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Profiles Schema Manager

The Profiles Schema Manager is a user-profiling component of Microsoft Commerce Server 2009. The Profiles Schema Manager is the foundation for personalization and intelligence across your online business—including customer-centric business intelligence, customer-specific pricing and business processing, targeted merchandising and advertising campaigns, and customer-specific catalogs.

You define and track specific properties of your Internet shopping Web site(s). You then export the profile data to a Data Warehouse database for analysis, or make the data available to other applications.

The following table shows the primary features of the Profiles Schema Manager.

Features

Description

Scalable Customer and Trading Partner Management

Highly scalable user information management supports tens of millions of registered or anonymous customers, organizational grouping and profiling, and the ability to let your customers and trading partners manage some or all their profile data.

Dynamic Profiling

Enables your business managers to create new profile attributes for maximum personalization flexibility and effectiveness.

Flexible User Authentication

Supports multiple user authentication modes, delegated administration for trading partners, and Single Sign-On across multiple Commerce Server 2009 sites.

Profile Data Aggregation

Aggregates profile data from multiple underlying Active Directory directory service, Active Directory and Azman, or SQL Server data sources to take advantage of existing technology investments and business processes, and to enable richer profiling capabilities.

Enterprise Integration

Supports the SOAP interface for multi-platform access, provides tools for easy import and export of profile schemas in XML, and interoperates with Microsoft Outlook Web Access for maximum interoperability with your existing environment.

Windows Live ID

Provides users with easier to use authentication, and faster and more convenient order processing.

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