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.
According to Websters, ecommerce is simply the conduct of "commerce on the Internet". The Britannica encyclopaedia explains ecommerce as "maintaining relationships and conducting business transactions that include selling information, services, and goods by means of computer telecommunications networks". eCommerce accounted for 16.1% of all retail…
Continue reading...September 24th, 2020. Trouw Nutrition, a Eur 3.9b revenue subsidiary of Nutreco, is an animal feed manufacturer and distributor based in Amsterdam. They have announced they have gone live with a new B2B ecommerce solution based on Intershop, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist,…
Continue reading...September 22nd, 2020. Mirakl, the ecommerce marketplace software solution provider, announced they have received an outside investment of $300m from new investor Permira as well its existing private equity owners. The investment has valued the marketplace provider at $1.5bn. Permira is also an investor in…
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...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…
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