Commerce Server Staging System to support scheduled deployments and upgrades of business data and Web site content.	Yes	No	No	No
Microsoft Application Center 2000 to support scheduled deployments and upgrades of Web site content.	No (replaced with the Commerce Server Staging System)	Yes	No	No
Scale-out architectures. Full support for load-balanced server farms that enable maximum scalability and reliability.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Superior recoverability. Enable quick failure recovery by making sure that all long-running tasks, such as Direct Mailer and Data Warehouse Data Transformation Services (DTS) tasks, can be restarted.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Run-time components survive failover of dependent Windows services, application server, or underlying data stores.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
32-bit server support.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
64-bit server support.	Yes	No	No	No
Event logging support with Microsoft Windows NT Event Log reporting.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Performance monitoring using Commerce Server Health Monitoring Service and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM).	Yes	No	No	No

Commerce Server Systems Features

The following table summarizes the Commerce Server systems available in Commerce Server 2007 and earlier releases of Commerce Server. The table also includes links to sections and topics that provide the details of feature changes and additions to the Commerce Server systems in Commerce Server 2007 and earlier releases of Commerce Server.

System	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Catalog System	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Commerce Server Staging System	Yes	No	No	No
Inventory System	Yes	No	No	No
Marketing System	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Orders System	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Profiles System	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Business Processing Pipeline	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Catalog System Features

Commerce Server 2007 introduces many new features to the Catalog System. The following table compares support for Catalog System features in Commerce Server 2007 with earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Full, native .NET Framework access to design-time and run-time APIs through a Web Service–Agent model.	Yes	No	No	No
Catalog .NET Framework APIs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Catalog Component Object Model (COM) objects.	No (.NET Framework APIs are not visible in COM)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Service-oriented architecture that supports distributed management of Catalog and Inventory Systems and client connectivity.	Yes	No	No	No
Windows Forms-based management UI (see Catalog Manager Features Comparison).	Yes	Yes	No	No
Business Desk-based management UI.	No (replaced with Windows Forms-based management UI)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Granular security applied through Windows Authorization Manager scopes, roles, tasks, and operations.	Yes	No	No	No
Create, update, delete, retrieve, and manage catalog data, such as catalogs, catalog sets, categories, products, product variants, and properties.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create, edit, retrieve, and delete definitions for products and categories and metadata for properties.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Define and manage catalog sets, which are catalogs targeted to particular user profiles at run time.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Hierarchically structured catalogs that enable products to be classified into categories. Each product can belong to multiple categories with a primary parent. Supports canonical and ancestral categories.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Products can have variants based on small differences, such as color or packaging. Product families can contain variants.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create relationships between products and hierarchies across catalogs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
User-defined catalog attributes and property attributes.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Multicurrency pricing support.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Multilingual catalogs support.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Convert data between time zones at client/server.	Yes	No	No	No
Virtual catalogs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Custom catalogs.	No (replaced by virtual catalogs)	No (replaced by virtual catalogs)	No (replaced by virtual catalogs)	Yes
Virtual properties support for virtual catalogs and virtual catalog nesting.	Yes	No	No	No
Virtual catalogs property support and nesting.	Yes	No	No	No
Virtual catalog performance improvements to provide virtual catalog property support, enhanced rebuild and run-time performance, and nesting of virtual catalogs.	Yes	No	No	No
Catalog edit filter (Catalog Manager).	No (replaced with alternative feature)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Catalog ranking (sort order on the site). Rank products, categories, product variants, relationships, and enumerated values in base and virtual catalogs.	Yes	No	No	No
Set rank (sort order) for the enumerated values of a property.	Yes	No	No	No
Set rank (sort order) for relationships of a product.	Yes	No	No	No
Search by specification or property.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Search in a category.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Full-text search for inflectional, weighted, and proximity searches.	Yes	No	No	No
SQL text data types for products (not subject to the 8 KB/row limit).	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Can perform queries joined to external tables.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Bulk updates and deletions of catalog data by specifying an expression or by specifying a dataset with values.	Yes	No	No	No
Run-time and design-time data caching support.	Yes	No	No	No
Time-based caching for catalog objects.	Yes	No	No	No
Aggregate content from multiple catalogs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Validate the content of an XML catalog file without importing it.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Import and export catalog item deletions.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Export changes to a catalog since a certain date.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Stage catalogs, virtual catalogs, schema changes, and properties in the catalog data.	Yes	No	No	No
Incremental refresh of full-text index, and improved design for regenerating full-text indexes.	Yes	No	No	No
Import/export catalog data with XSD schema validation.	Yes	No	No	No
Import/export catalog data with XDR.	No (replaced with XSD format)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Property-centric import/export of catalog data to XML.	Yes	No	No	No
Element-centric import/export XML of Commerce Server 2000 XML schema.	No (replaced with property-centric format)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Catalog syndication and catalog exchange. Catalog data can be transformed to industry catalog formats, such as xCBL 3.0 and cXML.	Yes	No	No	No
Line-of-business (LOB) integration with legacy catalogs through BizTalk Server integration, Web services, and Message Queuing integration.	Yes	No	No	No
BizTalk Server 2006 interoperability.	Yes	No	No	No
Exchange catalog data with vendors by using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 or later versions.	No (upgrade to BizTalk Server 2006 is required)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export catalog data to Data Warehouse for reporting.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Performance counters for each instance of Commerce Server installed for catalog pipeline.	Yes	No	No	No

