Our first Spark::red ATG Newsletter was sent on Tuesday morning! We’re pleased and proud to have delivered the first of many monthly ATG Newsletters.

In this newsletter we talk about the importance of improving your site performance, especially now that Google is using site performance as a search result ranking factor. We talk about Why, and provide several helpful links to help with How. I’d be remiss if I didn’t plug the fantastic ATG Hosting that Spark::red can provide, including extensive performance tuning at every level, web, app and database, using knowledge gained from 12 years of ATG experience.

We also reveal our PCI Compliant ATG Encryption Module which is the first PCI complaint credit card encryption option for the ATG eCommerce Platform. It handles strong encryption, key management, importing plain text and encrypted data, periodic re-keying/re-encryption, and more. It’s the fastest and most affordable path to being able to pass a PCI audit for your ATG eCommerce application. Contact us for more info: sales@sparkred.com.

You can see the whole newsletter here: Spark::red ATG Newsletter #1, and if you haven’t already, I recommend signing up so you don’t miss the next one: Sign Up for the Sparkred ATG Newsletter!

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Over at Spark::red ATG Hosting we’ve decided to launch a monthly newsletter. Once a month we’ll send out an e-mail with some very useful ATG content, technical tips and source code, business tricks and advice on leveraging ATG products to increase sales. We’ll talk about PCI compliance and how to reduce cart abandonment.

We won’t send more than one e-mail a month, we won’t spam you, bug you, bother you, or waste your time. Each mailing will be as packed full of genuinely useful information as possible.

Sign up for the world’s best ATG Technology and Business Newsletter!

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ATG offers a “starter pack” of their eCommerce solution for smaller customers called the MC Edition. ATG Hosting provider Spark::red has just announced a special ATG eCommerce Hosting Bundle designed for customers with the ATG MC Edition eCommerce licenses.

Spark::red is pleased to offer a hosting package designed specifically for ATG MC4 customers. By providing an affordable solution tailored to the licenses and needs of the MC4 customer, and by delivering all of the required Oracle, JBoss, and RedHat licenses and support agreements, this package is the fastest way to launch an ATG Commerce application.

Spark::red is the only hosting provider with a package designed for ATG MC Edition customers. This should make it much easier for mid-market customers to get started with ATG’s eCommerce software.

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Spark::red, the best ATG Hosting provider around, is offering reduced pricing on ATG Hosting and is committed to being aggressively competitive on price in order to help clients save money during the current economic slump.

Check out the ATG Hosting Economic Stimulus Special Offer for more information on how you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, and still get the highest quality managed ATG hosting around.

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I am thrilled to announce that we (Spark::red) have just launched the ATG Developer Community!

It is a free, open, community portal for everyone who works with ATG software, developers, architects, project managers, business users, everyone. The site has a wiki for posting articles, your own pages and blog entries, how-tos, and more. There is also a number of forums for discussion and asking questions. We also offer free Subversion code hosting, and Jira issue tracking for open source ATG related projects and code development.

Please check it out, register, and tell us what we can add to make it more useful.

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