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Magento

Magento is an e-commerce platform that is based on open source technology that uses PHP as a web server scripting language and a MySQL database. Its instinctual administrative features provide you with powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalogue management tools that help you create a website custom-made exactly according to your needs. ...

Magento is an open source based ecommerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It was developed by Varien (now Magento Inc) with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by Magento Inc.. Magento was built using the Zend Framework. It uses the Entity-attribute-value (EAV) database model to store data. The Magento Community Edition is the only free version of Magento available. (sources : http://en.wikipedia.org)

Magento is an e-commerce platform that is based on open source technology that uses PHP as a web server scripting language and a MySQL database. Its instinctual administrative features provide you with powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalogue management tools that help you create a website custom-made exactly according to your needs. Being open source software, its extensions are regularly updated and available on Magento connect store. It mainly has three types of modules namely, core modules, community modules and commercial modules. Commercial modules, as the name suggests, are priced and available on a link external to Magento connect. It is compatible with many payment gateways such as Amazon payments, google checkout, authorize.net and multiple PayPal gateways. It also lets you pay through gift certificates and customer store credits, but this feature is only available for enterprise and professionals till now. Its look is very professional with a phenomenal ‘templating’ system.

As a proof of its promising future for a revolutionary growth, large numbers of big brands of market have been implementing Magento. Some of the names include Nokia, Adidas, Xerox and many more. Here at SilentDrifter, we use its multiple features to provide you a functionally enhanced e-commerce environment tailor-made to your business need.

Our Magento Expertise includes,