Profiles System Features

The following table compares support for Profiles System features in Commerce Server 2007 with earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Full, native .NET Framework access to design-time and runtime APIs through a Web Service–Agent model.	Yes	No	No	No
Aggregate data across Active Directory directory service and SQL data stores.	Yes	No	No	No
ASP.NET 2.0 Profiles System and user authentication work with Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS).	Yes	No	No	No
AuthFilter user authentication.	Deprecated (replaced with ASP.NET 2.0)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Encryption of passwords and arbitrary properties.	Yes	No	No	No
Granular security applied through Windows Authorization Manager scopes, roles, tasks, and operations.	Yes	No	No	No
Active Directory group management using Business Desk.	No (replaced with Windows Authorization Manager)	Yes	Yes	No
Profile definition design interface.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Profile editing.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (limited to users and organizations)
Site term editing.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multivalued profiles.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Multivalued site terms.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Embedded profile editing.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Generic profile editing.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Import and export profile schema.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Staging support for site terms.	Yes	No	No	No
LOB integration through BizTalk Server 2006 interoperability.	Yes	No	No	No
Export data to the Data Warehouse for reporting.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Performance counters for user profile management.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Marketing System Features

The following table compares support for Marketing System features in Commerce Server 2007 with earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Full, native .NET Framework access to design-time and run-time APIs by a Web Service–Agent model.	Yes	No	No	No
Service-oriented architecture that supports distributed management of Catalog and Inventory Systems and client connectivity.	Yes	No	No	No
Run-time integration for content targeting delivery through the Content Selection Framework (CSF).	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
APIs to programmatically manage ads, discounts, and direct mail items.	Yes	No	No	No
APIs to programmatically manage campaign customers.	Yes	No	No	No
APIs to programmatically manage lists of users for direct mailings.	Yes	No	No	No
APIs to programmatically manage reference tables.	Yes	No	No	No
APIs to programmatically search campaign items.	Yes	No	No	No
Windows Forms-based management UI (see Marketing Manager Features).	Yes	No	No	No
Business Desk-based management UI.	No (replaced with Windows Forms-based UI)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Granular security applied through Windows Authorization Manager scopes, roles, tasks, and operations.	Yes	No	No	No
Perform expression-based targeting by creating expressions that define the customers or context you want to target and the type of content you want to deliver.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Build target expressions based on a user’s organization profile and support targeting to any number of arbitrary profiles.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Specify discount interaction policies to define combination, prioritization, and exclusion for campaign items.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Define complex target expressions that depend on other expressions.	Yes	No	No	No
Apply multiple discounts to an item or order and control the order in which discounts are applied.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Apply dollar-discount and percentage discounts to an item or an order and control the order in which the discounts are applied.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Flag whether an item can be discounted.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Run-time discount filtering.	Yes	No	No	No
Integration with Inventory System.	Yes	No	No	No
Coupon-enabled discounts.	Yes	No	No	No
Import, export, and generate coupons.	Yes	No	No	No
Direct Mailer can be deployed on a server that does not have SQL Server installed.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Direct Mailer can be deployed as a highly available clustered resource that takes advantage of Windows clustering.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Direct Mailer survives transient failures.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Integrated authentication for Direct Mailer in SQL Server.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Direct Mail based on target expressions.	Yes	No	No	No
Multilingual ads and discounts.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Multilingual Direct Mail subject lines.	Yes	No	No	No
Multilingual basket display string for discounts.	Yes	No	No	No
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to handle date/time zone conversions between client and server.	Yes	No	No	No
Clear inactive or expired campaign items from the database.	Yes	No	No	No
Staging support for marketing data and coupons/promotional codes.	Yes	No	No	No
Full or incremental updates of coupons/promotional codes during staging.	Yes	No	No	No
Refresh marketing data cache during staging.	Yes	No	No	No
Export data to Data Warehouse for reporting.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Performance counters for marketing campaigns and direct mail.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Orders System Features

