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Total-e-B2C is built for speed

Bluestone Software's upcoming Total-e-B2C 2.0 enables rapid e-commerce site development -- at a cost

By James R. Borck, InfoWorld, 05/26/00

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Total-e-B2C 2.0 beta

Business Case
Fully functional e-commerce components enable quick deployment and lower start-up and integration costs. Open standards ensure future expandability, and fault tolerance and load balancing ensure customer satisfaction.

Technology Case
XML support allows easy integration with partners, vendors, legacy applications, and data stores. Server tools ease administration, while failover recovery and state management guarantee completion of sales. The product's uncomplicated toolset allows nontechnical staff to become productive.

Pros

• Good, preformatted commerce modules
• Easy extensibility
• Rapid development tools
• Server-monitoring and failover capabilities

Cons

• Expensive
• Requires technical expertise for extensive customization
• Offers limited native database support for storefront repository

Cost
Starts at 00,000

Platforms
For full deployment, any OS that supports Java 1.2.2 (including Windows 9x/NT/2000, Unix, Linux)

Ship date
June 2000

Bluestone Software Inc., Philadelphia (610) 915-5000

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Remaining ahead of the competition also requires an e-commerce platform and application-development environment that allows your business to react rapidly to changing online needs.

And because large-scale commerce sites typically require a pooling of diverse talent -- from IT staff to less technically minded graphic designers and content managers -- the tools used to integrate your strategy should be approachable enough for your staff to become productive with little training.

Total-e-B2C 2.0, beta, the latest Total-e-Business (TeB) offering from Bluestone Software, combines the three virtues of scalability, flexibility, and usability. By providing open, standards-based development and connectivity capabilities, the product represents a good solution for midsize and enterprise-class businesses looking to leverage a broad array of backend applications, legacy systems, partners, or vendors in their e-commerce initiatives.

Using TeB's services for integrating XML and legacy systems, businesses can lower the total cost of doing business by enabling applications and data sources for the Web and by including automated supply-side applications and EDI (electronic data interchange) with third-party vendors.

Building on Bluestone's strong Java application-development and server solutions, TeB touts an additional set of e-commerce services that will jump-start Web efforts and make it easy to manage and deploy Java- and XML-based applications.

The prerelease business-to-consumer version of this product tested is a fully loaded e-commerce solution. It includes integration capabilities for backend and third-party systems, as well as e-commerce plug-in modules for fulfillment management and e-CRM (customer relationship management) that deliver personalized content and help forge marketing strategies that can foster online sales.

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