Commerce Server 2007 

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Microsoft Commerce Server 2007, Standard, Enterprise and Developer Editions for Windows 2003.
These products replace the following products: Microsoft Commerce Server 2002, Standard, Enterprise and Developer Editions.

General information
Commerce Server 2007 is Microsoft’s premier server for creating e-commerce solutions, building on over 10 years of innovation and success. The 2007 version includes new capabilities and improvements that allow a developer to create more flexible and high-performance sites faster, as well as empowering and enabling administrators and business users to more effectively manage and maintain sites. New integration features help enable customers to integrate new Commerce Server 2007 sites with their existing systems and infrastructure. Commerce Server provides a comprehensive solution for many business scenarios, including:

  • Business-to-consumer (B2C) sales of tangible goods
  • B2C sales of digital goods and online service delivery
  • Business-to-business (B2B) scenarios, such as e-procurement and trading communities
  • B2X scenarios, combining B2C and B2B
  • Catalog-connected portals using profiling and content targeting for information delivery
    The following items describe some of the improvements included in Commerce Server 2007 in the areas of business user experience, developer experience, IT professional experience, and connected commerce.

Benefits Microsoft Commerce Server 2007
 

 

Standard Edition

Enterprise Edition

Number of CPUs per server

2

Max supported by Operating System

Number of servers per Web farm

2

Unlimited

Number of sites per server

10

Unlimited

Marketing and campaigns

Supported

Supported

Direct mail

Supported

Supported

Sharing of catalog and marketing campaigns across Web sites

Not supported

Supported

Content staging

Not supported

Supported

Data warehousing and analytics functions

Supported

Supported

Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Developer Edition supports all the features of the Enterprise Edition, but is limited to development usage.

Connected Commerce
E-commerce sites need to be part of a company’s overall line-of-business systems. By providing advanced integration features, Commerce Server 2007 makes such integration easier than ever. Specifically, Commerce Server 2007 will help enterprises:

  • Connect seamlessly to internal and partner applications and systems such as SAP, MBS, JD Edwards, and others through Microsoft BizTalk Server adapters. Commerce Server 2007 provides profile, order, inventory, and catalog subsystem adapters for BizTalk Server to accelerate and automate the delivery of products and services.
  • Manage and share business data through industry-standard Web Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Extensible Markup Language (XML) protocols. All core subsystems are Web-service enabled to facilitate business data management and updates.
  • Provide customers and partners with Web-based self-service through access to order status and inventory availability, wish lists, and order change management.
  • Exchange and aggregate product catalog information from across your business and from trading partners to present expanded product and service line offerings.

Business User Experience
E-commerce sites are today more dynamic than ever. Therefore, it is not enough to just build a great site; constant maintenance, updates and fine-tuning are required to ensure highest performance and return on investment. Specifically, Commerce Server 2007 will help business users with the following tasks:

  • Manage Customers & Orders, Catalog & Inventory and Marketing, through new Windows-based applications. By using the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Windows, with task-based interfaces and wizards to simplify complex tasks, these tools help business users achieve shorter turnaround times, lower maintenance costs, and make easy site updates and fine-tuning, helping to increase revenue.
  • Advanced Reports and Analytics expose business intelligence and data mining from multiple information sources, including click stream usage, visitor browse history, campaign effectiveness, and purchasing patterns. Based on SQL Server Reporting Services, users enjoy full life cycle management–including authoring, scheduling, versioning, taking data snapshots, access controls, and rendering.

Developer Experience
By building on the latest Microsoft technologies, as well as providing extensive out-of-the-box functionality, the 2007 version helps accelerate and simplify development. Specifically, Commerce Server 2007 will help developers:

  • Jumpstart development with a feature-rich starter site that provides developers a starting point to accelerate the creation and customization of a production quality solution.
  • Develop solutions more quickly with an integrated development environment through Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Integration with Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (including ASP.NET 2.0) reduces the coding needed to customize commerce solutions for your organization.
  • Quickly modify the packaged merchandising, catalog, and analytics functionality to match the way you do business with a comprehensive but extensible commerce platform that provides a consistent set of data management .NET application programming interfaces (APIs).

