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.

From consideration to checkout, learn how New Relic can help you optimize performance across all your digital channels

An agile approach to overhauling data architecture improves speed, flexibility, and innovation.

Could Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software be the secret to bridging the gap between your customers’ escalating expectations and your current sales experience? Our definitive guide covers everything you need to know about CPQ. From core capabilities and benefits, to finding the right solution and implementing it.
- What CPQ is and how it’s evolved
- Common reasons for implementing CPQ
- Core CPQ capabilities
- Finding a future-proof CPQ solution
- CPQ benefits – for sales and the rest of your business
- Getting your CPQ implementation right.

The best protection against being hacked is well-informed developers. Make your development team into security experts today.

APM continues to be critical for modern, multicloud observability. Read the report where Gartner defines the market as "software that enables the observation of application behaviour and its infrastructure dependencies, users, and business key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the application’s life cycle," and see why we’re positioned highest and furthest in both Completeness of Vision & Ability to Execute.

Josh Evans talks about the chaotic and vibrant world of microservices at Netflix. He starts with the basics- the anatomy of a microservice, the challenges around distributed systems, and the benefits. Then he builds on that foundation exploring the cultural, architectural, and operational methods that lead to microservice mastery.

This year's State of the API report covers the largest and most comprehensive survey on APIs, ever. More than 28,000 developers and API professionals shared their thoughts on a range of topics, including their organizations' development priorities, how they get their work done, and where they see the industry going. We combined this data with data we've observed on the Postman API Platform to build a robust picture of the current state—and the future—of APIs.

Choose more than one vendor solution, if necessary. Vendors in the enterprise search functionality segment have cognitive search solutions that apply to the widest number of use cases and include website search and digital commerce. However, the actual features offered by these vendors vary greatly and may not be the best choice for digital commerce. For example, some vendors in the digital commerce functionality segment have sophisticated tools for merchandising that many more general-purpose solutions lack. It is reasonable and not uncommon for enterprises to have more than one cognitive search solution depending on use cases, data sources, content types, and other factors.

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.

Our latest AI advancements represent fundamental building blocks that could power entirely new future shopping experiences.

• Facebook AI is on a quest to build the world’s largest shoppable social media platform, where billions of items can be bought and sold in one place.

• As a key milestone toward this goal, we’re sharing details on how we’ve improved and expanded GrokNet, our breakthrough product recognition system. Now, it’s powering new applications on Facebook, like product tagging and showing visually similar products. Soon, we’ll bring visual search to Instagram so that people find similar products just by tapping on an image.

• We’re also diving into our latest advancements, which provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of product attributes and multimodal signals. These advancements collectively represent fundamental building blocks that could power entirely new shopping innovations of the future.

In our 15-criterion evaluation of product information management (PIM) providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Akeneo, Contentserv, IBM, Informatica, inRiver, Riversand, Salsify, Stibo Systems, Syndigo, and Winshuttle — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps eBusiness professionals select the right one for their needs.

Our toolkit will introduce you to the market’s landscape of new eCommerce tools and highlight the opportunities for your store.

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.

In this e-book, we'll answer all of the questions you have about customer data platforms and help you to understand the value that a CDP can bring to your business. You will also learn specifically how a CDP can increase customer lifetime value and other key metrics.

Enterprise marketplaces provide many tangible benefits to both B2C and B2B companies. Application leaders can use this Market Guide to understand the complexities of operating a marketplace, which vendors can help them develop a marketplace and what features they should consider.

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.

Today, around $4.3T worth of global commerce happens online. Stripe is intent on growing that number.

Cloud Customer Architecture for e-Commerce describes how to support e-Commerce solutions using cloud computing. The reference architecture contains a detailed view of the components, subcomponents and relationships for a cloud-based e-Commerce solution.

The Retail Tech 100 is CB Insights' annual ranking of the 100 most promising B2B retail tech companies in the world. This year's winning companies include startups working on e-commerce infrastructure, supply chain automation, cashierless checkout, and more.

Key Takeaways: Forrester's research uncovered a market in which Adobe and Salesforce are Leaders; commercetools, Oracle, Intershop Communications, Insite, BigCommerce, SAP, and Sana Commerce are Strong Performers; and Apttus, Elastic Path Software, Unilog Content Solutions, and Episerver are Contenders.

Integration Capability And Business User Experience Are Key Differentiators: As monolithic technology becomes outdated and less effective, the providers that lead the pack demonstrate deep, prebuilt integrations and strong business user tooling. Vendors that deliver this value position themselves to successfully help their clients grow revenue, deepen customer loyalty, and expand into new markets.