When you carry out searches on a websites, they often give you an option to sort the results by a number of options. If you are looking to buy something, they will let you sort it by price, if you are searching for job, they let you sort the results by location, distance from a […]
Machine Learning: Supervised or Unsupervised
More and more enterprises these days are investing resources in machine learning techniques, to understand more about the data and make better decisions to help clients. The advent of many big data technologies has only helped this cause as the ability to process and understand data has become faster and cheaper. In this blog, we […]
SQL vs. NoSQL: Which is better?
Almost every application needs data to be stored. This data invariably needs to be fetched, updated and searched upon. This makes it necessary for applications to use some sort of data store. For a long time, solutions based on RDBMS like SQL ruled the roost. SQL supports basic operation like CRUD on the data along […]
Graph Database: A case for connecting the dots
What is Graph? Graphs have been around for a long time. They are used in a lot of fields known to us like medicine, world wide web, computers and many more. But it is only in recent times that many of us have started to take notice about graphs and the way they can be […]
5 ways to ensure success of API programs
It is now a known fact that having an API program opens up great growth prospects for any enterprise irrespective of its domain. In some cases it has been able to change fortunes of business as well. However, making sure that the API program for your business is a success is not an easy task […]
How to use Virtual Reality Based Mobile Apps to Aid Purchase Decisions
Mobile commerce is a hot market, and retail industry is using it to their benefit. All top brands have a mobile presence in different forms, which range from a native mobile app per platform, cross platform apps to having responsive websites Until recently, the mobile support for an e-commerce site was looked upon as having […]
5 Rookie Mistakes of Implementing API Strategy
API programs are fast becoming a new avenue for growth for enterprises of all sizes and domains. Benefits of having APIs are quite well known, however, one needs to think and plan meticulously before diving into the world of web services/APIs. From a business point of view, below are few things to watch out for […]
Apache Spark – Why should you use it
We are in the age of Big Data, and there are a bunch of technologies and startups popping up all over the world that deals with Big Data. One of the hottest and fastest growing technologies is Apache Spark. Apache Spark is a completely open sourced, scalable data analytics and cluster computing framework. Apart from […]
Best practices to follow on e-Commerce sites to avoid deadlock and other challenges
Recently some of our developer colleagues were having sleepless nights – a week before Black Friday fixing issues for a couple of our clients’ sites which run a high volume of promotions and discounts. The site’s performance testing had revealed that something was not right in the code as the performance times had shot up […]
Managing Abandoned Cart/Order in ATG
First, let’s define what is an abandoned cart? An abandoned order or shopping cart is one that a customer creates and adds items to, but never checks out. Instead, the customer simply exits the Web site, thus “abandoning” the incomplete order. ATG has an out of the box Abandoned Order Service module that includes a […]