For retailers generating $6 million or more online each year, there are four major types of ecommerce platform vendors. The choices are (1) catalyst, (2) console, (3) crew or (4) custom. While there is an increased level of flexibility with each subsequent option, greater flexibility comes at a higher cost of ownership. That aside, the range of vendors by type include…
Catalyst
These are budget-friendly SMB portal solutions with limited configurability, such as Yahoo! Merchant, eBay ProStores and WebStore by Amazon.
Console
These are mid-range, “on-demand” software-as-a-service providers with a shared instance, like Demandware, MarketLive, Truition and Venda.
Crew
These are business process outsourcers with talent-for-hire from vendors such as GSI Commerce, eFashion Solutions, Fry, Inc. and Novator.
Custom
These are dedicated enterprise platforms with integrated development tools; for example, ATG, Escalate Retail, IBM and Sterling Commerce.
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Hi Bill,
Congratulations on the new gig! We’ll be sure to add you to our press and analyst distribution list and keep you up to date on what’s new at Fry. What’s the process for conducting briefings with you? In the meantime, could you correct our name in your vendor roundup above? We’ve been Fry, Inc. for several years now, rather than Fry Multimedia. Thanks much and talk to you soon -
Saw your posting on Yahoo forum for MarketLive and came to your site. Please note that our recent November launch was on the 5.3 MarketLive version and not the new 5.4 version. Curious what you were able to find out post MarketLive summit on future developments there.