What is everyone doing for ecommerce?

shane

My company is in its 6th month live with Navision (4.0 SP1 SQL). So far things are going ok. The next big thing for me is to get our current online ordering sites to work with Navision. The sites are mostly my creation and I had them doing a scheduled import to our old UNIX system. I have done some experimenting with Web Services with .NET and have a working model for communicating with Navision via NAS etc. However, my company grows impatient and so I’m looking to see what the community is doing for ecommerce.

The MS Commerce Portal is being killed off I think and I’m not sure what is out there that is in this space. Ideally it would be nice if there was something that provided a method of passing Navision sales order data and Navision would process the business logic and then the data would be returned. This is the biggest problem I see. Trying to make sure that whatever happens on the web side has the appropriate business logic applied.

Anyways, what are others doing? Can anyone point me in the direction of some tools to help with ecommerce and Navision? Something that was .NET would be preferable.

ara3n

Take a look at tradepoint http://www.scriptserver.com/. It has been installed at several clients. Has cool features. You can wait for v5 as well. I don't know what posibilities it will have with webservices.

DenSter

caveat:
scriptserver = proven technology, with reference sites
v5.0 = nobody really knows in any useful detail what ecommerce functionality it will have

You can also program Navision using TCP sockets, or MSMQ, and maybe other possibilities, to communicate with a website.

nunomaia

Using MSMQ it’s one of the best options to integrate Navision with external applications, almost every external applications use it.

The method of import/export it’s a good option when the Navision Business Logic isn’t important in item price, or you had to duplicate the business logic of discounts, etc.

I never used Microsoft Commerce Server but it seems a good option, also uses MSMQM :-)

Almost nobody knows enough the technical features Navision 5.0, so it's better not to wait for it.

nhansen

You should take a look at Nav-to-Net from Digital Vantage Point in Toronto. This solution is a fully integrated B2B and B2C e-commerce solution written specifically for Navision (or NAV) and DVP is recommended by Microsoft in connection to the announcement of the discontinuation of Commerce Portal.

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