E-Commerce, Online, Mobile

  • Five Reasons to Put Your Business in the Cloud

    How SaaS Is Changing Ecommerce and the Software Industry, and What You Should Do About It

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    SaaS has democratized advanced capabilities that had been available only to top tier sites, signaling a revolution in how software is consumed. Learn why SaaS is so hot. Prepare your checklist for finding the right SaaS for your company.
    Apr. 14, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Nature's Scitable: Going Mobile

    Why Scitable Chose a Mobile Web Strategy Over a Mobile App Strategy for Its First Mobile Initiative

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    What’s the best mobile strategy to embrace if you want to reach mobile users around the world and get optimized search placement? Here’s what Nature Education’s Scitable division did.
    Mar. 31, 2011
    Strategies
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  • WikiLeaks Will Catalyze a Huge Data Security Backlash

    Patty's Pioneers' Predictions for 2011

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    Reactions to WikiLeaks will cause massive capital investment in information security causing a significant stimulus to the IT industry in 2011. 2011 will also herald the beginning of major decline in freedom on the Web
    Jan. 6, 2011
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  • Mobile Web and Video Clog the Internet; Tablet Glut

    A Few 2011 Predictions

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    2011 sees the introduction of over 50 new tablets. Winners will be: Apple, RIM (Playbook), Samsung, and Motorola. FCC’s recent action on Net Neutrality will be overturned. Streaming video will clog Internet pipes.
    Jan. 6, 2011
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  • Designing/Refining Your Mobile Strategy

    Fourteen Approaches to Consider as You Reach Out to Customers Using Mobile Devices

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    Mobile phones will soon surpass computers as the most prevalent way to do business online. Your business needs a mobile strategy. Here’s how to think about it.
    Dec. 23, 2010
    Strategies
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  • Side-by-Side Comparison of Six Recommendations Solutions

    Spreadsheet Lays Out Vendor Performance from Avail, Baynote, Certona, Loomia, Omniture, and RichRelevance against Our Detailed Requirements

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    Our side-by-side comparison spreadsheet analyzes six leading recommendations solutions.
    Nov. 11, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Facebook Tries to Clean Up Its Privacy Act

    Can Facebook Users Really Expect Any Privacy Protections?

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    Will Mark Zuckerberg pay attention to customers' desire to control the information they share through applications that connect with the Facebook platform?
    Oct. 14, 2010
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  • Avail Intelligence Behavioral Merchandising

    Platform Automates Merchandising, Recommendations, Social Search

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    If you are in retail or B2B ecommerce, Avail Behavioral Merchandising should be on your short list. Avail Intelligence’s solution, among the most mature on the market, with unique support for collaborative merchandising and strong client care.
    May. 13, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Omniture Recommendations

    Integration with Powerful Omniture Marketing Suite

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    If you are in ecommerce, publishing, or advertising, Omniture Recommendations should be on your short list. Omniture’s marketing suite is very strong, with a scalable hosting infrastructure, and Omniture’s client care support marketers cross channel.
    Apr. 1, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Demandware eCommerce Platform Winter '10

    Metrics-Driven Merchandising and a Comprehensive Sample Store Strengthen an Attractive SaaS Ecommerce Platform

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    This in-depth evaluation of Demandware eCommerce, with its hosted multi-tenant deployment, reveals very good merchandising, and analytic functionality, but not-so-good assisted-service.
    Mar. 25, 2010
    Technologies
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  • 2009 Ecommerce Product and Supplier Update

    A Very Good Year in Ecommerce

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    Get the details about customer growth, product activity, and company performance for the six leading ecommerce platform suppliers in 2009.
    Feb. 25, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Venda Enterprise

    Excellent Merchandising and Customer Service with SaaS Deployment for Retailers

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    Our in-depth evaluation of Venda Enterprise, the ecommerce platform from privately-held and NY, NY-based Venda, Inc. designed for rapid, SaaS deployment by merchandisers and used by 140 retailers in North America and Europe.
    Feb. 11, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Elastic Path Commerce 6.2

    Robust Ecommerce Framework Based on Open Source Components

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    This is our in-depth evaluation of Elastic Path Commerce offering, Elastic Path Commerce, an open source-based platform geared for heavy customization and deep integration.
    Jan. 14, 2010
    Technologies
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  • How Custom Product Design Can Spawn Customer-Centric Ecosystems

    How National Semiconductor, CustoMax, and Zazzle Built Vibrant Ecosystems

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    Three companies in different industries—CustoMax, National Semiconductor, and Zazzle—have built vibrant customer-centric ecosystems to let customers design their own products.
    Jan. 7, 2010
    Strategies
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  • Recommendation Evaluation Framework, Version 1

    Evaluating Recommendation Engines, Platforms or Services

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    Recommendations are hot, solving problems from order size to search to personalization. We identify the key criteria for selecting a recommendation solution.
    Jan. 7, 2010
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  • Google Android vs. Apple iPhone

    Whose Application Ecosystem Will Win?

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    Google Android vs. Apple iPhone: Which mobile phone platform and ecosystem will attract more customers and applications? What should your company’s strategy be?
    Oct. 30, 2009
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  • Comparing Deployment Options for CX Apps

    On-Premise, Hosted Single-Tenant, and Hosted Multi-Tenant

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    Hosted multi-tenant deployments offer huge advantages and benefits over on-premise and hosted single-tenant deployments for CX apps. Read this report to understand how you can capture those advantages and benefits for your CX.
    Oct. 22, 2009
    Strategies
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  • Search Product and Company Update 2H2008

    Surprisingly Successful Second Half Caps Economic Challenge of 2008

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    Despite the U.S. recession, the search vendors on my watch list performed quite well during the first half.
    Apr. 16, 2009
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  • FiftyOne: Enabling International Customers to Buy from U.S. E-Tailers

    E-Commerce Services that Extend Your Reach into Canada and Europe

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    FiftyOne, from E4X, Inc., is a software and services offering that extends your existing ecommerce system with comprehensive support for checkout, fulfillment, and customer service to make it easy for international customers to do business you.
    Mar. 26, 2009
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  • Ecommerce Search Evaluation: Omniture Merchandising

    Ecommerce Search, Merchandising, and Marketing

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    Omniture Merchandising provides a very strong search, navigation, marketing, and merchandising platform for retailers, that should be on your short list.
    Mar. 5, 2009
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