How big data drives ecommerce analytics.
Gediminas Rickevičius, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Oxylabs.io, shares about how big data drives ecommerce analytics.
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Gediminas Rickevičius, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Oxylabs.io, shares about how big data drives ecommerce analytics.
Melanie Vala, COO, Deko shares about Why the mobile experience is important for eCommerce.
With customers increasingly rating reliability over speed, successful eCommerce retailers are embracing data driven fulfilment to achieve certainty in an uncertain supply chain, explains Emma Dempsey, CEO, James and James Fulfilment.
Plaid, the global open finance data network, and payments platform have announced an expansion of its Payment Partner Ecosystem to include three new European partnerships – Primer, UniPaas, and NoFrixion.
In this article, Tom Williams of Naveo Commerce takes a look at the central trends affecting the eCommerce landscape, and how the shift to D2C (Direct-to-consumer), subscription models and sustainable practices is made possible with technology.
Four top tips to help businesses recognise the hidden costs of international trading on eCommerce platforms
Geoff Webb, VP of Strategy at PROS explains the importance of moving towards an eCommerce business model.
Derek O’Carroll, CEO of Brightpearl, shares his insight on why ecommerce businesses need to think about the experience beyond the ‘buy’ button and put customer experience at the heart of their store.
Kelly Goetsch, CPO at commercetools, predicts 6 eCommerce tech trends for 2020, including the race to attract talent and the shift away from legacy platforms
When thinking of eCommerce, the first thing that springs to mind isn’t AI or NLP, but simple online retailing. How are AISmartz changing that?
CARMA announces acquisition of mmi Analytics, expanding expertise in Beauty, Fashion, and Lifestyle sectors
The combined organisation is set to redefine the landscape of media intelligence, providing unparalleled expertise and comprehensive insights for PR professional and marketers in the exciting world of beauty, fashion and lifestyle.
The clear message is that both online and physical retailers will be able to take advantage of several emerging innovations in the months ahead.
Retailers should be cautious of jumping on the cashless retail bandwagon: the answer lies not in turning cash buyers away, but by automating cash acceptance wherever possible.
A well-designed website is an excellent tool that can be used to address a wide range of issues. The more accessible, helpful, and automated a website is, the smoother a business’ supply chain process will be.
Because MACH architecture is modular, retailers can not only select the best technology solutions on the market to create their eCommerce system, but also integrate them together without the need for a disruptive re-platforming project.
Inflation is set to influence every aspect of retail for the next 12 months and beyond. In the first week of January, shop prices surged to 8%, hitting a record high, according to the latest figures from the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index. With falling consumer sentiment and customers searching for value, what can retailers do to support their customer base while also safeguarding margins?
Despite economic headwinds, the demand for international products has never been higher. International retailers may risk losing traction if they fail to offer alternative payment methods to capitalise on this opportunity.
Ian Duffy, CEO at Accelerated Payments, shares about SMEs during a recession.
People are not loyal to travel brands now – they can’t afford to be. With the right deal and customer experience, there is an opportunity to capture the huge number of customers who will be shopping for their summer deals this month and beyond.
The demand for certainty is perhaps at its most pronounced within the e-commerce space, where brands are perpetually struggling to achieve return on investment, and where the competition is constantly challenging.
The first thing we need to understand is that the metaverse does not live or die by what Zuckerberg does. In fact, the metaverse is better defined as the ultimate goal of a whole suite of virtual and augmented reality propositions that will change how we interact online. In fact, if Meta’s metaverse comes into fruition, it is highly unlikely to be the only one.
Amidst today’s economic uncertainties, financial management skills and streamlining company spending have become a vital part of the finance function. Maintaining data accuracy throughout the spend management process is a huge challenge for many accountants and SMEs more generally, with an array of spending methods including online eCommerce sites, company cards, subscriptions and more complicating the invoicing process. Fortunately, spend management is the area about to undergo the greatest technological change, with new capabilities putting accounting on the road to fully automated spend management in the next five to 10 years.
We are in the midst of a real-time, seismic shift as consumers transform expectations of global supply and demand models. The pandemic exposed the fragility of many supply chain networks. An inability to sense and dynamically adjust to shifting demand signals, consumer preferences, labour requirements, transportation, storage, inventory and trade policy changes caused havoc to economies and brands around the world.
Ultimately, leave nothing to chance. Always expect an attack to happen, as cybercriminals are constantly looking for that open entryway. SMEs cannot afford to leave the door open. One negative experience can damage your customer relationships, reputation and overall business health. In this constant game of cat and mouse, we all need to be on our guard.
