Describes an optimization analysis of a live customer site. Using Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) methodology to analyze site capacity requirements then consolidate operations with similar workload factors on dedicated servers, the study team redesigned the site to be affordable, efficient, and highly scalable with the least number of servers.
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.
Working with Clarus™, MasterCard® deployed a cutting-edge, Web-based electronic procurement solution that was powered by Clarus E-Procurement, Microsoft® Internet Explorer, and Microsoft® BackOffice® technologies. This document discusses the implementation of a business-to-business solution and describes a system that gives users easy access to a cross-supplier product catalog over the corporate Intranet.
Merisel worked with Microsoft Consulting Services to build an electronic commerce application called Selline II, designed to improve and extend the existing system and develop a strong Internet connection with their customers. This document describes the development of this application in a supply chain (business-to-business) solution.
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.
MS Market is an intranet-based procurement application used by Microsoft employees to place orders for goods and services. This document describes the architecture, implementation, and scaling of this business-to-business solution.
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.
Launched in 1994, www.microsoft.com has grown from its original role as a Microsoft® technical support Web site to become one of the largest and most complex business Web sites in the world. This document discusses the implementation of shop.microsoft.com, which was created with two main goals: to create revenue and to showcase electronic commerce technologies.
This worksheet provides an outline of the information you need to gather and record when analyzing a site, designing a solution to the customer’s business problem, implementing the solution, and recording the lessons learned during the process.
This document describes a store application for the business-to-consumer solution. The store's supported range of Web technologies includes WebTV®, Internet Explorer 3.0/4.0, and Netscape® 3.0/4.0.
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.