Eprise Participant Server and Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Integrate to Enhance Value of e-Commerce Web Sites - Brief Article

Information Superhighways Newsletter, August, 2001

Eprise Corp. announced the availability of Eprise Commerce Link, the Microsoft certified integration between Eprise Participant Server and Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 (CS2K). This latest offering from Eprise provides organizations the tightest integration and the most full-featured content management solution for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000.

The combined offering offers business managers a complete solution for managing content on their e-commerce sites built with CS2K, enhancing the sites' value to customers and partners with more accurate and relevant information.

CS2K is a comprehensive solution for building tailored, effective e-commerce Web sites with sophisticated feedback mechanisms and analytical capabilities including user profiling and management, product and service management, transaction processing, and targeted marketing and merchandizing. By tightly integrating Eprise Participant Server with CS2K, businesses can maximize their e-commerce infrastructure while incorporating critical content management features to ensure site audiences have access to the most accurate, up-to-data information at all times. Delivering an e-commerce site that constantly address customers' and partners' needs fosters loyalty and encourages repeat business.

The integration of Eprise Participant Server and Commerce Server 2000 continues Eprise's efforts to work with the leading application server and commerce server providers in the industry. In addition to the new CS2K integration, Eprise Participant Server can also be deployed with BEA's WebLogic, IBM's Websphere, Sun Microsystems' iPlanet, ATG's Dynamo, and Allaire's jRun application servers.

Eprise Commerce Link allows business users to seamlessly leverage the content management functionality of Eprise Participant Server through the familiar CS2K user interface. With Eprise Commerce Link, business users can access the most commonly used features within Participant Server, such as content contribution, workflow, versioning, templating and administration, directly from the CS2K user interface known as the Business Desk. This integrated solution adds menu items to the Business Desk to allow for a totally seamless user experience. The same user interface that is used to manage a CS2K e-commerce site can now be used to manage additional content that is linked to the product and services that exist in a CS2K Catalog.

For example, from the same user interface, a Commerce Server 2000 user can create a catalog, products, assign pricing and now, with Eprise Commerce Link, business users can contribute additional descriptive content such as specification sheets, white papers, and press releases, which is then either published to the site or routed through the workflow process inherent in Eprise Participant Server.