Product Information Management (PIM) & Emotion – How Do They Relate?
In our online world, “motion” is typing on a keyboard, moving the mouse, the movement of a finger, thumb, eye, or voice command to Alexa saying, “What’s the weather outside?” The “E” in emotion is the element that encourages, excites, or enhances that motion to linger and continue on with the App or Website. This […]
Message Queues for Superior Integration Fabric for System Interoperability
Message Queues (MQ) or Message Brokers (MB) are used when guaranteed delivery of information or data is of the highest importance and extremely beneficial for mission critical eCommerce platforms and high-volume transactional situations between multiple systems, services, or data repositories. The benefit of using MQs over HTTP APIs intensifies when multiple integrations (5 or more) […]
One Hopping Integration Fabric
A while back Magento quietly introduced integration with the open-source message queue management tool RabbitMQ from VMware. This provided a powerful optimization alternative for both Magento 2 Commerce and Open-Source editions. Many eCommerce shops will benefit from Magento’s integration with RabbitMQ by experiencing a more responsive front-end with reduced server load that improves both the […]
The Multidimensional Shopping Cart Meets the Need for Multi-Location Customers
The Problem: The multidimensional shopping cart complex and costly to service large multi-location customers spread across diverse territories. What was Needed: A solution that allows comparisons, multi-location orders, easy re-orders per location, and of course by SKU. This would reduce order time, minimize errors, and improve satisfaction with online fulfillment. You need a B2B online […]
The Black Friday Supply Chain Dilemma in Play
Don’t let supply chain problems be your downfall this Black Friday! Is your supply chain ready for all the business of Black Friday? Are you sure? They started lining up at 3AM and at 6AM the doors fly open as the horde pushes through hunting for that one specific prize to be on sale. Oops […]
The Result of Leveraging Product Information Management with Business Process Management
In eCommerce, selling products requires a directed effort and collaboration with every department, channel, and the entire supply chain; that includes Product Information Management (PIM) and Business Process Management (BPM) But collaboration is more effective through Business Process Management, critical to assuring tasks are done smoothly, accurately and are in line with the organization’s online […]
How Dutch Furniture Giant Fredericia Does More with Less
“We can model our product data and create screen views and tabs ourselves as we please. Now we are no longer dependent on expensive consulting services.” Hanne Skovbo, Fredericia Furniture A/S Before switching to Perfion Product Information Management (PIM) in 2011, Fredericia Furniture maintained most product data manually in Excel files and other individual documents. […]
What Can You Expect from Implementing Predictive Search?
The result of Predictive Search produces suggested results that materialize immediately to interactively engage your online customer while typing into the search field. A well implemented Search will display only the product information and images essential to the customer’s search. This makes the product selection process meaningful and produces a consistent digital experience by focusing […]
Take Instore Visual Merchandising Techniques to Grow Your eCommerce Business
eCommerce Success in Retail uses the same lessons learned with Floor Mapping, Planograms, Store Layout, End Cap & Point of Purchase Displays, and other proven Visual Merchandising techniques. Your eCommerce website should personalize the digital experience and optimize conversion rates to fill your shopping carts and grow eCommerce revenue? The answer is simple: you must […]
Data Governance and Protecting Your Product Data
The fastest way to fail your online business is to present incorrect or incomplete information about your products or services. In a rush to get online, most companies just move their ERP or spreadsheet data directly into their Webstore, without any effort to enhance, enrich, correct or optimize their Product Data. Data governance allows you […]