PlayStationZone A highly renowned entertainment corporate giant has been operating two separate entertainment websites that provided news, technical and commercial information and online sales. NuNet has been tasked for integrating the two websites into a single e-Commerce site with substantial enhancements in features and functionalities with the responsibility of continuos updating and annual maintenance on 24 x 7 mode. Complexities Merging the two different sites with two separate content management interfaces into one e-Commerce site with the best features from both and ensuring that the e-Catalogue system incorporated is seamlessly integrated with its corporate ERP system for stock management are some of the challenges posed to NuNet. Development Environment

ASP Technologies with MS SQL Database in Windows NT e-Commerce Development in Microsoft Site Server Commerce Edition Content Management undertaken using Microsoft Site Server Databases of both are synchronised with conversion of code from PHP/MySQL to ASP/MS-SQL

Solution and Service Provided

Development of a single content management interface for maintaining the site. Integrating the two product catalogues onto the common Commerce Server platform with a common Admin interface for both the web sites to eliminate duplication of data entry. Look & feel and file structure of the two sites were maintained with additional navigational elements for added functionalities according occasion, ages, types of entertainment preferred. Providing the interface and functionality for search. Providing option of discounts for different customers according to pre-defined categories. Staged credit card authorisation for 3rd party titles with a facility to store the orders related to customers and the site Admin processes the orders for available products.

As part of maintenance NuNet engineers have undertaken annual onsite maintenance of the site to keep it up and running on 24 x 7.

The final e-Commerce site has enhanced the sales with improved metrics in terms of the number of repeat visitors and their time spent on the new site, improved the client strategy for branding and enhanced the online experience for its target audience.