It offers about anything an e-store could ever have to provide to clients.
An open-source version of Magento is also available to download here.
Here are some key features of "Magento Enterprise Edition":
· Administrator Permission Roles on Website and Store Levels
· Gift Certificates/Cards (Physical and Virtual)
· Content Staging and Merging. Support for both on-demand and scheduled merges and rollbacks of content.
· Private Sales including Events, Invitations and Category access permissions
· BridgeConnect - Back Office Accounting and ERP Integration
· Rich Merchandizing Suite (RMS)
· CMS+, Enhanced Content Management System
· Strong Data Encryption
· Category View and Purchase permissions per on customer group (limited catalog access)
· Customer Store Credits
· Logging of Administrator Actions
· Reward Points System
· Highly Tuned Page Performance
· Administrative Functionality Improvements
· Administrator Log Entry Details
· Sales Reports Performance Optimization
· Order Status in Sales Report
· Admin Page Titles
· Store Contact Information (System Configuration)
· WYSIWYG Editing for Products, Categories, and email templates
· Design Theme & Packages Facilitation
· Content Staging for Widgets
· Standalone Widget Instances
· Common Block and Template for Hierarchy and Catalog Pagination
· Hierarchy Chapter and Section Meta-links (CMS)
· Hierarchy Management Page Locking (CMS)
· Hierarchy Menu Redesign (CMS)
· Custom Variables for use in email templates and CMS
· Style Separation in email templates
· +Anything what Magento Community Edition provides
Requirements:
· PHP 5.2.0 or newer, with the following extensions/addons:
· PDO/MySQL
· MySQLi
· mcrypt
· mhash
· simplexml
· DOM
· MySQL 4.1.20 or newer
· Apache Web Server (1.x or 2.x)
· A Sendmail-compatible Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) - Magento will connect directly to an SMTP server if you don't have an MTA
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Optimized Indexing
· Improved Caching
· Speedier Checkout Flow
· Enhanced Tax Calculations Algorithms
· Functional Improvements