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Microsoft Commerce Server vs Sana Commerce comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 2, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Commerce Server
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
14th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sana Commerce
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
13th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of Microsoft Commerce Server is 2.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sana Commerce is 1.9%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
eCommerce Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Sana Commerce1.9%
Microsoft Commerce Server2.1%
Other96.0%
eCommerce Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

it_user10953 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Why Microsoft Was Smart To Abandon Commerce Server
Being a Microsoft Commerce Server MVP, when I got the news that Microsoft was transferring development of Commerce Server to a partner, Ascentium, I was at first a little disappointed. I have been working with Commerce Server for a few years, and have really grown to like the product and its…
reviewer1708812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Global IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Helped us create a new revenue stream, but the cost and time of customization are disadvantages
We had to do a lot of customization, so I wouldn't say the integration worked out-of-the-box. Also, if you want to have anything done, you have to go back to their development team, which is offshore. You can't customize it yourself. And that customization took a long time. Sana is a decent company, although they have had their challenges. When we originally signed up with Sana, they lost a lot of their leadership team. Part of the problem with them is that their entire support team is offshore in Sri Lanka. When you want to interface with the development team, you have to wait a day or two for each response. We also didn't realize this going into it, but there is an RQS (requirements gathering) phase, which takes about a month. After that, there is a development phase that takes another month. There are also testing and go-live. If you want to introduce any new features or functionality, it's at least a three to four-month process, possibly more, because of the way their structure works. Everything has to be customized. They are resource-challenged as well. Sana is a very small company. That means that when you want to start up a development enhancement, there's a wait time of at least a month. So in addition to requirements, development, and testing, you have to add a month of waiting for a resource to be assigned to even look at the requirements. They have some growing pains. We've told them this a few times and it seems to be getting better, but they definitely have challenges. Another challenge is that their global capabilities are quite limited. We're a global company. We operate in 23 countries. We've asked them, "What can we do in China? What can we do in Europe?" I don't think they have any customers in China. We'd be their first. Europe is more solidified than Asia, but still growing for them and not as established. We've had to restructure some of our backend processes to accommodate order errors that come through the site. We've had to address and do some enhancements for that. It's quite expensive. We have probably spent a couple hundred thousand dollars in development expenses to get up and running. That's not what we expected, but we've gone through it.
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