Compare product capabilities of Magento 1 vs Magento 2 (http://bit.ly/2ohkF5N), so you can evaluate your options to determine the best transition plan for your business - if it is needed. In the first part of this webinar series we will cover:
- Differences between Magento 1 Community vs Enterprise Edition end-of-life plans
- How EOL plans impact Magento 1 merchants
- Comparison of Magento 1 and Magento 2 capabilities
- Options available for Magento 1 customers
- Creating your own transition plan and timeline
View the whole webinar on demand here: http://bit.ly/2ohkF5N
Carl talks Celigo, introduce Ben. Ben talks briefly about 121eCommerce
Hi I’m Ben from 121eCommerce we are a
Certified Magento eCommerce development agency specializing in both B2B and B2C eCommerce
We help companies develop and optimize their eCommerce infrastructure
We make it our responsibility to understand our customer’s business objectives and ensure that any investment into their eCommerce systems has a positive ROI.
What is going on.
So let’s jump into it, I know there is a lot of confusion and mixed messages, different dates being thrown around - “sunsetting” “Losing support” - so let's clarify this, Whats going on with Magento 1?
make it clear that it’s confusing because of EE and CE.
The answer to that depends on if you are on the community edition or the enterprise edition
This blog is a big source of confusion
https://magento.com/blog/magento-news/ongoing-magento-1-support
explain Magentos timeline.
For the community edition it is pretty simple, Magento set a hard date of Q3 of 2018 when they will be stopping all support for Magento 1 - we’ll talk about what that means practically in a min
Enterprise edition is a little more complex. You have until June of 2020, but that is only if your licence covers until then. So if your license were to expire today - you would have to renew your licence for three years in order to continue receiving support
Explain how having a site that is not secure can cause issues with credit cards and payment processers – possibly stopping you from making conversions
People are looking to go to other platforms
Some people are looking at shopify/woo/bigcommerce
Some people are looking at Hybris/Demandware
This speaks to how flexible Magento is because it competes with starter and major platforms
Introduce Magento 2
The obvious option of course is migrating to Magento 2. It’s not an update, it’s a full migration- Magento 2 to is built on symfony framework as opposed to zen and utilizes a lot more new technologies.
Honestly this whole presentation can be about what's new with Magento 2 and what makes it worthwhile. The primary differences are:
Talk about M2 front end benefits
It has an overall better architecture than M1
Performs better
Catalog can scale vertically (millions of SKUs to large traffic)
Handle 10s of thousands of orders a day
More robust CMS
Better for creating rules around cross sells, upsells, landing pages etc.
Talk bout back-end m2 Benefits
t is more modular
It has a more intuitive UI for admin
In the past things you would need developers for you can easily do yourself
Marketing capabilities (you can schedule promotions without any dev knowledge)
Scheduling promotions in avance
Magento 1 was able to be made useable for B2B through a lot of customization, whereas Magento 2 has a B2B feature set that is native.
They took 10 years of merchant feedback and put it into a new platform, and kudos to them for that.
Quarterly updates are a good example of Magentos commitment to M2
Companies that use Magento grow 2 ½ times faster than on Shopify - That might be largely do to the fact that Magento is more conducive for marketing, but also a lot of it is because companies on Magento are by definition run by people looking to customize and push the bar, not give their customers a cookie cutter experience. So naturally people using Magento are more aggressive in their growth plans.
Timeline, explaine why it’s important to understand this
.Timeline - with only a couple of months until Magento is stopping support, it’s important to have a clear picture of how long your project will take you.
Break down the timeline
How long a migration takes depends primarily on how much you are migrating (functionality, design, users, data . . . )
The first thing you need to do is look at you site and figure out, what do I have? What do I want to add? And what do I want to get rid of?
From there we can see what is now native in Magento 2 and what extensions are available.
Then we take a look at what you need to integrate with, can we leverage the existing connectors you have (that will depend on how they were built.
It’s not a straight Migration because Magento handles data, catalogs etc. differently now because they optimised it and it works much faster.
There are scripts that do the migration but it all depends on if your data has been customised, have you done bundles, where does information come from? All this will have to be accommodated for.
In the last quarter we did five m1 - M2 migrations and we found that typically it takes about 4 - 7 months. The breakdown is something like:
1 month for getting all the details for the proposal and signing process.
2 - 4 months for handling data migration, functionality, design and any integrations
1 -2 month for QA, user acceptance testing and Launch
So we are pretty much down to the wire of when you need to start the process if you want to be on M2 before the end of Magento 1 Community. Even if you start on January 1st you are looking at getting launched around June.