The following table compares support for Orders System features in Commerce Server 2007 with earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Full, native .NET Framework access to design-time and run-time APIs through a Web Service–Agent model.	Yes	No	No	No
Extensible Orders System that enables extension of object and data models based on custom properties.	Yes	No	No	No
APIs to programmatically search, retrieve, and delete baskets.	Yes	No	No	No
APIs to programmatically search, retrieve, and delete basket orders.	Yes	No	No	No
Service-oriented architecture that supports distributed management of the Catalog and Inventory Systems and client connectivity.	Yes	No	No	No
Mapped storage. The Orders System maps purchase orders to SQL tables so that you can mine purchase order data. XML mapping file maps logical properties to physical storage.	Yes	No	No	No
User-definable and strongly typed object model. Objects in the Orders System can be inherited, and completely new objects can be added.	Yes	No	No	No
New entities can be stored in the Orders database with appropriate extensions to the mapping file.	Yes	No	No	No
Orders System binary storage.	No (replaced with mapped storage)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows Forms-based management UI (see Customer and Orders Manager Features).	Yes	No	No	No
Business Desk-based management UI.	No (replaced with Windows Forms-based UI)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Granular security applied through Windows Authorization Manager scopes, roles, tasks, and operations.	Yes	No	No	No
Capture orders in baskets in preparation for order processing.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Order persistence and calculation.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiple baskets per user and named baskets to support gift cards, wish lists, repeating orders, and gift registry scenarios.	Yes	No	No	No
Enhanced data management with support for advanced searches and post-order capture processing to support customer service or order status inquiries.	Yes	No	No	No
Payment method and shipping method definition.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Customizable payment methods. UI to create new payment methods.	Yes	No	No	No
Process split-tender purchases (multiple payment methods for a single order) out of the box.	Yes	No	No	No
Process split shipments (multiple shipment addresses for a single order) out of the box.	Yes	No	No	No
Lookup by user ID and basket name.	Yes	No	No	No
Lookup by user ID.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Post-capture updates.	Yes	No	No	No
Marketing discount processing during checkout.	Yes	No	No	No
Support for shipping, tax, authorization, payment, fraud detection, and so on by using third-party components.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Business Processing Pipeline Features

The following table compares support for Business Processing Pipeline System features in Commerce Server 2007 with earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Pipeline component development for supported .NET Framework development platforms.	Yes	No	No	No
Extensible, flexible, customizable order processing.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Customize order, targeting, and merchandising processes.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Define and link the stages of a business process.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
High-precision currency conversion.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiple shipment handling.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Complex discount handling.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Pooled pipelines to increase performance.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Order processing pipelines to process either business-to-consumer (retail) orders or business-to-business (supplier) orders.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Content selection pipelines to select content to display to shoppers based on targeting expressions.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Event processing pipelines to record events related to the displayed content.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Direct mail pipelines to construct and deliver personalized e-mail or static content messages for direct mail campaigns.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Inventory pipelines for basket/checkout to evaluate stock-on-hand, updating inventory, and to calculate quantity that is in stock, back-ordered, or pre-ordered based on configurations.	Yes	No	No	No
Inventory pipeline to update quantity as part of a purchase operation.	Yes	No	No	No
Pipeline Editor.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pipeline Component Registration tool.	Yes	No	No	No
Site Server 3.0 pipeline components and migration objects.	No (removed)	Yes	Yes	Yes

Business Management Applications Features

The following table summarizes the Business Management applications available in Commerce Server 2007 and earlier releases of Commerce Server. The table also includes links to sections that contain the details of feature changes and additions to the Business Management applications in Commerce Server 2007 and earlier releases of Commerce Server.

