Why E-Commerce Consulting with dotSource Leads to Success
Whether B2B or B2C, whether retail, manufacturing or services – benefit from advice provided by experts who are familiar with the challenges affecting your industry and take them seriously. Together we develop suitable solutions.
Receive comprehensive support covering all e-commerce scenarios – from digital commerce consulting and system migration to the integration of online shops, multi-client platforms and marketplaces.
Each strategy is tailored precisely to your needs. This allows you to make the most of your digital potential and gain a competitive edge.
E-Commerce Consulting: Follow Our Process to Make Digital Success a Reality
By having the experts at dotSource carry out a thorough assessment of your current situation, you can make your e-commerce activities even more efficient. Our consulting process consists of three steps:
1. Getting Ready: Uncovering Pain Points and Identifying Untapped Potential
- Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of your existing solution
- Analysing your customers' expectations and needs
- Defining your business goals
- Assessing market potential and trends in your industry
- Developing a holistic approach, taking into account other systems (e.g. master data management and digital asset management software)
Receive practical recommendations for action based on methods such as personas, interviews and market analyses.
2. Getting Started: Developing and Testing Solutions and Strategies
- Developing strategies and buyer personas for outstanding digital customer experiences and higher conversion rates
- Drawing up scaling concepts to support your future growth
- Advising on the selection of new systems
- For new systems: Creation of a prototype using the minimum viable product approach, ensuring quick feedback
To make your project a success, our team combines various disciplines – from e-commerce, web design and digital marketing to business intelligence.
3. Getting Big: Implementing Measures and Ensuring Continuous Optimisation
- Adjusting and optimising your solution and strategy
- For new systems: Integration with existing tools (e.g. product information management, content management and customer relationship management software)
- For new systems: Training of your team so that you can work independently and efficiently
- Providing support in performance monitoring and reporting
Extract added value from your existing system landscape with dotSource. We are happy to advise you on this.
Shop migration with dotSource: structured assessment of the legacy system and preparing for the switch
If your existing shop system is no longer a technical or economic fit for your business, it is time for a shop migration.
Specific triggers are often
- a legacy system that is no longer technologically suitable,
- insufficient performance,
- increased security requirements,
- or high operating or further development costs.
As part of our e-commerce consulting, dotSource analyses your existing shop, including its system landscape, as well as your requirements for your future target vision.
Work together with our e-commerce team to develop
- a suitable migration strategy,
- a structured project roadmap with clearly defined work packages
- as well as use cases, epics and further implementation components
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Customer needs are constantly changing, forcing companies to adapt – both technically and strategically. Provide your target audience with advanced search options, personalised content and high-quality product recommendations. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support you in this regard.
Do you still have questions or need more information? Contact us and benefit from our professional AI consulting.
E-Commerce Consulting: Why It Is Worth Developing an E-Commerce Strategy
By regularly evaluating trends, you can keep track of e-commerce innovations, stay competitive and ensure the satisfaction of your target audience.
Develop a strategy that takes into account the behaviour of your target audience and strengthens customer loyalty.
Use a data-driven strategy to optimise your online presence in line with the needs of your target audience, thereby increasing sales.
With a modern e-commerce strategy, you can always keep an eye on the competitive environment and the purchasing decisions of your target audience, allowing you to grow your market share.
Microservices as a System Architecture
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Frequently Asked Questions about e-commerce consulting with dotSource
What can you expect from the free initial consultation?
During the initial consultation, you will receive a preliminary assessment of your current e-commerce situation. In addition, our team will evaluate initial optimisation potential and provide suggestions, with no obligation and free of charge.
Which companies is the consultancy suitable for?
The consultancy is suitable for B2B and B2C companies ranging from SMEs to large corporations. Make the most of our expertise to use and expand your digital sales channels efficiently.
How can you arrange an initial consultation appointment?
It’s simple: book your preferred appointment via our online form – we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
When does it make sense to migrate a shop?
A shop migration is advisable when an existing shop system no longer adequately meets the company’s business, technical or commercial requirements. Typical reasons include a legacy system that is no longer technologically suitable, insufficient performance, increased security requirements, high operating or further development costs, or the move to an enterprise-ready commerce solution. A migration may also become necessary if the existing architecture no longer adequately supports planned growth or new requirements in B2B or B2C commerce.
What costs should be expected for a shop migration?
Shop migration is generally delivered as a project-based service. For B2B migrations, a starting budget of €100,000 is realistic. Large-scale migration projects in which multiple systems are replaced or rebuilt in parallel can be significantly more expensive. The actual costs depend primarily on the scope of the project, the number of systems affected, and the target technical architecture.
How long does a shop migration usually take?
The duration of a shop migration depends on the scope of the project, the existing system landscape and the chosen target architecture. As a rule, the approach is structured in several phases. For architecture consulting and system selection, a timeframe of around 1 to 3 months is realistic. For migration preparation and implementation, around 3 to 9 months should be allowed for, depending on the complexity. This is followed by go-live, hypercare, as well as the transition into support and further development. Overall, a migration project can take up to 1 year or longer.
How can you find out whether your existing shop system is still the right fit for your business?
This can be assessed through a structured analysis of the existing shop, the system landscape and the requirements for the target vision. This involves checking whether the current system still meets the required functions, integrations, security requirements, as well as performance and scalability targets. As part of dotSource’s e-commerce consulting, this provides a basis for assessing whether further development of the existing system is sufficient or whether switching to a new target system would be the sensible option.
What is included in the preparation phase of a shop migration?
The preparation phase is focused on assessment and architecture consulting, the analysis of the existing shop and connected systems, the clarification of requirements, and the derivation of a suitable target architecture. In addition, it covers the selection and evaluation of a suitable target system, the definition of the migration strategy, as well as the specification and conceptual design of the requirements. Depending on the project, these are then translated into use cases, epics or work packages in order to create a sound basis for implementation.
Does dotSource also support system selection for migration projects?
Yes. Key elements of dotSource’s shop migration services include enterprise architecture consulting as well as system selection and system evaluation for the target architecture. If required, you will also receive an evaluation matrix for comparing potential systems.
How does a shop migration differ from pure shop optimisation?
A shop migration describes the transition from an existing shop system or commerce architecture to a new target system or target architecture. This includes not only the technical implementation, but also assessment, architecture consulting, system selection and the definition of a migration strategy. Pure shop optimisation, by contrast, improves an existing system without involving a change of system. Topics such as performance, security or conversion may trigger a migration, but on their own they do not yet constitute a shop migration.