Microservices, A Solution to Omnichannel Enterprise Sprawl

| Jon Feldman

Designed for web-first, monolithic commerce platforms are generally hardwired to their desktop and mobile front ends, and are not designed for contextual device or use case specific experiences now expected of them. Enter microservices architecture, solving the pain of legacy architecture and siloed systems. Here’s how it works.

MCM Ecommerce and Marketing (2/19/19)

| Chris Intili

Multichannel Merchant STRATEGIES & TACTICS FOR THE B2B & B2C MERCHANT week of 2/19/2019 Microservices, A Solution to Omnichannel Enterprise Sprawl Designed for web-first, monolithic commerce platforms are generally hardwired … Continue Reading →

MCM Week in Review (2/15/19)

| Chris Intili

Multichannel Merchant The News, Commentary & Events that Shaped Commerce This Week week of 2/15/2019 E-Grocery Still Not Broadly Adopted, But Consumers Demand Convenience Despite the big push behind e-grocery, … Continue Reading →

MCM Ecommerce and Marketing (2/12/19)

| Chris Intili

Multichannel Merchant STRATEGIES & TACTICS FOR THE B2B & B2C MERCHANT week of 2/12/2019 NRF Projects Retail Sales Will Grow Between 3.8%-4.4% in 2019 The National Retail Federation is predicting … Continue Reading →

MCM O+F Advisor (2/13/19)

| Chris Intili

Multichannel Merchant Operations & Fulfillment Strategies & Tactics week of 2/13/2019 The Value of a Robust Customer Feedback Strategy Customer feedback is vital in any business or industry. Retailers in … Continue Reading →

Amazon Officially Calls Out Carriers as Competitors

| Mike O'Brien

Amazon’s moves into logistics and fulfillment over the past few years have been well-documented, with FedEx and UPS downplaying the threat and Amazon saying it just wants to address its capacity shortfalls. Until now, that is, when Amazon added “transportation and logistics services” to the long list of competitive sectors in its 2018 10k filing.