Application	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Catalog Manager (replaces Business Desk Catalogs module).	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Catalog and Inventory Schema Manager.	Yes	No	No	No
Customer and Orders Manager (replaces Business Desk Orders, Profiles, and Users modules).	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Marketing Manager (replaces Business Desk Campaigns module).	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Business Management Application Language Settings tool (lets you select the language to use when you are using the Commerce Server Business Management applications without affecting the language settings for the servers or Web sites).	Yes	No	No	No
Windows Authorization Manager. Provides extensible, granular security for each Business Management application UI element.	Yes	No	No	No
Business Desk Security.	No (replaced with Windows Authorization Manager)	Yes	Yes	No

Comparison of Features Shared Across Business Management Applications

The following table compares support for features that are shared across Commerce Server 2007 Business Management applications with shared features provided with Business Desk modules in earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Extensible user interface.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enhanced role-based, fine-grained security through Windows Authorization Manager.	Yes	No	No	No
Business Desk Permissions security.	No (replaced with Windows Authorization Manager)	Yes	Yes	No
Security based on Windows Access Control Lists (ACLs).	No (replaced with Windows Authorization Manager)	No (replaced with Business Desk Security)	No (replaced with Business Desk Security)	Yes
Access control for individual Business Management applications.	Yes	No	No	No
Access control for individual Business Desk modules.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
List views. View search results or data objects. Sort objects based on a selected property.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Preview pane. View the properties of an object selected in the List View.	Yes	No	No	No
Select fields for sorting list views.	Yes	No	No	No
Task views to view and select tasks available for the selected object or view.	Yes	No	No	No
Status view that provides summary of task completion.	Yes	No	No	No
Simple search based on selected filters and full or partial name or property to find data objects.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Advanced search using Boolean expressions to find data objects.	Yes	No	No	No
Style sheets for different themes, including high contrast for accessibility.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Catalog Manager Features

The following table compares support for features provided by Commerce Server 2007 Catalog Manager with earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Create multicurrency catalogs.	Yes	No	No	No
Create multilingual catalogs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create and manage product definitions, property definitions, and catalog definitions.	No (replaced with Catalog and Inventory Schema Manager)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tree grid view support to explore the catalog hierarchy and display objects alphabetically or sequentially.	Yes	No	No	No
Set catalog name and size restrictions.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create, edit, and delete catalog data, catalog sets, categories, and products.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Copy a product.	Yes	No	No	No
Define and modify base catalogs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Define and modify virtual (or custom) catalogs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Construct virtual catalogs by specifying include and exclude rules.	Yes	No	No	No
Catalog creation wizards: New Catalog Set Wizard New Category Wizard New Product Wizard New Virtual Product Catalog Wizard Add an Existing Virtual Catalog Item Wizard	Yes	Yes	No	No
Create catalogs and catalog sets, add items to a catalog, and price products in a catalog.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Set product prices.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Define product variants.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Apply discount product prices.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create category hierarchies.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and manage products, categories, catalogs, catalog sets, and product relationships.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Manage category and product relationships.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sequence data by defining the hierarchy of base and virtual catalogs, catalog sets, categories, and products.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Select fields for sequencing.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Designate the display order of products and product categories.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Import and export catalogs.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Full or incremental catalog import.	Yes	No	No	No
Import/export wizards: Export Product Catalog Wizard Import Product Catalog Wizard	Yes	Yes	No	No
Define and modify inventory catalogs.	Yes	No	No	No
Inventory catalog wizards: Inventory Catalog Wizard Export Inventory Catalog Wizard	Yes	No	No	No
Refresh catalog cache.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Refresh and publish catalogs to the Web site.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
List views. View search results or data objects. Sort objects based on a selected property.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Select fields for sorting. Select the fields to use for sorting a list view.	Yes	No	No	No
Preview pane. View the properties of an object selected in the List View.	Yes	No	No	No
Status. View a summary of information for the selected object.	Yes	No	No	No
Task view. View and select tasks available for the selected object.	Yes	No	No	No
Tree view. View and explore the catalog hierarchy. Display objects alphabetically or sequentially.	Yes	No	No	No
Simple search based on selected filters and full or partial name or property to find catalog data objects.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Advanced search using Boolean expressions to find products, catalog definitions, and other catalog data objects.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Refine a search request until the product is found.	Yes	Yes	No	No

