Microsoft .NET Server Solutions for the Enterprise

Ongoing Tasks

The ongoing tasks associated with running a remote shopping Web site are more or less the same as for running a retail Web site. The supplier needs to keep the catalog up-to-date and perform periodic clean-up tasks, such as deleting abandoned baskets. If data is being gathered for analysis in the Commerce Server Data Warehouse, this data needs to be periodically imported into the Data Warehouse. Thorough enumeration to these tasks is beyond the scope of this chapter, but is covered extensively in the Commerce Server documentation.