Over the past few years e-commerce has become one of the major revenue drivers for retailers. Major retailers are recognizing that their online stores are ?mission critical? businesses. AS these companies pay more attention to the online channel, they are finding that the current e-commerce platform can no longer support their growth or evolving business needs. e-commerce executives and their IT counterparts are starting to look for more sophisticated applications that can best meet their current and future needs.

Choosing the right e-commerce application for your business can be a daunting task. Businesses need to base their decision on both current requirements and a vague, undetermined set of future needs that have not even hit the planning stages yet. At first glance commerce web site functionality seems pretty basic and almost commoditized but on second sight there is a complex set of capabilities required to keep best-in-class web stores appealing, responsive and performing well at high transaction volumes over the long term.

This paper offers ten considerations to help guide the selection criteria for your next e-commerce platform - which should ideally be the last e-commerce platform you would ever need to buy. Continue reading to learn these two technical considerations for evaluating e-commerce platforms.