Shop Systems in Comparison: The Path to the Best E-Commerce Software Solution
Why is it worth comparing shop systems?
How can you find the best e-commerce system for your company? Countless providers offer many different software tools, which has led to a large market with too many unclear options. A shop system comparison can bring order to the chaos. You can gain an overview of features, possible applications as well as price ranges and evaluate them based on the specific requirements of your company. This not only saves you time and money, but also helps increase the efficiency and profitability of your e-commerce system.
Avoid unnecessary costs and ensure a high-quality customer experience for your target audience. We will proactively support you in selecting the best shop system for your company.
What must be considered when comparing shop systems?
Selecting the right shop system is essential for the direction, development and scalability of your company's e-commerce activities. You need to analyse various factors such as objectives, costs and benefits and align them with your individual requirements.
The most important factors are often your budget and your specific business model. Ultimately, your new shop system and its features must fit your e-business and allow for sufficient flexibility in e-commerce. You can benefit from comprehensive consulting and gain an overview of the market with our expertise.
Why is dotSource your ideal e-commerce partner?
You can benefit from a consulting session that is tailored to your e-commerce strategy. We support you in the selection and comparison of shop systems. As an agnostic partner with many years of project experience, we are not focused on particular providers, but on your specific needs. Together, we will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of individual systems as well as the central decision criteria, weighted on the basis of your individual solution.
Align your new e-commerce software solution with your business goals – together with dotSource!
The Best Enterprise Shop Systems in Comparison
Adobe Commerce Cloud: Digital Experience Platform in E-Commerce
Adobe has recently added a central component to its high-quality digital experience platform (DXP) with Adobe Commerce Cloud.
The e-commerce solution is based on the cutting-edge Magento technology and offers a wide range of useful features. Adobe Commerce Cloud is available as part of Adobe Experience Cloud.
Benefits of Adobe Commerce Shop Systems
- Powerful application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices
- Enterprise system integration and headless deployments
- AI-supported commerce dashboards
- Integrated business forecasts (predictive analytics)
Salesforce Commerce Cloud: Cloud Shop System for B2B and B2C
Salesforce Commerce Cloud supports renowned brands with ambitious business development goals.
The enterprise system boasts strong benefits for both B2B and B2C online shops. The software giant is also investing heavily in AI development, for example for conversion rate optimisation and personalisation.
Benefits of Online Shops Based on Salesforce
- SaaS solution: the software provider takes care of test and live system hosting (one-platform strategy)
- Updates are carried out regularly and migration to the latest version takes place automatically
- Salesforce supports you with omnichannel commerce and ensures an excellent shopping experience
- All products are seamlessly integrated to eliminate interface problems
SAP Commerce Cloud: Solution for Successful E-Commerce
The tech giant is setting new standards with its cloud-based e-commerce platform (formerly known as SAP Hybris Commerce) and offers integrated B2B and B2C features.
The digital commerce platform impresses with powerful omnichannel commerce. SAP Commerce Cloud can also be used to develop marketplaces for partners.
Benefits of SAP Commerce Cloud
- Organise B2B, B2C, D2C and more on one platform
- Use the decoupled front end with the »composable storefront«
- Expand your platform with microservices
- Easily integrate other tools thanks to SAP Integration Suite (IS)
commercetools: Flexible E-Commerce with Microservices
Innovation potential and customised shop solutions combined in line with the best-of-breed approach – in contrast to monolithic systems, commercetools opts for the flexible integration of the best commerce solutions.
This is made possible by the MACH principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless).
Benefits of Shop Systems Based on commercetools
- Powerful and stable infrastructure
- Best-of-breed approach for easy integration of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and product information management (PIM) systems
- Microservices approach for connecting individual components to create sophisticated services
- Quick concept creation thanks to individual solutions
- Automatic scaling to reliably manage high traffic
Always find the right shop system with us. Thanks to our agnostic approach, our team can also advise you on other shop solutions such as Intershop, Shopware and Spryker.
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Would you like more detailed information? Our »Selecting E-Commerce Software« white paper provides an overview of the most important selection criteria and providers and includes our dotSource vendor matrix. Benefit from in-depth expertise and find the best shop system for your company.
