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eCommerce in the Cloud: Best Practice 5 of 5
Posted on November 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe final post in the series on cloud Best Practices ties everything together. It’s great that the cloud gives tremendous flexibility, that you’ve planned for scalability, performance, brought a level of automation to deploying new servers and done proper capacity planning. The umbrella that all of this lives under is: Best Practice 5: Managing Environments Cloud environments | View post » -
eCommerce in the Cloud: Best Practice 4 of 5
Posted on October 30, 2012 | No CommentsWelcome to part four of the series on Best Practices in deploying eCommerce solutions to the cloud. In the prior three posts, I’ve discussed Horizontal vs. Vertical Scalability, Performance as a Business Requirement, and Automating Scalability. This post will focus on the importance of proper planning for system capacity. Best Practice 4: Capacity Planning In the days | View post » -
eCommerce in the Cloud: Best Practice 3 of 5
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsWelcome to part three of the five-part series on eCommerce Best Practices in the Cloud. In part two of this …
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eCommerce in the Cloud: Best Practice 2 of 5
Posted on October 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe second part of this five-part series on best practices for deploying eCommerce applications to the cloud will focus on site performance. It has been shown that even a slight decrease in performance can have a large negative impact on revenue. W... -
eCommerce in the Cloud: Best Practice 1 of 5
Posted on October 18, 2012 | No CommentsLast week I co-presented a webinar with folks from Amazon Web Services (AWS) on best practices for eCommerce in the Cloud. Given the great response, I thought I’d share the five best practices across a five-part series here Best Practice #1: Cons... -
Mobile Commerce: Customer Experience (CX) Highlights
Posted on October 3, 2012 | No CommentsOver the past few weeks I’ve had several people ask me my opinion regarding which companies “do mobile well” so I thought I’d summarize my thoughts here. There are several companies that come to mind when I think of mobile commerce ... -
HTML5 and UX: Retina Display Images: Part 1
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No CommentsIn the world of retina display devices and new hi-pixel density displays on Apple’s new laptops, a problem surfaces regarding images. Large numbers of images in a catalog display on the average eCommerce site present not only a bandwidth issue, b... -
Multi-Channel is Toast (and Other Crazy Assumptions)
Posted on September 4, 2012 | No CommentsLast week I watched a presentation given by Barton Stabler at this years eTail conference entitled, “Why Multi-Channel is Toast” and I have to say it was one of the strangest presentations I’ve seen... | View post » -
Where do you start with mobile commerce? Right where you are.
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsHave you ever been in a large museum or walked through a large park and lost your way? It happens gradually and almost goes unnoticed as you just keep walking. Then you come to one of those billboard style “You Are Here” maps. And all of a sudd... -
eCommerce Business Solutions for Brand Experience: The 3 Q’s
Posted on June 27, 2012 | No CommentsI recently read that the pay-site, Angie’s List, will be offering a storefront option for vendors and I wondered how well this would work. Would consumers that pay a monthly fee for community reviews actually pay to transact with vendors? Cou...