E-Commerce Servers and Back-End Integration: A Case-Based Comparison of Commercial Wholesaling and Retailing Software

With the growing importance of E-Commerce, commercially <p> available E-Commerce servers are increasingly gaining ground. Our <p> research investigates two of the most commonly implemented <p> products, IBM's Net.Commerce (NC) and Microsoft's Site Server <p> Commerce (SSC) Edition. After a short description of the two <p> systems, this paper introduces the case of the shoe wholesaler <p> ROHDE, for which prototypes of both systems have been <p> implemented and investigated. Although our case is <p> business-to-business, the findings are also applicable to the <p> business-to-consumer segment. The ROHDE specific comparison <p> investigates the implementation appropriateness and feasibility of <p> both systems in the light of ROHDE's business requirements. It <p> focuses on the integration of the servers with the installed back-end <p> system. Our findings are summarized and directions for further <p> research are given in the concluding section.