Key New Features iCat Electronic Commerce Suite 3.0 Professional Edition
	Version 3.0 delivers a powerful new technology architecture and greatly extends the Suite's capabilities. With this new release, you can create and manage sophisticated Web catalogs more easily, as well as customize and extend your catalogs almost without limit.
	New browser-based version of iCat Commerce Publisher You can now manage catalogs, customers, promotions, and sales information remotely from any Internet browser.   Improved data entry The ability to apply section assignments across multiple items significantly streamlines the process of collecting and organizing product information.   New iCat Layout Templates and Template Plug-ins Version 3.0 includes a completely new set of iCat Layout Templates, which take advantage of the expanded iCat Carbo Command Language (ICL) to provide even better-looking layouts and user interface design graphics. New plug-ins let you add rich shopper and merchandising features to your catalog, including indexing, searching, a shopping cart, user tracking, sales management, and user registration.   iCat Carbo Server and Server Plug-ins iCat Commerce Exchange has been completely rewritten, extended, and renamed iCat Carbo Server. This robust application lets you deliver dynamic, intelligent Web pages and extend the power of your Web server. iCat Carbo Server merges your layout templates and template plug-ins with product information from the Sybase SQL Anywhere database included or the ODBC database of your choice. As a result, your catalogs can be richer and more up-to-date than ever before possible. iCat Carbo Server Plug-ins provide access to third-party programs and offer performance enhancements, additional database connectivity, and extensibility using the Carbo API.   New ODBC database support Finished catalogs can now serve live data using the Sybase SQL Anywhere database included or any other ODBC-compliant database. Support for ODBC databases improves catalog performance and provides compatibility with existing information systems.   Enhanced iCat Carbo Command Language (ICL) The iCat Command Language has been renamed and enhanced with over 50 new commands that provide significantly greater power and flexibility. Included is support for full ODBC database access, conditional operators (if/then/else and while), arithmetic expressions, user-defined variables, and more.   Extensible architecture Create your own custom commands, shopper and merchandising features, and third-party add-ons using Carbo technology. With the new Carbo API, you can extend the iCat Carbo Command Language and add functionality to your iCat Carbo Server via DLLs or shared libraries.   New iCat Carbo Editor New in version 3.0 is the ability to customize predefined iCat Layout Templates and Template Plug-ins or create new ones altogether. iCat Carbo Editor includes a command wizard that provides a simple, step-by-step process for creating valid ICL statements, plus a syntax checker to verify ICL files. These development tools are helpful for those just getting started using ICL, as well as ICL experts.

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