Magento Enterprise Edition Review
The Enterprise edition of Magento is an assimilation of class leading marketing and merchandising solutions, secured PA-DSS compliant platform, and freedom of an open source technology. Commercially licensed Magento Enterprise Edition is bundled with Service Level Agreements-based support with guaranteed warranties, response times, and indemnification. As a consequence, the new edition enables us to maintain the capability for upgrading and scaling with Magento. Major features of Magento Enterprise edition include:
- Logging of Administrator actions
- Administrator Permission Roles
- Customer Store Credits
- Category View and Purchase Permissions
- Gift Certificates/Cards
- Strong Data Encryption
- CMS+, Enhanced Content Management System
- Private Sales including invites, events, and category access permissions
- Content Staging and Merging
- Highly Tuned Page Performance
- Reward Points System
- Rich Merchandising Suite
Magento Enterprise vs Community Edition
Magento e-commerce software is a PHP/MYSQL-based e-commerce package and Expert magento developers is a US-based e-commerce solutions provider company. Find out more information about Magento Enterprise Edition on our blog. If you have already used the product, please share your feedback in comments column.
Let's consider what Magento Enterprise Edition offers Magento Community Edition:
|
Major Features |
Magento Enterprise |
Community Edition |
|
Support |
Yes |
No |
|
PA-DSS Security Compliant and Strong Data Encryption |
Yes |
No |
|
Customer Segmentation with Targeted Offerings |
Yes |
No |
|
Full-page Caching |
Yes |
No |
|
Reward Points System & Store Credits |
Yes |
No |
|
Return Management Authorization |
Yes |
No |
|
Enhanced Catalog and Content Management System |
Yes |
No |
|
Staging, Merging and Rollback of Content |
Yes |
No |
|
Minimum Advertised Price |
Yes |
No |
|
Call Center with Assisted Shopping |
Yes |
No |
|
Private Sales, Events, Invitations |
Yes |
No |
|
Gift Registry and Gifting Options |
Yes |
No |
|
Price and Promotion Permission |
Yes |
No |
|
Soir Search |
Yes |
No |
|
Advanced Administrator Roles, Logging & Site Access Permission |
Yes |
No |
|
Persistent Shopping Cart |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Flexible Pricing Rules |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Multiple Stores and Website Views |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Analytics & Reporting |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Layered Navigation |
Yes |
Yes |
|
International Support & Multiple Languages |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Shipping Rules, Payment Configurations and Gateways |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Product Configurations |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Up-sells, Cross-sells and Related Products |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Flexible Couponing and Promotions |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Customer Accounts Management |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Order Management |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Mobile Commerce |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Code-level Access |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Web Services APIs |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Third Party Extensions and Themes |
Yes |
Yes |
How to Upgrade Magento Store to Enterprise Edition?
Since we all know that Magento Professional Edition will be discontinued later this year. Merchants using Magento PE will definitely not like to downgrade to Community Edition as theyโll not get advanced features in it. The only solution to PE merchants is either to continue with Professional Edition with no future upgrades or upgrade to Enterprise Edition.
According to our Magento Experts, one should upgrade to Enterprise edition. Reason being, even if you downgrade to community edition, you need to buy extensions for your pro features. And in case, if you stick with current PE, you will not able to get upgrade versions of it in future.
For all those merchants who want to upgrade their Magento Store to Enterprise Edition, we have come up with a simple & easy upgrade process.
Steps to be followed:
a) Backup Database
Whenever you try something you, always take a backup of your website. We suggest you to copy data (Via phpMyadmin) in new DB which will be used in your Enterprise Environment.
b) Fresh Copy of Enterprise Edition
After taking the backups, you need to have fresh copy of latest Enterprise Edition.
c) Theming and Modules
The next step is to copy your theme from old Magento store in Enterprise Edition. Also upload modules which are necessary for your store.
d) Pointing Database
In order to point the correct database to your Enterprise Edition Store, you need to edit one file i.e. /app/etc/local.xml.
Note: The above code is a sample connection string. You must change the host, username, password and dbname.
e) Navigate to Enterprise Store
After making above changes, navigate to your Magento EE store. Your website should be accessible from both; frontend and backend. You can access your backend using the same credentials of old website.
f) Configuration Settings
You may have to change your configuration settings so as to point correct theme. For this go to Configuration> Design
Potential Issues!!
After all above, your website should run perfectly. However, you might find some of the functionality of your store doesnโt perform correctly. This is due to the extensions and modules you will be using in Magento EE. Just make sure any rewrite that your website has is correct according to Enterprise Edition.
In case you face any other difficulty or you need Expert Advice as regards to upgrading from Magento Professional to Enterprise Edition, you can Contact Us any time
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