This document discusses "things to consider" when designing commerce solutions. It provides a pragmatic approach to help you understand the pieces of technology and organizational aspects that need to be put together to successfully evaluate and build commerce solutions, and extend them over time.
This paper documents the implementation of the first phase of Microsoft Direct, a Web site that provides online order management and customer assistance services to shoppers acquiring Microsoft® products.
This white paper documents the two-phase implementation of the OnlineOfficeSupplies.com Web site. Phase one created the initial site with order processing and fulfillment, and phase two added order management and shopper service extensions to the application.
High costs of a proprietary solution (UNIX) and the restriction it put on their unique business model led PC Flowers & Gifts to seek out a better solution, using Microsoft® Windows NT® Server 4.0 with IIS, Site Server, Visual InterDev™, and other tools on the Windows NT platform.
Visio was looking for a system that they could use to distribute their purchasing process to their end user community while still enabling them to leverage their investments in SAP R/3 and their corporate Intranet. Most importantly, Visio was looking for a system that would enable them to do this without increasing their head count. They chose Concur Technologies' CompanyStore.