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What’s in store for digital commerce in 2023 and beyond

Get ready to unlock greater profitability, sustainability, and resilience. Hear valuable insights from B2B and B2C digital commerce experts, thought leaders, and practitioners.

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As market uncertainty persists, your organisation can drive more value from commerce investments that can help you:

  • Stay agile and innovative to react to a rapidly evolving market
  • Deliver optimised customer experiences based on intelligence
  • Get equipped with enterprise-wide data management capabilities

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Explore SAP Commerce Cloud

Our enterprise-grade e-commerce solution enables B2C and B2B organisations to deliver engaging and profitable commerce experiences.

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One integrated office

Leverage enterprise-wide data to make intelligent decisions.

Intelligent personalisation

Drive transactions that boost customer loyalty and company profit.

Agile innovation

Launch new business models (such as D2C, subscriptions, marketplaces, and recommerce) on a single platform.

Composable commerce

Incorporate a flexible, extensible, and modular approach to differentiate your experience.

Unified commerce

Reduce your limitations and grow across channels on a single platform designed for B2B and B2C, multibrand, and multigeographical.

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SAP named a Leader eight times in a row

Learn why in the 2022 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce.”

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Gain agility and deliver profitable growth through digital commerce

Staying agile is key to delivering an outstanding customer experience (CX) that differentiates your business and creates loyal customers.

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CX agility for digital commerce

An agile CX strategy can help you navigate a volatile marketplace and meet the ever-changing needs of customers today – and far into the future.

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How to expand digital commerce profitability

Leaders we surveyed are tapping e-commerce technology to navigate an economy transformed by better-informed buyers and the lingering and transformative effects of a global pandemic.

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Future-proofing your commerce business

By incorporating a composable approach into your digital commerce strategy, you can achieve commerce agility.

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B2B
Improving profits with digital commerce

See how tech firm Kodak improved its B2B commerce experience with a new e-commerce site.

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B2B
Cutting support calls and inquiries

Learn how a consumer-like e-commerce site reduced costs for drinks wholesaler Breakthru Beverage.

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B2B
30% more efficient checkout process

Discover how tech company Tessco overhauled its e-commerce business and elevated the customer experience.

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B2B2C
Harnessing enterprise-wide data

Hear how trailer manufacturer Horizon Global combined customer, product, financial, and supply chain data.

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B2C
35% increase in online sales

Explore how fashion brand LK Bennett combines an inspirational brand experience with ease of shopping.

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B2C
30% lift in average basket value

Find out how fashion retailer Penti is delivering better customer experiences in store and online.

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B2B and D2C
60% faster launches of new online shops

Learn how skin care company Beiersdorf increased its D2C business by 300%.

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B2C
150 countries on one platform

See how sunglasses brand Maui Jim went mobile-first across countries to make buying experiences easier.

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What are analysts saying about SAP Commerce Cloud?

Gartner applauds SAP for digital commerce again

See why Gartner has named SAP a Leader in the “Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce” in eight consecutive reports.

Forrester: Total Economic Impact of SAP solutions

Check out Forrester’s TEI report to understand the potential return on investment when deploying SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP Customer Data Cloud solutions. 

Paradigm B2B awards SAP Commerce Cloud 10 medals

Learn why SAP Commerce Cloud medaled in 10 of 12 categories in the Paradigm B2B Combine report and was praised for its ability to support complex B2B use cases.

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Kick-start your B2B commerce strategy

As digital commerce rapidly evolves, how can it benefit your business-to-business (B2B) operational efficiency, customer loyalty, and sales growth? Let us help you start reimagining your B2B commerce strategy.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A digital commerce platform enables you to sell products, solutions, and services digitally – either through a typical online store or other digitally connected devices, such as mobile phones, wearables, connected cars, and IoT devices. It also allows you to include your physical stores in your digital commerce strategy, especially for omnichannel fulfilment scenarios, such as “buy online pick up in store” or “buy online return in store.”

A headless commerce platform is one in which the consumer-facing presentation layer is decoupled from the primary back-end, operational layer and connected through open APIs. This allows the business to continually add or enhance the experiential elements of the shopping and buying experience without affecting the core functionality of the platform. It also enables new selling channels such as social media marketplaces, mobile apps, in-store kiosks, and more, with minimal development needed by IT.

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While both can be seen as different terms describing the same thing, e-commerce means selling products online, usually through a typical online store. Digital commerce expands that concept by including all the touch points and processes throughout the entire customer journey. This means that all the tools, processes, and technologies used to create the online offer are critical to the overall definition. It also encompasses the inclusion of physical sales channels, such as your store network, into your digital commerce strategy.

hybris’ industry-proven, cloud-based e-commerce and digital marketing solutions are now available as SAP Commerce Cloud – a part of the SAP Customer Experience portfolio.

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Composable commerce extends modularity principles that empower business users to construct commerce experiences using low-code tools. 

There are many benefits to a fully composable commerce platform, but big tradeoff for that extra freedom and flexibility. To succeed with fully composable commerce, you need a high degree of digital maturity and skilled IT resources. You can expect higher initial costs because this approach usually means stitching together multiple best-of-breed solutions, which brings another layer of complexity, from licensing costs to maintenance.

However, for the remaining 90% of businesses, SAP’s “fit for purpose” approach is more suitable: a front end that is decoupled from the back end (headless) through API integration, and modular, stable core functionality that is augmented by micro and macro services in areas of differentiation where high agility is required. This approach reduces delay, risks, complexities, and implementation costs so you can capitalise on the benefits quickly.

Unified commerce is the ability to handle all your digital commerce business from a single platform. This includes:

  • Engagement across channels (online, mobile, social, voice, and others) 
  • Various business models (B2B, B2C, D2C, B2B2C, marketplace, subscription, recommerce, and so on)
  • Multibrand and multigeographical
  • Self-service coupled with the ability for human-assisted support
  • Comprehensive core capabilities from discovery to delivery with headless composability and extensibility for unique differentiators
  • Compliance, scalability, and increased security for the most complex businesses
  • Always-on reliability
  • Continuous innovation with regular updates along with compliance and security patches

With unified commerce, you can help your business grow without limitation on a single commerce platform.

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*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce, Jason Daigler, Sandy Shen, Penny Gillespie, Mike Lowndes, Aditya Vasudevan, Yanna Dharmasthira, 10 August 2022

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