Buying E-Commerce Technology in 2009? Buy This First!

Next year will be very competitive in e-retailing. Who isn’t trying to expand their share of this market—the only growth segment in all of retailing. But as online merchants look to be more competitive in 2009, they are going to employ more robust e-commerce solutions and services to capitalize on the spectacular growth of online retailing. Trouble is, there are now more than 700 e-commerce solutions vendors and service providers. How do you pick the right ones for you that make the most of your investment? It is a difficult and high-stakes proposition.

Now there’s a way to vastly simplify and empower your search for e-retailing technology and services—our just published 2009 Edition of the Guide to E-Commerce Technology, a 368-page directory from Internet Retailer, e-retailing’s leading information provider. Priced at only $59 plus shipping, this all-new Guide provides valuable independent research on e-retailing solutions providers you will not find anywhere else—the results of six-month's journalistic study of all segments of the e-commerce technology market. In this comprehensive report, you will find completely updated details and all new staff-written profiles of 700 providers of e-commerce technology and services organized into 22 market segments.

These are not paid listings provided by e-commerce vendors but rather independently researched profiles of the leading e-commerce vendors. Each vendor profile includes the following new and updated information:

In addition to this key information on all 700 e-commerce vendors, the Guide to E-Commerce Technology includes the following up-to-the-minute analysis and data on the e-commerce product and services market:

Comprehensive overview of the current and future state of web retailing technology and the strategies top e-retailers are using to improve their return on technology investment.

Five all-new feature articles by top consultants on how to select technology providers and applications that are right for you, choose between on-demand or off-the-shelf applications, develop and manage a growing e-commerce technology infrastructure, and use customer feedback to implement new technology effectively.

Focused analysis on key emerging technologies such as video, advanced personalization and mobile commerce.

An exclusive survey of e-retailer plans for e-commerce technology spending in 2009 and beyond

Contact data on 1,800 top executives at America’s most prestigious e-commerce solutions companies—all organized by company into an easy-to-read guide

Details on more than 30 e-commerce technology reports by key research firms

Synopses of 100 books on e-retailing strategy and technology.

Even if you purchased the 2007 edition of this Guide, the completely updated and new information contained in the 2009 Edition Guide to E-Commerce Technology makes it an essential research tool for e-retailers looking to be more competitive in 2009 and beyond.

How to Order: All this research on e-commerce vendors is available in one 368-page volume for only $59 plus shipping. Supplies of the Guide to E-Commerce Technology are limited but can be ordered online now.