Commerce Server 2009 Editions

February 25, 2009 |

Author ravikanth

Commerce server 2009 is the first accelerator to CS2007 and comes with two editions. One is standard edition and another is enterprise editions. Here are some of the differences between two editions.

Commerce Server 2009 Feature (32-bit and 64-bit)

Benefit

Standard

Enterprise

Functionality
New Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation	Unifies the run-time calling model across all Commerce Server systems, introduces new commerce entities, built-in multi-channel awareness and meta data for commerce entities.
SharePoint Commerce Services	30 Web Parts and controls (including source code for extensibility), color-neutral default out-of-the-box web site, integrated into Microsoft SharePoint®, with optional sample data.
Marketing, Campaigns, Direct Mail	Allows for different marketing campaigns for different brands or different customer segments – or both. Comes with built-in discounts, advertisement management, and a direct mailer, with expression-based lists; all with multi-lingual support.
Sharing of Catalog and Marketing Campaigns Across Web sites	Easily manage multiple sites from multiple catalogs, or a single site with multiple catalogs.
Content Staging	Allows for coordinated transactional content, Web application settings, and business data replication from a “staging” environment to production environment.
Data Warehousing and Analytics Functions	Offers an integrated data warehouse across customer profile, catalog, order, marketing, and Web log data.
Deployment
Can Deploy to Production Environment	Production license.
Side-by-side deployment with Commerce Server 2007 SP2	Install Commerce Server 2009 into existing Commerce Server 2007 SP2 deployments with no changes; and incrementally take advantage of the new features.
Commerce Server Applications per Commerce site	Specific “applications” within Commerce Server can be created for better performance handling.	1	Unlimited
Maximum Number of Physical Processors per Server (can be hyper-threaded or dual-core)		2	Unlimited (Based on OS Max)
Number of Physical Servers per Web farm		2	Unlimited
Number of Commerce Server sites per Server	Specific “sites” within Commerce Server can be created for better performance handling.	10	Unlimited (Bound only by hardware or IIS limits)

Commerce Server 2009 is licensed on a per-processor basis just the same as Commerce Server 2007 SP2. Commerce Server 2009 does not require licenses for any other previous versions of Commerce Server. For existing users of Commerce Server 2007 Standard or Enterprise, you only need to install Commerce Server 2009.

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