Most retailers face a critical decision to re-platform their existing e-commerce software driven by factors listed below.  They are frustrated by the options in the market and are looking for alternative approaches that provide greater business agility.

• Scalability concerns. The ability to handle peak loads during holiday shopping season is in doubt
• Slow to add new features. Reasonable feature requests from the business require significant effort to implement
• Little progress in re-architecting. Internal resources to re-architect are re-purposed to meet functionality requests
• Competitive disadvantage. Competitors are able to add functionality more quickly and the gap is increasing.

• Ecommerce re-plat forming
• New online retail concepts
• Cross-channel initiatives