Magento – a global e-commerce leader
Magento is a globally used versatile platform for creating e-shops. It offers merchants flexibility and full control of their online sales channels. Magento has an intuitive administrative interface with effective marketing, search engine optimization, and a catalog of management tools that give marketers the ability to create pages tailored to their specific needs. This system has been designed to be completely measurable and backed by extensive network support.
The high flexibility of settings and a large number of plugins and add-ons that can be used by various online stores are the reason for the popularity of this platform. Magento is a platform written in PHP. Uses several PHP frameworks, such as Laminas and Symfony. Magento offers two different platforms, Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce.
Magento 1
It is the first version of the Magento platform. Many e-shops still work on this version, but its support ended in June 2020.
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Magento 2
Magento 2 has been launched in 2015 as a new version of the platform, which is used globally by 1 of 4 stores. That is a new product. It provides new technological possibilities for you and your customers. Basic features allow you, as a user, to create great e-shops that will increase your turnover and accelerate market expansion.
The transition from Magento 1 to Magento 2 is not just an upgrade, but it is necessary to implement re-platforming. This also proves how much is new in Magento 2:
- Improved customer experience
- Higher efficiency and scalability
- Accelerated sales growth
- Higher conversions and customer loyalty
- Optimized cloud infrastructure and reliable technical support
- Improved performance and PWA
- Simplified cart flow
- Better admin interface
- Mobile friendly
- Easier workflows and less IT reliance
- Future-Readiness
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Adobe and Magento
Adobe bought Magento in May 2018 for $ 1.68 billion. With this acquisition, Adobe acquired the missing part of the e-commerce platform, which operates in the context of B2B and B2C worldwide.
The addition of Magento Commerce Cloud will enable the seamless integration of the business into the Adobe Experience Cloud, providing a unique platform. The Magento platform combines digital commerce, order management, and predictive intelligence into a unified e-commerce platform for shopping across a range of industries. For a change, Adobe is a leader in designing and delivering digital experiences through content and data.
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Why choose Magento? What are its benefits?
Managing e-shops built on Magento is easy. Thanks to the existing templates, it is possible to create a functional graphic design of the website relatively quickly. Another reason why Magento is worth using for e-commerce is an extensive set of features, including support for search engine optimization, customization, user account management, and support for different language versions. The whole system is regularly updated and secured.
Výhody Magento
- Focus exclusively on e-com – this is not “only” a platform with e-com plugins, primarily on e-com.
- SEO – allows you to increase visibility in the online world and reduces the complexity of search optimization.
- Feature-rich – offers 5000+ instant features.
- Omnichannel – communicates with customers wherever possible.
- Scalability – Magento is written in PHP and is very easily scalable.
- Support for managing a larger number of stores – through a single administrative panel.
- Hybrid platform – enables B2B and B2C management on one platform.
- Security – provides a high degree of data protection.
- Community – has a large, ever-growing community.
- Architecture – solves most of the necessary tasks. Supports code reuse, maintainability, and debugging.
Enlargement – very flexible and easy to adopt innovations thanks to the global community.
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Magento Commerce products, features, and capabilities
Magento integration
Magento provides extensive third-party integration capabilities, which is a huge advantage. The Magento API integrates with marketplaces, payment gateways, accounting systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), product information management (PIM), and marketing automation systems.
Magento Commerce Cloud
Magento Commerce Cloud is a managed automated hosting platform for Magento Commerce software. Magento Commerce Cloud comes with several other features that set it apart from the on-premise Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source solutions. It provides a pre-built infrastructure that includes PHP, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch technologies.
Magento CMS
A CMS is a system that uses a database to manage all its content and can be used when developing websites. CMS is used to update the content and/or structure of your site.
The Magento CMS section allows managing all websites.
It helps to create rich content for the e-shop. Magento Page Builder is a native content authoring extension. In the Page Builder, it is possible to create content in the Drag & Drop way, easily edit various parts of content, including images, videos, banners, sliders, maps, etc. You can easily create your HTML blocks, buttons, insert dynamic blocks that are personalized display. Publishing can be also scheduled.
