Integrating Commerce Server Profiles with External Data Sources
ravikanth | November 19, 2009Commerce server profile system is very flexible to allow developers to map the properties to different data sources (active directory and sql server) and this configuration change is totally isolated to calling function and commerce server takes responsibility of pushing/getting the data from multiple sources when any operation is performed. In current ecommerce world, is this functionality enough? then the answer is NO as current ecommerce applications are running on different platforms like SharePoint or silver light and integrated with ERP systems (like SAP or Dynamics Axapta).
On 18th November, Microsoft has released a white paper which provides integration scenario on following items with operation sequence components examples.
- User profile information shared between Commerce Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).
- User profile information shared between Commerce Server and SAP.
You can read & explore more on this whitepaper by downloading it from Microsoft site and the url is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ce5629ad-2473-4c25-8f89-91c8530cd764
