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The economy is going to slow down. It's a given. So retailers aren't going to have the consumer confidence they need to have a booming Christmas season this year. Those making less than $50k are going to spend much less than they did in previous years. Higher income families above that bracket...
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Scared you, didn’t I? No? Ok, then the stuff after this sentence will scare the living eCommerce out of you. Or not. Let’s keep it simple this week. It’s Halloween and let’s cue the Ghostbusters theme ! Once your stomach bursts into a bloody mess from eating one too many Almond...
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10-31-2008
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Filed under: ecommerce, mobile commerce, Twitter, Resource Roundup, shopping cart, cloud computing, facebook, Windows Azure, ghostbusters, hallowewen, eCommerce technology, fixed solutions, myspace, mobile sites, asp.net mobile
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is deployed for strategic planning on the movement and acquisition of business resources, such as employees, materials, customers. ERP handles a number of business functions, including supply chain management, manufacturing, and financials. ERP systems rely...
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Richly Chheuy
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10-21-2008
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Filed under: ecommerce framework, ecommerce, sales, enterprise, ERP, CRM, modular architecture, Application framework, ecommerce platform, modular design, ecommerce architecture, shopping cart, Large Businesses
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Rich media content is about to get richer as Adobe released version 10 of its ubiquitous flash player plugin , a day after Microsoft released Silverlight 2 to the general public. Some of the new features of Flash Player 10 include support for custom filters and effects, advanced audio capabilities, and...
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It’s “Search Week” at Mediachase apparently. While the spotlight is on Lucene at the moment , another search topic that came to mind was Visual Search. Visual search isn’t as common as traditional search methods on the web. visual search, in a nutshell, searches for images based on color, mood, texture...
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One of the biggest headaches running an eCommerce store is taxation. If you’re based in California, which typically charges 8.25% sales tax, and someone from Oregon, which doesn’t charge sales tax, buys something from your store, you’ll have to configure your store to “automagically” determine taxation...
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Having powerful search capabilities is a necessity for any large eCommerce site. I’ve touched on Lucene, the information retrieval library a last week. High-performance full-text search is what powers sites like cnet.com and bestbuy.com. If you conduct a search on these sites, the results are almost...
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Who wouldn’t want to stay a couple nights at a luxurious hotel for a mere $19.28 a night? Heck, I’d pay for one, stay for weekend at some remote location in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then recline in luxury I could otherwise never afford. LHW sent a nice, elegant email. $19.28? How could I lose? The Leading...
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There’s always light at the end of the tunnel, as the old cliché goes. And the current financial situation is no different from past economic hardships. We will all get through this one way or the other. This also means there are new business and career opportunities propping up. Ecommerce, for instance...
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At least according to Geoff Galt of Tealeaf, a company that provides customer management software. He says that the Internet will become the primary source for commerce trades and transactions in the future . With eCommerce growing at a faster rate than traditional retail, that's not such a farfetched...
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According to a Census Bureau report, eCommerce sales totaled $34.6 billion in the second quarter, up 9.5 percent from Q2 a year ago. Total retail sales were $1.034 trillion, up 2.5 percent the same quarter last year. However, online sales grew at four times the rate compared to retail sales. If you subtract...
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At least in the case of http://tsw.berkeley.edu . Back in my old college days (which in reality, was only a couple years ago), I frequented the The Scholar's Workstation for my hardware, software, and iPod needs (after all, we need iPods to study). Out of curiosity (and the hope of getting something...
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From Flash, to AJAX web forms, to personalized shopping, and countless other eCommerce buzz words, this ain't your Daddy's eCommerce anymore . But that doesn't mean newer equals better. We all have an idea of what a real eCommerce site or platform should be or look like. That's why, for...
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In the enterprise sector, you deal with thousands upon thousands of customers, employees, and sales leads to track and maintain. One of the benefits of having a proper Customer Relationship Management system, or CRM, is automating the grunt work involved in managing people and even payment processing...
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Commuting to and from work is a necessary evil egged on by the need to be at the office, in front of our desk, and typing/clicking away as the pixels whiz back and forth on our Microsoft Word documents. With the rising cost of fuel, energy, and food, however, there is more incentive for employees to...