WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition provides the infrastructure and tools that market makers need to quickly and effectively create a fully functional, scaleable e-marketplace . Customers A variety of customers have been selected to participate in the limited availability program. We chose it for our marketplace infrastructure because it's a solid, complete e-business solution. Our experience with IBM's commerce products over the past two years gives us the confidence that WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition will be able to scale and handle large transaction volumes reliably and securely. Lotus Sametime provides buyers and sellers with the ability to instantaneously discuss the products and services available on these sites with each other and with knowledgeable experts.
Sellers get the opportunity to differentiate and up-sell with good old fashioned customer service.
It allows for easy internal application integration with back-end systems and external business integration with trading partners. The solution combines ease and speed of development with adaptability and versatility. In addition, the solution provides a powerful aggregated catalog management framework. WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition will be generally available on IBM's AIX platform September 1, 2000. Additional platform support will be announced in the future.