This documents contains how replatforming can help your e-commerce business to transform in better way.
Replatforming is a part of digital transformation and it migrate your e-commerce site to modern technology.
It upgrade CMS and other backend components for better seamless user experience.
2. OVERVIEW
• Now a days businesses are prefer to move on omnichannel
approach for better customer interaction and experience.
• Replatforming provides that personalized user experience by
updating better platform.
• Its modern technologies and frameworks can deliver desired
results quickly and accurately.
• Ultimately its leads to better ecommerce business.
3. REPLATFORMING MEANING
• It means migrating your ecommerce site from one technology to
another.
• It is a part of digital transformation.
• It may re-platform your ecommerce from on-premise hosting to
the cloud or move on to the CMS that offers you better
functionality for your site.
4. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPLATFORMING &
REDESIGNING
• Replatforming – Updating / changing website’s structure and its
foundational technology like CMS or commerce engine etc.
• It changes backend components of website.
• Redesigning – Modifying look, design and feel of website with
modified UX components on the front end.
• Companies can implement both simultaneously or separately;
and can also go with either of these only, its totally depends on
company’s need and goal.
6. 1. ENHANCE PERFORMANCE
When you update and modify backend
components with latest technological
aspects, API-first tech stack it will load your
store faster.
It helps to retain more customers and
improve your SEO rankings.
7. 2. OFFERS SCALABILITY
When you upgrade your website with
modern architecture platforms, it come
with auto-scaling options, and they can
offer resources to absorb the traffic
whenever there is high demand.
8. 3. CUSTOM SOLUTIONS
By using generalise solution for all
may not work properly and impact
poorly in user experience.
While transforming with modern
technology can build ecommerce
platform with new plugins and
automation gives best personalized
experience on a new level
9. 4. FLEXIBLE CONTENT CREATION
In replatforming you will upgrade your
CMS technologies and that modern
CMS is faster to create content and
easy to mange it.
Content management become
seamless to handle.
10. APPROACHING REPLATFORMING
1) Compatibility -
• Check the compatibility of the platform which your are
choosing.
• Is it developed in house or offered as a SaaS.
• Is it fulfilled your business need and goal.
11. 2) service legal agreement -
• Check the service legal agreement of new technology
• This will determine how protected you will be when it comes to
downtime and how much you will lose with the amount of
downtime.
12. 3) Documentation –
• Is new technology comes with documentation ?
• Is it require specialized trainig ?
• How much time it will tale ?
4) Extras –
• The technology you zero in on may need you to install some
plugins. They should also help you quickly develop the features
you will need and offer the customization you desire in your
ecommerce site.
13. TIPS FOR REPLATFORMING
Clear communication with team is must regarding the changes
and their role in the process.
Decide on measurable criteria with your KPI and work
accordingly.
Make a list of things you want to move to the new platform and
the ones that can be discarded.
Work in phases. Move low-priority/low-traffic content first to
see how it goes instead of moving everything all at once.
14. CONCLUSION
• Replatforming your Ecommerce website can offer various
benefits, including improved performance, scalability,
customization options, and content flexibility for both you and
your customers.
• However, it is important to consider factors such as
infrastructure compatibility, service level agreements, training
requirements, and extensibility of the new platform before
making the transition.