(Length: 17 pages)

March 17, 2006

Making Sense Of Hosted Commerce Platforms

by Tamara Mendelsohn

with Carrie Johnson, Sean Meyer

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Interest in hosted commerce platforms continues to grow as brand manufacturers without eCommerce expertise go direct, retailers look to explore international markets with less risk, and small and medium-size online sellers push vendors to offer more competitive and sophisticated solutions. The result? A cacophony of hosted commerce platform vendors touting the latest and greatest features, industry expertise, and lower price points — all inevitably on demand. It's hip to be on demand in a day when time to market equals time to revenue, but as vendors cash in on the new catch phrase, they create an increasingly complex landscape of solutions for retailers to navigate. To help narrow down options, sellers should first determine how they want to buy, deploy, and manage commerce platforms.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemCommerce Platform Upgrades Continue Through 2006

itemHosted Commerce Platforms Take On Many Shapes And Sizes

item1. How Do I Want To Buy?

item2. How Do I Want To Deploy?

item3. How Do I Want To Manage?

itemThe Hosted Commerce Platform Market: Choices Abound

recommendations

itemProceed With Caution

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester interviewed user companies and 16 vendor companies, including: Amazon Services, ATG, Blue Martini Software, Comergent Technologies, Demandware, eFashion Solutions, Fry, GSI Commerce, Imano, LaGarde, MarketLive, NetSuite, Prosodie Interactive, Truition, Vcommerce, and Venda.

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Technology: IT Services, Outsourcing, Packaged Applications
Industry: eBusiness/eCommerce, eBusiness/eCommerce Vendor Selection, eCommerce Platforms & Technologies, Retail, Retail Technologies
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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