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eCommerce platform Magento

Magento Commerce renamed to Adobe Commerce

April 21st, 2021. Adobe, the software company behind Magento Commerce, its $1.68bn 2018 acquisition, is renaming the ecommerce platform Adobe Commerce. Adobe had already introduced a commercial offering of the Magento open source ecommerce platform plus its commercial content management system (Adobe Experience Manager) as…

By M Ryan

Major eCommerce Platforms Compared (2021)

The following shortlist of ecommerce platforms is a result of the five to ten ecommerce software selection projects I run each year for clients. It is a good starting point when considering what ecommerce platform might be the best choice for you. This shortlist includes…

By M Ryan

News - Almost 2,000 Magento stores hacked in one weekend

September 14th, 2020. Dutch cyber-security services firm, Saguine Security ("Sansec"), based in Utrecht, reported that almost 2,000 Magento ecommerce stores were hacked over the weekend between Friday Sep 11th and Monday Sep 14th. The stores were running the, now end of life, version 1 of…

By M Ryan

How much does a Magento ecommerce store cost to run?

Magento v2 is software used to build and operate ecommerce stores. It is provided in three versions: To illustrate how to calculate the cost of running a Magento ecommerce store, this article describes sites at two levels of revenue, $100,000 and $5,000,000 per year. For…

By M Ryan

News - Adobe releases version 2.4 of Magento Commerce

July 28th, 2020. Adobe has released version 2.4 of Magento Commerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist. This version includes some additional B2B features. Purchase approvals are improved, to enable rules to be configured to ensure orders that exceed certain thresholds (based on value,…

By M Ryan