IT Professional Experience
Setup, management, and administration tasks are simplified with high-performance, familiar management tools. Specifically, Commerce Server 2007 will help IT professionals:

  • Automate the distribution and movement of data and sites across multiple environments with site staging and replication.
  • Take advantage of new deployment and configuration tools that simplify the implementation of secure commerce solutions.
  • Reduce server management and training requirements with Windows-based management tools, including Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM).
  • Take advantage of the increased performance provided by 64-bit with support for SQL Server 2005 64-bit and with a native 64-bit version of Commerce Server 2007

Features
Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 includes the necessary components to get your Web business up and running. Some of the main features include:

  • Profiles - Personalization, user targeting, organizations, purchase orders
  • Catalogs - Products, variations, virtual catalogs, virtual properties, multiple languages and currencies
  • Inventory - Searching, back-ordering, out-of-stock items
  • Marketing - Content targeting, up-sell and cross-sell capabilities, advertisements and testing, e-mail campaigns, discounts, coupons
  • Orders - Pipeline architecture, order splitting, multiple shopping carts, gift registries

More information on http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/evaluation/overview.mspx

This section lists the software products to install on each computer in a Commerce Server deployment. Make sure that you have the appropriate number of licenses to reuse Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates on multiple servers as shown in the following list. See your SSL certificate vendor for the specific information about obtaining these licenses.

Web Server
A Web server computer uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
  • Commerce Server 2007 Standard Edition
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 Agent together with Service Pack 1 (optional)

SQL Server
A computer that is running SQL Server uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition together with Service Pack 4 or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1*
  • Commerce Server 2007 does not support mixed deployments of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 Agent together with Service Pack 1 (optional)
    * Note: If you are using a computer that is running SQL Server 2000, you cannot export data from a catalog that has rows of data greater than 8000 bytes. You should use SQL Server 2005 instead.

Business Management
A business management computer uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
  • Commerce Server 2007 Standard Edition (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 Agent with Service Pack 1 (optional)

Domain Controller
A domain controller computer uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 Agent together with Service Pack 1 (optional)

Development Computer
A development computer uses the following software products:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition together with Service Pack 4 or SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition with Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Developer Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
  • Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Enterprise Edition
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate

Data Warehouse
A data warehouse computer uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition together with Service Pack 4 or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1
  • SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services together with Service Pack 4 or SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services with Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 Agent together with Service Pack 1 (optional)

BizTalk Server
A BizTalk Server computer uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • SQL Server 2000 Client Tools
  • SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition together with Service Pack 4 or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1
  • SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services together with Service Pack 4 (optional) or SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services with Service Pack 1 (optional)
  • Commerce Server 2007 Enterprise Edition
  • Visual Studio 2005
  • BizTalk Server 2006
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 Agent together with Service Pack 1 (optional)

If your deployment uses BizTalk Server extensively, see BizTalk Server 2006 Help for more information about the various methods for installing and configuring BizTalk Server.

ISA Server
An ISA Server computer uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 Enterprise Edition together with Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 Agent together with Service Pack 1 (optional)

Management Server
A management server computer uses the following software products:

  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 (Enterprise Edition for the enterprise deployment)
  • Windows Critical Updates
  • SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition together with Service Pack 4 or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Server 2005 together with Service Pack 1

This section lists the hardware requirements for each computer in a Commerce Server deployment. Although these guidelines represent the approximate amount of resources necessary to operate the prescribed software, the actual specification of the hardware that you deploy might vary depending on the resources and requirements of your particular environment.

All computers should be equipped with a CD drive or DVD drive and a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 compatible VGA or higher-resolution monitor. Additionally, we recommend 10 MBps or larger bandwidth for the network adapter cards.

 

Computer

Processor

RAM

Hard Disk Size

Network Adapters

Domain Controller

Dual 800 megahertz (MHz)[Dual 2.0 gigahertz (GHz) recommended]

512 megabytes (MB)[1024 MB recommended]

9.0 gigabytes (GB)

1

SQL Server

Dual 1.0 GHz[Quad 2.0 GHz recommended]

2048 MB[4.0 GB recommended]

50.0 GB

2

Data Warehouse

Dual 1.0 GHz[Quad 2.0 GHz recommended]

2048 MB[4.0 GB recommended]

50.0 GB

1

Business Management

Single 1.0 GHz[Dual 2.0 GHz recommended]

512 MB[1024 MB recommended]

9.0 GB

1

ISA Server

Single 1.0 GHz[Dual 2.0 GHz recommended]

1024 MB[2.0 GB recommended]

9.0 GB

2

Web Server

Single 1.0 GHz[Dual 2.0 GHz recommended]

1024 MB[2.0 GB recommended]

9.0 GB

2

Management Server

Dual 800 MHz[Dual 2.0 GHz recommended]

1024 MB[2.0 GB recommended]

18.0 GB

1

Development

Single 500 MHz[Dual 2.0 GHz recommended]

512 MB[2.0 GB recommended]

8.0 GB

1

BizTalk Server

Dual 1.0 GHz[Dual 2.0 GHz recommended]

1024 MB[2.0 GB recommended]

18.0 GB

2

Availability - Estimated Street Date Availability – mid August 2006

Note: Commerce Server 2007 is not available as Full Packaged product (FPP)