Today’s winners are defined by speed. If you can develop an idea, turn it into a tangible product, and get it out to your target audience faster than the competition, you are in a much better position to win. It doesn’t matter how great your offer is; it’s much harder to win customers if you’re always trailing behind competitors.
Gediminas Rickevičius, VP of Global Partnerships at Oxylabs, shares how leading businesses use price monitoring to boost profit.
Gavin Harrison, UK Sales Manager, Element Logic, shares three trends driving the future of intralogistics.
James Hyde, Chief Product Officer & Founder, James and James Fulfilment ,explains how cloud based business intelligence led fulfilment is delivering the agility required to enable truly opportunistic retail.
Mike McGuire, senior solutions manager at Synopsys Software Integrity Group shared about laying the foundation: software supply chain security.
Looking back some years ago, organisations looking to build online experiences went to vendors and simply bought a website. Not long after, organisations realised that the approach didn’t actually connect with their customers. As public cloud arose in the late 2000s and vendors began to offer data and functionality over discrete APIs, what we now know of as composable IT emerged.
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Over the past few years, retailers have taken huge strides to understand and address the environmental impact of the supply chain. In a bid to achieve Net Zero objectives, a shift to domestic and near shore production is reducing carbon emissions and a focus on reducing empty miles in both inbound and last mile deliveries is improving green performance.
A lean and agile approach is needed to meet the eCommerce needs of today, and there are a range of tools that companies should be using to get on their agile journey.
One of the most major security concerns for many organizations – in particular those operating in ecommerce – is currently Magecart web skimming attacks. Actively targeting online shopping carts, these cyber criminals have cost businesses of all shapes and sizes thousands, and even millions, of pounds as they intercept vital data. So, how can companies deter hackers and why does their website have a part to play in reducing the threat level? Gav Winter, CEO of next generation website monitoring company RapidSpike, explains…
Sam Van Hees, co-founder & CMO of Instant Commerce, a frontend as a service solution which enables any eCommerce brand to build a high-end headless storefront, explores the top seven signs your ecommerce business is ready to make the switch to headless commerce.
Where once upon a time retail business models had the luxury of evolving over years and sometimes decades, retailers over the last two years have been forced to rapidly pivot their operations, change business models and switch (in many cases) to unfamiliar, new ways of working.
George Ralchev is the Head of Security at emerchantpay, a leading global payment service provider. In this article, George explores the value of AI in today’s payments and retail landscape with a particular focus on how merchants can ensure that their security capabilities are innovating alongside growing digitization in payments and consumer shopping patterns.
Today, businesses are realising that a top-notch customer experience is the key to staying one step ahead in a highly competitive market. Enterprises are investing in loyalty schemes to elevate the online shopping experience for their most valued customers.
With Cloudflare for Platforms, organizations can easily customize and build on top of any application to cater to their customers’ needs
Validity, the leading provider of data quality and email marketing success solutions, announced a data partnership with Red Sift, an integrated cloud email and brand protection platform.
The benefits of digital twins are set to have a profound impact on a range of industries. They can help real estate agents in the process of buying and selling houses, by providing immersive, dimensionally accurate walkthroughs of properties to prospective buyers. This gives them a real sense of what it would be like to live there. Or in the travel and hospitality sector, hotels can better market the rooms they have to offer with digital twins, allowing consumers to check out a hotel, before they check in. The potential for the creation of digital twins is seismic – Matterport research has shown that there are over four billion buildings, comprising 20 billion spaces in the world.
By uniting physical and digital technologies, Industry 4.0 promises a transformation in how we lead our lives. It offers both an opportunity and a challenge to industries, and a world of innovation that will benefit consumers. In this article, Ralf Gladis, CEO at the global payment service provider, Computop looks at the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the world of payments.
Insider, a leader in cross-channel customer personalization experiences, has recently announced a $121 million Series D funding round valued at $1.22 billion. Other investors that joined funding included the likes of Sequoia, Riverwood Capital, 212, Wamda Capital, Esas Private Equity, and Endeavor Catalyst.
In this article, Ralf Gladis, CEO, a global payment service provider, Computop looks at the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the world of payments.
Genus Artificial Intelligence looks at the e-commerce sector and how it continues to expand with the pandemic acting as the main catalyst as the sector strived to fulfill the changing consumer behavior.
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With a week to go until Black Friday, we hear from experts who discuss the value of data collection and the importance of considering a holistic approach to digital transformation.
Devin Partida, Editor-In-Chief at ReHack, looks at how businesses can overcome holiday shipping challenges this year.
With the growing demand for e-commerce services, Ben Kaye, e-commerce and Order Management Expert at Mintsoft, advises on the value of organizations implementing cloud technology.
