- Oracle purchases e-commerce vendor ATG and FatWire (customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums, analytics, digital asset management, etc.)
- IBM purchases e-commerce vendor Sterling Commerce.
- Adobe announced the Digital Enterprise Platform and new development platform around flash and Flex to create applications that will run on all mobile platforms.
- ebay:
- commerce platform : magento – buying tunnel
- payments: paypal
- Loyalty, listings and shopping list: where (location media company), milo (local shopping app), redlaser (QR code and listings) and fig cards
- API to enable Mobile developers to use the platform
Mary Meeker's recent Internet Trends presentation (June 2012) introduced a new buzzword into the tech world: reimagination. Meeker listed 50 different market categories that are in the process of being reimagined - in other words, disrupted or changed. This blog is dedicated to reimagination, with a special focus on the travel industry ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Some recent evolutions of X-commerce platforms ...
Objectives are to help companies create unified customer experiences across channels - including those ever important new channels like mobile and social.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Mobile - After the technology shake, the xCommerce Tsunami
2011 is the beginning ... of the xCommerce tsunami ... X being t for tablet, s for smartphone, T for TV, etc. Every connected object will have the capability to connect you to a marketplace.
Google, Ebay, Amazon and Facebook are all finalising their platform to be available worldwide. War will begin soon.
In the travel industry, Rob Torres from Google gave some numbers:
Mobile is just creating a never ending space where you can "touch" every consumers everywhere on earth but also at anytime in your value chain. Are you ready ?
Google, Ebay, Amazon and Facebook are all finalising their platform to be available worldwide. War will begin soon.
In the travel industry, Rob Torres from Google gave some numbers:
- Google reports 300K new Android activations per day and eMarketer notes that 50% of all new internet connections worldwide are coming from mobile devices.
- The number of searches in the travel category via a mobile device continues to rise this year; the percentage of queries coming from mobile devices now makes up 19.5% of all hotel queries.
- Quite notably, people aren’t just searching with mobile; they are actually completing transactions from their devices. The number of mobile bookings in the travel space has accelerated from $20 million in 2008 to over $200 million in 2010.
- By 2012 we project that 8% of mobile users will be booking travel from their smart phones.
Mobile is just creating a never ending space where you can "touch" every consumers everywhere on earth but also at anytime in your value chain. Are you ready ?
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