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Sitecore wants to put the customer at the heart of customer experiences. And now that the world has gone mobile, that means optimizing the mobile customer experience. With Sitecore's release of mobile apps for its experience platform, it's acting on that business strategy.
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WordPress is putting online retailing in the hands of bloggers by partnering with three e-commerce providers — Ecwid, Shopify and ShopLocket. The deal enables bloggers create slick, online storefronts. The new plug-ins are only available to WordPress.com Business users, not to be mistaken with the self-hosted WordPress.org.
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Sitecore has just announced a partnership with .NET e-commerce platform provider Znode aimed at developing personalized customer experiences. This is the second major announcement around .NET platforms from Sitecore in the past three months. Its purchase of commerceserver.net in November aroused considerable interest in the e-commerce space. It also announced a new partnership with Microsoft
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Over the past two days, we have looked at different approaches to bridging the gap between content management and e-commerce. In the first part, we saw that e-Spirit has adopted a best-of-breed approach. Yesterday we saw how Elastic Path is using e-commerce APIs to integrate content.
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Yesterday we saw how e-Spirit has developed a best-of-breed approach to bridge the gap between content management and e-commerce. But there are other approaches to this problem. Today we'll look at how Elastic Path tackles the problem with API-centric commerce.
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With more and more people shopping online, e-commerce vendors are constantly searching for new ways to find, engage and keep customers. One of the best strategies is the use of engaging content. Even so, many online stores struggle to provide optimal retail experiences.
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Microsoft is using the National Retail Federation's 103rd Annual Convention and EXPO in New York City this week to announce a number of enhancements to its Dynamics AX 2012 product and its Dynamics for Retail, which will reportedly provide retailers with better ways to manage their customer experiences.
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Ron Person has done more than 800 short assessments and probably 30-plus in-depth assessments regarding digital marketing maturity. He's compiled a list of 12 barriers to digital strategy success that came from interviews and audience polls. He's gathered input from more than 100 chief marketing officers, directors and digital strategists.
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With Coveo's announcement this month of its launch of Coveo for Sitecore: Advanced Search Edition, it seems like a good time to poke around the search arena — and into Sitecore.
Enriching Search Experience
But first, a bit about the Sitecore-Coveo partnership.
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In what has to be the acquisition of the week, if not the month, customer experience management (CXM) vendor Sitecore just announced it has bought e-commerce vendor commerceserver.net. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but in this case they don’t really matter. Here's why.
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A few months back, we took a close look at how a handful of Web experience management vendors dealt with personalization. Now, we have five more WEM providers to check out, including OpenText, Kentico, Acquia/Drupal, CoreMedia and Sitecore.
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Web content management provider Sitecore has announced big changes to how it prices and sells its digital marketing and WCM licenses in North America, and the two will now merge under what is being called the customer engagement platform. Combining Sitecore's Strengths Sitecore says it wishes to improve the
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Gartner didn't add or drop too many names from the 2013 MQ for Web Content Management, especially at the top. Adobe, SDL, Sitecore, Oracle, HP and OpenText all stayed in the Leaders quadrant, with IBM and Microsoft sitting in the Challengers' spot.
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Enterprise businesses find themselves leaning more and more heavily on their Web content management systems, and as the definition of what that means changes, so to must the most powerful systems adapt to the shifting market as the Gartner MQ for WCM 2013 clearly shows.
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