Commerce Server Blog

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)