Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 Standard 1 Processor

Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 is the .NET Enterprise Servers platform for rapidly building next-generation online businesses. Commerce Server 2002 is built on agile Microsoft .NET technology that allows you to extend your site functionality, drive profitability, and enhance the customer experience globally. Commerce Server provides powerful features for user profiling, personalization, catalog management, order processing, globalization (multiple languages and currencies), and advanced online business analytics.

The Standard Edition is designed for the mid-market organization using a per processor license. Web sites built with a limited purpose or scope can advantageously use the more sophisticated features within Commerce Server 2002, such as catalog management, campaign management, personalization, and limited business analytics without incurring additional costs. The Standard Edition contains all the features of Commerce Server 2002, and it can be implemented in sites that have high-availability requirements. Standard Edition licensing permits the implementation of one site and two Web servers. With today's hardware and known best practices, the cleanest possible scenario is to have two Web servers per site. This would provide capacity for 8,400 concurrent users, with a population of approximately 840,000 users at a 1 percent concurrency rate.

As part of the Microsoft Windows Server System, Commerce Server 2002 is an extensible solution that enables organizations to rapidly deploy personalized portals. Commerce Server 2002 provides a powerful set of capabilities for non-transaction-based sites including user profiling, content targeting, multi-language, and advanced business analytics. Commerce Server 2002 features also extend to transaction-based sites with capabilities for catalog management, order processing, and merchandising. Organizations can leverage all or some of the Commerce Server 2002 features depending on their portal needs. This overview highlights the high-level capabilities of Commerce Server 2002.

Commerce Server 2002 is available in four editions: Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Developer Edition, and Evaluation Edition.

Commerce Server 2002 delivers optimal flexibility and speed for building or extending powerful Web services, thus enabling portal solutions more quickly and with fewer lines of code than ever before. Tight integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET enables developers to take advantage of the Commerce Server 2002 rebuilt business components and tools that support both COM/ASP and Microsoft ASP.NET development.

• Business Analytics System
  Empower your organization to discern customer trends and market opportunities. Used as a stand-alone system or with other Commerce Server capabilities, the Business Analytics System provides business intelligence and data mining from multiple information sources, including click stream usage, visitor browse history, campaign effectiveness, and purchasing patterns.
• Profiling System
  The Commerce Server 2002 Profiling System is the foundation for powerful personalization and intelligence across your online business-including customer-centric business intelligence, customer-specific pricing and business processing, targeted merchandising and advertising campaigns, and customer-specific catalogs.
• Targeting System
  Improve the effectiveness of your portal by delivering targeted content to visitors based on their profile. Increase the return on commerce portals through targeted cross-selling and campaigns across your customer base.
• User Management Console: Business Desk
  Empower your business managers to respond quickly to changing customer and business needs through a centralized intuitive console for managing customer and partner profiles, personalization rules, product catalogs and pricing, merchandising and advertising campaigns, and business analysis.
• Catalog Management System
  Easily create, manage, aggregate and syndicate catalogs, implement customer or locale-specific catalogs with custom pricing, and make it convenient for customers to find what they need through sophisticated search capabilities.
• Business Processing Pipelines System
  Tailor the workflow involved in transactional and merchandising processes conducted on your site. Prebuilt pipeline components enable you to quickly configure new processes.
• Mission-Critical Abilities
  Commerce Server 2002 delivers the high-performance, scalability, and proven reliability required by even the most demanding mission-critical solutions. In addition, you can use its powerful, easy-to-use management tools to minimize maintenance and cost of ownership. For details, see the following table.

To run the Commerce Server 2002 Administration Console, you need:

• Processor - Computer with a Pentium-compatible 266-MHz or higher processor
• Operating System - Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP2 or later and SRP1 or later
• Memory - 128 MB of RAM
• Hard Disk - 20 MB of available hard disk space
• Peripheral Devices - CD- or DVD-ROM drive; VGA or higher-resolution monitor, SVGA recommended; NIC
• Other - Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later

To run the Commerce Server 2002 Business Desk, you need:

• Processor - Computer with a Pentium-compatible 266-MHz or higher processor
• Operating System - Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later; Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0; or Microsoft Windows 98.
• Memory - 32-128 MB of RAM
• Hard Disk - 5 MB of available hard disk space
• Peripheral Devices - CD- or DVD-ROM drive; VGA or higher-resolution monitor, SVGA recommended; NIC
• Other - Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.