We are very pleased to announce our Spring 2013 updates from commerceserver.net and deliver upon all of the 1 st Half 2013 roadmap commitments previously announced! Commerce Server 10.1 A maintenance release of Commerce Server 10 is now available, adding...

Commerceserver.net is delighted to acknowledge Gartner’s placement of its product Commerce Server on their Magic Quadrant (MQ) for E-Commerce 2013. Whilst the placement within the lower left quadrant may be viewed as disappointing for partners,...

We’ve been working behind the scenes to create two new portals for our customers and partners and we’re pleased to announce that as of now, they’re live and ready to use. We have two separate ones, Support and Community, let’s...

For anyone following our roadmap, you will know that 2013 is the year of the “UI Revamp”. That is to say that we’re laser focused this year on augmenting the existing fragmented set of desktop applications that are used to administer...

It has been a busy, heads-down Q1 at Commerce Server with a number of simultaneous initiatives in-flight. With the end of the quarter upon us, I wanted to provide an executive update and preview of coming attractions. Business results continue to be...

The Commerce Server partner network rapidly grows past 20, with six new partners added in January alone. We want to take time to recognize our growing partner network now that 2013 is well under way. As we focus on the rapid evolution of the core product...

by Marc Bednar and Eric Dunn-Cuillierrier, Commerce Server Development Team With the evolution of search technology, it’s common practice to find features such as advanced and faceted searches with most modern day ecommerce web sites. Search...

With our mainstream support programs launched, we wanted to go back and provide some additional options for customers using older versions of Microsoft Commerce Server. Right now, Commerce Server 2000 is unsupported. Commerce Server 2002 is in extended...

As part of our drive towards transparency with partners and customers, we have pleasure in publishing a first version of two new documents which we hope will be of great interest to anyone in the process of evaluating or selling Commerce Server 10. ...

With the release of Commerce Server 10, we have substantially shifted our development model to leverage the CodePlex community. And it’s significant enough both now and in our future plans that we wanted to talk a bit more about this. Philosophically...

All, it’s with great pleasure that we can announce that we have signed off and made available the final release of Commerce Server 10 before the holidays, as promised. Existing customers and partners will be privately notified for download instructions...

Now that the Commerce Server 10 Release Preview (CS10) has been available for a few weeks, we wanted to summarize all of the great new features now available to customers, as well as celebrate the fact that this is the first version of Commerce Server...

In our last blog post we promised you further news about our company and Commerce Server and here it is! In order to complete our branding announcements, we’re delighted to formally announce to you that from this moment onwards, we are now called...

We would like to take this opportunity to bring to your attention some branding changes within our organization that are currently in flight – in fact you may already be aware of some of them through other communication channels. We wanted to provide...

With the Ascentium-branded versions of Commerce Server 2009 and 2009 R2 now in the market, we felt it was time to shed some light on how our actual technical support process works and what options are now available to customers. Who Qualifies for Support...

One of the most often-asked questions is…how long can I get support for a given version of Commerce Server? Now that we’ve talked about how we’re engineering Commerce Server, we wanted to shed some light on this. As a starter, if you are using a Microsoft...

Another topic we wanted to shed some light upon is how we are engineering Commerce Server, now that we are running entirely upon our own. Our approach is as follows – and by design quite different from how the product was curated at Microsoft. This also...

Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 R2 (CS2009 R2) was released quietly in Fall of last year, but there were no announcements or marketing of any kind given the pending transition to Ascentium. This summer, we have re-released this product from our organization...

Ascentium is delighted to announce the formation of its Partner Network. Over the years, the vast majority of all successful implementations of Commerce Server have been undertaken by one of a range of Microsoft Partners – it’s their unique...

With the switch from Microsoft to Ascentium, a number of changes were made to how Commerce Server is licensed. What we want to do with this blog post is simply run through all of them in a single place – and also provide some rationale as to how and why...

As of July 2012, Microsoft has stopped selling Commerce Server. With that, Ascentium is now officially starting to sell Commerce Server and is now announcing general availability of re-branded versions of both Commerce Server 2009 and Commerce Server...

It's with great pleasure that we can officially announce that the Commerce Server blog is open for business again. And with that, we'd like to extend a warm invitation to our partner community to our Commerce Server event adjoining the Microsoft Worldwide...

Software-Smith is offering a 3 day training course designed to bring a .NET developer or architect up to speed on Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 R2. This course assumes no Commerce Server 2009 or 2007 experience. Upcoming training dates are as follows...

The Commerce Server team are pleased to announce that a Release Candidate is now available for download from the download center. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=517551a8-9eaf-4d5d-baff-6baad4b04cb6&displaylang=en ...

If you happen to be in the area, one of the Commerce Server MVPs will be speaking at an event on July 23rd on the subject of eCommerce with SharePoint 2010. You can read more details and get registration links on Brad's blog post .