The Basis For Successful E-Commerce
Adobe, a pioneer in the digital world, has seamlessly transformed the premier Magento shop system into the e-commerce platform Adobe Commerce. Since the transition, the system has continuously benefited from further refinement, emerging as a scalable, flexible, end-to-end solution poised to shape the future of e-commerce.
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Overview
The original platform, Magento Commerce, underwent various development iterations following its acquisition by Adobe in 2018. Once celebrated as an invaluable extension to the Adobe portfolio, it garnered many awards as a top-tier e-commerce system from market analysts such as Forrester and Gartner, culminating in its rebranding to Adobe Commerce. But despite its name change, Magento is still often referred to in e-commerce circles, raising questions about the differences between the two designations.
Magento and Adobe Commerce are both highly flexible, scalable, cutting-edge e-commerce solutions tailored to the business needs of companies of every scale.
In the early stages of the integration, the system was named Adobe Commerce Cloud, a Magento-based version enhanced with cloud hosting capabilities. Over time, the software was harmonized and consolidated and finally rebranded Adobe Commerce. Cloud hosting has since become an integral feature, available optionally alongside the on-premises version. Adobe Cloud Hosting is, however, just one of many possibilities available with Adobe Commerce, which is also compatible with third-party hosting services such as AWS, Azure or maxcluster.
The 2020 rebranding of Magento to Adobe Commerce aimed to underscore the seamless integration of Magento into the Adobe ecosystem.
Adobe Commerce thus marks the next evolutionary phase of Magento under Adobe’s stewardship, enhanced by a diverse range of tools and features from the Adobe portfolio. This amalgamation allowed Adobe Commerce both to maintain and strengthen Magento’s reputation as a premier e-commerce solution.
With Adobe Commerce, users profit from an e-commerce platform that seamlessly blends flexibility, scalability, and unsurpassed compatibility for B2B and B2C applications.
Magento, developed by the eponymous company, debuted in 2007 as an open-source PHP-based demo; this was followed by the launch of Magento Community Edition (open-source) and Magento Enterprise in 2008 and 2009.
The successor, Magento 2, was launched in 2015, with the paid version being marketed under the name Magento Commerce. Magento distributions were available as on-premise products only until the launch of a cloud-based alternative, Commerce Cloud, in 2016.
Following Adobe’s acquisition of Magento, the open-source and paid versions went separate ways, resulting in the advent of Magento Open Source (free) and Adobe Commerce (paid).
While Magento Open Source is no longer included in Adobe’s official update cycle, it maintains a market foothold as a free and powerful e-commerce platform. Its future development will be driven by an active and highly committed Magento community. Enormous anticipation also surrounds Mage OS, an independent distribution which is based entirely on Magento Open Source and slated for release in the near future.
This contrasts with the Adobe Commerce store system, based on Magento Commerce, which benefits from Adobe’s regular functional and security updates according to a fixed release schedule. In this way, Adobe Commerce has positioned itself as the leading and most powerful e-commerce platform currently available. Its integrated, feature-rich capabilities, particularly in combination with the Adobe Experience Cloud system landscape, have been pivotal in cementing this status.
Special benefits for store operators
Adobe Commerce stands for the systematic enhancement of an already outstanding e-commerce platform, renowned for its flexibility and forward-thinking architecture. With its many years of expertise and ongoing refinement, it offers a feature-rich package, positioning it as one of the market’s leading products and a highly prized solution among e-commerce enterprises.
Adobe Commerce offers a comprehensive suite of functionalities tailored to the unique needs of B2B enterprises. This makes it an ideal choice for businesses with a B2B focus. Key features include:
Despite its extensive feature set, Adobe Commerce (Magento) is far from a rigid, monolithic system. Rather, Adobe is continuously pushing the boundaries of its e-commerce platform in terms of technology and connectivity.
Consequently, the store system is evolving increasingly into a composable commerce platform, a strategy poised to significantly impact the future of e-commerce.
Whether you are designing captivating landing pages, drafting detailed product pages, or ensuring your online store remains fresh and up-to-date, Adobe Commerce’s integrated Page Builder content management system enables all of this in minutes and with minimal effort.
A suite of powerful features such as real-time previewing, intuitive drag-and-drop operation, and sophisticated content staging are just some of the many benefits Page Builder offers.
When it comes to optimizing performance for the specific needs of your online store, Adobe Commerce (Magento) stands out among other platforms. Whether you are preparing for a high-traffic seasonal sales promotion or maintaining steady operations year-round, Adobe Commerce’s scalable performance offers the ideal solution.
This flexibility not only improves performance but also saves cash. Teamed with a performance-based hosting provider, you only pay for the resources your store needs at any given time.
For internationally operating businesses, correctly mapping the complexities of multiple languages, currencies, and national and municipal taxes can be daunting.
Adobe Commerce (Magento) simplifies this process with its integrated tax rule system. This feature enables store operators to effortlessly assign different prices, currencies, and taxes to products, depending on the countries mapped in, and the location from which the customer accesses, the online store.
With Adobe Commerce, businesses can easily map various brands, multiple online storefronts (front ends), and connections to local branches within a single backend infrastructure. This unified ecosystem, powered by Adobe’s composable commerce strategy, uses an open architecture to seamlessly integrate headless CMS and realize different front ends, once again highlighting the versatility of Adobe Commerce.
Businesses operating multiple country-specific online stores and brands benefit enormously from this system architecture. It not only offers transparency and state-of-the-art functionality, but also cuts costs and resource consumption.
Adobe’s strategic emphasis on composable commerce highlights its commitment to clean, high-quality code. Decentralization ensures that code is organized and optimized for peak efficiency.
At valantic, we also share this commitment to coding excellence, incorporating a rigorous code review cycle into our processes. This allows us to perform automated checks for various PHP and Magento as part of our project development. Our review process also encompasses detailed documentation covering not only the code but also the functionality of the e-store. Each new store release includes an automatically generated PDF containing comprehensive information.
This brings several benefits:
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As an Adobe Gold Partner, we are the premier Adobe Commerce (Magento) solution partner in the DACH region and the Netherlands, poised to assist you in developing innovative B2B and B2C online stores, e-commerce platforms, and digitalization initiatives. Our customers include industry leaders such as LIEBHERR, mey, Riese & Müller, among many others.
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