This document discusses common misperceptions about Magento and addresses how to overcome them. It explains that Magento websites can have compelling designs through customization. It also discusses how Magento can scale to high traffic volumes through techniques like stripping unnecessary functions, using a CDN, and cloud computing. The document also covers how Magento integrates well with other systems by having a master system and considering compliance requirements.
2. Why a Magento Deployments eBook?
We continually hear misconceptions about Magento from
organizations considering it as an ecommerce platform option.
Through our many Magento deployments we have first-hand
knowledge of what is and is not possible with Magento, and will
address a number of the misconceptions here.
4. Design & User Experience
IT generally loves open source software, but the marketing folks
want to make sure the design of the site is compelling, brand
relevant and incorporates ecommerce best practices.
Following are some best practices in ecommerce and design,
and how to achieve them with Magento.
16. Improving Magento Speed & Performance
Many companies assume that Magento will not scale to meet their
needs. This is based either on FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) on
the part of threatened closed-source vendors, or from falsely
assuming that Magento out of the box is the only option.
We’ve deployed Magento at significant scale for many clients,
and will share a few of our secrets here.
28. Integration with Existing Systems
Magento is an open platform that follows standards-based
approaches to integration. The community of third-party integration
software has also written adapters to Magento that can ease
integration requirements.
Following, we share the most common integration requests, as
well as our approach.
36. Conclusion
Hopefully this eBook helped address some of your questions. If there
are other questions you would like to discuss, please reach out to us at
www.optaros.com or contact me at mosofsky@optaros.com
Marc Osofsky, VP Marketing
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