For the last several years the Internet has been the most dynamic information exchange market. The Internet has become a part of our life: it is important communication tool, entertainment area, storing facility for all sorts of information. Now it is high time to use the Internet unique communication resources for doing business there. Initiating trade operations through established Internet stores - is one of the most popular ways of the Internet commercial using. E-commerce is becoming an integral part of the modern world. Presently millions of people acquire computers, books, compact disks, video tapes, gifts and food stuffs from Internet-stores.

Internet Storefront or Internet-store?
All Internet trade systems could be arranged in two groups: Web-Storefronts and Internet-stores. Both groups are dealing with Internet technologies for conducting  sales, but the degree of trade process automation is different in the above groups. The above situation entails differences between the level of customer service and trading costs. What are the main differences between the Internet trading systems?
Web-storefronts are relatively simple and inexpensive sites supplied with navigation system. They present goods and services in the form of standard catalogue. These systems can perform order accepting procedures, and sometimes - invoicing. At this stage the order is handed over to a sales manager. It is obvious that even on condition that all listed opportunities have been implemented - it will take long time to get trade process fully automated. It is necessary at least to get in touch with a warehouse, arrange delivery of goods to a customer, and receive payment. Business support and development require permanent study of market demand, general market research, and a lot of analytical work. It does not seem possible to reduce operational costs here. Even if a Web-storefront is perfectly organized its profitability just slightly differs from that one of traditional sales.
The cost of Internet-store development is much higher, but potential economic efficiency also differs from Web-storefront capacities. Anyway technical basis of any Internet-store can be viewed as a combination of Web-storefront and automated trade system. The latter can substitute the sales stuff in many cases, and solve most of tasks, which are beyond Web-storefront competence. In comparison with the Web-storefront the Internet-store can carry out on-line a full trade cycle. Moreover, its ability to integrate into the company's internal document circulation system turns it into a full-value Internet Trade system.                   
RAMAX INTERNATIONAL is the official partner of the InterShop company - one of the world's leading providers of comprehensive e-business software. InterShop products are well-known and used worldwide for developing all types of Internet-shops and trade portals. The InterShop package is designed to facilitate the process of developing E-commerce resources and make it more efficient.   

Intershop Products
INTERSHOP system, a basis for Internets - solutions of RAMAX INTERNATIONAL, is a multifunctional product with interrelated functions of traditional trade system and Internet - trade. A system administrator and a business manager can operate the system from a remote computer through an ordinary web-browser.
4-level structure as a peculiarity of the INTERSHOP technology consists of the following elements:
1.Buyer's browser  - " thin client ";
2.Web-server with the special web-adapters and demands router;
3.Server of the INTERSHOP applications;
4.The DBMS Sybase (included in delivery set), external DB can be connected.
INTERSHOP is a multiplatform system working on the basis of operating system Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Linux, SGI IRIX. The system is easily scaled, its components can be installed on different servers with various operating systems. In the latest INTERSHOP versions Internet - stores efficiency has been increased considerably because of a new structure of caching, which reduces the number of inquires to the database from the application server and reduces its loading significantly. INTERSHOP can be integrated with the most of payment Internets - systems.