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Jennifer Hansen is now a member of Direct Commerce Systems
Welcome Them!
on Friday
Si Chen replied to Si Chen's discussion 'comparing magento vs. spree open source ecommerce/shopping carts'
Thanks for looking at it!
on Friday
Ernie Schell replied to Si Chen's discussion 'comparing magento vs. spree open source ecommerce/shopping carts'
Thanks for starting this discussion, Si. Your info on the link is good stuff: your comparison of PHP and Ruby on Rails is right on target. I hope others with experience on both Magento and Spree jump in and participate.
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Si Chen added a discussion
comparing magento vs. spree open source ecommerce/shopping carts
Hi everybody,I wrote a comparison about magento and spree recently.  I hope this is helpful if anybody's looking at them, and would certainly appreciate your feedback and comments as well!
on Thursday
Barney Stone Stone Edge is celebating the 10th anniversary of the Stone Edge Order Manager this month with 10% discounts. http://tinyurl.com/yf79khc
February 2
Ernie Schell added a blog post
RetailWire has a very interesting discussion about whether the massive resources that drive the largest eCommerce sites (including the ability to offer many items as loss-leaders) precludes competition from smaller companies. The editorial is worth…
February 2
Ernie Schell added a blog post
Irvine, CA-based Island Pacific, a division of 3Q Holdings, has announced Island Pacific Direct, designed to support the direct commerce channel in a multichannel merchant environment. The system incorporates the following: Automated Contact Manag…
January 28
Ernie Schell added a blog post
An Oracle White Paper discusses "A Simple, Intuitive User Experience: The Last Mile in Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Software," offering an eight-step strategy in which social media capabilities can be used to support a next-gen workflow w…
January 26
Nishal Singh is now a member of Direct Commerce Systems
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January 22
Ernie Schell replied to Ernie Schell's discussion 'The Cloud'
Thanks for those details, Rick. Much appreciated. Yes, I did hear that Amazon ECC is a bit more expensive (or a lot more, depending on how you use it).
January 22
Ernie Schell replied to Ernie Schell's discussion 'The Challenge of Managing eCommerce Platforms'
Thanks for the info, Rick. Is your new eComm platform the aspdotnetstorefront module/platform?
January 22
Rick Dickens replied to Ernie Schell's discussion 'The Challenge of Managing eCommerce Platforms'
We're replacing our ecommerce platform at the same time we're replacing our order management/erp, and I sure hope both last, or perhaps evolve together, for 6-8 years or longer. I don't want to do this again! We'll be relying heavily on the technolo…
January 21
Rick Dickens replied to Ernie Schell's discussion 'The Cloud'
We're not using Amazon ECC, but we are using a similar product from Rackspace called cloud sites. Our current ecommerce infrastructure is hosted in a more traditional fashion, leased servers and a leased firewall at an online host. You pay monthly f…
January 21
Ernie Schell replied to Ernie Schell's discussion 'The Cloud'
Does anyone have experience with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or the Amazon WebStore that you would like to share?
January 18

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comparing magento vs. spree open source ecommerce/shopping carts 2 Replies

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The Cloud 11 Replies

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The Challenge of Managing eCommerce Platforms 12 Replies

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Role of the CIO

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Analytics 4 Replies

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Open Source for Direct Commerce Order Management 17 Replies

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Social Media 1 Reply

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Multinational Sales

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Offer Management

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Sales Taxes 6 Replies

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Dan Prisk

Release schedules in Direct Commerce Systems 1 Reply

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Ernie Schell

Shrink-wrapped vs. Enterprise systems 5 Replies

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Payment Processors 3 Replies

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Multichannel Integration 6 Replies

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Will Dymott

Open sourced CRM and trigger email systems. 2 Replies

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Ernie Schell

eCommerce Systems Clusters

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ROI

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Blog Posts

Ernie Schell

Big eCommerce Competition

RetailWire has a very interesting discussion about whether the massive resources that drive the largest eCommerce sites (including the ability to offer many items as loss-leaders) precludes competition from smaller companies. The editorial is worth a read, but don't stop there -- read the comments, too. And feel free to post your own responses here (as a response to this blog post, or in the Forums above).

Posted by Ernie Schell on February 2, 2010 at 10:48am

Ernie Schell

Island Pacific Launches Island Pacific Direct

Irvine, CA-based Island Pacific, a division of 3Q Holdings, has announced Island Pacific Direct, designed to support the direct commerce channel in a multichannel merchant environment.

The system incorporates the following:

Automated Contact Management for the generation of automatic promotional contacts, running of simultaneous multiple promotional campaigns, and the ability to compare success rates for different campaigns, materials, contact sequences and schedules.

Marketing and Circulatio… Continue

Posted by Ernie Schell on January 28, 2010 at 6:17pm

Ernie Schell

Next Generation eCommerce Interface

An Oracle White Paper discusses "A Simple, Intuitive User Experience: The Last Mile in Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Software," offering an eight-step strategy in which social media capabilities can be used to support a next-gen workflow within state-of-the-art eCommerce Websites. It's short, and worth a read.

Click HERE for a copy of the White Paper.

Posted by Ernie Schell on January 26, 2010 at 3:26pm

Ernie Schell

Tim Litle Cited by DM News

For its 30th anniversary, DM News profiled Ten Giants of Direct Marketing, among whom was Tim Litle, founder of Litle & Co., and a pioneer in the direct commerce payment processing industry. Tim founded DMGT (Direct Marketing Guarantee Trust) in the 1980s, then Paymentech, which he sold to Chase. As far as I know, Tim was actually the person who invented the term "direct commerce." Click HERE for the DMNews listing, an… Continue

Posted by Ernie Schell on November 30, 2009 at 5:50pm

Ernie Schell

eCommerce Analytics: Hit and Miss?

A report from SLI says: "Online Retailers Rely on Numerous Technologies to Improve Customer Experience; Most Don't Combine or Measure Performance Properly" because most eCommerce companies are uncertain how to maximize the potential of Site Search, Analytics and other Customer Engagement Applications.

According to the November "2009 E-Commerce Customer Experience Survey" released by SLI Systems, tthe… Continue

Posted by Ernie Schell on November 26, 2009 at 12:10pm

Ernie Schell

The Impact of Social Media on the Future of Marketing

There is no dearth of blather about Social Media these days. One of the more insightful assessments is from Todd Defren, writing about The Future of Marketing on his PRSquared blog. He believes that in the not too distant future "sites and search engines will re-orient themselves dynamically to match our identities. The entire Web experience will re-architect itself on-the-fly based on where we’ve been,… Continue

Posted by Ernie Schell on November 26, 2009 at 11:47am

Ernie Schell

Forum Member Jagged Peak: Emerging Tech Co of the Year

Kudos to Systems Forum member Jagged Peak, which last night was acknowledged as Emerging Technology Company of the Year by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, growing revenue from $600,000 to more than $15 million over the last six years. The company provides outsourced eCommerce and supply chain solutions that enable manufact… Continue

Posted by Ernie Schell on November 13, 2009 at 9:13am — 1 Comment

Ernie Schell

Top Five Systems Tips for Retailers Going International

From Cross-Atlantic Insight | Publication date: 09/11/2009

When exploring their international options, many businesses focus on marketing and merchandising to the exclusion of issues involving operational systems. As a provider of retail management solutions, Retail Directions wants you to consider your systems needs, of course. That’s why it put together a brief titled “Top Five Tips… Continue

Posted by Ernie Schell on November 9, 2009 at 3:01pm

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