What's New in Commerce Server 2009?

For your shoppers and purchasers – Better Experience

Contemporary out-of-box e-commerce site functionality allowing for easy browsing, encouraging loyalty, reviewing, and purchasing.
Browsing and cart management, product comparisons, product reviews, multiple shopping lists, simplified check-out, shopper profile management for addresses and credit cards, and integration with Live ID and Virtual Earth.
Third-party templates.

For Merchandisers and Marketers – Web site-based Information and Presentation Management

What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) product information editing and presentation management on the site minimizing management time.
Web set up of different "channels" to better promote specific products or set up specific marketing campaigns.
Optimize your searching with integrated Default site search with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), to make sure that your shoppers find what they are looking for.

For Site Designers – Standards-based Design with New Design Tools

Standardized creation and editing of site designs, leveraging SharePoint templates, giving flexibility and quick time to market.
New tools and technology for site development: Microsoft Expression Web, Microsoft SharePoint Designer, and Microsoft Silverlight.

For Developers – New multi-channel unified Commerce Foundation and Commerce SharePoint Services, new extensibility model

Out-of-box site functionality, through the source-shipping Web Parts, to quickly and consistently extend site features.
Microsoft Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation introduces a unified operator-commerce entity calling model for the run-time, offering more flexibility and quicker development across all Commerce Server systems.
Clear separation between business and presentation layers.
New extensibility points: "Commerce Entities", "Operations", "Entity Sequences".
Additional built-in .NET 3.5 SP1 shopping features and SharePoint list support.

For Architects - Clearer separation of architectural layers

Commerce Server 2009 clearly separates the business and presentation tiers. This allows for easier addition of different presentation technologies, such as Microsoft Silverlight.
It is easier to add-in new business logic, to complement the new out-of-the-box business functionality included in Commerce Server 2009, through Web Parts (presentation layer) or through commerce entities and sequences (business layer).
Tight integration with SharePoint and BizTalk allow architects to reuse Microsoft technologies and skill-sets.

For IT Professionals – Unified interaction surface for different integrated business systems

Extendable foundation allowing easy integration of your business systems, such as ERP’s, CRM’s, or SCM’s, and so forth.
Unified surface that makes interacting with your ERP just like interacting with your CRM, or your product systems.

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