Gene Alvarez

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E-Commerce Rational Exuberance

by Gene Alvarez  |  January 17, 2011  |  Comments Off

2010 was one of the busiest years for e-commerce since the dotcom boom with many organizations upgrading or launching new e-commerce sites. These organizations were driven by the economy and by moves made by leaders such as Amazon, eBay and others and by a desire to enable business owners to control many aspects of thier website’s content, product catalog, pricing, promotions [...]

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The Changing E-Commerce Landscape – IBM and Sterling Commerce

by Gene Alvarez  |  May 24, 2010  |  2 Comments

Over the past month there have been several announcements in the E-Commerce market. These announcements range from vendor partnerships such as demandware’s Link partner community to the purchase of minority a interest in a competitor such as  GSI Commerce’s deal with Intershop Communications AG, and more. However, the biggest to date is IBM’s announcement to [...]

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Should you help customers with using your website?

by Gene Alvarez  |  January 29, 2010  |  Comments Off

One of the things I have noticed over the years is that websites continually change their UI without much notice. This common place practice follows what many software firms have done to their enterprise customers. However, today I visited a site that did something different. Http://www.corporateperks.com/ offered a Guide-bot (after logging in) that asks if [...]

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