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Find out in this report how the two eCommerce Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."On the plus side, when you build everything from scratch in Magento, you can do magic with it."
"The open-source PHP code allows our developers to customize pretty much anything on the platform, including allowing us to add some of the most complex shipping and inventory features for clients who have very specific, industry-related business specifications."
"Magento has changed over the years, but one of the most interesting aspects is that it gets the job done, and a vast community of experts is knowledgeable about the solution."
"As compared to platforms such as ATG or Commerce Cloud, its interface is easy to use. Magento also provides seamless administration for business users. You can also integrate an OMS to an extent. You don't need to have a dedicated OMS. You can leverage the out-of-the-box features of Magento, which is very valuable for startups. Other platforms, such as Commerce Cloud, don't have an OMS, and you have to have your own OMS solution."
"It provides AI features, including a tool called Insight for AI-driven product recommendations."
"The platform provides an easy way to customize its features."
"Magento provides a strong backing, meaning it can handle the order processing, customer management, configuration, third party payment integration, and shipping matters. There is a standard, very well set up architecture already present in Magento that helps them set up their online shops with much precision. Clients can see their reports, their daily sales, their best selling products, and their best buying customers so that they can target them through mails or just follow up with them. These are the main default features which make Magento so attractive."
"Magento is very flexible, and it's one of the biggest e-commerce platforms."
"The conversion of opportunities and leads to accounts is one of the most valuable features."
"Ability to quickly add content and manage products along with associated web content easily."
"Not having to worry about maintaining one's own infrastructure."
"The product is easy to use."
"I have found the list creation and dashboard customization features valuable."
"The solution gives very detailed information to track the progress of the opportunities, like the status of the opportunity and for how long you’ve been in touch with the customer for this opportunity."
"The solution is quite stable."
"It has a customizable checkout experience, customizable homepage, everything can be customized."
"The industry has evolved, and the main focus is composable solutions because of which now SAP and Magento are forced to tackle various aspects of commerce, including commerce tools and pricing strategies, among other things."
"More technical knowledge is required to keep a Magento website running smoothly compared to many other platforms like OpenCart."
"The product needs to improve its security. Also, they need to improve B2B features."
"I am still playing around and trying to catch up with the latest version to understand all the features, but I do feel that its CMS can be much more streamlined. They provide a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor, which many customers prefer, but based on the implementations that I have done for more than seven years, I have seen that many times, it is run by the marketing team, and they don't find it very comfortable to use. They feel uncomfortable managing and changing the content. As a business user, you need to have at least basic knowledge of HTML, which you cannot expect from all marketing teams. Some companies or organizations have that competency, but many organizations, especially in the Middle East, have a very small team, so it becomes quite difficult for them. This is a common challenge that I have seen across the platforms. Magento is better and easier than Oracle Commerce Cloud, but Shopify is much easier than Magento. A layman or my 10-year-old kid can go ahead and set up a store in Shopify in probably 45 minutes, which is not the case with Magento. Elasticsearch has really been a pain. It takes a toll on the performance. Starting with version 2.4, Magento requires Elasticsearch, which has been causing a lot of serious performance issues. We had a client in the US who was running a promo, and they lost a subsequent number of orders over one and a half hours. They were on the enterprise platform, not open-source. The team had to open a ticket with Magento. Its performance needs to be upgraded, or some kind of guidelines have to be provided for the setup. It looks like even Magento has no clue. When you go through the answers given in the online community, it seems that in spite of having the hardware configurations that they suggest, it is not performing at the optimal level. It should also have a better way to measure performance. Performance measuring has to be much easier. Many times, we see CPU utilization going up and down. We see spikes without any reason. Therefore, we need a better performance management system."
"The performance is a bottleneck in Magento and there is a lot of room for improvement in this regard."
"The analytics are good but there is room for improvement. There are some limitations due to new regulations causing customer data time delays."
