I have been “preaching” for some time that medium-sized and small full-service web agencies should think about the future because this sector will come under greater pressure. This has indeed happened in the last 3 years, but the effects are not yet as serious as the overall market is still growing.
In the last few days there has been a discussion on Forge and Facebook about the topic of a marketplace for TYPO3. A marketplace was briefly outlined in the Scenario Paper for the future of the TYPO3 Association. I can now see that many people have little concrete idea of a marketplace and rightly fear…
Last October, I had the pleasure of giving a talk on Magento and B2B at Meet Magento Switzerland 2014. The recording of the talk has now been published this week. Reason enough to take up the topic, expand on a few points from the talk and make the presentation and video available. Here we go.
After the last few articles in this blog were of a more strategic/entrepreneurial nature, I would like to discuss something more concrete here, which I think has not yet fully penetrated the minds of many CIOs and eCommerce managers. Yesterday, I was once again visiting an up-and-coming eCommerce pure player to discuss a potential project….
I can still remember the first time I consciously came into contact with open source. We ran a few Linux servers in my company at the time and whenever there were any tricky configurations or critical issues that needed to be resolved, this expert from an open source infrastructure service provider came along: tousled hairstyle,…
My shopping behavior has changed fundamentally in recent years. This is most noticeable when it comes to grocery shopping. The starting point for this change was a Saturday morning in the fall of 2012, when my wife and I struggled through Migros with our young children (then 3 and 1.5) on a rainy day to…
Companies’ efforts to make progress in eCommerce are restrained in this country. Investments are being made and multichannel, omnichannel and touchpoint concepts are generally being pursued. The aim is to provide customers with an end-to-end user experience. These are all noble efforts and they improve eCommerce in general, of course. But, if I may say…
Drupal has traditionally been strong in the US, while other solutions, above all TYPO3, are strongly represented in Europe. With Drupal 8, a fundamentally revised version of Acquia’s software will be launched on the global market in the foreseeable future. Read here what impact this could have on the European market.
You know how it is: new companies keep popping up, seemingly out of nowhere, with a new technology or a modified application of a technology, shaking up existing markets and displacing established players. Many will reply: “Well, it’s the digital revolution, that’s just the way it is.” Others will say that the management of existing…
At T3Con 2014, which took place last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk entitled: “Why CMS needs a fundamental shift!”. Below is a short abstract of the thesis I put forward.