Patricia Seybold Group Report on IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 6.0

Patricia Seybold Group (PSGroup) recently conducted a product review of IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 6.0. Recommended for purchase consideration by PSGroup, WebSphere Commerce continues to be distinguished in the industry as a leading e-Commerce solution.

Highlights of the report include:

• Commerce Suite 6.0 receives a recommendation to consider when purchasing as the PSGroup review states, "Without qualification, we recommend that you consider IBM WebSphere Commerce as the software to run your B2C eCommerce site. Its packaged services and easily customizable technologies provide excellent support for the activities that your customers want to perform."
• PSGroup Report Card notes that IBM WebSphere Commerce "'exceeds requirement' grades in Web content, customer and product data, integration, and company viability."
• The review emphasizes that "WebSphere Commerce is absolutely a viable product. It has a long and successful history, a large and growing customer base, and a reasonably regular release cycle that improves technology and functionality continuously. WebSphere Commerce has come a long way from its CGI origins as Net.Commerce in 1996. It’s a modern product built on an elegant SOA architecture of current technologies."
• PSGroup also highlights that "IBM provides a wealth of samples and examples that simplify and speed your implementation and packages an elegant, Web Services-based approach to integration that supports the complete customer cycle—from finding products to receiving them."

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In addition, PSGroup reviewed the IBM Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce.

Highlights from this report include:

• Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce receives the following review, “IBM Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce exceeds requirements for operational functionality,analytic functionality, and company viability.”
• The reports states, “We recommend IBM Sales Center to every organization that has implemented WebSphere Commerce as the mechanism for delivering assisted-service for ecommerce and a crosschannel customer experience for ecommerce.”

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