Hello all,
Here at the Umbraco HQ we are happy to announce our first confirmed
session.
Without further-a-do we bring you: "The Umbraco E-Commerce
Showdown".
In this session we bring you 3 different E-commerce solutions for
Umbraco. Each speaker will tell you about their
solution and why it may suit your next E-Commerce project in a
quick 15min presentation each, followed up by a Q&A to wrap up
the session.
We have the following e-commerce solutions presenting in the
showdown:
- Anders Burla Johansen from TeaCommerce for simple & low budget
solutions
- Søren Spelling Lund from uCommerce for more complex & larger budget
solutions
- Jason Prothero from Commerce for Umbraco as a free open source
solution
Anders Burla Johansen & Rune Grønkjær
Tea Commerce - http://www.teacommerce.dk
Throughout their careers Anders and Rune have worked with
various content management systems. They have chosen to specialize
in Umbraco because of its strong foundation, flexibility and
extensibility - all of which made Tea Commerce possible. The guys
have surfed the Umbraco wave since version 3.0.3 and have never
looked back.
They share many years of experience in
configuring and developing e-commerce solutions and therefore know
what is required of a good e-commerce system. This expertise and
their passion for Umbraco created the idea for Tea Commerce.
Tea Commerce is a strong lightweight e-commerce system for
Umbraco - which provides the necessary tools to easily implement an
e-commerce solution. The main focus of Tea Commerce lies on the
front-end developer. Everything can be done with HTML, CSS,
JavaScript and XSLT/Razor, while it's still possible to extend your
e-commerce through .NET.
Tea Commerce comes with a complete JavaScript API built using
the powerful jQuery library, making it a breeze to create nice
looking effects and web 2.0 functionality on e-commerce solutions.
The API creates an ajax front against the server, which means all
important procedures and calculations is performed on the server,
securing the system against fraud.
To make it even easier to get started with e-commerce and
Umbraco, the Tea Commerce starter kit was created. In just 1 minute
the starter kit will allows the user to have a basic e-commerce
solution up and running on Umbraco. This gives a good foundation to
further develop and style the webshop to the users exact needs.
Søren Spelling Lund
uCommerce - http://www.ucommerce.dk
Søren Spelling Lund is founder of uCommerce, an e-commerce
platform designed from the ground up to work with Umbraco. As such
he makes his living doing Umbraco development and having a blast
doing it. During the past ten years he's been involved in creating
some of the largest e-commerce sites in Denmark.
Søren is a Microsoft MVP and active in the Danish .NET community as
founder of Aarhus .NET User Group and host of the weekly podcast
ANUGCast. He has been a regular speaker at Codegarden the past two
years.
You can reach Søren through Twitter and via his .NET and uCommerce
blog.
uCommerce was developed with one goal in mind: Build an
e-commerce platform for Umbraco integrated to match the experience
of working with Umbraco exactly. Thus uCommerce provides an
extensible e-commerce platform with special emphasis on the
flexible framework at its core on which developers and designers
build webshops, online stores, and ebusiness systems.
Introduced at Codegarden '09 uCommerce continues to grow as an
e-commerce platform and today provides a rich Catalog Foundation
with support for multiple stores and catalogs, a Transaction
Foundation for handling baskets, orders, creditcard processing, and
order management, an Analytics Foundation for reporting, and
finally the Marketing Foundation, which supports targeted site ads
and content, discounts, vouchers, and advanced pricing.
Designers can leverage Razor and XSLT to build beautiful stores
just like they would with a content site. As a platform and
framework uCommerce enables developers to extend any aspects of the
out of the box features to match client specifications exactly and
provides store owners a migration path as their business grows and
matures.
Jason Prothero
ProWorks Corporation - http://www.proworks.com
About Commerce 4 Umbraco:
Commerce 4 Umbraco is an Open Source e-Commerce package for
Umbraco. It has been integrated into Umbraco fairly deeply
and supports all recent versions of Umbraco. C4U is a bit
unpolished, yet customizable and has been gaining contributors over
the recent months. Come learn if Commerce 4 Umbraco is an
option for your next e-Commerce project. How hard is it to
get started? What are the pros and cons of using C4U?
Why does ProWorks/Jason use it?
About Jason:
Jason is a Level 2 Certified Umbraco Developer from Oregon, USA and
has experience with several CMS systems including Umbraco,
Sitecore, Sitefinity, Magento, ASP.NET Storefront, among others. He
recently took over as coordinator of the Commerce 4 Umbraco project
and has deployed several e-Commerce websites using Commerce 4
Umbraco including: teclabsinc.com, gifts4runners.com, and wildflowerseed.com. He blogs on the ProWorks
Blog as "Jason" and can be found on Twitter as
@protherj and on the Our Umbraco site as "protherj".
So with our first session announced, I know I will definitely be
attending to see the different types of e-commerce
solutions out
there battle it out.
Until the next time where we have more news about CodeGarden for
you..... let me assure you, as soon as we have a session
confirmed,
you will hear about it here first!
Warren & The Umbraco HQ