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Ecommerce Technology: Augmenting Reality Augments the Bottomline

GetElastic

Augmented reality is an ecommerce technology changing the way people buy online. According to the Walker Sands Future of Retail 2017 Report, consumers still enjoy the ability to touch and try a product. NARS cosmetics uses Facebook’s 360 technology to interact with 3D makeup tutorials. Read the Virgin Media case study.

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The Retail Revolution Is Redefining Convenience

RTP blog

Competition from e-Commerce, technological innovations and new consumer expectations have triggered a revolution in retail that is redefining the shopping experience. Whether they are buying gas, grabbing a snack or picking up a loaf of bread, technology can get them on their way quickly.

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You Can’t Afford to Ignore The Benefits of SaaS: It’s Brand Bankruptcy or Digital Transformation

BigCommerce

When I worked agency side, we started building ecommerce sites on SaaS platforms like BigCommerce. I already knew the benefits of SaaS across other pieces of the commerce platform stack, including: Omnichannel commerce technologies. And begin future-proofing your technology stack. . OMS Systems. WM Systems.

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How Contextual Commerce Improves Customer Loyalty

Optimizely

billion Facebook Messenger users in April 2017 ), brands and retailers have started to use artificial intelligence to power chatbots that allow shoppers to interact with brands in a conversational and immediate way. To do this, you need a holistic view of customers and integrated back-end technology to bring all the data together.

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eCommerce Solutions: 3 Weighty Reasons Why Top Brands are Abandoning the Monoliths in Droves

GetElastic

However, there’s a now growing trend among top brands to move away from monolithic commerce technologies that combine content presentation capabilities with catalogues, carts and commerce. Consequently, top brands are abandoning them in favor of ecommerce technologies that can adapt to any touchpoint (wearables, watches, cars).

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Ecommerce Trend: Furniture Retail Growth Opportunities

Blue Acorn

Download the full “2017 Furniture Ecommerce Report” here. It should be noted that though not a focus of this post, there are numerous B2B digital commerce growth and efficiencies opportunities that have become available to furniture brands in the past couple years. Strategies-First. Fortunately, many similar needs (eg.

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3 Augmented Reality Uses for Online Retailers

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Technology is changing the way we shop online. Ecommerce sellers who learn how to leverage all the IT tools at their disposal now will stay a step ahead of the competition in the future. In late 2017, the Harvard Business Review reported that spending on AR is set to reach a whopping $60 billion by 2020.