What's New in Commerce Server 2009?
For your shoppers and purchasers – Better Experience
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Contemporary out-of-box e-commerce site functionality allowing for easy browsing, encouraging loyalty, reviewing, and purchasing.
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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.
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Third-party templates.
For Merchandisers and Marketers – Web site-based Information and Presentation Management
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What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) product information editing and presentation management on the site minimizing management time.
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Web set up of different "channels" to better promote specific products or set up specific marketing campaigns.
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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
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Standardized creation and editing of site designs, leveraging SharePoint templates, giving flexibility and quick time to market.
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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
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Out-of-box site functionality, through the source-shipping Web Parts, to quickly and consistently extend site features.
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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.
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Clear separation between business and presentation layers.
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New extensibility points: "Commerce Entities", "Operations", "Entity Sequences".
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Additional built-in .NET 3.5 SP1 shopping features and SharePoint list support.
For Architects - Clearer separation of architectural layers
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Commerce Server 2009 clearly separates the business and presentation tiers. This allows for easier addition of different presentation technologies, such as Microsoft Silverlight.
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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).
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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
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Extendable foundation allowing easy integration of your business systems, such as ERP’s, CRM’s, or SCM’s, and so forth.
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Unified surface that makes interacting with your ERP just like interacting with your CRM, or your product systems.