Whether your concern is bringing sites to market faster, empowering your business managers to make revenue-enhancing decisions real-time, or deepening customer and partner knowledge, Commerce Server offers robust and easy-to-implement functionality. Building on Microsoft Site Server version 3.0 Commerce Edition (SSCE), Commerce Server includes both enhanced and new features that make Commerce Server the ideal solution for building e-commerce applications.

Features:

Build Effective Solutions:

Profile System
Profile and manage your customers and trading partners for site usage authentication and advanced targeting and personalization.
Targeting System
Personalize the buying experience with one-to-one marketing and targeted merchandising that increases the ordering convenience and relevance of content for your customers.
Product Catalog System
Manage millions of products, offer custom catalogs, and make it convenient for users to find the products and services they need quickly.
Business Processing Pipelines System
Tailor your order and merchandising processes to fit your requirements today, while being able to easily modify over time, as your business grows and changes.

Go to Market Faster:

Development Tools
Out-of-box business-to-consumer and business-to-business applications and pre-built business components let your developers focus on customizing your site, instead of worrying about the plumbing.
Administrative Tools
Simplify and centralize administrative tasks such as site configuration, deployment, operations and maintenance, reducing total cost of ownership and increasing application availability.
Partners
With online backups, fully integrated log shipping, and enhanced failover clustering you can maximize database availability.

Empower Business Managers:

Business Analytics System
360-degree decision support through data warehousing, data mining, and advanced analysis that incorporates all relevant information, beyond click-stream data.
Business Desk
Centralized Web-based management of users, products and services, marketing campaigns, reporting to make it easier to make the site more relevant to users over time.
Closing the Loop
Empower your business managers to close the loop—enabling them to continually offer highly personalized and relevant content to your customers and partners.