Mobile

It’s safe to say that the customer is the lifeblood of any business. Without customers buying your products or using your services, your business would cease to exist. That’s why it’s so important to engage with your customers and provide them with personal journeys tailored to their personas. And the best way to start? Use […]

At a conference such as Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE) many, many statistics are presented. I get frustrated when the equivalent of empty calorie are trotted out, and we’re told they are a trend. Examples include mobile use, smart phone ownership, home broadband deployments and so forth. I was in a session yesterday and […]

UPDATE: In May 2016 Google rolled out a second mobile-friendly ranking update. See “What was the impact of Google’s second mobile update?” for our updated results. In this study, we look at the impact of the so-called “Mobilegeddon” update. This update was viewed as being a potentially very large update. At SMX Munich, Google’s Zineb Ait […]

I am always intrigued by technology implementations that accelerate my ability to create robust solutions, especially when they are well architected, proven to scale, and economical.  There are a couple of recent announcements from Liferay that I feel fit this description and are worth looking into:  Liferay Screens 1.0 This exciting new offering further strengthens […]

IBM delivers Mobile First in a series of Virtual Application Pattern(VAP). Mobile First VAPs are a great way to implement mission critical Infrastructure. A VAP encapsulates the details of the infrastructure topology. The details of the build out are hidden from users and administrators. Basically not much can be tampered with so failure is keep […]

While traditional B2B selling channels have remained the most influential, a combination of ubiquitous digital technologies and increasing buyer expectations have led a rapid shift towards digital B2B commerce. Pure-play retailers like Amazon are using their sizable momentum in the B2C world to double down in the B2B market. These shifts are causing B2B sellers […]

When Google announced in late February that the mobile-friendliness of web pages was going to be pushed as a ranking factor for mobile search results, the response was staggering. Media outlets that normally don’t report on SEO trends were picking up the story and plastering headlines that read something like “Mobilegeddon is coming” across the […]

I recently read an article about cell phone usage that summarized where American adults are using their smartphones most often, and how it’s affecting their day-to-day personal interactions. This information was astonishing and saddening all at the same time, reflecting these eye opening statistics: I will be the first to admit that I myself have a […]

You’ve probably heard a lot about mobile in the past two years.  In PriceWaterhouseCoopers 18th annual Global CEO Study (2015), 81% of CEOs said that mobile technologies are strategically important to their business.  PWC says, “The sheer ubiquity of mobile devices today has revolutionised customers’ ability to obtain information – which has, in turn, transformed how they perceive […]

You’ve probably heard a lot about mobile in the past two years.  In PriceWaterhouseCoopers 18th annual Global CEO Study (2015), 81% of CEOs said that mobile technologies are strategically important to their business.  PWC says, “The sheer ubiquity of mobile devices today has revolutionised customers’ ability to obtain information – which has, in turn, transformed how they perceive […]

If you are at all following the search industry news you have heard about the big Google mobile update coming on April 21 of this year, one that Google has said will have a larger impact on the search results than Panda or Penguin. One of the key recommendations that comes out of this is […]

Ng-Conf is the premier annual conference for the open source AngularJS project. It was a great conference to attend, and struck a really good balance between having fun and learning about how to effectively work with Angular.