M Ryan is an ecommerce consultant with twenty years experience working with retailers, consumer brand manufacturers and other consumer-facing businesses helping them to develop their ecommerce strategy, implement ecommerce technology and improve their ecommerce operations. He works extensively throughout US and Europe, with clients including global brands, large retailers and household names in consumer goods.
Shopify is a software product, sold as a monthly subscription by a public Canadian company of the same name, that enables its customers to create and operate ecommerce stores. Its more than 820,000 customers pay a subscription to Shopify which enables them to login through…
Continue reading...September 10th, 2020. Elastic Path announced the appointment of Riccardo La Rosa as SVP Engineering and Operations, moving from a role as VP Cloud Engineering with Acquia the content management system vendor and digital marketing services provider. The announcement comes just days after Jamus Driscoll…
Continue reading...September 9th, 2020. VTEX, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, announced it has been selected by bisco industries (electronic components and fasteners serving customers in aerospace, electronics and hi-tech sectors) as its new B2B ecommerce platform and this is live for both B2B and…
Continue reading...September 9th, 2020. BigCommerce reported its Q2 results today, with revenue up 33% compared to 2019 at $36.3m, with a GAAP loss of ($7.4m) compared to ($10.4m) in the same period last year. It reported 9,378 customers (up 7% compared to 2019) are now paying…
Continue reading...September 9th, 2020. Episerver, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that Benefit Cosmetics relaunched their ecommerce stores globally on its Episerver Commerce Cloud platform. Benefit operates 42 country websites with language variations available in some of these. While not every country is…
Continue reading...Faceted search (or faceted navigation) is a mechanism where website visitors narrow a list of search results by selecting the features of the results they are interested in. In an ecommerce website, faceted search options are shown on the search results page or while browsing…
Continue reading...Typeahead search, or search autocomplete, is a feature of a website search bar that is activated when a website visitor starts typing their search term. The website offers suggested matches even before the search phrase has been completed. As the visitor types more of their…
Continue reading...September 3rd, 2020. Episerver, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced its acquisition of Optimizely subject to the normal regulatory approvals expected by end of 2020. Optimizely is an A/B testing company, its software enables ecommerce companies to test the effectiveness of variations…
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