inRiver

The market for e-commerce systems 

Looking at the e-commerce market there are literally thousands of systems to choose from, for all types of business needs and budgets. There are enterprise solutions with vast feature sets and high prices, small business solutions with focused feature sets and smaller price tags, open source solutions and of course everything in between. This is good as the number of e-commerce systems and vendors leads to tough competition that in turn leads to better prices and constantly evolving functionality. No matter if you need something simple or something feature rich there are numerous e-commerce solutions to choose from.

inRiver's view 

At inRiver we believe that freedom and independence comes from choice and that our customers should be free to choose their platforms and implementation partners, regardless of the PIM solution. inRiver PIM is built from the ground up to support a high level of freedom and choice. To achieve this we constantly develop our products to be market leading in terms of how they integrate with other platforms. We always use open standards and technology and we avoid all unnecessary complexity to make it easy to find resources and implementation partners. In the cases where we see that many of our customers would benefit from it, we also develop plug and play connectors to selected platforms to facilitate even shorter projects and to lower integration cost to a minimum.

The benefits

This approach has several benefits for our customers as they can choose the right platform, at the right price, with the right features that fit their specific need and budget. They can then choose the implementation partner that gives them the best possible service and advice at a competitive price. This freedom of choice will undoubtedly lead to better solutions at lower cost with faster ROI while still preserving the possibility to choose other suppliers in the future. It also makes it possible to do what many of our customers have done, to choose several different platforms at the same time that each will fit the need and the budget of each market and channel. It will of course also give you the freedom to change platforms over time.