What is a Profile?
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A profile is a set of characteristics that define any business-related item, such as a user, a company, or a business process. Each profile is an individual instance of a profile definition. For example, a profile based on the New User profile definition may have the properties Terry Eminhizer, 52, Female.
In Commerce Server, you use profiles to store information about business-related items. For example, you use profiles to collect data from users on your Web site. You enter data into user and organization profiles by using the Customer and Orders Manager.
You can specify where to store profile data when it is collected, and what type of profile data (for example, user data) to export to the Data Warehouse.
You can add properties to profile definitions that will collect data that you can use to distinguish those users to whom you want to deliver targeted ads or discounts. You can create site terms to standardize and restrict the choices shown to users when you request user input on your site.
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