WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

The 2022 edition of the Marketplace 100 ranks the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and analyzes the trends behind the next generation of marketplace giants.

Read the report to learn the critical advice IDC has for technology buyers and why VTEX is a Leader.

2021 was the year of broken supply chains, Amazon aggregators, more advertising, Shopify's almost-marketplace, and one unanswered question - did the pandemic boost e-commerce after all? For now, the world of marketplaces revolves around Amazon - it has doubled in size in two years. No one will challenge it directly, but a different paradigm might.

Did Covid-19 destroy in-store shopping? Can retailers revitalize the brick-and-mortar experience to lure customers back to physical locations? The books explore lessons learned during the pandemic to demonstrate how successful stores and brands are tackling these challenges.

Investments in digital commerce continue to grow as companies adapt to new business models and sales processes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research evaluates the viability of 17 digital commerce platform vendors to help application leaders make informed decisions.

The ERP for product-centric enterprises market is accelerating its transition to cloud deployment models. ERP application leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to evaluate cloud ERP application suites as part of a composable ERP strategy.

"Everything that should be happening over a five-, 10-year period is happening now," said Pete Madden, a director with AlixPartners. "It's a rethink, it's expensive, and it's on top of expense that has already happened."

20 years ago Apple seized music, and turned it into a lever for its broader business. It failed to do the same to TV, and lost control of music, but won massively in games, where it now makes more money than the entire global digital music industry. Now, perhaps, it’s looking at advertising.

In this article, we walk you through the smart shelf technologies that are revolutionizing the way the retail industry delivers educational content, pricing, and in-store promotions, ratings, and reviews on the shelf.

Dynamic pricing isn’t just for travel companies or e-commerce giants, and it doesn’t necessarily require ultrasophisticated software that changes every product’s price multiple times a day.

A comprehensive survey designed to surface consumer comfort levels with new and emerging technologies.

A ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. From food delivery to outdoor travel, the Marketplace 100 reflects the imprint of a year like no other. The Marketplace 100 is based on data from Bloomberg Second Measure, a consumer data analytics company that analyzes billions of purchases to track real-time consumer behavior and relative sales across over 5,200 merchants. The startups and private companies on the Marketplace 100 are then ranked using a common industry metric, Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), which is extrapolated from the total dollars consumers are spending against each company.

Covid brought shock and a lot of broken habits to tech, but mostly, it accelerates everything that was already changing. 20 trillion dollars of retail, brands, TV and advertising is being overturned, and software is remaking everything from cars to pharma. Meanwhile, China has more smartphone users than Europe and the USA combined, and India is close behind - technology and innovation will be much more widely spread. For that and lots of other reason, tech is becoming a regulated industry, but if we step over the slogans, what does that actually mean? Tech is entering its second 50 years.

Integration, Speed To Insights, And Real-Time Decisioning Matter Most For Orchestration

Vendors that take a technology-agnostic approach to integration can deliver insights at speed across all permutations of journeys. They also have a proven track record in real-time decisioning across a wide variety of systems and can help companies drive business results and CX differentiation.

A recap of the Top 100 fastest growing & declining categories in March 2020 vs. March 2019

Customers expect a personalized shopping experience. All retailers—even leaders—must advance their capabilities to deliver it.

As the retail industry continues to be disrupted by emerging technologies and shifting consumer behavior, how do you keep up? One of the first steps is to keep up to date with the latest innovations and trends that will transform how you start, market, manage, and grow your business in 2019 and beyond.

We’ve put together a list of our favorite retail blogs on the internet and outlined the subjects each of them covers. We’ve selected blogs based on their industry expertise, the volume of content they publish, and how actionable their content is.

The 15 best retail blogs that every retailer needs to add to their reading list. Convince and convert. Retail Dive. Insider Trends. Retail Wire. Harvard Business Review. TechCrunch. Lightspeed Blog. The Retail Doctor. The National Retail Federation. Medallion Retail. Forrester Retail. Hubspot Blog. Retail Design Blog. Neil Patel Blog.

IoT has paved the way for brands to use connected devices in their physical spaces too. Learn how location-based brands can invest in technology-rich locations that raise the bar for customer experience.