The editors of the Handelskraft blog from the city of light Jena. In dotSource’s offices, we investigate every which moves the e-commerce branch for our readers. The location Jena is perfectly suited to this: the branch continues to grow in the East-Thuringian state and there is even talk of an e-commerce campus. The Ernst-Abbe technical university offers an e-commerce degree and Intershop have their HQ in the Jentower. Thanks to over 20,000 students, Jena is not only an innovative business location, but a young, vital town.
The beginning of January is not just the beginning of a new year. For us, this also means – *drumroll* – the kick-off for the first parties of the year: Handelskraft anniversary, trend book release AND dotSource birthday. Normally. But although there can’t be any parties as we know them (yet), we’re celebrating 15 years … Continue reading "Happy Happy and Big Up to Our Team: dotSource Celebrates Its 15th Birthday!"
Online? No problem. MVP? No problem. Last week, we proved with the debut of the Handelskraft Conference 2020 Online Edition that we are able to pull this off under enormous time pressure and extreme conditions. Up to the day of the conference, we experienced 16 exciting days between »Oh my God«, corona master plan and … Continue reading "Online MVP #HK20STR – We Made It! [Recap]"
New decade, leap year, the benchmark for several forecasts: 2020 is something quite special – even for us although the new 20s have barely started. We just started into the new year, celebrated the agency birthday and now it is already March again. The month of Handelskraft. Incredible. Not only the conference anniversary in Stuttgart … Continue reading "Together Is Better – A Story of dotSource’s 300th!!! Employee"
Work hard, party hard(er). Those who achieve great things deserve great parties. This is what happened on the 17th of January. Together with many guests, former, current & new employees, friends, families, industry colleagues, partners and representatives from society, economy and politics, we toasted to 14 years of dotSource – great speeches, conversations, presents and … Continue reading "Journey to Jupiter: dotSource Rings in the New Twenties with a Big Party and Even Bigger Goals [Video]"
Twelve years ago Handelskraft saw the light of the virtual world as a blog. Since then we have been reporting day by day on topics and trends of the digital revolution. And six years ago we published our first trend book: Handelskraft 2013 »Trends, strategies and potential in everywhere commerce«. Old but gold, because going … Continue reading "Digital business compass: Handelskraft 2019 »Digital DNA« now available for download!"
Anyone who wants to digitize today doesn’t need an app anymore. There’s long been a smarter solution to meet today’s user requirements: Progressive Web Apps. By combining the features of a mobile-optimised website with the usability of an app, they significantly enhance the user experience, not just from an end-user perspective, but also from a … Continue reading "From mobile commerce to science – What’ll PWAs conquer next?"
The success of a digital platform is mostly dependent on how well it plays with other systems. But how can a platform develop solutions independently? In the fourth part of our »Digital Platforms« series, we explained to you what systems SAP C/4HANA consists of. At the end of the series, we’ll show you how individual … Continue reading "Digital platforms — Integration is everything [Part 5]"
Source: Pexels Behind every professional swimmer there is a team of experts who contribute to the athlete’s success in the sport. There’s a manager, trainer, physiotherapist, and training partner. Digital platforms also consist of different experts alias systems that cover the most diverse disciplines in e-commerce. These include marketing, sales, and services. In the third … Continue reading "Digital Platforms – What can SAP C/4HANA do? [Part 4]"