Commerce Server 2006

1. Commerce Server 2006 Osman Malik Consultant – Microsoft Services Microsoft France osmalik@microsoft.com

2. Agenda • Product background • Architecture • Features & Improvements • Availability • Summary

3. State of the Industry E-Commerce resurgence • Key requirement for an enterprise platform • High value add over ‘roll your own’ • Forrester Research Reports • Commerce Server Interest Grows – Again • 2005 Wave Evaluation for Commerce Platforms • Leader for B2C & Strong Performer for B2B • New Marquee customers • Costco Wholesale • Harrods • CompUSA

4. Scenarios Self-service and eGovernment sites Transactional Sites B2C B2B eGovernment Self Service • Costco • Harrods • CompUSA • BestBuy.ca • EdCon • Premium TV • UK eTicketing • EnglandNet • Israeli Ministry of Transportation • Weyer- haeuser • Enterasys Networks • Samsung • sia Abrasives • Spanish Ministry of Tourism • SEI Investments • GlaxoSmith- Kline • Presidio Trust

5. Reporting, Application Services Shopping Cart, Merchandising Commerce Server Background MS solution for B2x online businesses • Business User, IT, & Dev Tools • Rich legacy to 1996 • CS2002 shipped in April 2002 • Feature Pack 1 refresh in 2004 • 4,000+ CS200x Customers • Roadmap for 2006 & beyond Proprietary to COM to ASP.NET 2.0 Connected Commerce Globalization, Advanced Analytics Catalog, Closed-loop Analytics, Stronger B2B Personalization, Membership Basic B2B

6. Commerce Server today • Platform for .NET Web applications • Profiles • Catalog • Orders • Marketing • Out-of-the-box functionality • Starter Site • Business analytics • Business User Tools • IT Pro tools • Performance, high-availability, scalability and security • Partner ecosystem

7. Commerce Server 2006 Connected Commerce Customer Satisfaction Platform Integration

8. Commerce Server Architecture

9. WSS “Better Together” • Windows Server system • 64-bit x64 native • Based on .NET 2.0 • Integration with Visual Studio 2005 • Supports SQL Server 2005 • MOM 2005 Pack • Watson support • New setup and security configuration

10. User Profile System • Profiles: data definitions for common business entities • Users, orgs, POs, requisitions, products, accounts, etc. • Authentication / Merchandising • ASP.NET Membership Provider • Scale to 60 million users • Aggregation across AD and SQL data stores • Partitioning of data store for scale • Encryption of passwords and arbitrary properties

11. Controls Example: Login / Auth Login LoginStatus LoginView Other Login Controls Membership API Membership MembershipUser Membership Providers ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider SqlMembershipProvider CS Membership Provider Membership Data AD and ADAM SQL Server CS2006 UPM Data Store

12. Product Catalog Manage and present products & variants Categorization and ranking Multiple search mechanisms Virtual catalogs Catalog Sets for users matching certain profiles Business-user maintainable Multilingual, multicurrency

13. Major Catalog Updates in ‘06 • Virtual catalog redesign • Virtual property support • Enhanced rebuild & runtime performance • Virtual catalog views – nesting • Ranking support • Products, categories, variants and relationships • Revamped import/export • Bulk data update

14. Inventory • New subsystem • Control the flow of product • Enable new services for customers: i.e., backordering • Integrated with catalog • Full search and query integration with catalog • Integration with orders system • Check inventory • Quantity in stock, back-ordered or pre-ordered • Update inventory • Transactional updates from external systems

15. Personalize the buying experience with targeted merchandising Marketing System Deliver the optimal content for a given user in a given context Create, analyze, and manage personalized and targeted discounts, direct marketing and advertising campaigns Target ads or discounts to users of a specific profile Cross-sell and up-sell advertising

16. Order Processing System • Extensible pipeline architecture • Robust high performance system • Marketing discount processing during checkout • Support for shipping, tax, authorization, payment, fraud detection, etc. via third party components • CyberSource • ClearCommerce / eFunds • Etc.

17. Major Orders Updates in ‘06 • Orders Web service • Advanced search • Data management • Multiple baskets/user • Payment & Shipping • Multiple types • Split-tender • Globalization improvements • Improved order storage • User definable XSDs

18. BizTalk Adapters • Orders, Catalog, Inventory, Profile • Bi-directional – send & receive adapters • Robust implementation • Just add orchestration & data mapping • Connection & Configuration Wizard • Scenarios • LOB integration • Multiple trading partners • Commerce Server Site-to-Site data interchange

19. New Business User Tools • New role-specific UIs • Customer & Order Manager • Campaign Manager • Catalog & Inventory Manager • Replace BizDesk entirely • Extensible, granular security • Windows authorization-based • Higher scale with greater performance! • Load-balancing enabled • Can be run over the Internet

20. CS2006 Enterprise Deployment Load Balancer\Fire Wall Load Balancer\Fire Wall This Biz Talk Serversends and receives\send ordersor catalogs BackendSystem/Fulfillment Commerce Server Staging Fire Wall FireWall Commerce Server Staging

21. Content and Data Staging • Coordinated, transactional replication • Site content • Business data • Catalog • Marketing campaigns and promotion codes • Site terms • Order system configuration data • WAN and Firewall friendly • MMC tools • Fully scriptable and extensible

22. Developer Experience / Starter Site • Fully integrated with Visual Studio 2005 • Full support for Visual Web Developer Express • Next-generation Starter site • ASP.NET 2.0-based • Easy branding and re-skinning • User Controls & Web Parts • Full integration with Visual Studio IDE • Tested to enterprise customer production levels • Hosting friendly

23. Performance & Scale • Built & tested for high availability & scale • 5M item catalogs • 10,000 catalogs & virtual catalogs • 60M user profiles • 100,000 orders/Day (12 hr peak) • 10GB/hour data warehouse import • Deployed in 99.9% availability customer environments

24. ISV Partner Integration • Search • MondoSoft • Tax, payment processing, & fraud detection • WorldPay • Vertex • TaxWare • CyberSource • ClearCommerce / eFunds • Shipping • TANData • Catalog management • Equilibrium / Scene 7 – Dynamic image rendering • Endeavour Commerce – Complex product configurations • Amulet Technologies – Amazon.com catalog feeds

25. Commerce Server 2006 Connected Commerce Customer Satisfaction Platform Integration

26. CS2006 Availability • Technical Preview 1 at TechEd 2005 • Technical Preview 2 at PDC 2005 • Public Beta in Q2 FY2006 • Will work with BTS2006Beta2 and VSNET2005RTM • RTM in H2 FY2006

27. Summary • Great solutions with CS2002 • Extended usage scenarios with CS2006 • Leverages .NET and ASP.NET 2.0 • Leverages Windows Server System • Connected Commerce (incl. BizTalk)

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