Posts Tagged ‘commerce’

Many of Monday’s sessions at Money20/20 focused on the retail and commerce space. From demos of new payment platforms and systems, the use of BLE and beacon technology, the future of gift cards and prepaid to research on consumer shopping behaviors, its evident that the emerging trends and innovations in these areas are spilling over into the financial services and […]

In our most recent webinar, Driving Store Traffic in a Digital Age, we executed a Q&A session with some very interesting questions posed to our speakers.  Here are a sample of them below: Consumers increasingly may lack the tolerance for all messages and offers that they receive – at least the ones they have been seeing […]

In our most recent webinar, we discussed the sustainability of the brick-and-mortar store.  What we found out is that stores are not going anywhere fast and the digital channel, if anything, can only help increase in-store foot traffic.  There is definitely an increasing demand for the digital experience as technology expands and capabilities grow but despite […]

The Data Load utility is the new enhanced business object based loading utility that provides an efficient solution for loading into your WebSphere Commerce database.  Today I wanted to share a brief tutorial on the two ways you can load data using  Business Object Mediator and Table Object Mediator and how Catalog, Inventory, Price, Catalog […]

The Consumer Markets Practice executed a webinar this week that focused on how to drive store traffic in an age where digital has become such a prominent channel.  We’ve been saturated with nearly 20 years of excitement the internet of things – e-business, web, mobile, social. There have been fantastic breakthroughs and stunning failures driving […]

Michael Porter, Sales Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about a keynote speech focusing on Customer Experience at Oracle OpenWorld.  Companies must understand their consumers – they why’s, where’s, when’s and how’s of the shoppers journey.  Customer experience not only pertains to the actual experience itself, but everything that makes up your product or brand […]

Brick-and-mortar vs. the Amazon’s of the digital space…How are brick-and-mortar stores going to survive in what has become a digital era?  Stores still provide a very strong foundation of retailing with majority of sales occurring within the actual store.  But in order to stay competitive, stores need to provide a relevant and unique experience for […]

The digital age has forever changed the way consumers purchase products and services.  Even though it would seem that we, as consumers, are living in an age where the digital space seems to dominate the shopping process, the internet is not the sole source of consumer and retail goods. So it would seem that the […]

If you love Apple as much as I do, then you are definitely tired today.  Why?  Because you were one of the people who got up early this morning (2am CST) and wait for Apple and cell providers to accommodate the heavy flow of consumers wanting to pre-order their new iPhone!  So now that the […]

If you are like me, then you were waiting with bated breath for today’s announcement from Apple regarding their latest technology.  Apple revealed the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Pay and the wearable technology that everyone was waiting for, the Apple Watch.  Apple has revolutionized technology over the decades and with today’s reveal of […]

As the connected consumer evolves, demands and expectations continue to rise, and trends rapidly change.  Connected Consumers use the power of information to drive prices down, yet still demand a high level of service.  Retailers must utilize and analyze complex data to understand insights, customer service expectations and responses that will supersede the expectations of […]

IBM Commerce Management Center gives complete control of your catalog. You could add/delete/modify any product description and control pricing of the product. Here i would like to show how to add a product in Aurora Store. Let us add a product under “Boys Pants” Category and see how easy to publish a product. 1. Open […]