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f-Commerce: How Can I Engage My Customers?

  Last time I wrote about the Who, What, Where and Why of f-Commerce, “executing transactions within Facebook without leaving the network.” Today I will “add an H” to round out the 5 W equation and talk about How to make f-Commerce possible for your customers. But before I get started I wanted to remind [...]

Facebook Meets eCommerce: The 5 Ws

  Are you ready to turn your Facebook fans into shoppers?  If your answer is ‘yes’, then let’s walk through the 5 W’s to ensure you are fully prepped for success. You have “taken the plunge” into the ocean of social media, defining your overall strategy and selecting your primary channel.  You are ready to [...]

Watch Presentation on “BigMemory for BigProblems: Improving Performance of a Real World eCommerce Application Based on Hibernate & Broadleaf Commerce”

The recorded Webinar is now available to view online.  View Recorded Webinar Taylor Gautier with Grid Dynamics and Jeff Fischer with Credera explore the challenges faced by a real world eCommerce application based on Hibernate and Broadleaf Commerce.  They explain how Ehcache was used to improve the response time and performance of The Container Store’s public website [...]

Credera Co-Presenting Webinar with Terracotta

Credera and Terracotta will be co-presenting a webinar focused on improving performance of eCommerce applications. The webinar will focus on issues that may arise in web applications utilizing Hibernate in their persistence layer.  The presenters will discuss the problems applications may have and then they will walk the audience through an achievable solution to those [...]

Break It Down: Online Payment Processing

Even in 2010, many traditional retailers are hesitant to go from an in-store card swipe to a card not present (CNP) environment, especially over an online channel. Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards, perceived security threats and a general lack of knowledge in processing payments over the web cause the hesitation. But, have no fear! We’re [...]

Get a Better Night’s Sleep with Payment Tokenization

Does the thought of capturing, storing, managing and securing your customer’s payment information keep you up at night?  Are you looking for a way to reduce the cost of your PCI compliance implementation? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you should know that Payment Tokenization could help you get back to sleeping [...]

This Blog is Recommended for You

For those tired of seeing in the “Recommendations for You” section of their favorite online retailer a ‘Tickle Me Elmo’ doll based on a single purchase for their nephew five years ago, there is hope. In fact, now on my Amazon home page (as long as I don’t flush my cookies and sign out), the [...]

Web of Dealz Only Today Special!

Yes, I have received that subject line, and no, I did not open the piece, and yes, I did promptly flag the email as ‘spam.’ Other email campaigns at more reputable institutions, however, might have you similarly asking, “Why you speak like preschool toddler?!” Here’s why: according to the Direct Marketing Association in their October [...]

2010 State of the Union: B2B eCommerce

I’ll bet you didn’t know my laptop (a Dell Latitude E6510) could have been ordered in exactly 4,777,574,399 different combinations than the one I have now, did you?! “Five billion different combinations for a single laptop?!” you say? And how many Dell employees does it take to make a laptop, much less screw in a [...]

eCommerce forecast: cloudy, with a chance of audit

It’s Black Friday and your eCommerce server utilization has spiked for hours, sending DoS (denial of service) errors out to over 5,000 potential customers!!! At this point, most IT professionals would deploy another server in the eCommerce environment as quickly as they could – or ratchet up resources on an eCommerce virtual server instance. What [...]