We’re over half way through 2018 and we at Monsoon Consulting have noticed a considerable uptick in interest and activity within the B2B Digital Commerce market. There are several trends that were predicted for 2018 which we’re witnessing coming to fruition. These trends reflect a ‘catching up’ by the B2B sector with the more developed …
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Unified B2C and B2B eCommerce offers a great opportunity to many businesses to increase their efficiency and control costs. Whether the businesses focus is on B2C or B2B, a unified eCommerce solution offers them the opportunity to develop new markets in a way which is stream lined with their current sales channels. Traditionally companies may …
In a blog written by our Head of Magento, Gabriel, last week he stated that “While in B2C, high page load speeds result in reduced conversions and therefore sales; in B2B it will frustrate customers who need to regularly re-order, increase churn with customers reverting to traditional offline methods of ordering, increasing cost and potentially result …
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While the strategies to succeed in B2B ecommerce can be different to traditional B2C platforms, there is one area that is critical across both; performance. Recent industry research directly correlates improved page speed load to reductions in conversions, with almost the majority of customers expecting web pages to load in two seconds or less. While …
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Forrester released their report on ‘What It Takes To Be A Leader In B2B eCommerce’ after their webinar with Magento Commerce last Wednesday. In their report it’s explained how B2B eCommerce is growing due to a need for businesses to provide solutions for multiple customer needs and business models. It is also explained that B2B companies must …
Business to Business (B2B) eCommerce is on the rise, and B2B companies are now moving from just having a quick fix B2B online solution, to having the right platform and an experienced provider who understands business rules, processes and issues. As a business owner your main aim is to increase your income, and you can achieve that through a multitude of goals, such as …
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We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with Austrian based, Pimcore, the leaders in Product Information Management (PIM). “Pimcore places data management at the core of digital experience management. Manage and integrate any type and any amount of digital data.” From a technical point of view, PIM helps to extract, harmonise, and propagate …
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Since the 25th of May, 2018, all businesses that collect and store personal data of EU citizens have to comply with General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). These are a set of regulations put in place to protect identity rights of its citizens. One of the common misconceptions of GDPR is that if a company caters …
Five years back, a chance conversation with our Chief Growth Officer over a post-match drink in our local cricket club resulted in me being hired to manage the finance function in Monsoon Consulting on a part-time, one-day-a-week basis. A South African Chartered Accountant, my background is in financial management and in particular the development and …
Adobe’s Acquisition of Magento In light of the hard deadline of 25th May for GDPR, I was trying my best to keep my head down and stay focused on the compliance programme across our business and for our clients on or before 25th of May. However having confronted the same questions on a couple of …
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