Predicting The Future Of Digital Marketplaces
The U.S. B2B eCommerce market is predicted to be worth $1.2T by 2022 according to Forrester. 75% of marketing executives say that reaching customers where they prefer to buy is the leading benefit a company gains from selling through an e-commerce marketplace according to Statista. 67% strongly agree to the importance of B2B e-commerce being critical to their […]
Event Report: Epicor Recaptures Mojo With Insights 14
Management Team Changes Provide A Breath Of Fresh Air To Culture, Customer, and Products Over 4000 customers, prospects, and partners gathered April 27th to 30th for the flagship Epicor customer conference, Insights 14, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event provided the $968M revenue, 20,000 customer, Austin based software company […]
Event Report: #AdobeSummit Celebrates Digital Marketing From Creative To Commerce
Market Leaders And Fast Followers Celebrate A Decade Of Digital Marketing Vision In 2004, Omniture founder Josh James, an avid skier, held the first Summit atop the Snowbird Ski Resort for 270 early adopters and converted. Fast forward eleven years to 2014, an estimated 7000 customers, partners, influencers, and prospects gathered at the Salt Palace […]
Event Report: #NRF14 Preview – Retail’s Big Show Hints At Lessons Learned In #MatrixCommerce
Retails Big Show Transformed For 2014 Over 29,000 people are expected to gather at the National Retail Federation’s big show (NRF) this Sunday, January 11th, 2014, in New York City. #NRF14 brings the intersection of new retail business models, products, store concepts, technology, society, and culture together! A few big trends emerge based on conversations […]
News Analysis: Sitecore Acquires Commerce Server In Quest Towards Customer Experience Management
Commerce Server Finds Its Logical Home On Wednesday November 20th, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark based Sitecore acquired Ottawa, Canada based commerceserver.net for an undisclosed price. Originally known as the Microsoft Siteserver and Commerce Server 2000, the product was orphaned by Microsoft, then Ascentium, the key development partner were given the rights to further develop and market […]
Research Summary And Speaker Notes: The Identity Manifesto – Why Identity Is At The Heart of Digital Business
Forward And Commentary Constellation Research keynoted at Ping Identity’s Cloud Identity Summit 2013 in July. Gathered in front of the Identerati, an Identity Manifesto was presented. The research behind that manifesto has been summarized here in this summary. The final big idea research report will offer insight into four of Constellation’s primary research themes, the […]
Google Play Site Falls Apart on Nexus 4 Launch. Now I Know Why it’s Called “Play”
Now we know whey it’s called Google PLAY. As it sure ain’t no e-commerce site:-(
#FAIL.
IBM Introduces "Smarter Commerce"
Today IBM announced a new initiative called "Smarter Commerce" that ties together $2.5 Billion in acquisitions, organic software assets and a new Global Services practice of over 1000 consultants to capitalize on what IDC is calling commerce 2.0. A few…
jCatalog: Thriving and Supporting the SAP SRM Ecosystem (Part 1)
When I was over in the UK a couple of weeks ago, Peter Smith and I caught up with jCatalog’s Head of Marketing and Business Development, Kelly Babbit. Even though I’ve known Kelly and jCatalog for sometime, it was Peter’s first ex…
The New Face of Commerce; Local, Social and With a Unified Experience
Twice this year Google has attempted to buy a leg up in the local commerce arena and twice they have failed. Last January they made a run at Yelp and last week the target was Groupon. Google, it would seem,…
