Company's e-commerce professional services are designed to help small and medium-sized businesses to launch sites rapidly and effectively.

AT&T, a provider of IP-based communications services, today announced the launch of its E-Commerce hosting service. The company states that the web hosting professional services will support site and database migrations, e-commerce site builds, database builds, expanded managed system and server administration, code-execution monitoring and third-party code debugging and support.

It articulates that these services will help SMBs add e-commerce features like shopping cart applications, blogging capabilities for customer reviews and online payment solutions from providers like PayPal. The company avers that customers can access a control panel with data and reports showing web statistics, system utilization and the ability to manage user preferences.

''Our professional hosting and web design services are the ideal solution for companies that want to take their businesses online but don't want the expense of running and managing servers, software and hardware,'' said Steve Caniano, Vice President at AT&T Hosting and Application Services, in a statement. ''What's more, small and midsize businesses now can receive e-commerce support and best practices from highly trained consultants who are e-commerce experts with businesses of all sizes.''