These are the requirements for future shop software – Internet World

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mobile shopping will soon be commonplace and commercial software is the stationary and online business interlink to achieve a more accurate and more personal customer contact by means of a precise data analysis. Of these trends most will ever read or hear, but how will the shopping cart software solutions look like in five years? What are the major lines beyond the semi-annual disclosure of new modules, minor or major releases – ie where the journey will go?

What characterizes shop systems in the future

We have interviewed some 20 renowned Shop software providers with which developments they expect. Although this is a risk that companies promote that in which they themselves work, but since 18 Shop software manufacturers have responded, can be drawn from the result general trends distilled.

Software as a Service (SaaS ) has been around for over ten years. During the hiring of software has long been viewed with only dissociates in the cloud, it has become a matter of course. Many vendors are convinced that the transfer of applications will increase in the cloud. “Software as a Service or Cloud Store software solutions are more important than local installations be” is Stefan Greaves, chief operating officer of the Novomind AG, is convinced. Hardly anyone will invest in five years still on the licenses and complex operational scenarios. Similar view, Wilfried Beeck, CEO of ePages: “.. Almost all shop systems are run as a cloud-based SaaS solution Static on-premise solutions will have disappeared from the market”

Less “monolithic”, more modular

the keyword “static” passes on to the next trend: the requirements for the shop software become more complex. Markets erändern quickly, the shop software needs these changes can represent a flexible and timely. As counterpoint to shop solutions, which have grown over the years and are “immobile” perceived as relatively straight arise Shop platforms, which describes itself as “Framework” or the adjective describing “modular”.

this approach is taken for example Spryker system or the “Commerce cockpit”, a new solution of e-commerce agency Store makers. Thomas Gottheil, Director of Store makers, describes future sales solutions so: “There will be a greater separation from the process level and production level, service-oriented architectures will have prevailed on both sides, monoliths have disappeared from the market..” Service-oriented architectures are many small applications that are connected to him. Each solves a specific challenge. Such a modular system replaces an “all in one” package that will not eventually be maintainable for professional users such Gottheil, because the requirements are becoming more complex: “In the future it will be so that you can be the needed programs very . freely together represents – held a wide use of software “

driving force is the customer focus

Alexander Graf, CEO of Spryker system, this trend already observed:” for larger company, we’re already seeing that this resolve their monolithic shop structures and plan their IT infrastructure from scratch. ” the Store So far was only a kind of window to the ERP system. Now he will, driven by a high customer focus, the center of the IT landscape, while the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) will cast in the role of supplier. “This affects just very strongly on the development of new shop-systems,” says Graf

Stefan Hamann, CEO of Shopware AG, also emphasizes that store software must be adaptable. “The key is the be flexible adaptability and time-to-market of software to tap into unexplored or newly open sales channels as quickly as possible. “