Russell Loarridge, Director UK, ReachFive explains the important role that customer data platforms (CDP) and CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) have, to play, together.
Stefan Merz, Chief Strategy and Growth Manager at PPRO, provides his take on this industry growth and the impact this is having on the payments sector.
It’s a trend that every retail business needs to get on board with – and fast – because in the digital neighborhoods of the future, people will ‘show up’ to online stores as an event; not only to browse and buy goods, but also to socialise and be entertained, just as they do in physical stores. Digital neighbourhoods are forming – and they’re here to stay. Brightpearl’s CEO, Derek O’Carroll will outline the concept of ‘digital neighbourhoods’, and what this means for retail.
James Morris-Manuel, EMEA Managing Director of Matterport, explores why the metaverse: virtual replica of the built world, made up of billions of digital twins, will fundamentally change how we experience, interact with, and analyse the space around us.
Srjana Balraj, Global Head, TCS OmniStore, Tata Consultancy Services UK, outlines the key technical rules that retailers need to understand when developing a successful unified digital ecommerce strategy.
Codeveloped innovative, end-to-end solutions will enable new customer experiences and business services across industries with on-premise or network-based deployment.
WATI raises Pre Series A funding from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge to help companies have personalised conversations with customers at scale, starting with WhatsApp
MEA Cloud Computing Market worth US$31.4bn by 2026 according to a new exclusive report by MarketsandMarkets.
Spending via the increasingly popular buy now pay later service is projected to increase to US$995bn by 2026.
Amazon Business’ Inaugural study reveals B2B e-procurement opportunities following a year of immense transformation, including government, education, healthcare, and commercial industry buyers’ increased focus on social and environmental issues.
Craig Summers, Managing Director at Manhattan Associates, encourages retailers to leverage AI to its greatest potential – from the beginning stages at…
As we continue our Scaleup Spotlight series, Samuel Mueller, CEO, Scandit explores the importance of tech addressing human needs if it is to take off, its work with NHS Digital and how the pandemic has kept Scandit busy.
In the face of competition from private label, new brands and online fulfilment, which is stressing margins, consumer brands will need new ways to work with retail partners to optimise allocation and replenishment, says Alex Barnes from antuit.ai.
Happy Friday! We’re rounding off the working week by catching up with Tamas Kadar, the founder and CEO of one of Forbes’ ‘Hottest Young Startups in Europe,’ SEON.
Independent research released today by KX shows that organisations across every major industry sector are prioritising time-to-value from their data, as firms look to operationalise continuous intelligence through real-time analytics.
Academy findings reveal digital commerce and data intelligence remain paramount to transforming customer experience and fuelling the post-pandemic road to recovery.
SOTI has released its global report Mobilising the Delivery Workforce: State of Mobility in Transportation and Logistics 2021 Report.
TradingPlatforms.com has projected that Amazon’s advertisement revenue will reach US$30bn by 2023, almost double from $15.73bn in 2020.
James Booth, VP Head of Partnerships for EMEA, at PPRO, discusses the top 5 European e-commerce markets driving growth, and…
Cost, People and Process Concerns Exist, But the Benefits of Moving to the Cloud, Such as Easier and More Secure Data Access, Are Too Good for Most Enterprises to Pass Up
If the pandemic-induced disruption to retail in 2020 taught retailers anything, it’s that the need to be flexible is crucial not only to business continuity, but to business survival.
Mary Urquhart, Senior Contact Centre Manager at PFS highlights why it is key for brands to scale up their operations and prioritise customer service.
Connected technology is of critical importance to accelerate digital transformation, likely to be a key economic driver going forward, says Matthew Margetts of Smarter Technologies
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With no let-up in Amazon’s run of impressive results, how can other businesses buy in to or look to replicate it’s success asks Sam Counterman, Director of Marketing at Selligent
Derek O’Carroll, CEO at Brightpearl, examines how to succeed with a Direct-to-Consumer business model.
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Noticing the common frustrations shared by retailers and carriers, David Grimes, CEO and founder of Sorted Group, set off to become the global technology choice for retailers looking to improve retail and e-commerce efficiency.
Public cloud adoption is a reality for most enterprises: 65% of North American enterprises have adopted the use of public…
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16 billion records have been exposed so far this year… just because you haven’t fallen victim, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t worry. Thomas Platt of Netacea tells us more.
Researchers are continuing to find new ways to leverage smartphone data that almost every consumer has in their pocket.
Nuke Goldstein, CTO of Celsius Network, writes about blockchain’s potential to unseat traditional, centralised services