Forrester published an interesting research piece regarding customer experience last year. That research includes some valuable statistics about the level of customer loyalty to retail businesses as well as its impact on retailers’ revenue. Here are two interesting facts you [...]
According to Internet Retailer, the average cart abandonment rate is 50-70%. Conversion On Demand claims that this number is even higher - 68%, 71% and 72% in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively. Of course there are multiple factors [...]
This is from an older post on the Spark::red developer community, but it may still be helpful to some... If you have your own content repository items defined, and you'd like the ACC to provide the Upload Image functionality for [...]
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Spark::red founder, Devon Hillard once again will be presenting at the Boston Performance Meetup! This time our infrastructure specialist, Steve Hall will join Devon to talk about load testing [...]
A switching datasource is a concept fairly unique to ATG. When a business rolls over a few thousand changes from their content management system onto the live site, it can be a rocky transition. Any number of things can go [...]
Are you new to Oracle/ATG Web Commerce? Don’t know where to start learning about it? Feel that most of the official documentation is too complicated for non-IT professionals? I’ve been in your place and feel your pain. That’s why I [...]
Updated 10/21/2013 There are a few sources about ATG Commerce that are available online. However, many of them are outdated. In this blog post I have included a list of as – yet active (or just still helpful) tutorials, blogs [...]
The assembly process for ATG applications can be complicated to setup and very slow. Every ATG installation comes with an executable, runAssembler, to aid in assembling applications. The runAssembler executable has a plethora of options and it is critical to [...]
From the very beginning I would like to make it clear that there is no such a thing as the best hosting provider. Based on your business’s size, specialization, employees’ skills, budget and many more other criteria some hosting solutions [...]
eCommerce businesses choosing Oracle ATG hosting with Spark::red before October 1st, 2012 will save up to $72,000 a year BOSTON, MA - June 28, 2012 - Spark::red Oracle ATG Commerce Hosting announced that starting on October 1st 2012, it will [...]