Internet of Things Was Only the Beginning – Here Comes »Smart Dust« [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 9. December 20199. December 2021 | by Sara Herrera Photo by Jakob from Pexels The development of the Internet of Things is nowhere near slowing down. Quite the opposite: by the end of this year, presumably 4.8 billion networked endpoints will be used in the enterprise segment and car industry. According to a forecast by Gartner, this figure will even rise to 5.8 billion by 2020 which is equivalent to an annual growth of 21 per cent. Two forces are driving this development forward: speed and size. On the one hand, companies use an improved broadband connection to make real-time analysis and on-demand intelligence possible. In B2C as well as B2B, several use cases have already shown their potential. On the other hand, sensors – an essential component of the Internet of Things (IoT) – become smaller and smaller and more and more sophisticated. In this context, Gartner states that companies will use physical space to interact with their customers through these tiny sensors. Smart Cars, Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 or Smart Farming are familiar terms surrounding a phenomenon that covers way more – for example the next stage of the IoT technology called »Smart Dust«, which currently attracts a lot of attention. Continue (7 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories Digital Consulting E-Commerce Industries Reading Tips of the Week
International, Familial, Successful – dotSource Wins the i-work Business Award 2019 [On Our Own Behalf] Posted on 6. December 20199. December 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Cecilia-Maria Lang and Christian Grötsch at Villa Rosenthal, Jena There are many awards. Every single one of them has its justification and you are always as pleased as Punch if you are amongst the lucky winners. Of course it is brilliant when you are »Agency of the Year« or when your clients win top awards in digital business. This motivates and strengthens visions and missions, makes you incredibly proud and makes you want more. Time to step up your game and then try to win awards which focus on soft skills such as the sense of togetherness and the faces behind the scenes. For example the »i-work Business Award«. Therefore, we are all the more pleased that we were able to take home this honourable award yesterday. Thanks to JenaWirtschaft and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Continue (10 vote(s), average: 4.60 out of 5)Loading... Categories E-Commerce
»Online Shop Only« in B2B – How MEVACO Succeeds in Translating Customer Focus from Analogue to Digital with Salesforce Service Cloud [Case Study] Posted on 3. December 20199. December 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Download the case study for free now! CRM kills Salespeople. As if. The success story of MEVACO shows that it should rather be called CRM supports Salespeople. Why? Because the suitable system and its networking ensure ideal processes. This, in turn, provides the basis for the measure of all things in terms of designing digital customer relationships: added values. In the »As-A-Service-Age« and in B2B anyway, it is obvious to do everything to convince with first-class service. With the introduction of Salesforce Service Cloud, MEVACO GmbH managed to do exactly this because it allowed the company to have a sales department which – thanks to automation, system networking and pioneering technologies – not only meets customer demands in a personalised, but also efficient way. Continue (10 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories CRM, Sales & Service Digital Consulting E-Commerce Industries Industry Platform Integration Publications
Adobe Updates Strengthen Commerce Cloud in DXP Portfolio [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 2. December 20199. December 2021 | by Sara Herrera Photo by Lindsay Henwood on Unsplash In May 2018, Adobe acquired Magento for 1.68 billion dollars. Even back then, it was only a matter of time until the giant from San Jose would integrate Magento into its tech stack. In April 2019, Adobe launched the Magento-based Adobe Commerce Cloud. By doing so, Adobe complemented its portfolio with the missing e-commerce platform which works in B2B as well as B2C relationships and fits in seamlessly with the Adobe Enterprise Cloud. Recently at the MagentoLive conference in Amsterdam, important updates and key integrations with Adobe were announced. They will enable Magento users to deliver more personalised shopping experiences and to use the huge amounts of collected data more intelligently. Continue (9 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories B2B Data-Driven Business E-Commerce Reading Tips of the Week
B2B On The Digital Rise – SLV Wins Shop Usability Award 2019 Posted on 26. November 20199. December 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Download the SLV Case Study for free now! In mid-October, one of the most important awards in e-commerce, the Shop Usability Award, was presented in Munich. We are incredibly proud that our client SLV has prevailed in the category »B2B« and warmly congratulate them on this well-deserved success. It shows once again that an outstanding user experience is not a question of industry and that the investment in the design of digital customer relationships pays off. Continue (11 vote(s), average: 4.64 out of 5)Loading... Categories B2B Design & Usability Digital Consulting E-Commerce Publications
