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UX/UI Design

Creating photo books has never been easier

Customer’s success story: HappyFoto We all want to sweeten Christmas with creative gift ideas, don’t we? Therefore we like to create individual photo gifts for our loved ones. With smart moments, which is the most innovative app of Austria 2020 according to the Apps Magazin from CDA Verlag, HappyFoto Austria has launched a revolutionary app […]

December 14, 2020

Strategy & Transformation

Digital strategy – from efficiency to innovation

The digital strategy is still understood very differently in many companies -perhaps because there is no concrete definition and everyone understands it differently. Is it the digitization of analog processes or the development of digital business models? The answer is “both” – both statements are correct. A fully comprehensive digital strategy includes all of these […]

December 11, 2020

Backend & Architecture

The 5 most interesting CMS with GraphQL API

In a recent post, I showcased the 5 most interesting eCommerce platforms providing the developers with a fully-fledged GraphQL API. Now let’s take a look at Content Management Systems and pick some good examples of CMS with GraphQL API. A lot has already been written about JAMStack and tools like Gatbsy.js which are leading the […]

December 1, 2020

Commerce & Customer Experience

Why commercetools is changing the eCommerce game

We are in the middle of a massive shift from legacy, monolithic eCommerce platforms to headless solutions based on microservices. This huge shift is due to remarkable changes in the technological landscape. We have access to better, faster, and more flexible solutions. On the other hand, many known business challenges remain unchanged. Technical teams struggle […]

November 24, 2020

Commerce & Customer Experience

The 5 most interesting eCommerce platforms with GraphQL API

When I ask my guests in the CTO-CTO podcast what are the most interesting trends in enterprise software I often hear: headless, API-first, and GraphQL. All these three are actually tightly connected but I want to focus a little on some of the best eCommerce platforms with GraphQL API. GraphQL, first introduced at Facebook in […]

November 23, 2020

Embedded & Industrial

Equipment-as-a-Service – opportunities, risks, implementation

Having addressed customer needs and the general concept in the first part of the Equipment-as-a-Service series, we now want to examine both the opportunities and the risks from the perspective of a plant engineering company, if it wants to implement the EaaS business model as a provider. Finally, you will find some important points that […]

November 18, 2020

Strategy & Transformation

Technology Trends 2021 – Fast Forward to 2030

With the second wave of corona, the outlook for 2021 feels more like a leap into 2030. That is how radically the technological landscape – and how we as humans deal with it – has changed and will continue to change. Who would have thought just one year ago, that even financial service providers would […]

November 17, 2020

Strategy & Transformation

Lean Startup: More value. Less risk.

How do I know in advance whether a feature, a product or a project is valuable? The short answer is: You can’t know. However, it is possible to make more or less good estimates, depending on how much your assumptions correspond to reality. Practical experience in software development shows that decision-makers are often far off […]

November 17, 2020

Commerce & Customer Experience

The future of eCommerce software

We’ve been working with eCommerce Platforms for more than 12 years at Cloudflight. When we started, IBM Websphere was king and ATG Commerce was also a leader. Then we saw a lot of traction from Magento, SAP Hybris, and Demandware. Finally, commercetools and Shopify have entered the stage as the next wave of leaders forging […]

November 16, 2020