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WebSphere and e-business
• Developer's kit for WebSphere Commerce Suite, Pro Edition for the AS/400
• Professional Developer Edition
Developer's kit for WebSphere Commerce Suite, Pro Edition for the AS/400 includes
these additional features:
– WebSphere Catalog Architect, V4.1
• Create, import, and update product information
• Reduce the time for traditional catalog information management
• Selectively publish information into production
• Automated validation of catalog information
• Familiar spreadsheet and drag-and-drop interfaces
– Tools and support for rules-based personalization
– Tools for setting up auctions
– Product Advisor tools
Benefits
Increase profitability by:
• Reducing the cost of sales transactions
• Extending your reach with business-to-business capability
• Attract and retain customers with easy-to-use advanced catalog tools
• Creating a compelling shopping experience through customizing storefronts
• Providing personalization for powerful one-on-one marketing
Improve efficiency by:
• Accelerating setup time with a store-creation wizard
• Providing data interchange by integrating with existing back-end systems
• Tracking shoppers' past purchasing activities for a more streamlined customer service
WebSphere Commerce Suite Pro Edition for AS/400 V4.1 provides a wide range of
easy-to-use features and functions for content management, relationship marketing, order
management, and payment management for total business transformation, integration, and
growth. Pro Edition supports a wide range of business models including
business-to-consumer, business-to-business, and e-marketplaces. Commerce sites with Pro
Edition can easily integrate with internal and external systems and grow with the changing
need of an e-business. Customers will benefit from the power of the WebSphere family, which
integrates Web commerce, Web server, Web application development, transaction
processing, and distributed component software.
These enhancements make WebSphere Commerce Suite Pro Edition the industry's leading
e-commerce product. WebSphere Commerce Suite is built on the industry-leading application
server WebSphere Advanced Server V3. JavaServer Pages (JSP) enablement provides