Personal Blog of Noel Degamo

By: Ecommerce Times

If you’re unsure which cutting-edge e-commerce innovations are right for your operation, plan, test and evaluate results — and then move forward. Don’t let that uncertainty bog you down. Take a look at what real-world retailers are doing, and figure out how to go them one better online. Better yet, offer customers something they could never hope to find in a brick-and-mortar store.

Just as the evolution of the speed-skating boot set new standards for the sport, innovation in today’s constantly evolving e-commerce landscape has worked as a catalyst to move it forward. E-commerce practitioners from all industries need to be ready to step up and embrace innovation as a means of staying ahead of the game. Continue reading E-Commerce Innovations – What’s Now and What’s Next

By: Ecommerce Times

There are exciting days ahead for e-commerce. An impressive set of innovations need only to be pulled together for companies to move to a new, high-powered level of functionality. Underlying all of the advances are the concepts of Software as a Service and Platform as a Service. In short, everything is going to the cloud.

Innovations of the past few years provide an interesting hint at the future of e-commerce . Consider the following scenario:

A CIO of a retail company gets off the phone, sits back, and begins to read his new monthly retail systems contract. The days of dealing with large development teams, countless software products, integration, infrastructure and security are over. All of the systems required to operate a retail business live in a software cloud managed by a provider. Continue reading The Bright, Cloudy Future of E-Commerce