Broadleaf Commerce version 1.5 coming Spring 2011
Broadleaf Commerce is excited to release 1.5.1 in the Spring of this year. We expect significant interest from current and prospective clients in this release. The release features a newly improved administrative platform featuring enhanced catalog, merchandising, and promotion capabilities.
As part of this release, the administrative platform is being entirely rewritten using GWT (Google Web Toolkit). "Moving to GWT allows us to better support our design goals of providing an easily extensible solution", said Jeff Fischer, Broadleaf Commerce's chief architect.
Key Features Being Added In This Release include:
Fully customizable administration platform.
- Product administration
- Order administration
- Customer administration
Enhanced promotion capability
- Powerful, intuitive promotion maintenance
- Promotion targeting based on customer, product, and/or order attributes
- Easy to setup "buy one, get one" promotions
Early demos of the product are being well received by current and prospective customers.
Broadleaf Commerce uses a robust, extensible architecture that enables customization and rapid development. It is built on the Spring Framework, which is the leading platform to build and run enterprise Java applications. By leveraging the Broadleaf Commerce solution, companies will benefit from key distinctions such as its low cost of ownership and best of breed open source frameworks. Broadleaf Commerce continues to focus on developing and enhancing its eCommerce platform in order to provide online retailers a cost-effective alternative to traditional software platforms.
About Broadleaf Commerce, LLC
Broadleaf Commerce, LLC is a privately held company committed to developing and supporting an open source alternative for enterprise eCommerce. It is the first company to develop an open source, enterprise-ready eCommerce solution using the widely adopted Spring Framework, which is the leading platform to build and run enterprise Java applications. Companies using Broadleaf Commerce are able to improve efficiency, capitalize on competitive advantages, and increase revenue. The open source business model yields a product that is superior to others for a fraction of the cost and is designed for customization.
For more information about Broadleaf Commerce, visit www.broadleafcommerce.com. Follow Broadleaf Commerce on Twitter @broadleaf to stay informed with the latest news.
