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There is more involved to help ensure success and realizing return on investment, and a number of questions to answer and challenges to meet:

• Should my online commerce experience follow my existing business practices and model?
• How does the online shopping data tie into my backend including my CRM and ERP systems?
• How can I be technology forward and start using social media such as Facebook and Twitter to promote my products and improve sales?
• How can I be sure that my web site will up and performing well during the holiday season or other peak sales times?
• How do I know that my web site's user experience works and does not interfere with the customer completing a purchase?
• Is my customer's personal information handled properly and securely?
  

Acsys brings more than 10 years of experience delivering on e-Commerce solutions, using a variety of technologies from Microsoft Commerce Server, to IBM WebSphere Commerce, to implementing entirely custom applications. We know:

• User experience including search and guided navigation
• Address verification services, to help reduce your shipping costs
• Sales tax services, to ensure your charging your customers the right rates
• Secure credit card processing
• Encryption technology, to make sure your customer's data is safe
• Shipment carrier integration, to allow your customers to track their orders
• Strategies for synchronizing with your backend systems from offline bulk data exchange to real time integration
• Web farms, vertical and horizontal scaling, and high availability

Our goal is to work with you to deliver an e-Commerce solution that integrates well with your business and provides your customers with a simple and streamlined purchasing experience.

Microsoft Commerce Server

Microsoft Commerce Server is a robust and mature commerce product that has been on the market for more than 10 years. Off the shelf it offers you a wide variety of features to meet your e-Commerce needs:

• Product catalog with endless ways of organizing and cross referencing your goods and services
• Inventory management that is separate from the product catalog, providing you with fine grained inventory control
• Search that incorporates both product data and static site content
• Shopper registration and associated profile and order history management
• Shopping cart and transactional checkout
• Discount model that supports simple discounts from free shipping to complex user specific price lists
• Ease of content management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server integration
• Backend integration ready when used with BizTalk Server

While off the shelf this product offers an impressive array of features, Microsoft Commerce Server is also an incredibly flexible platform that can be used to solve your business' specific ecommerce challenges. We will work with you to analyze and understand what you need and how Microsoft Commerce Server can best be used for you.

IBM WebSphere Commerce

IBM WebSphere Commerce isn't just for the big online retailers any longer. It comes in three editions, so it is posed to meet the needs for your business large or small. As with the Microsoft solution, it comes with numerous out of the box features which will help you get online fast. Acsys will work with you, ensuring that you get the most out of using this product.

Unlike Microsoft Commerce, the IBM solution offers multiple channel support for both web and mobile device delivery, out of the box.

Ektron Commerce

Ektron provides the powerful content management product CMS400.NET to which an eCommerce solution can easily be added. The content management capabilities are what really help differentiate the solution that Ektron offers. Additionally, its commerce solution offers:

• Excellent search capability using Ektron's taxonomy, which supports filtering by price, ratings and reviews
• A check out process that can be streamlined to a single page, or separated into several pages
• Real-time shipping rates by allowing you to easily plug into external shipping providers such as FedEx and UPS
• Integration with payment gateways such as Payflow and Authorize.net
• Flexibility and extensibility with all features allowing you to customize the product to address your needs

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