Customer and Orders Manager Features

Feature comparisons are provided for the following two functional areas supported by the Commerce Server 2007 Customer and Orders Manager:

Site Terms and User Management
Order and Basket Management

Site Terms and User Management Features

The following table compares support for Site Terms and User Management features in Commerce Server 2007 with the Business Desk Profiles and Users modules available in earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Create new user objects. Add users to the Profiles database.	Yes	No	No	No
Create new address objects.	Yes	No	No	No
Create new site terms and site term groups.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edit, organize, and delete site terms and site term groups.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Add a term or value to a site term.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Add a property that maps to a site term.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create new user and organizational profiles.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create payment and address profiles.	Yes	No	No	No
Create generic profiles.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create new profile definitions.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Add properties or a property group to a profile definition.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Add encrypted properties to a profile definition.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Embed a profile definition.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Publish profile definition changes to a Web site.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Find, copy, and edit profile definitions, and delete profile properties.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create, copy, find, edit, and delete a user or organizational profile.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create, copy, find, edit, and delete generic profiles.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Import a list of user profiles.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reset a user password.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Order and Basket Management Features

The following table compares support for Order and Basket Management features in Commerce Server 2007 with the Business Desk Orders module available in earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Create, modify, enable/disable, and delete payment methods.	Yes	No	No	No
Create, modify, enable/disable, and delete shipping methods.	Yes	No	No	No
Add and edit location codes.	Yes (defined as site terms using Customers and Orders Manager)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Add and edit order status codes, country codes, or state/province codes.	Yes (defined as site terms using Customers and Orders Manager)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Customize shipping methods.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Add and edit tax rates.	Yes (defined in reference tables using Marketing Manager)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Review properties on an individual line item, order form in a purchase order, payment method, or payment collection.	Yes	No	No	No
Review and edit properties on a purchase order.	Yes	No	No	No
Find and delete baskets.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Find, sort, view, and delete orders.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clear deleted baskets and orders from the Orders database.	Yes	No	No	No
Publish new or updated orders data on your Web site.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Marketing Manager Features

The following table compares support for the features provided in Commerce Server 2007 Marketing Manager with earlier versions of the Business Desk Campaigns and Discount Manager modules in Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Add coupons to discounts.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Export coupons.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Approve campaigns and discounts.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Schedule coupon/promotion code reservation tasks.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Define discount application policies.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Define reference tables to manage content sizes, industry codes, and page groups for your business model.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create, delete, and restore campaigns.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create ad and discount campaigns.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Marketing wizards: Create New Advertisement Wizard Create New Campaign Wizard Create New Customer Wizard Create New Discount Wizard Create New Direct Mail Wizard New List Wizard	Yes	No	No	No
Create target expressions and target groups.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create direct mail campaigns.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and manage user lists for direct mail campaigns.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Start campaign changes on your Web site.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Generate campaign reports and export to List Manager.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

Business Analytics Features

This section summarizes Commerce Server support for the following business intelligence features:

Analytics Reporting Features
Data Warehouse Features

Commerce Server 2007 does not support the Predictor and Segment Viewer functions of earlier releases of Commerce Server.

