Insights into e-commerce and digital strategy.
We share experiences, guides and practical insights in e-commerce, AI, digital solutions and strategy. Here you will find analyses, trend insights and examples from real projects.
Litium's B2B report on digital sales
The eighth edition of Litium's report on digital B2B trade is based on a study in January 2024 in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. A majority of B2B companies expect their digital sales to increase over the next three years. Increased optimism is seen compared to the previous year.
The QR revolution in commerce
Svensk Handel and GS1 Sweden organized a webinar about the business benefits 2D codes - the next generation of barcodes create for you as a retailer. They also showed examples from H&M and practical guidance on how the store can get started and benefit from QR codes.
Restaffed – the new store experience
Restaffing is an overhaul for the stores where they can create added value with their staffing with the help of new technology. Together with HUI, Swish has produced a report to better understand the digitization of the retail trade. They are looking at how we can work with smart solutions to make better use of resources and increase profitability while improving the service to the customers.
E-commerce integrations for better efficiency
Since we at 3bits have always specialized in developing scalable e-commerce solutions, integrations have been a natural part that we put a lot of focus on. That everything should work in the background – stock balances are updated, the correct information is displayed about the products and the prices are up-to-date.
Unified commerce – the customer in the center in real time
Googling on Unified commerce today gives more than 107 million hits, so there is no doubt that it is a business strategy that is relevant in today's business. When talking about Unified commerce, seamless retail, the retail company puts the customer at the center and creates a technical infrastructure around the consumer.
A flexible checkout for B2B
Have you shopped on a consumer site and wished that there were equally flexible checkout solutions for B2B online as well? Then a payment platform can be something to look at more closely to simplify purchases digitally for companies.
A personal store front in the online store
When you walk past a store front in a store, you sometimes see something that you get stuck for. This even though the decorator has not done it for me. It could just as well be products that are not at all interesting to me that are displayed. In an online store, on the other hand, there are all possibilities to display a personal store front. The technology to achieve this in e-commerce is easily accessible and ready to be implemented today.
Make information available via APIs
It is very common today that we have information spread over several systems. For a product, we can, for example, have product information in a PIM (Product Information Management), information about sales of the product and price in an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning / Business system) and documents and images connected to the product in a DAM (Digital Asset Management).
Requirements for e-commerce in procurement
Every year, the state, the regions, and the municipalities buy goods and services for hundreds of billions through public procurement. Unlike private purchasing, there are regulations that govern how the public sector may make purchases. One of the requirements that has been added in recent years is that e-commerce in some form must exist.
Our Experience in Integrations with NServiceBus
The reason that we started to work with NServiceBus a few years ago, it that we always have pretty demanding integrations in e-commerce systems where real time in combination with disconnection between different systems is important for the customer experience as well as the demand for up time and stability. The advantages we have seen with NServiceBus is the simplicity in getting the basic structure to work, and instead the focus can be on design of the messages, and mapping of these to respective system.
Experience the Experience - Part 2
Last month, I wrote about when we attended Sitecore Symposium 2014 in Barcelona in September. Here are a few more reflections that we brought home from the event. We should stop making assumptions about content, and test more. How gamification can be positive for customer loyalty and engagement. And for those who have a need to manage and analyse external web sites as it was an ordinary Sitecore site at the same place, FXM will be fully integrated in Sitecore 8.
Experience the Experience
We brought a lot of useful information with us home from several different speakers at Sitecore Symposium 2014, and were inspired by Dietmar Dahmen. One of his recommendations to succeed was to not ask yourself the question ”Why?”, but instead ask the question ”Why not?”.
