You may already know that Infor Global Systems has a very powerful ecommerce application they are now calling “Storefront”.  Storefront fully integrates with Infor’s ERP products, including FACTS, SX.e and A+ to allow business-to-business or to-consumer a dizzying array of functionality.  This, of course, includes shopping cart, and pay-online.

Gary Tudino conducted a very informative session on “Tips and Techniques” of Storefront, that included a discussion of deployment planning.  Gary listed several important planning elements, including:

• Server sizing and software stack
• Internet bandwidth and security
• Scalability expectations
• System redundancies for increased availability

This was an excellent setup for the short talk I gave on the merits of hosting Storefront.  In short, a hosting partners can take most of the burden of planning for and dealing with the deployment and ongoing platform responsibilities of Storefront.  In fact, the virtual environment we have engineered for our Storefront customers very elegantly addresses all of the elements and more.  Drop me a note if you’d like to discuss further.

Tom Colton is Vice President of Business Development at Matrix.  He can be reached at 803-978-2051 or Tom.Colton@Matrix-IBS.com