Analytics Reporting Features

The following table compares support for analytics reporting features provided in Commerce Server 2007 with earlier versions of the Business Desk Reports modules in Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Analytics based on SQL Reporting Services.	Yes	No	No	No
Business Desk-based analytics.	No (replaced with SQL Reporting Services)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Office Web Controls and Pivot charts.	No (replaced with SQL Reporting Services)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reporting Life Cycle Management. Full life cycle management for all Commerce Server reports—including authoring, scheduling, versioning, snapshotting, access controls, and rendering—are provided using Microsoft SQL Reporting Services.	Yes	No	No	No
Stand-alone business analytics installation.	No	Yes	Yes	No
Remote access to OLAP cubes (requires SQL Server 2000 or 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition).	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create a new report from scratch.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Customize a predefined report.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Run user profile reports.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Run marketing campaign reports.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export reports as lists to the Profiles System or Marketing System.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Group published reports.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Report drill-through capability.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Across-domain reporting.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create prediction models to analyze usage behavior and display product recommendations to a site user.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create segmentation models to analyze behavior by population segment.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Affinity lists.	No	Yes	Yes	No
Export segment model as a list.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

Data Warehouse Features

The following table compares support for Data Warehouse features provided in Commerce Server 2007 with earlier versions of Commerce Server.

Feature	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Data Warehouse extensibility.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data Warehouse Import Wizard.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Data Warehouse site package file to create and configure new Commerce Server Data Warehouses.	Yes	No	No	No
Data Warehouse Configurator tool to create and configure new Commerce Server Data Warehouses.	No (replaced with Data Warehouse site package file)	Yes	Yes	No
Import campaign data.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Import user data.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Set log file restart parameters.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Set connection retry parameters for all DTS tasks.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Delete imported logs on a rotating basis.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Run a DTS task for all sites in a Data Warehouse (for relevant DTS tasks).	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Run a DTS task for a single site in a Data Warehouse.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Schedule DTS packages.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Display import progress data.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Use log file masking.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Import cookieless user data.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Import Unicode characters.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Import UTF-8 log files.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Data Warehouse schema diagram.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

DTS Tasks

The following table compares support for Data Transformation Services (DTS) tasks across versions of Commerce Server.

DTS task	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Configuration synchronization.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web server log import.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Catalog data import.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Campaign data import.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IP resolution.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Profile data import.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Transaction data import.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data deletion.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Report preparation.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Report caching.	No	Yes	Yes	No

Administration and Operations Tools Features

The following table summarizes the administration and operations tools available in Commerce Server 2007 and previous releases of Commerce Server. For more information about these tools, see Administration and Operations Tools.

Tool	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Commerce Server Manager.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Profile Schema Manager.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Commerce Server Staging.	Yes	No	No	No
Commerce Server 2007 Configuration Wizard.	Yes	No	No	No
Commerce Server 2007 Migration Wizard.	Yes	No	No	No
Commerce Server Site Packager.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data Warehouse Import Wizard.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Commerce Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) Tasks.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Predictor Resource.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Volume Shadow Copy Service Writer.	Yes	No	No	No
SQL Enterprise Manager.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SQL Server Management Studio or SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express.	Yes	No	No	No
Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows Server Active Directory Users and Computers.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows Server Event Viewer.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows Server Performance Monitor.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Development Platform and Integration Features

The following table summarizes the development tools and platform features available in Commerce Server 2007 and earlier releases of Commerce Server.

Tool	2007 Editions	2002 EE, Feature Pack 1	2002 Enterprise Edition	2000
Full integration with Visual Studio 2008.	Yes	No	No	No
Full integration with Visual Studio 2005.	Yes	No	No	No
Full support for Visual Web Developer Express Edition for Web development and Project Creation Wizard.	Yes	No	No	No
Commerce Server Project Wizard.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Visual Basic, including Web Developer Express Edition, pipeline development.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visual C++, including Web Developer Express Edition, pipeline development.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visual C#, including Web Developer Express Edition, pipeline development.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Full support for ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications.	Yes	No	No	No
Service-oriented architecture to support development and extension of Web services.	Yes	No	No	No
Support for ASP.NET Web applications.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
.NET Framework.	Yes	No	No	No
BizTalk Server Adapters to support integration with LOB systems.	Yes	No	No	No
Starter Site.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Solution site packages.	No (replaced with Starter Site).	Yes	Yes	Yes
SDK and tools.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Other Resources

Introducing Commerce Server 2007

Development Platform and Commerce Server Systems

SDK Items and Tools

Business Management Applications

Administration and Operations Tools

Deployment Tools

Removed or Deprecated Features

Getting Started with Commerce Server

Commerce Server Editions