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Integrated and Extensible
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Coordinating robust order management with sales via eCommerce, phone, fax, mail, purchase orders, and EDI or other electronic
transmissions is a daunting challenge. The need is to effectively implement business policies, pricing, promotions,
and various other operational facilities consistently across all sales channels; synchronize inventory availability
across all channels; aggregate all incoming orders; and integrate order management and critical sales and inventory
data with existing inventory and accounting systems.
MainStreet's BusinessFlow addresses this challenge. BusinessFlow is an order management and multi-channel sales engine. BusinessFlow
is packaged software that out-of-the-box is a robust commerce solution that is fully featured. It is built on MainStreet's
architecture that is highly configurable and serves as a platform for software engineers to customize, tailor, and extend
the solution.
BusinessFlow consists of an online Administrator, a Web Services interface, MainStreet's .NET components,
sample Website code, MainStreet's RAMP Client, and MainStreet's Intership Client. BusinessFlow's Administrator is an
online user interface to BusinessFlow. It may be accessed via Internet Explorer version 5.0 and above. The
Administrator is a hub for all commerce information relating to inventory, orders, customers, and suppliers.
MainStreet's commerce engine consists of an extensive set of configurable .NET components that are tied together
via MainStreet Web-based Administrator. This enables easy drag-and-drop integration in .NET development
environments and developer configuration of powerful pre-packaged functionality. MainStreet's RAMP client
enables streamlined data entry for the definition of new items. RAMP operates in a disconnected state from
the Internet. Once connected, items defined in the RAMP Client are sent to BusinessFlow's Administrator.
MainStreet's Intership Client enables a streamlined shipping process through major carriers such as UPS, Fedex, and DHL.
BusinessFlow's Microsoft SQL Server database schema, full feature set, Web Services interface, and .NET components
are documented in BusinessFlow's System Guide and BusinessFlow's SDK which are available at http://mainstreetcommerce.com/help.
Almost every field in BusinessFlow's database that is exposed in BusinessFlow Administrator is available for use through
MainStreet's Web Service interface. MainStreet's .NET components are built by and supported by MainStreet.
MainStreet delivers its .NET components as open source code. They may be used out-of-the-box, they may be
altered for to achieve custom behaviors. Alternatively or in combination, the Website may be entirely customized
by writing through MainStreet's Web Services interface.
MainStreet's complete data access model includes:
- MS SQL 2005 Server data layer access;
- Object model;
- MainStreet Web Services access;
- Access via MainStreet's .NET components:
- Access through BusinessFlow's Administrator:
- An ad hoc query and import/export engine, built into the BusinessFlow Administrator, that has complete data mapping and job scheduling capabilities.
Integration with BusinessFlow is supported via export/import, EDI, Web Services, or via flat file format. Protocols supported include ftp and https.
Microsoft© Technologies
BusinessFlow is built based on best practice use of Microsoft technologies. Please see BusinessFlow's architecture page for more
information on Microsoft technologies.
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