Virtual Logistics' Ecommerce Data Integration Blog

Shopping cart data integration. In a blog post a couple of weeks ago I blogged about the integration nightmare before Christmas. The online shopping season is in full swing so I thought it would be interesting to look at how Amazon handles their Christmas order volume. Given that online sales are increasing all the time, integration and effective data handling is becoming a critical key component of the success of internet retailing. Here is an interesting statistic. Amazon at this time of year handles on average, in its UK operations, 35 orders a second off its web site. 35 orders a second! Its mind boggling, you don't do that volume manually or with poorly planned systems.

I was on vacation last week and the old axiom that when you go away things happen, played itself out to a tee. Softshare was sold to Liaison Technologies of Atlanta. I have to confess that I had a pretty good idea it was happening before I left, but I couldn't say anything. Fishing out on Lake Couchiching  turned out to be more exciting than I thought!