As many e-commerce sites celebrate their 10th birthday, web stores are facing
the reality that the Internet is changing and current sites need to be
refurbished. From left-hand navigation and search to product catalog and
product detail, from the cart and check out to the general design and format
- most sites are in desperate need of a makeover. With changes in web
innovation being accompanied by drastic changes in the economy, no major
vertical has more to gain than e-commerce.
Many new ideas are emerging all the time - including social shopping - that
not only drive traffic, increase conversion, and decrease abandonment, but
also increase brand loyalty and provide customer feedback directly to
merchants. E-commerce is changing at a rapid pace. Projects are getting
f... (more)
Two emerging architectural styles are becoming popular: Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and appliances. Both are becoming ever more relevant and
popular in enterprise architectures. But SOA and appliances are very
different architectural styles. SOA supports distributed architecture while
the appliance represents the epitome of standalone applications. Both SOA and
appliances have di... (more)