Developers in smaller and larger e-commerce agencies/shops are often faced with different development environments. Customers who want to evaluate e-commerce platforms like Magento, OXID or Shopware have to handle everything from downloading the packages, their LAMP stack and installing it on-the-go. Of course, you might have your own virtual machine, but for a quick shot you have to create another virtual host etc.

It is a season of good news for all the online merchants and shoppers. According to the recent report by the eMarketer, the eCommerce industry proudly surpassed the trillion dollars mark in the year 2012. The B2C sales have increased by 21.1 percent and the experts predict that it will increase by another 12.3 percent in the current year. This only gives much more hope and promise to the online merchants to plunge into the deeply rewarding and thriving sea of eCommerce and concentrate their eCommerce websites in a better way to capture the flourishing business potential.

We come across many clients asking for a revamp of their e-stores. While they are certainly correct for their store's revamping needs, but many of them are unaware about choosing technology for their new store and others, although, come with a pre-defined CMS choice, but fail to give us very convincing reasons for choosing that particular CMS. We evaluate a perfect fit for our client by a technique called "Prudential Migration".

Whosoever thinks that the smart phones are only a passing trend and will soon be long gone, is definitely only kidding themselves. In this age where texting, video calling is replacing traditional calling and people carrying out important activities straight away from their smart phones, one can safely predict a prolific increase in the requirement of highly efficient and technically sound apps.

Have you finally decided to take a plunge in the gratifying world of eCommerce development? In case you have finally decided to carry out your business online, significantly cut the costs and enjoy the benefits of vigorous and upbeat market, here are the 5 things that you must consider before getting your eCommerce website developed.

Today, the eCommerce industry seems to have smitten the entire world. It has actually turned the colossal globe into a small urban village, efficiently bridging the gaps between any two geographically different locations. However, as they say that Rome was not built in a day, it took eCommerce industry years of hard work, to get to a position where it is today. Surviving through user distrust, to online frauds, to aggressive marketing and awareness programs, the eCommerce industry today has reached a stage where today, more 80% of the users who are active online, have at least shopped online at least once and more that 50% of them have shopped online more than once.

SharePoint is a versatile tool from Microsoft which offers a wide range of tools used for web designing, networking, and application development along with a powerful content management solution. It can be configured to manage Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites within any organization. This robust solution can be applied to businesses of all scales and sizes and allows them to create highly customized business solutions to meet their needs. Now we shall take a look at six reasons that should convince you to use Microsoft SharePoint in your business.