In the past 12 months I've had at least two clients who essentially wanted to customise SharePoint with a 'Shopping Cart' functionality. Today I stumbled across Microsoft Commerce Server, which is an e-commerce solution which integrates with SharePoint 2007 and uses similar technologies (eg: web parts etc). I'm yet to try these two out together, but am keep to get my hands on a demo as soon as I can. I will post the results online to share with you once I do.
- Download Commerce Server ISO
- And here's some instructions from Microsoft on how to integrate SharePoint and Commerce Server
- Instructions on how to download the 9GB virtual machine with Commerce Server and SharePoint pre-integrated.
A colleague commented that Microsoft's CRM offering 'Dynamics' also has a built in shopping cart feature - I would like to compare the two products side-by-side