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Modern E-Commerce Requires Modern System Architectures
The question of the right shop system is inevitably tied to the question of the right operating mode. Most e-commerce solutions can be used on-premises or in the cloud. Using the cloud makes expensive hardware infrastructures and costly maintenance work obsolete and gives you access to sophisticated and powerful system landscapes. You also have the option of setting up your new online shop quickly with a wide range of out-of-the-box scenarios. Thanks to excellent scalability, you can always adapt your resources to your individual requirements and workloads. The cloud therefore serves as the perfect basis for modern e-commerce concepts such as MACH or composable commerce.
Easy to use. A large variety of possible designs and layouts. Our cloud solutions team is happy to advise you on various topics such as cloud migration.
An Overview of the MACH Principles
Future-proof e-commerce systems need MACH! With the MACH principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless), you can develop applications in an agile and flexible way. This allows you to respond to changing conditions quickly and reliably.
- Microservices are small, modular and independently functioning components that can be combined to create sophisticated applications. They are easy to develop, deploy and maintain.
- Open APIs facilitate the integration of other solutions and applications. They accelerate data exchange and interlink various features.
- With a cloud-native environment, you can free yourself from server hardware and other dependencies. It ensures that your capacities can grow flexibly and that you can continue to respond to changes at short notice.
- The headless principle describes an infrastructure with just a back end – decoupled from the front end. Its content is played out across multiple front ends using clever API management. This principle enables cross-channel user experience optimisation without making any changes to the back end. This minimises both risk and development time required.
Composable Commerce
Composable commerce is based on the best-of-breed approach, which combines the best solutions for each field of application to create a modular, flexible e-commerce platform.
The open API software solution and the headless infrastructure of your e-commerce system provide the basis for this. Compared to rigid monoliths or suite solutions, composable commerce offers several advantages:
- Selection of the best software solution for each field of application
- No vendor lock-in
- Ability to combine your preferred individual solutions to create a customised system landscape
- Continuous improvement of your DXP without upgrading the back end
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Our System Selection References
These are some of our clients that are already experiencing success thanks to our system selection services:
Shop Systems in Comparison: Comprehensive Services for Your E-Commerce
We offer a comprehensive service portfolio to make your e-commerce project a reality. From the detailed drafting of a strategy, the comparison of shop systems and the implementation of a shop solution to the further development of your system landscape – dotSource is with you every step of the way. See for yourself!
Consulting and System Selection
- Development of an individual e-commerce strategy, including analysis and shop concept
- Consulting and support in system selection
Support and Further Development
- Hosting, security and further cloud solutions
- A/B testing and UX design
- Process automation with the expertise of a marketing automation agency
Digital Customer Value Creation for Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
After comparing shop systems, nothing stands in the way of your successful e-commerce project. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, for example, implemented a B2B platform for 36 countries together with dotSource.
After the Shop Migration: Implement your DXP
With a DXP, you can create seamless, consistent and personalised experiences for your users. The foundation for this is a system landscape that covers and brings together different areas of e-business. Our team of experts would be happy to advise you.
Other E-Commerce Services at a Glance
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions About Shop Systems in Comparison
What is a shop system?
A shop system is a digital solution to realise your e-commerce ambitions. With the right shop solution, you not only create a user-friendly online shop for your company, but also have access to various features such as order management, payment processing, product catalogues and marketing tools.
Which criteria should you consider when comparing shop systems?
When comparing shop systems, there are several criteria you should consider. First and foremost, you should focus on the range of features, usability and support options. Criteria such as customisability, extensibility and integrability with other systems are also highly relevant. Which criteria you should prioritise depends on your individual requirements.
What are the benefits of cloud architectures?
Cloud architectures are extremely scalable and ensure reliability and data security. They also eliminate the need to purchase and maintain your own hosting hardware. In addition, modern cloud architectures give you remote access to relevant data from anywhere. All this helps you manage your IT infrastructure even more effectively and further improve your business processes.
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Nadine Kannengießer
Account Executive
Digital Business
