Does this scenario sound familiar? You’ve recently overhauled your online store to rekindle the spark and growth you had three years ago but which has since died down. You redesigned the entire user interface to be clean, polished and modern. You’ve incorporated social media tools to let your loyal customers organically promote your brand. You’ve [...]
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May
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Recently the US Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, sending the bill to the US House of Representatives. The bill passed the Senate 69-27, showing a suprisingly broad level of support. We’ve also seen a concerted effort by many states in the past year to find ways to tap into this potential revenue stream to help [...]
Apr
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Magento’s Imagine conference is always exceptional. It’s well planned out; the breakout sessions are generally more thoughtful and detailed than what you see at most conferences, the key note sessions address meaty subjects vs. meaningless hype (though they can run very long), and no small detail is overlooked to make sure attendees enjoy their experience. [...]
Apr
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This coming week is an exciting time for Levementum and Magento. Magento is hosting their annual conference, Imagine, in Las Vegas at the M Resort and Casino. Levementum will be a Gold Sponsor for the event and we will be unveiling our new Magento Enterprise and Salesforce Integration Package to the public. Levementum has built [...]
Mar
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Every week, we work on more than a dozen ecommerce sites. When you include initiatives related to SugarCRM and Salesforce.com as well as other projects and technologies, we’re probably working with more than 30 customers per week. We genuinely believe each project has its own stand out merits and that we take away something positive [...]
Feb
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Provisioning infrastructure for ecommerce sites is a very different process than it was just 5 years ago, let alone 10 years back. The number of options available to a company has exploded. Instead of looking for competing bids on hardware you had to provision and install in a rack you managed yourself in your office [...]
Feb
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What is enterprise caching in Magento and why should a merchant care? One of the elements within Magento Enterprise that enables it to scale more effectively than Magento Community is its use of Full Page Caching. In talking with one of our Certified Magento Developers, Russell Mantilla, I realized there is a great deal of [...]
Feb
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In the past three months, I’ve received an unprecedented number of calls and emails about Magento Community Edition customers looking to upgrade to Magento Enterprise Edition. Many are contacting Levementum after having read our blog about the steps for upgrading from Community Edition to Enterprise Edition (found at http://www.levementum.com/how-to-upgrade-magento-from-community-to-enterprise-the-right-way). As a result, Levementum has implemented [...]
Feb
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For growing merchants, one of the first areas of operational need comes in the form of order management and processing. Many successful merchants are now finding that the volume of orders they are getting from their Magento Enterprise ecommerce site is exceeding their operational capabilities to pick, pack, ship, price and stock consistently. They need [...]
Feb
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Many companies evaluating open source software for the first time have a hard time differentiating between free or ‘Community Edition’ versions of products vs. commercially licensed versions such as ‘Magento Enterprise Edition’. For many would be buyers, open source automatically equates with free software. This is certainly true with Magento. About 2 to 3 times [...]
Feb
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Levementum is proud to announce our partnership with GoodData. Companies are spending billions on BI, but aren’t getting the insight they need into their data. This partnership will allow Levementum to help our customers monetize Big Data by generate business value and intelligence from this information. We will now have the ability to use GoodData [...]
Feb
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Magento Integration with Retail Star POS – What you Need to Know Every so often, we come across a client who looking to integrate Magento Enterprise to their point of sale (POS) system. In most cases, the client does not have a central ERP solution to integrate with, but rather is using the POS system [...]
Feb
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For many merchants, QuickBooks is the financial backbone of the company. Being able to tie in Magneto ecommerce order activity to QuickBooks is a key element to manage the flurry of activity that can come from a successful online presence. For growing, but sometimes overworked merchant, managing orders, generate shipping labels, process and record payments [...]
