What exactly is the ECF™?
The Mediachase .NET eCommerce Framework (ECF™) G5 is an end-to-end .NET development framework and solution for building, extending, and delivering professional ecommerce sites complete with integration capabilities. The ECF™ is designed and developed using best practices and allows marketing, business teams, developers and IT organizations ultimate flexibility to extend and adapt the ECF™ to virtually any type of commerce business scenario.
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What can you do with the ECF™?
The ECF is a complete framework that supports multiple different types of business & deployment models and has been architected and designed around Microsoft .NET 3.5 to support single site, multi-site, multi-channel, multi-language, ISP/ASP SAAS, or combinations of these approaches to service B2C, B2B, B2G, and other commerce models.
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What are the characteristics of ECF™?
ECF™ is our 5th generation commerce platform targeted at professional organizations who live and breath .NET as a core technology framework, and who need to be smart about investments in online sales, future expansion, and the ability to leverage a common platform to accelerate and change as their business needs dictate.
> Highly Flexible Ecommerce Platform, Code Base, & Infrastructure
> Packaged to Accelerate Development, Re-Use & Solution Deployment
> Comes with a Complete Front end & Backend Implementation Sample
> Designed for Professional .NET Development Organizations
> Intelligent Architecture & Full Source (C#) Licensing
> Ability to Leverage & Extend the Latest .NET Technologies
> Unending choices for Integration with Any Type of System or Application
What are the basic value propositions driving ECF™?
There are many principles and focus areas that drive the ECF development team and philosophy, but so you can understand the basics. Here they are...
Ultimate Flexibility & Control, Palletized Re-Use, and Risk Mitigation
Enable accelerated solutions development and delivery through our .NET best practices code case, architecture, and alignment with customer choices for deployment, integration, and business features.
Provide Marketing, Advertising, & Business Teams to Innovate and Adapt
Provide a base of capabilities and choices to work with IT and technology teams to be able to receive faster delivery of results driven by changing business needs, requirements, and innovative ideas that they come up with.
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Accelerate and Support Developers, Technologists, & Solution Teams to Deliver
Provide developers with multiple ways to create, develop, extend, and Integrate using our architecture, code, and best practices utilization of the .NET framework and surrounding technologies while maintaining coherence with the methodologies and processes they use.
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Provide IT, Infrastructure, and Operations Teams Management and Operational Tools
Ensure that the systems/applications that are delivered can be deployed in multiple ways within the management tools, processes, and policies that are already in place.
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Is the ECF™ Right for Your Organization?
The ECF™ is not for everyone and is targeted at professional organizations that have a solid understanding of the business, technology, & processes behind delivering quality commerce solutions. In addition, you need to have skills in Microsoft .NET and the latest web 2/3.0 standards as well as the proper infrastructure and tools.
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> Learn If the ECF is a Match for your Organization
Still Not Sure about ECF™? Top 10 Reasons.
Well, the fastest path to being sure, is to call us at contact us at U.S. +1-323-988-1071 (Los Angeles), or U.S. +1-202-355-7125 (Washington D.C.). We will give you a complete overview, answer your questions, and then if it looks good, you can request a trial/evaluation package and kick the tires your self.
In the mean time, here are a few more things to consider.
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Can I Get a Demonstration or Evaluation Package?
Sure thing. However, you first need to contact us so we can learn about who you are, how you are organized,and what you are trying to accomplish. It's painless, but we want to make sure that we can help you before you exert your time and energy.
We will help you understand right away whether the ECF matches your needs and will give you access to the trial package and schedule a no cost kick-start developer training session.
The introductory training session explains the Visual Studio 2008 Solution Structure, and provides a a structured ECF Training overview to help you get the most out of the trial/evaluation software.
We are Commerce Experts. Do you have a Partner Program?
Yes. We are always excited to work with customers as well as the special types of companies that create commerce solutions for multiple customers on a repeatable basis.
Types of Organizations Who Can Benefit
> eCommerce Development Companies
> Full Service Marketing & Advertising Agencies
> Systems Integrators and eCommerce Consulting Practices
> Organizations working in ISP/ASP, or SAAS/PAAS Business Models
> Software Vendors/ISV's Looking to Integrate or Extend a Solution Space
> Other Organizations or Verticals That Are Looking for a Platform like ECF
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