WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

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.

Find your path through the stages of digital transformation:

1. Getting started - Successful projects are used as proof of concept to convince team leaders to champion further change.
2. Evolving and unifying - Discussions about digital strategy become more formal as organizations begin to define their path to transformation.
3. Transformation into a digital-first organization - Digital transformation isn’t an endpoint — it’s the process that takes you from a slowly evolving traditional organization to an agile, tech-enabled business.

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.

Why choose commercetools for your new eCommerce platform? Find out in our comprehensive eBook. 

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.

Key Takeaways: Forrester's research uncovered a market in which Adobe, Salesforce, and commercetools are Leaders; SAP, BigCommerce, Kibo Commerce, and Oracle are Strong Performers; Episerver and Elastic Path Software are Contenders; and Sitecore is a Challenger.

Business User Experience Drives Key Differentiators

As monolithic technology becomes outdated and less appealing to merchants, the providers that lead the pack will demonstrate deep integrations with both owned and competitive solutions, as well as business user tooling that unifies controls across those solutions and streamlines workflows. Vendors that deliver this value position themselves to successfully help their clients grow revenue, deepen customer loyalty, and expand into new markets.

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.

I tested more than 200 apps myself, and here are my comments. On this list you will find Amazon product research tools, ppc software, ranking tools, review software, etc.

This report goes beyond mapping technology startups and focuses in on how those technologies address retailers' and consumer brands' needs today.

A hype free guide to an all channel approach to selling your brand direct to consumer.

The only resource you need to profit from Google Shopping on Shopify. Read this free definitive guide for free today to save yourself time and frustration.

A l’approche des fêtes de fin d’année, il est d’autant plus important de les soutenir pour les accompagner dans cette période transitoire. Pour y voir plus clair, voici un listing non exhaustif d’initiatives à privilégier pour participer au soutien de l’économie locale française.

The Marketplace Maturity Model SM (MMM) is an industry-first model for Ecommerce operators to providing a reliable guide for implementing or iterating an online marketplace.
The Maturity Model is comprised of 5 major stages, within each stage are actionable steps across advisory, technology, and business considerations. 

The Marketplace Suite Spot report evaluates the top technologies businesses can use to create, launch, and grow an online marketplace property.

Learn what circular impact means and how you can measure it for your business! It's important to translate your strategy into tangible KPIs and measurable targets.