Magento PWA
Progressive Web Applications (PWA) are technologies for creating powerful and multifunctional Web applications. Combine the ease of accessing a website and your next application protection. Prepare features usually available only to native applications, such as working offline, push notifications, or accessing device hardware.
Magento PWA Studio
It is a set of development tools that enable the development, deployment, and maintenance of PWA over Magento 2.3 and later. It uses modern tools and libraries to create an assembly system and framework that adheres to the Magento extensibility principle. Magento Commerce brings a completely separated front end in PWA Studio supported by an extensive set of back-end technologies. The result is an integrated eCommerce solution designed to help merchants embrace the most innovative digital commerce technologies today.
StoreFront X by MageXo
Storefront X is a PWA framework created and managed by MageXo, based on implemented projects and takes over their best practices.
The image below shows the user’s request and how SFX works with the Magento platform. A caching layer is also shown between Magento and SFX because not all requests have to go to the server itself and the database (eg product category display or product detail).
Magento CRM
CRM software is a program that enables collect all the necessary data about the company’s customers – contact information, total turnover, shares in turnover in a particular segment, etc. It provides information about current customers, their transactions, and needs. Collects data about potential clients. They contain data on invoicing, orders and inquiries. They are the basis for planning strategy or marketing activities.
Magenta’s integration with CRM provides a 360 ° view of the company’s customers and helps tailor business to their experience and needs. It uses analytical tools to identify trends and goals. Is operating and managing in a way that improves customer relationships and attracts customer loyalty. Magento integrates with most CRM systems, including its client solutions.
Magento ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is important to many small and medium-sized companies in terms of connecting data and business processes. E-commerce and ERP integration increases efficiency – inventory, orders, customer data, and shipping details are synchronized between key business systems. Magento’s application programming interface (API) is very flexible and integrates with a wide range of ERP packages – including custom solutions. The global Magento ecosystem includes many industry-specific extensions and proprietary systems, which speeds up time-to-market for companies at a lower total cost of ownership.
AWS a Magento
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud platform offered by Amazon.com, which has become part of the e-com giant’s business portfolio. AWS allows to set up the infrastructure to support Magenta deployments in a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective way in the AWS Cloud.
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Magento framework
The Magento Framework manages application component interactions, including request flow, routing, indexing, and exception handling. It provides services that facilitate the creation of modules containing business logic and contributes to increasing the modularity of Magento code. This primarily software component of PHP is divided into logical groups called libraries, from which all modules can draw. Most of the architecture code is located below the domain layer or surrounds the presentation, service, and domain layers. The framework does not contain any business logic. The operations that control the Magento Framework are useful for all modules, including:
- HTTP protocol processing
- content rendering
- interaction with database and file system
Magento hosting
Web hosting is a must for any website. Hosting allows companies or individuals to publish a website or webpage on the Internet. Websites are stored on special servers. Magento hosting is a web hosting plan that ensures compatibility with Magento e-commerce software. Magento allows different types of hosting:
- Shared hosting
- VPS hosting (Virtual Private Server)
- Dedicated hosting
- Cloud hosting
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Build your business on Magento
Magento B2B
The Magento Commerce B2B model, unlike the B2C model, is designed to meet the needs of resellers whose customers are primarily companies – possibly with complex organizational structures and multiple users with different roles and permission levels. The B2B model is ready for corporate accounts with many buyers in multi-level organizational structures. It has self-service tools for managing the roles and permissions of buyers. Allows you to track orders, offers, and invoices. It has an automated order approval process based on rules determined by the company itself. It provides quick order forms, uploads shopping lists, and stores them for repeat shopping needs. Re-orders made with a few clicks. Like the B2C module, it focuses on personalized experiences. In the module, it is possible to create custom catalogs and agreed prices. Websites adapt to customers based on their previous behavior. Each visit is analyzed. The content of the website and promotions are tailored to customers. Support is available 24/7 and websites are optimized for mobile phones. It has a powerful API for sharing prices, products, customers, transportation, and other data. Provides up to 1000 additional extensions for business requirements.
