69% of retailers will replace their ecommerce platform in 2008. Are You Keeping Up?

Elastic Path Commerce helps you:

• Attract more customers with industry-leading ecommerce SEO
• Maximize conversion with powerful in-site search and filtered navigation
• Lift average order size with targeted merchandising and promotions
• Expand your market with geography, brand, or niche based multi-store
• Minimize cart abandonment with a proven Java shopping cart and checkout
• Improve customer service with a highly efficient and usable back-end application
• Accelerate store integration with convenient APIs and an expandable architecture
  

If you're evaluating other ecommerce options, consider this:

Compared to traditional proprietary ecommerce systems, Elastic Path is:

Typically about one-third the cost (5 year TCO);

Easier/faster to use and adapt to market changes without development effort

Compared to "on demand" ecommerce options, Elastic Path is:

More flexible and easier to update with new tactics or promotions;

Better at attracting qualified traffic (thanks to our advanced SEO);

Typically about half the cost (5 year TCO)

Compared to low-end and "open source" ecommerce software, Elastic Path is:

More fully-featured;

More robust and reliable, thanks to professional design and code;

Easier to customize and use, thanks to professional documentation, support, and code

Compared to build in-house:

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Technical Overview

Designed for reliability, flexibility & efficient customization

Elastic Path understands that an ecommerce platform must both enable retailers to create the store they envision and integrate easily with existing back-end systems and processes.

To support these goals, Elastic Path Commerce is designed to enable efficient customization and integration in addition to providing powerful capabilities out-of-the-box. It is written entirely in Java using industry standard open-source components for maximum reliability, performance, flexibility and development productivity. Furthermore, it supports a broad range of deployment options (including open-source components) to leverage existing skills and minimize TCO.

Key technologies include:

• Written entirely in Java
• Velocity, HTML and CSS for online storefront templates (and AJAX for enhanced usability)
• Spring container framework for flexible configuration
• Spring MVC to logically separate the presentation from the underlying implementation
• Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) for the Commerce Manager interface
• ACEGI Security System for flexible security integrated with Spring
• Solr Enterprise Search Server (based on Lucene) for enhanced scalability and flexibility
• Sun's Core Web Services technologies (JAX-WS & JAXB) for standards-based web services
• Apache OpenJPA Java Enterprise Persistence for a standards-based persistence layer
• Apache Torque library for database independence

The platform can be customized or extended using our web services interface, by extending Java classes or adding Java plug-ins.

Platform Support

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server+, any Unix or Linux supporting JDK 1.5.x
• Application Server: BEA WebLogic 9.2+, IBM Websphere 6.1+, JBoss 4.0+ and Apache Tomcat 5.5+
• Database: Oracle 10g+, Microsoft SQL Server 2005+ and MySQL 5.0+
• Web Server (optional): Microsoft IIS, Apache and any web server supporting redirect based on URL extension

Complete technical details »

Features by Job Role

See how Elastic Path Commerce can help YOU

Different people have different priorities and concerns. These pages outline Elastic Path's many features and capabilities as they relate to specific job roles.

Ecommerce Challenges

Successful retailers get these right

In ecommerce as in most businesses, success results from getting the basics right. Elastic Path Commerce is designed to excel in these critical areas.