Lessons for Tomorrow

In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Sanne Bolkenstein, Director of Sales at Deity, to dive into Composable Commerce. They discuss how it differs from the monolithic approach, how to know if you’re outgrowing your monolith, the fake vs true composable commerce, and so much more. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to t...

In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Chloë Thomas, a best selling Author, International Speaker, and the host of two award-winning podcasts. They talk about what sustainability means in today's world, what customer's pay attention to while online shopping, how brands can properly communicate sustainable ecommerce initiatives with consumers and so much more! This podcast is brought t...

Only 1 in 8 retailers embrace modern search to gain a significant competitive edge. Algolia surveyed 900 online retailers to learn how they’re utilizing search to increase conversion and maximize revenue. In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Piyush Patel, Chief Strategic Business Development Officer of Algolia, to review their new report, Ecommerce Site Search Trends. They discuss w...

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is an enterprise software for meeting the needs of companies undergoing digital transformation. The Liferay platform is open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative, and secure. In this episode, our guest host, Steven LaGow, spoke with Liferay's Lead Sales Engineer, Wes Kempa, and Director North American Channel Sales, Glenn Saler, to discuss wher...

Our host, Tim Ahlenius, recently went on the Infinity Nation podcast to speak with Founder and CEO Al Keck to discuss what Q4 2021 looked like in terms of the ecommerce market, both in the U.S. and in the U.K. Today, we are bringing that discussion to this episode of Lessons for Tomorrow. Together, they address the biggest concerns around packaging material shortages and stock, increase in energy...

Rethink your website relaunch and learn to iterate your digital experience to drive growth with WebOps (Website Operations) tools and processes. WebOps is a set of practices that facilitates collaboration and automates processes to improve the productivity of the whole web team – from developers to designers, content editors, stakeholders, and more. The result is cross-functional web teams empower...

According to Gartner, brands will soon choose plug-and-play business capabilities over all-in-one platforms. A composable digital experience platform (DXP) is one that is entirely modular, allowing for incremental changes and updates to composite parts. In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Jon Price, Americaneagle.com’s VP of Digital Experience Platforms and host of The Sitecore Wat...

The market signals of today inform the way the world shops tomorrow – and Signifyd has a wild read on what to expect for 2022 based on the 2021 holiday season. Signifyd’s Commerce Network tracks the ecommerce transactions of thousands of merchants and millions of consumers worldwide. In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Signifyd's Head of Global Agency Partnerships Megan Blissick to...

Websites are meant to be fluid. As technology and business processes continue to evolve, your website should evolve along with it. If it doesn’t, it may actually be hurting your business. This begs the question — how do you know it’s time for a website redesign? To help answer this question, our host, Taylor Karg, sat down with Mike Goliber, Vice President of Client Engagement at Americaneagle.com...

When building out a content strategy, there are two sides to consider: the product side and the marketing side. So, how do we, as a digital agency, focus on getting organizations to understand the separation of the two? Very often the product content doesn’t receive the level of attention that the marketing content does. But today, there’s a large shift through digital transformation and how it af...

Digital transformation is still gaining speed as computers and devices are becoming more consistent companions in our daily activities. And each year introduces, or escalates, a variety of trending buzzwords. Recently, during one of the November 2021 Accelebrate webinars, our host and Americaneagle.com's Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Tim Ahlenius, put a spotlight on 10 concepts that peo...

A digital experience platform (DXP) is a well-integrated and cohesive set of technologies designed to enable the composition, management, delivery, and optimization of contextualized digital experiences across multi-experience customer journeys, according to Gartner. In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Kentico Xperience's VP of Marketing Jenda Perla, and Americaneagle.com's Kentico...

Ninety percent of B2B organizations cite product information management as highly important or a top priority, according to the 2020 Akeneo Global B2B survey. This means that the power of product information management and product experience are here to stay. In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius spoke with Akeneo's Director of Product Marketing Ali Hanyaloglu and Product Experience Management E...

Amazon is now responsible for 70% of product search in the United States, and Amazon Business, the company’s B2B unit, is now Amazon’s fastest growing division which accounts for over $25 billion in annual sales. The ecommerce juggernaut’s growth accelerated dramatically during the global COVID-19 pandemic, leaving traditional product manufacturers and resellers (distributors, retailers, and other...

Amazon is now responsible for 70% of product search in the United States, and Amazon Business, the company’s B2B unit, is now Amazon’s fastest growing division which accounts for over $25 billion in annual sales. The ecommerce juggernaut’s growth accelerated dramatically during the global COVID-19 pandemic, leaving traditional product manufacturers and resellers (distributors, retailers, and other...

In this episode, our host Tim Ahlenius spoke with Znode Amla Commerce's President and CEO Rupesh Agrawal and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development Tom Flierl to discuss how things are evolving with Znode in the B2B ecommerce space. They also cover where things were before multi-store ecommerce, flexible solutions in the B2B and B2C commerce worlds, and looking ahead with what the ne...

In this episode, our host Tim Ahlenius spoke with President of Accelebrate Steven Heckler regarding democratization of data science. They also discussed the demand of data science skills and the growing number of computer science languages. Accelebrate is an on-site, customized application and web development training company. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Connect wi...

Deliver better customer experiences fast and at a lower cost. How? By connecting your ecommerce systems to the other applications that run your business.  Join ecommerce integration experts, Derek Cwik, Director of Integrations at Americaneagle.com, Carole Louie Achramowicz, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Jitterbit, and Lindsey Hampson, VP of Marketing at eBridge Connections, as they disc...

For IT organizations around the globe, there has never been a more exciting time to do a radical rethink of their entire web infrastructure stack than right now. By so doing, they are able to quickly deliver on customer expectations by rolling out new innovative services and experiences. In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Acquia's Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Kevin C...

The CMS or Content Management Systems market will reach $123 billion by 2026. And as a result of this market growth, there's a rich history of how different CMS have evolved. From static to dynamic, desktop to mobile, this episode covers the evolution of CMS, as well as what we can expect in the future. Our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Progress Sitefinity's Director of Partner Advocacy Lynne Bou...

There was a 146% increase in automated fraud attacks in 2020. Signifyd recently released their new State of Fraud Report that examines the fraud trends that wreaked havoc on ecommerce retailers in 2020 and the way they have shaped the future of commerce. In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Signifyd's Senior Partner Manager, Megan Blissick, to discuss which fraud trends we can expec...

As the holiday season approaches, most ecommerce companies start shipping preparations in July. In this episode, we dive into understanding consumer expectations around the shipping experience, how an ecommerce retailer manages expectations for their customers in the holiday season, and what the pandemic did to the local economy bolstering its outreach. Our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with ShipStati...

There are different types of projects, and Web and CRM projects are the big transformational ones across businesses right now. Looking at staff, systems, and all the processes involved, data and reporting has had a huge uptick over the past several years. With so many different systems, people and processes in place, how do these different areas stem into project readiness? Are you ready as a clie...

The amount of capital pouring into ecommerce in the last few years is staggering. One of the biggest aspects contributing to the surge in ecommerce came as companies were forced to establish online purchasing to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Jason Nyhus, Senior Vice President of Sales and Partnerships at Digital River. Digital River helps established and fast-gr...

A lot of organizations get fooled into thinking that they are providing the right accessible experience. Our host, Tim Ahlenius, is joined by two experts in the digital accessibility field — Keith Bundy, who has worked for over 35 years in a variety of professional positions and is currently a digital accessibility consultant and trainer with Siteimprove, Inc., and Nick Goodrum, the Accessibility...