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We’re all spending a lot more time talking online – but an increasing number of those conversations are not with other people. Whether you love them or hate them, bots are clearly the future when it comes to online interactions.

API-first commerce, a.k.a. “headless commerce” is quickly becoming the talk among many commerce teams. It offers a seamless way to go beyond the traditional webstore to shoppable videos, kiosks, magic mirrors, Alexa, virtual and augmented reality use cases. In fact, there are trailblazing early adopters that use API-first commerce for checkout via Facebook chatbot.

Hot off the presses and always a hot topic, the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Web Content Management (WCM) is out and sure to generate buzz. Because there's nothing more important to enterprises these days than their website, and nothing's more important on a website than content.

Did you make it to CoreMedia's Developer Conference this year? If you didn't, well, you definitely missed out. If you did, you might remember our little competition for our Labs platform: We asked the community for ideas for useful and cool features they'd like to see in Labs, and promised that the best idea would actually get implemented.

Salesforce Commerce Cloud customers have access to one of the most user-friendly and powerful eCommerce solutions on the market. According to Forrester, Salesforce’s suite of tools provides the “best fit for retailers looking for a strong, highly scalable, cloud-based commerce platform.”We agree. But is it enough on its own?Don’t get us wrong: We love Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

Though initially slow to embrace eCommerce, luxury retailers are catching up fast. In fact, some of the most exciting innovation has been happening in this sector recently, as major fashion brands seek to create immersive customer experiences that amplify and enhance traditional in-store transactions.

Why do so many digital projects fail? Surprisingly, the reason often has less to do with inadequate technology or tight budgets, and more with lack of planning, poor communication, or simply having the wrong attitude.
Through my work as an IT consultant, I’ve worked on many digital projects and I’ve identified the top ten factors that help teams achieve project goals on time and on budget.

This is not another boring blockchain article. At least I hope not.Everyone is talking about blockchain, and there are many organizations experimenting with the technology, setting up internal think tanks or at least small teams to evaluate the technology. At the J. Boye CMS Expert group, we’ve been talking a lot about how this might impact the CMS ecosystem. But has anyone come up with the killer use case yet?

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.

A 48-hour hackathon transformed an idea-concepting and coding event into an unexpected collaboration journey between two global technology brands, CoreMedia and Siteimprove.

The result was not only a shiny, new integration that performs unlike any other Siteimprove has offered to date, but it was also the formation of a deeper partnership now on course to a broader integration between the two platforms.