E-Commerce, Online

  • Oracle to Acquire ATG

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    Big news in ecommerce last week. On November 2, Oracle announced its intention to acquire ATG. Who will be the winners and losers of this deal?
    Nov. 11, 2010
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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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  • Confessions of a Groupon Addict

    Great for Customers, but Merchants Beware!

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    Groupon, the fastest growing company ever, offers a great experience on daily discount deals to customers. However, merchants who don’t think through their Groupon marketing strategy carefully can have disastrous results.
    Nov. 4, 2010
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  • Certona Resonance Recommendations

    Automated Optimization Balanced with Granular Control

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    If you are in retail or B2B ecommerce, Certona Resonance Recommendations should be on your short list. Certona’s recommendations solution is among the most mature on the market, with a high degree of automation and merchant control.
    Sep. 30, 2010
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  • Customers.com Handbook

    A Handbook for Your Customers.com® Initiatives—Parts 1 to 4

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    In Customers.com Classic, we described the successful Internet Strategies of sixteen different best practices organizations. Those firms are still ahead of the pack in executing customer-centric strategies that keep customers loyal and empowered. There are eight core competencies that these early leaders adopted. Now, 12 years later, those same core competencies still stand the test of time.
    Sep. 16, 2010
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  • Baynote Collective Intelligence Platform and Recommendation Applications

    Automated Recommendations, Search, and Navigation for Multiple Industries

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    If you are in retail or B2B ecommerce, publishing, telecommunications, travel, media, healthcare, high-tech, consumer packaged goods, or manufacturing, Baynote’s recommendation solutions should be on your short list.
    Jul. 8, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Pandora: Delivering Personalized Internet Radio

    How Pandora Internet Radio Combines Taxonomy, Crowdsourcing, and Personalization to Improve Music Playlists

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    As is the case with many electronic publishing efforts, Pandora has merged the best of both worlds: a professional taxonomy with the wisdom of the crowds. Professional musicians categorize music, but people can vote on whether certain songs really belong.
    Jun. 10, 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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  • Recommendation Engine Market Survey

    B2B Is a Strong Market, and People Are Ready to Adopt

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    We conducted a survey on the market for recommendation engines. The survey was developed in collaboration with the Institut Telecom in Paris. This report summarizes the findings of the survey.
    Apr. 29, 2010
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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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  • Unisfair Helps Enterprises Increase Lead Generation Activities

    Version 9.0 of the Unisfair Virtual Engagement Platform Lets Customers Self-Select Their Interests on Their Time Schedules

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    Unisfair offers an always-on, multi-venue, virtual environment that mimics the feel and navigation of trade shows. Your customers self-select what they are interested in, and, because their online activities are tracked, your company gets better leads.
    Mar. 10, 2010
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  • AIP UniPHY: Creating a Professional Social Network

    How the American Institute of Physics Is Creating Value Add for Its Members

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    How do you build a social network for professionals? The American Institute of Physics is paving the way by pre-populating the profiles and network connections of physics experts based on the research papers these experts have co-authored.
    Mar. 4, 2010
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  • What Happened in the Music Industry Will Happen To You

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    By 2000, the music industry was under siege by renegade customers. Here’s how new businesses and new business models emerged in response to customers' behaviors.
    Mar. 1, 2010
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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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  • 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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  • Local Motors

    Reinventing the Car Industry from the Outside In

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    Local Motors is a new American car company with an innovative approach: get customers to design cars, manufacture them locally, and let customers help assemble their own cars Build-A-Bear style!
    Oct. 23, 2009
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  • Nature Reinvents Textbooks

    Scitable: A NextGen Ecosystem for Learning & Teaching Science

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    Nature Education has an innovative replacement for college textbooks. It’s an online resource and classroom with a network of subject matter experts. And it’s free to students and faculty.
    Oct. 1, 2009
    Strategies
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