Magento enterprise
Magento Enterprise Edition blurs the boundaries of what is possible and gives you the power to create bold and unique shopping experiences that will transform your business. Designed for fast and cost-effective innovation, the platform combines rich, ready-to-use functionality, business performance, and scope with powerful business tools to keep you ahead of increasingly complex business operations and growing customer demands.
Magento Open Source
Open Source is a self-service trading platform with a large range of free business functions. It is ideal for small businesses that need a flexible digital commerce solution for online sales.
Magento Open Source provides all the basic performance and features needed to run an e-commerce business. This is an unlicensed version of Magenta that makes it available to start-ups and small businesses new to the industry or on a limited budget. Although this version does not have the same features as Magento Commerce, it can be customized with additional extensions or in-house development. Both Open Source and Commerce users can take advantage of Magento 2. Also, they have the same access to the Magento Marketplace, which allows users to purchase additional Magento 2 extensions for additional website functionality. Open Source is not a scalable platform, which can cause problems for companies to grow. At the same time, it does not offer Magenta support, which means that you will not have any help if an error occurs in the e-shop. It is also important to note that while it is possible to upgrade from Magento Open Source to Magento Commerce, implementation will be affected by the amount of customization that has taken place. For example, not all third-party modules are compatible with Enterprise, and as a result, some refactoring may be required.
Magento Commerce
Magento Commerce has more functionality than the Open Source variant. Designed for larger companies that require technical support for installation, configuration, or bug fixes. It also exists in the platform-as-a-service variant.
It is a suitable solution for companies looking for a more secure, scalable option than Open Source. Magento Commerce offers a wide range of instant features. While marketing tools can be integrated into Open Source, Magento Commerce can boast a range of advanced marketing tools, including content planning, dynamic customer segmentation, cart exit notifications, and personalization tools that have significantly increased sales for users.
It also allows you to set return and exchange rules and other customer service features, such as gift wrapping options, wish lists, gift cards, and in-store credit. Important features for any brand interested in improving loyalty and increasing resale.
Magento Commerce is designed for larger organizations and is ideal for those who require reliability and availability. It offers one native platform for B2C and B2B with the ability to add as many storefronts as you want. For B2B retailers, this is an ideal choice because it includes everything you need to manage B2B sites for multiple brands, channel partners, or key accounts.
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Magento Certifications
Magento certifications are used to assess the level of knowledge and skills of developers and professionals who focus on Magento technology. Obtaining a certificate means that a person’s expertise is at a high level and clients can be sure that a professional is working on their project.
Magento specialist
Magento specialists are experienced users of the Magento e-com platform. Their expertise is evidenced by a certificate, which they can obtain by passing the exam.
To pass the exam, they need to know the functionality of Magento 2, be able to optimize the use of native features and avoid unnecessary customization. There are several areas of knowledge: eCommerce, Magento Architecture, Magento Admin & Storefront, Business & Applications, and Catalog.
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Magento developer
Magento Developer is a specialized job position. It focuses on the development and maintenance of e-commerce websites built on the Magento platform. This position requires a high degree of responsibility concerning e-shop turnovers. A prerequisite for performing such a position is advanced knowledge of Magento, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, or, for example, MySQL. Magento Developer should also have experience with the e-commerce lifecycle and ideally an overview of UX / UI trends.
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MageXo
MageXo is a technology company that has been implementing e-shops on the global Magento platform since 2010. He specializes in omnichannel e-commerce and digital transformation for the B2C and B2B sectors.
We are focusing on Magento technology and official partners of Adobe (Magento Inc) operating in Europe.
We connect the world of business and enterprise technology to build a world of digital business and provide an environment for digital business transformation. Thanks to the global Magento ecosystem, we are helping to change the world of e-com. We enable companies to expand abroad and, thanks to deep know-how and experience, we create our functions for a better user experience.
MageXo is a technology company that has been implementing e-shops on the worldwide Magento platform since 2010. With our team of e-commerce specialists, we are involved in the largest and most demanding Magento projects locally as well as in Europe from the position of a leader on the Czech market. At the same time, we create the technological activities that completely differentiate us on the market.
We are a fully certified Magento Professional Solution Partner. Our team consists of 150+ Magento experts with experience in large-scale international e-commerce projects.
