header-mobile-bg

Our Writers

Joerg Schaeffer_retu
Jörg Schäffer
Director Product Marketing

Jörg Schäffer worked as Director Product Marketing at CoreMedia in Hamburg. Self-professed nerd, geek and early adopter.

My impressions from K5 FUTURE RETAIL Conference

My impressions from K5 FUTURE RETAIL Conference

This year CoreMedia participated for the first time as an exhibitor at the K5 FUTURE RETAIL conference in Berlin on July 3 & 4.The event, which was held at the ESTREL Hotel and Conference center in Berlin, attracted around 3000 visitors, more than 100 exhibitors and more than 150 speakers, making it one of the largest e-commerce related events in Germany.

What SAP Commerce Cloud Means for Hybris Customers

What SAP Commerce Cloud Means for Hybris Customers

The eCommerce market is evolving rapidly. SAP is keeping pace with the evolution to the cloud for eCommerce and digital customer experience solutions. By including the SAP C/4HANA modular Customer Experience Suite in the same cloud that includes SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP customers now have a complete technology platform to build custom, end-to-end omnichannel commerce experiences for their end customers. SAP Commerce Cloud is a comprehensive commerce solution that supports everything from back-office order management to advanced end user shopping experiences.

CoreMedia Hubs for Developers

CoreMedia Hubs for Developers

With CoreMedia Hubs, developers have access to standardized APIs that provide a singular extension point, which provides not just pure backend data integration capabilities but also exposes the integrated data automatically in the familiar CoreMedia Studio interface to marketers, merchandisers and other business users – all without any extra coding.

Joerg Schaeffer_retu

Jörg Schäffer

Stage 1: Fragmented: Multiple Channels

You’re a digital dinosaur!

You have a beautiful website, but with fragmented digital experiences, you run the risk of extinction.

It’s time to evolve.

Your audiences want a seamless experience, no matter what's happening behind the scenes. When your experience is different or difficult, it’s important to start with the basics, such as cultivating a holistic approach to online digital experiences. Realign your teams, platforms, processes, goals, and metrics around a comprehensive view of the online experience. Focus on the end-to-end customer journey cutting across channels, desktop and mobile.

separate channels animation circle t-rex dinosaur square
Stage 2: Integrated: Multiple channels

You’re a fish!

Signs of exciting life are starting to form. Your DX is responsive and adaptive but it’s not quite personalized yet.

Keep swimming!

The integration of your brand content across every touchpoint (website, online store, social media, emails, apps, point of sale) creates immersive experiences. These flagship sites combine content-rich brand experiences with immediate conversion capabilities. Business teams and marketing are closely aligned. However, while the digital experience is responsive and adaptive, it’s not yet personalized.

Connect with an expert
Stage 3: Instant: Global expansion

You’re a crocodile!

You’re taking it global. Speed and scalability are key and just like a crocodile, you’re fast…but you’re clumsy.

Oh snap!

In this stage, the online digital experience becomes completely dynamic. You need content that is global, yet relevant, with plenty of local insights: Who is the user? Are they using a mobile phone? Is it raining where they are? Is it snowing? If it is, maybe they need warm, waterproof boots. All of this contextualized information creates a better user experience. With one global orchestration, you’re able to adapt everything, in whatever country or language you choose – while keeping turnaround times low. So keep evolving.

Connect with an expert
Stage 4: Dynamic: Real time personalization

You’re a lion!

You’re reaching more customers in more countries and languages than ever before, and now you’re finally hunting and collecting info with precision.

But you can do more to keep your brand roaring!

As you graduate to the Instant level, you’re able to rapidly update everything - not just in one language and for one country, but in 20 languages and for 100 countries. Speed and scalability are key, driven by the need to roll out global campaigns in all languages and all touchpoints and make updates in minutes or hours, not weeks. But there’s still more to do to reach nirvana.

Connect with an expert
Stage 5: Immersive: Elevated experiences

You’re Captain Content!

You’ve done it! You have opposable thumbs AND you’re saving the world with your seamless, elevated customer experiences.

You're a superhero in the digital space.

Your digital world and your physical world are blending together in the most complementary way possible. When shoppers visit your store, they’ll be greeted with their pre-selected products. Language changes dynamically depending on country of origin – it's like the whole store was set up just for your one specific customer.

In this final stage, your customer experience is truly immersive and superior, and your flagship store merges your physical and digital world into one, with a truly personalized individual experience.

Connect with an expert