Spring has sprung and summer is hot on its tail.  Now is the time for sundresses and baseball. After a long winter, however, your top selling products are all overcoats and Christmas ornaments.  Features like Machine Learning will push your most popular products to the top of the search results, but what if you want to push products that likely haven’t been purchased in months? You could manually set the product order for your top search terms, but that’s a lot of work and it would only affect specific search terms.  There is a way to accomplish such a task on a global level with almost no maintenance required.  In this article we will show you how to use Global Ranking to automatically promote products and save time and effort.  

For e-commerce stores that rely on traffic and conversions, search functionality on your website is a critical component of the user experience. But if your online store has a large inventory or requires ultra-fast processing speeds for search queries, some traditional database models may pose problems for your platform.

Thankfully, IMDB has made it possible to enjoy the best of both worlds through in-memory databases and hybrid integration.

Technological progress can’t be stopped. Just like horse-drawn carriages are no longer the mode of transportation, the cars we drive today will someday give way to self-driving vehicles. This is the trajectory of every industry, including commerce. It’s easy to see innovation on the horizon.

New technology is something everyone can appreciate, but, as a rule of thumb, acceptance of innovation is a slow-moving process. How do you know when it’s worthwhile to be an early adopter versus waiting for technology to establish itself?

This is the debate many e-commerce operators are having right now when it comes to voice shopping.