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 17th, 2020. Spryker has announced that it has raised $130m in a Series C financing round, principally from new investor California-based TCV, that also has invested in AirBnB, Avalara, Brightmail, ExactTarget, Klarna, Sitecore, Toast, but also from its (much smaller) existing investors One Peak,…
Continue reading...December 17, 2020. Mirakl has announced that its marketplace software is now being used by Leroy Merlin in that retailer's home country of France, having previously being tested in the competitive ecommerce market of Brazil. A marketplace, in ecommerce terminology, is the presentation of products from…
Continue reading...December 16th, 2020. Elastic Path, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has appointed two more executives to the leadership team. Bryan House joins as SVP of Product (directing UX and product management) from Boston-based Neural Magic, an AI software company that aims to deliver…
Continue reading...eCommerce Order Management is the application of processes and methods by which businesses ensure online orders placed by customers are fulfilled accurately, cost-efficiently and on-time. A simple order management process passes an order placed on the website to a warehouse for fulfillment, keeping a record…
Continue reading...December 14, 2020. VTEX announced today that it is now powering 39 international websites for Motorola, the telecoms business based in Schaumburg in Chicago, IL. In June 2019 VTEX announced it had been selected by Motorola to "strengthen its relationship with consumers" by building an improved…
Continue reading...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.
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