NETTING IT OUT

Elastic Path Commerce is the ecommerce software platform offering of Elastic Path Software, Inc., a privately held, Vancouver, BC-based software supplier and ecommerce outsourcer that was founded in 2000. Release 6.2 is the current version of the platform that was introduced in 2003. To date, Elastic Path claims that 200 customer organizations have implemented ecommerce sites based on

Elastic Path Commerce

On the Customers.com report card for evaluating B2C ecommerce platforms, Elastic Path Commerce exceeds requirements in merchandising and channel support. It needs improvement in analytic functionality, and it’s missing support for customer segments.

The platform meets requirements for all other evaluation criteria.

If you are a large organization with specialized, or even unique, ecommerce requirements, and you have the resources and appetite for heavy customization and deep integration, then we recommend that you consider using Elastic Path Commerce as your ecommerce platform. While it’s as much a framework of tools and technologies as it is a platform, we think that you’ll be surprised at the richness and completeness of its out-of-the-box capabilities and the comprehensiveness of the tools that administrators and merchandisers can use to configure, customize, deploy, and manage ecommerce sites.

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ELASTIC PATH COMMERCE 6.2

Product Introduction and Background

Elastic Path Commerce 6.2 is the current release of the ecommerce platform from Elastic Path Software, Inc. The product was introduced in 2003. To date, it has been licensed and implemented by over 200 customer organizations.

Elastic Path Commerce is a Java application designed for heavy customization of all ecommerce resources and deep integration with external applications. When you license the product, Elastic Path gives you its source code.

Elastic Path Commerce leverages open source components and frameworks. Its developers have focused their efforts where they could add value. They’ve reused proven open source components and frameworks over internal development throughout—Spring, JAX-WS/JAXB, Velocity, Lucene, and BIRT—to mention a few. The use of open source makes Elastic Path Commerce easier to learn, easier to use, and easier to customize and integrate for you. Open source makes the product more flexible and more quickly adaptable and upgradeable for its developers.

Organizations that will find Elastic Path Commerce most attractive are those with unique ecommerce requirements and the requirements, resources, and appetite for customization and integration. Organizations that might choose custom development of their ecommerce platform might consider Elastic Path Commerce first. Organizations that prefer to use open source platforms should consider Elastic Path.

Elastic Path has been quite successful marketing and selling Elastic Path Commerce in retail, telecommunications, software (high tech), and manufacturing segments. The product does not have any industry segment-specific technology or functionality, but implementation style has been very appealing in these segments.

What’s New in Elastic Path Commerce 6.2?

Elastic Path introduced Elastic Path Commerce 6.2 in December 2009. This new release has these three key new features...