Super Apps – The New Way To Attract Customers [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 25. November 20199. December 2021 | by Sara Herrera Photo by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay If you want to book an accommodation, order something to eat, transfer money, chat with friends or colleagues and shop some new shirts, how many apps do you need? In the Western world, you certainly need six different ones. In Asia, however, a new model that centralises all these actions in one single place is establishing itself: the super app. The Chinese pioneers WeChat and Alipay are the largest exponents of this super app revolution and are therefore considered to be role models. Companies from all over the world now aspire to put this successful Chinese model to use in their own region. But what actually is a super app, which advantages does it have and in which other regions does it already experience a boom? Will super apps even be able to gain a foothold in the Western world? Continue (12 vote(s), average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading... Categories Digital Consulting E-Commerce Reading Tips of the Week
Microservices Instead Of Monolith: The Publisher C.H.BECK Is Restructuring Its Online Shop With Commercetools [Case Study] Posted on 19. November 20199. December 2021 | by Sara Herrera Download the case study for free now! Faster, more flexible, more efficient, more scalable, more performant. These five requirements are the Holy Grail of each online shop nowadays because customers expect lightning-fast loading times, simple operation and an up-to-date product range at all times. Companies, in turn, want to develop innovations quickly, optimise cost savings and attain maximum productivity. With increasing growth and rising ambitions, however, outdated structures and solutions quickly reach their limits. Courage is required when it comes to digitalisation. C.H.BECK, the German market leader in the field of legal literature, therefore decided to break with its 15-year monolithic platform developed in-house and to rely on modern and flexible technologies. Keywords are microservices and cloud, technology partners are commercetools and Microsoft Azure. In our new success story, we show how C.H.BECK managed to restructure its online shop with commercetools to make it fit for the future. Continue (9 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories B2B B2C E-Commerce Industries Marketing Automation Media & Publishing
CRM Is More Than Software – Technology On Its Own Does Not Create A Competitive Advantage [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 18. November 20199. December 2021 | by Sara Herrera Photo by Burak K from Pexels Personalisation is essential to the successful creation of digital customer relationships and thus for long-term success. Addressing customers individually is far more than sending an e-mail with the correct name. 360-degree customer focus is required, which in turn covers all touchpoints of the customer journey. In order to master all these mammoth tasks, companies need a reliable and central source of supply, the so-called »Single Point of Truth« for customer relationship management. Therefore, it is no surprise that the topic CRM has recently become more and more important for companies. Consequently, more and more money is invested in CRM projects as well. However, according to a study conducted by Uniserv, 62 per cent of companies are not satisfied with the management of their customer data. What does this tell us about the status quo of this important technology in digital business and which challenges do retailers, manufacturers and brands currently face in this regard? Continue (9 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories CRM, Sales & Service E-Commerce Platform Integration Reading Tips of the Week
Salesforce Commerce Cloud Provides Smooth Shopping Experiences on EMP [Case Study] Posted on 12. November 20199. December 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Source: dotSource Customers expect not only lightning-fast loading times, but also personalised product presentations in order to find the exact product they are looking for as quickly as possible, regardless of whether the purchase is made on a smartphone or a desktop or regardless of how many people access the website at the same time. Many customers nowadays take purchasing in efficient shops for granted. By migrating to Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the biggest mail-order retailer of rock and entertainment merchandise products EMP wants to meet these demands even better. In cooperation with dotSource, the online shop was migrated and the existing heterogeneous system landscape was streamlined. Continue (9 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories E-Commerce
Conversion Rate Optimisation: How Do I Generate More Traffic And Higher Revenue? Posted on 19. September 20199. December 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Source: pexels Anyone attempting online retail will realise the following. Success doesn’t just happen without any input. And even those who have been successful in e-commerce for a few years should ask themselves a question again and again: How can what I offer be even better? This question often carries others with it. What ensures that visitors to my online shop not only surf on my pages but also follow through on a call-to-action? How do you ensure that customers not only order something once but that they become regular customers? In order to answer these questions intelligently and to increase sales and customer loyalty in the long term, without immediately forcing a huge relaunch, one can heed a few tips to get the screws tight and correctly aligned. Continue (8 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories Design & Usability Digital Marketing E-Commerce
