Enterprise

Little attention has been given to B2B Ecommerce until now. In the last decade, B2B commerce industry has witnessed huge traction in user base and sales, and still continues to do so today. Decision makers are doing digital searches and purchases rather than browsing through catalogs and placing orders through sales representatives. We consume more information in a day than what our ancestors did in a lifetime. As the Ecommerce industry continues to evolve, we are watching for the latest trends and list four ways you can improve the B2B Ecommerce buying experience.

Combining web content management and digital asset management platforms allows you to create the best customer experience for visitors across all channels. WCM platforms such as Hippo offer unprecedented mechanisms to connect with website visitors and DAM platforms like Nuxeo manage digital assets in a central repository.

What You Need to Know About WCM and ECM Interoperability

Enterprise software may feel like alphabet soup (CMS, WCM, ECM, DAM, oh my!). Despite all the acronyms, there’s actually great interoperability between these systems-- which is great news for the businesses relying on these solutions to power their daily work.

First, some quick disambiguations:

As we countdown the days to the launch of the new version of Hippo CMS, I find myself having conversations about the spirit and vision behind the product just as often as I discuss new, soon to be announced features.

Whether I’m speaking with marketers, technologists, product management or sales, one topic is constantly top of mind: the importance of understanding and communicating content ROI. And, equally importantly: responding to content ROI quickly, and efficiently.

Bedrock Data Will Sync and Automatically Update Data From Services Like HubSpot, Marketo, Mailchimp, Cvent, Salesforce, SugarCRM and More

Boston, MA (April 14, 2015) - Boston-based Bedrock Data™ today announced the launch of its data integration platform for businesses, along with $3.11 million in Series A funding led by .406 Ventures. This announcement marks the official launch of the company after over a year of development, testing and customer on-boarding.

It sound simple, give your employees the opportunity to bring their own devices to work. The company can perhaps be less aggressive in their cyclical replacements of hardware and your employee is happy because they don't have to lug around two devices, theirs and yours. I absolutely like the concept of Bring Your Own Device. But implementing BYOD and benefiting from BYOD isn't so easy. As an IT manager, it scares me that the employee's device may have control over the company's software and device. As an employee, it scares me even more that company's software could control my device and have access to my personal data. At the end of the day, this only goes well if you have established a good BYOD policy for your business.

Java. You can’t beat the classic when it comes to development languages for an enterprise-level content management system (ECM). Compared to .NET, PHP, or C# Java is still the top development language for its reliability, stability and suitability for “building back-ends for modern enterprise-web applications. With Java and frameworks based on it, web developers can build scalable web apps for a variety of users.”

With news of security breaches happening at major corporations all over the world, it’s easy for business leaders to start focusing all of their attention on outside threats. Hackers seem to be everywhere these days, so a strategy that heightens network security against cyber attacks is usually a good idea. If your business has adopted bring your own device (BYOD) policies, however, all that preparation for avoiding outside risks may be misdirected.

Over the years, I've made it an unwritten policy not to sensationalize bug fixes and security vulnerabilities in content management systems. While there may be great interest in such stories, I believe such stories have a tendency to cause more harm than good. When sensationalized, such articles tend to cause customers to address security concerns with emotion instead of logic which is never a good thing. So, when the security vulnerability known as "Drupageddon" broke and Drupal developer Bevan Rudge posted "Your Drupal website has a backdoor", I knew this story was going to eventually reach mainstream media.

One of the biggest trends from just the past few years can easily be summed up through the letters BYOD. Bring Your Own Device policies have been all the rage among companies looking to increase employee productivity while also saving on costs, and it’s a trend that doesn’t appear to be slowing down. According to Gartner, about half of companies will have some sort of BYOD program in place by the year 2017. But all is not sunshine and rainbows for the relatively popular BYOD movement.

Wordpress has dominated the list of top content management systems for years; however, this could soon change. With the popularity of SquareSpace and other content management systems rising, Wordpress could soon see users leaving for a better suited website builder.

SquareSpace now has over 1.8 million websites and this number grows daily. The number is nowhere near Wordpress’s 60million websites; however, it is growing significantly annually and could kick Wordpress off the top spot in a few years.