Easily create, manage, aggregate and syndicate catalogs, implement customer or locale-specific
catalogs with custom pricing, and make it convenient for customers to find what
they need through sophisticated search capabilities.
Global Catalogs - Reach an international
clientele with locale-specific product information, including pricing in multiple
currencies and displaying product details in multiple languages. Product managers
have control over which product fields are represented in multiple languages and
can easily enable language-specific search and deliver locale-specific merchandising
campaigns.
Virtual Catalogs - Virtual catalogs
provide optimal flexibility to aggregate catalogs from multiple suppliers, to create
customer-specific or locale-specific catalogs, and to deliver custom pricing to
the product level.
Supplier Catalog Aggregation - The
Commerce Server 2002 advanced catalog management capabilities take the complexity
out of catalog aggregation, making it faster and easier to import and aggregate
supplier catalogs so your customers always have the latest product information.
Custom Catalog Syndication - Easily
create market-specific or customer-specific catalogs that span products from multiple
vendors and offer custom pricing. These catalogs can be viewed by your customers
directly from your site or can be exported for distribution.
Streamlined XML Catalog Import/Export
- Commerce Server 2002 reduces the time, cost, and complexity of the catalog interchange
process by supporting incremental exports, XML validation prior to import, catalog
deletions, XML import/export streams, and multilanguage exports. Integration with
Microsoft BizTalk® Server and support for XML-based catalog data facilitates standards-based
integration with internal systems, customers, and trading partners.
Sophisticated Catalog Search - Integrated
product catalog search provides maximum convenience for your customers and partners
to find what they need quickly, increasing customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately
online revenues.
Catalog Creation and Management
- Product managers use the Business Desk to design and manage their catalogs, product
content, pricing, and catalog import and export with customers and trading partners.
Empower your business managers
to respond quickly to changing customer and business
needs through a centralized intuitive console for managing customer and partner
profiles, personalization rules, product catalogs and pricing, merchandising and
advertising campaigns, and business analysis.
Analysis Reporting - Review, run,
and manipulate reports and review segmentation models for
powerful business insight.
Security Permissions - Assign access
permissions for your business users to enable role-based security to any level of
granularity—based on module, field, or task—to protect the integrity of your online
business.
Campaigns - Design rules-based targeting
expressions and sophisticated merchandising
campaigns quickly and easily. Marketing
managers can create targeted complex discount promotions, manage in-house or customer
advertising campaigns, and deliver broadly reaching, personalized direct e-mail
messages.
Catalogs - Easily create and manage
your online catalogs without any specialized database knowledge. Business users
can easily import and aggregate supplier catalogs, export catalogs for syndication,
create user-specific or locale-specific catalogs, and manage catalog content including
multilingual product details, searchable items, and pricing.
Orders - Manage orphaned baskets,
create and publish order status codes, and manage shipping methods and tax rates
used for order processing.
Profiles - Enable personalization
and targeted merchandising by managing profile information for users and organizations.