Planning Your Commerce Server Installation
You must make some planning decisions before developing and deploying your Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 installation. To successfully develop and deploy Commerce Server, it is important that you carefully consider these planning issues and research the implications by consulting other areas of Commerce Server 2000 Help.
Planning your Commerce Server implementation is the first and perhaps most crucial phase in the Planning-Developing-Deploying-Managing cycle. This is because planning your site carefully, including taking future growth into account, can prevent the need to make expensive and time-consuming modifications later.
Five tightly integrated sub-systems comprise Commerce Server. In addition to planning for these sub-systems, you will need to plan for the management and administration of your implementation. The topics in this section cover planning for each of the sub-systems.
This section contains:
Planning for Administration and Management Tools. Provides recommendations for questions about managing and administering your site.
Planning for the Business Analytics System. Provides recommendations for questions about accessing and updating your data.
Planning for Business Process Pipelines. Provides recommendations for questions about pipeline functionality.
Planning for the Product Catalog System. Provides recommendations for questions about your Product Catalog system.
Planning for the Profiling System. Provides recommendations for questions about your Profiling System.
Planning for the Targeting System. Provides recommendations for questions about your Targeting System.
Planning Your Site Architecture and Security. Provides recommendations for questions about your site architecture and security.
Planning for Deployment. Provides recommendations for questions about planning the deployment of your site.