I am looking for ideas or suggestions of good technologies, services or platforms in 2021 for websites that do not deviate too much from the usual e-commerce user flow.<p>What would be your ideal infrastructure?<p>Would you build it from scratch? or would you use existing platforms (SaaS, self hosted CMS, etc.)?<p>Is there a combination of ERP, PIM and CMS that is working well for you?<p>I am specifically interested in answers targeting businesses with 100M$+ yearly turnover and with the requirements that they frequently have: multi-language, multi-currency, multi-warehouse.
That is at the higher-end of revenue and scale! I think you'd typically see Shopify as the integrated solution for <$5-10M companies, big enterprise solutions (Adobe, SAP, Oracle) for $100M+ scale, and solutions like Fabric trying to find a middle spot in that range.<p>Vendors like Toshiba[1] are starting to offer some forkable microservices/APIs that let you control your destiny on development while also giving you an architectural headstart so you don't rediscover the e-commerce domain from first principles. (But it does usually mean you're committing to spending money on POS hardware - may be an assumed cost in some omnichannel use cases.)<p>At a certain point, you need to ask yourself how much digital is a competitive differentiator for your business. It's increasingly tablestakes in B2C with B2B not far behind, and the SaaS/platform solutions will indefinitely saddle you with sales-driven SIs and upgrade cycles if you don't bring those capabilities in-house. It's pretty difficult to do rapid, customer-centric iteration with Adobe Experience Manager or similar low-code front-end platforms.<p>For teams that are trying to bring more in-house, you can do a custom build or cobble together solutions but hopefully your e-commerce org has product and technology leaders who know the domain from previous experience or you're in for a long learning curve!<p>[1] <a href="https://commerce.toshiba.com/wps/portal/marketing/?urile=wcm:path:/en-us/home/software/commerce-platforms/elera" rel="nofollow">https://commerce.toshiba.com/wps/portal/marketing/?urile=wcm...</a>