Sales figures from another world. At least that is what Amazon‘s annual report looks like at first sight. 27% growth and a sales volume of about $136 billion are just too extraordinary for any company trying to compete with Amazon, and, as the detailed analysis is going to…

At years and as always it is time to get the glass ball out. What happens with the many retailers and brands in…

This is an excerpt of “The E-Commerce Book” — the best selling book about E-Commerce and Amazon in Europe.

The Best Shop System| Endgame Fallacy

Four years ago, I offered my first assessment of the shop system status quo and two years ago came the update that Shopware had undoubtedly proven itself as the clear winner in the SME segment. The German version of the update, “Das beste Shopsystem 2014 — Anspruch und Wirklichkeit” (The…

Microservices and Unicycling

The first code.talks conference, held last month in Berlin, had various panels focus on the topic of microservices. After the…