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.
December 13th, 2020. Commercetools, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, today suffered an embarrassing outage on its corporate website. It is not clear if this has affected its customers' ecommerce operations. It has affected our ability to check this week if they have any…
Continue reading...December 7th, 2020. TrueCommerce has announced the appointment of John Fay as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Mike Cornell who was CEO since 2014 and now moves into an advisory role. The appointment follows the acquisition of TrueCommerce by Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe (WCAS) which is…
Continue reading...December 7th, 2020. Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WooCommerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced its acquisition of MailPoet, a WordPress plugin that provides email marketing and transactional email services for around 300,000 customers, of whom just under 25% run WooCommerce.
Continue reading...December 5th, 2020. Oro, Inc, provider of OroCommerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that it has signed several new B2B customers including Braskem (Brazilian petrochemical company $13.3bn revenue FY2019), Fairprice (Singapore grocery business $2.7bn revenue FY2019) and Petra Industries (US consumer…
Continue reading...Three developer-friendly ecommerce platforms This article introduces you to three developer-friendly ecommerce platforms that may fit your needs without having to resort to the ones everyone has heard of (like BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Shopify - all of which are members of our ecommerce…
Continue reading...Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) introduction Sitecore Experience Commerce (Sitecore XC), a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, is a full-featured enterprise ecommerce platform provided as commercial software package by Sitecore, best-known for their well-regarded content management system (CMS). This article helps a technical audience to…
Continue reading...November 23rd, 2020. Shopware, the Germany-headquartered member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, today announced that its first customer in the UK has gone live on Shopware Enterprise 6. The site is the consumer-facing ecommerce store of a new business called Wine&Something, based in the town…
Continue reading...November 10th, 2020. Commercetools, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that its technology has been selected by John Lewis to provide the basis for a future evolution of its johnlewis.com direct-to-consumer website which is currently running on bespoke, in-house software. John Lewis…
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