"The hardware requirements of the tool should be made better, as it is a solution that is very heavy on the servers, and it makes it expensive to host many servers."
"Should have a way to communicate properly with the team that builds the platform"
"The connection with Marketing Cloud should be improved."
"Being able to customize everything in general to our specific needs would be pretty awesome."
"In the next release, Commerce Cloud should add CRM dashboards."
"The community is very closed source. If you don't buy it, you won't be able to learn it."
"Multi-tenant infrastructure is a blessing and a curse."
"There could be more product integration in the ERP space."
"If your organization has a nonstandard or niche business model or audience, the fast nature of the solution may not be a good fit."
"There is always room for improvement with any solution."
Adobe Commerce is ranked 3rd in eCommerce Platforms with 25 reviews while Salesforce Commerce Cloud is ranked 1st in eCommerce Platforms with 27 reviews. Adobe Commerce is rated 8.2, while Salesforce Commerce Cloud is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Adobe Commerce writes "An extremely flexible and highly scalable platform offering exceptional customer support to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Commerce Cloud writes "User-friendly UI, stable, and scalable". Adobe Commerce is most compared with SAP Hybris Commerce, Shopify, Oracle ATG, HCL Digital Commerce and Oracle Commerce Cloud, whereas Salesforce Commerce Cloud is most compared with SAP Hybris Commerce, Oracle ATG, Shopify, HCL Digital Commerce and Sana Commerce. See our Adobe Commerce vs. Salesforce Commerce Cloud report.
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It really depends on what size you're at and what your reasonable growth curve looks like.
Magento is a great platform, super flexible and customizable, and you get managed hosting or self-host pretty easily. However it tends to fall down when you have more then ~20,000 SKUs, or are driving a lot of traffic.
Demandware can handle more traffic and larger catalogs, but is more limited around customizations, and of course the fee structure is different. As Emil points out DW is responsible for the infrastructure, so scaling is their problem - however they certainly don't have a perfect track record at that.
If I were to make some broad generalizations I might say something like this:
X < $20 million/year in online revenue - Magento
$20 < X < $80 million/year - Demandware
$80 million/year < X - Oracle Commerce (ATG) or Hybris
There's a lot of other factors at play there, but without knowing more about your business it's hard to say....
While I would also recommend Demandware over Magento because of its scalability, robustness and features. There is one more platform, that I would like to recommend here. It is Marketlive.
It has similar features which Demandware has. It is also highly scalable and robust. It also a SAAS based eCommerce solution.
It now supports responsive designs which would give seamless user experience.
Time to market is also less in this platform.
All valid points here. I've been partial to Demandware because of what comes out of the box, thereby scaling down the actual development effort. Also, because of it's nature, it's easier to make changes without necessarily involving IT. It all comes down to your vision for the site. Not just for now, but for the foreseeable future.
Do you know any more about the site? It's quite difficult to answer without
knowing more about what they're looking to achieve.
I'm a massive fan of Magento Enterprise because it's a very extendable
platform, that, as long as you have the right partner - can be scaled as
much as you need it to. I also like the way that you're not paying through
the roof immediately and you can pay to add in functionality as you need
it. Lots of big retailers are moving onto the Magento platform at the
moment as well.
Demandware is very enterprise-level, so it's definitely scalable - but it's
also very expensive.
They both have their advantages - DW has a number of features built-in, but
Mage Enterprise has a much bigger developer following and has a lot more
enterprise-suitable modules too.
Happy to go into more detail on this if you need me too.
Paul
Hi,
I would recommend using demandware as out of the box you get a scalable solution. However the custom changes you make may broke the scalability, but there are built in tools, so you are able to make assessment on the performance and work towards to improve it. DW are responsible for the scalability of the infrastructure and you do not have to worry about that.
The good points are that site internationalization are offered in several ways, and the most important thing is what the business needs and what are the requirements, after that is easy development job. As well there a re a lot of ready cartridges, which can be easily implement for different 3rd parties.