We have a website that mainly hosts products-related data driven (like a department-store), with NOT much content otherwise. Currently we have our own-developed admin tool to manage these products. I'm wondering if there is any big benefits or advantages of using Umbraco in such a website? In other words, does Umbraco have any modules that does this kind of product management specifically?
Well brands such as Microsoft, Sony, Heinz, etc use Umbraco. Event the ASP.NET site itself is built with umbraco - so that should give you hint as to how good it is.
As a developer, Umbraco is immense. So easy to use and extend, plus there's a lot of projects out there for extending umbraco with only a few clicks.
As for ecommerce, there are several high-end scalable ecommerce solutions, such as:
There's definitely an advantage to maintaining your product data in a structured way in a tool specialized to do especially if you intend to sell those products later on. uCommerce is one such tool, which is primarily meant as an e-commerce platform, but is used just an online catalog solution in some cases like the Frost Design and Lightyears solutions.
The main advantage is that if you do decide to sell products it's very easy to add the transaction system to your site.
Any advantage of using Umbraco?
We have a website that mainly hosts products-related data driven (like a department-store), with NOT much content otherwise. Currently we have our own-developed admin tool to manage these products. I'm wondering if there is any big benefits or advantages of using Umbraco in such a website? In other words, does Umbraco have any modules that does this kind of product management specifically?
Well brands such as Microsoft, Sony, Heinz, etc use Umbraco. Event the ASP.NET site itself is built with umbraco - so that should give you hint as to how good it is.
As a developer, Umbraco is immense. So easy to use and extend, plus there's a lot of projects out there for extending umbraco with only a few clicks.
As for ecommerce, there are several high-end scalable ecommerce solutions, such as:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/uwebshop
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/ucommerce
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/tea-commercehttp://our.umbraco.org/projects/collaboration/commerce-for-umbraco
Umbraco's main advantage is that its amazingly flexible and extensible.
There's definitely an advantage to maintaining your product data in a structured way in a tool specialized to do especially if you intend to sell those products later on. uCommerce is one such tool, which is primarily meant as an e-commerce platform, but is used just an online catalog solution in some cases like the Frost Design and Lightyears solutions.
The main advantage is that if you do decide to sell products it's very easy to add the transaction system to your site.
I saw that uCommerce metioned about LINQ. However, we already have our own data access layer and I'm not familiar with LINQ. Will that be a problem?
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