Content

–Enable faster implementation using Solution Sites
–Streamline content update process
–Streamline approval process

Collaboration

–Streamline integration with existing internal systems and partner systems
–Enhance the communication process

You can use IBS's Internet Business solutions to manage your online business. This empowers business users so that they have the ability to look at reports, to look at user trends, to manage the catalog, to target users, to have ad campaigns, and direct mail. They do not have to hassle the IT department every time they need to do something. It is a very powerful thing to have in your company.

Site administrators can use IBS solutions to manage pipeline processes. Business users can modify business processes, and developers can create new pipelines using the pipeline editor. Also important for your development team and your company is the fact that you can implement -- very quickly -- using the solution site accelerator. The solution site isn’t a sample site; it is actually a production-quality site. Components can be reused, it has been fully tested. Not only do you get code, but you get templates that are needed for CMS. You also get the ability to integrate with existing backend systems, be it your own existing systems or partner systems. Using BizTalk and using internet standards such as XML you can integrate with them very easily.

Common architecture for features such as:

• Content
• Personalization
• Analytics
• E-commerce capabilities
• Etc

Improve efficiency of processes, such as:

• Search engine and indexing
• Work flow control of content authoring and editing
• Control of documents, processes, and workflow with linkages to the Web site
• Archiving and rollback of Web pages and areas of Web sites
• Control of publication and expiration of Web site content
• Digital asset management
• Common look-and-feel standards
• Content re-use and re-purpose across intranet and internets

Getting the job done:

Business processing pipelines

• Provides an extensible framework for defining and linking together stages of a business process
• Enables tailored processing of orders, advertising, merchandising, and content selection
• Tailor to match your business processes
• Site administrators - manage Pipelines from the Commerce Server Manager
• Business managers - modify business processes (such as shipping & handling) from the Business Desk
• Developers - create and extend Pipelines using the Pipeline Editor
• Integrated into backend systems via BizTalk and application specific adaptors