What's New in Commerce Server 2009?

Commerce Server 2009

For your shoppers and purchasers – Better Experience

  • Contemporary out-of-box e-commerce site functionality allowing for easy browsing, encouraging loyalty, reviewing, and purchasing.

  • Browsing and cart management, product comparisons, product reviews, multiple shopping lists, simplified check-out, shopper profile management for addresses and credit cards, and integration with Live ID and Virtual Earth.

  • Third-party templates.

For Merchandisers and Marketers – Web site-based Information and Presentation Management

  • What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) product information editing and presentation management on the site minimizing management time.

  • Web set up of different "channels" to better promote specific products or set up specific marketing campaigns.

  • Optimize your searching with integrated Default site search with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), to make sure that your shoppers find what they are looking for.

For Site Designers – Standards-based Design with New Design Tools

  • Standardized creation and editing of site designs, leveraging SharePoint templates, giving flexibility and quick time to market.

  • New tools and technology for site development: Microsoft Expression Web, Microsoft SharePoint Designer, and Microsoft Silverlight.

For Developers – New multi-channel unified Commerce Foundation and Commerce SharePoint Services, new extensibility model

  • Out-of-box site functionality, through the source-shipping Web Parts, to quickly and consistently extend site features.

  • Microsoft Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation introduces a unified operator-commerce entity calling model for the run-time, offering more flexibility and quicker development across all Commerce Server systems.

  • Clear separation between business and presentation layers.

  • New extensibility points:  "Commerce Entities", "Operations", "Entity Sequences".

  • Additional built-in .NET 3.5 SP1 shopping features and SharePoint list support.

For Architects - Clearer separation of architectural layers

  • Commerce Server 2009 clearly separates the business and presentation tiers. This allows for easier addition of different presentation technologies, such as Microsoft Silverlight.

  • It is easier to add-in new business logic, to complement the new out-of-the-box business functionality included in Commerce Server 2009, through Web Parts (presentation layer) or through commerce entities and sequences (business layer).

  • Tight integration with SharePoint and BizTalk allow architects to reuse Microsoft technologies and skill-sets.

For IT Professionals – Unified interaction surface for different integrated business systems

  • Extendable foundation allowing easy integration of your business systems, such as ERP’s, CRM’s, or SCM’s, and so forth.

  • Unified surface that makes interacting with your ERP just like interacting with your CRM, or your product systems.

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