IBM's Net.Commerce software, winner of PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award, brings the power of secure online commerce to companies across the board. This software solution is used by major retailers on the Internet. The solution comes complete with catalog templates, setup wizards, and advanced catalog tools to easily build effective and attractive e-Commerce sites. Net.Commerce is ideal for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications and provides the total framework to integrate seamlessly with existing back-end systems. The benefits of this solution include security with electronic payments using the proven Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol, freedom to choose a Web server that best suits your needs, and customizable features to cater to unique specifications.

Features at a glance:

• Browser-accessible store-creation wizard.
• Three pre-build sample stores with predefined catalog templates, registration, shopping cart, order form, checkout, and payment components. They provide both business-to-business and business-to-consumer functionality. The sample stores are:
  • General business.
  • Personal delivery.
  • Office supplies.
• Library of graphical elements including background graphics, buttons, headers and footers.
• Product Advisor which enables the supplier/seller to create intelligent searches to guide their customers to product selection.
• IBM Catalog Architect which streamlines creation and management of information-rich electronic catalogs.
• Tools for back-end integration to facilitate the integration of Net.Commerce legacy systems and middleware including Electronic Data Interchange IBM CICS, MQ Series, and IMS product and SAP.
• IBM Payment Server 1.2 for credit card payments using the SET Secure Electronic Transaction^TM protocol. Configuration and administration tools allow you to manage SET at a store level. This means that in a mall environment, each store can define the credit card brands and financial institutions (acquiring gateways) that they wish to support.

IBM Commerce Integrator

• An open-architecture solution that reduces the complexity of integrating Net.Commerce to ERP and business application systems.
• A standard method for transmitting product- and order-related data to over 35 different platforms using IBM MQ Series^TM, IBM's market-leading message middleware.
• GUI tools that make development and maintenance quick and easy.
• Improved overall system performance and robustness by guaranteeing delivery of messages and transactions (business real time.)

IBM Catalog Architect

• Content-management tool designed for businesses that use IBM Net.Commerce.
• Helps you build catalogs with complete, correct, current and consistent product information.
• Boosts productivity during catalog design, construction and maintenance.
• Enables personalization and advanced catalog searching by providing rich product information to Net.Commerce.

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