Course Content
M2: Headless Commerce
The world of eCommerce is changing. You might even say that it has lost its head. With consumers getting used to consuming content and making purchases through various touch points — from IoT devices to progressive web apps — legacy eCommerce platforms are struggling to keep up with the demands of the customer.
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M4: B2B eCommerce Platform Features
Business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce platforms cater to companies that sell their own products or services to other businesses. B2B eCommerce platforms are popular with companies looking to diversify their revenue streams.
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M5: Adobe Magento Commerce
Adobe commerce (formerly Magento Commerce) has proven to be a popular choice for enterprise eCommerce brands. According to Salmon, Magento accounts for 31.4% of top 100,000 eCommerce sites.
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M6: Adobe Magento 2 Migration
Adobe Magento powers around 9 percent of the world’s eCommerce sites — and a great number of those users are at a crossroads: Should we go through the process of migrating to Magento 2, or should we explore pastures anew?
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M7: Speed Up Your Website and Applications
Site speed is critical for a successful website. Speed affects everything from a website's visibility on SERPs to conversion rates, engagement, and overall customer satisfaction. Needless to say, optimizing your website's speed is a necessity, but that doesn't make figuring out how to do it any easier.
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M8: Panama Papers: 2 Key Breaching Open Source Platforms
The hacking of Mossack Fonseca’s client portal leaked over 11.5 million documents, 4.8 million emails and 2.6TB of data - the largest leak in history. Prime ministers have resigned, business people are being scrutinized and over 30 countries have launched investigations against individuals and companies.
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M9: Contentstack
Deciding on your next content management system can depend on several factors, including your current tech stack, the requirements of different departments, your current priorities and where you see your business heading in the future.
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Case Study 1: Did You Start Up a New Media Behemoth in 2005? These Guys Did…
Does the year 2005 feel like yesterday to you? Can you believe we’re now laying on the nostalgia about the events of just over 10 years ago?!
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Case Study 2: What Does Adobe Acquiring Magento Mean For..?
“Adobe to Acquire Magento Commerce” was the straightforward headline of the press release that popped up in my news alert. Just five simple words. And yet, their impact could be tremendous. An impact that will be felt differently, depending on your role and relationship with these two software companies.
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Case Study 3: Music Streaming No Longer Just For Men on Pirate Ships
You know it’s an election year when every face on your TV is suddenly an expert in human psychology.
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Case Study 4: Core dna vs BigCommerce vs Shopify Plus: Platform Standoff
This lesson will analyze BigCommerce, Shopify Plus, and Core dna to see which platform best suits forward-thinking online retailers looking to provide experiences, not just products.
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Case Study 5: Acquia Acquired For $1B: What Does It Mean For Their Future?
The acquisition (or should we say, Acquiasition) may not come as a surprise to those who have followed Acquia’s story closely over the past few years. In a 2018 article for Xconomy, CEO of Acquia, Michael Sullivan, hinted that the company might end up selling “to accelerate (growth) even faster.”
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Case Study 6: The Amazon Survival Guide: Thriving in The Age of Amazon
Amazon’s dominance over the eCommerce market is almost scary. 44% of all product searches, in fact, start with Amazon. They own 43% of all U.S. online retail sales. That’s almost half the market!
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Case Study 7: Ascedia – Providing A Headless Solution For Standard Process (Case Study)
How Ascedia helped nutritional supplement giant, Standard Process, rewrite the way they engaged with their customers.
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Assessment + Professional Diploma Certificate
eCommerce Platform Strategist

A Web Presence And The Solution to Provide Content

To change the way Standard Process engaged with its clients, it needed a way to provide a high-functioning, somewhat customizable website to hundreds of potential clients. This couldn’t be overly complicated otherwise the rollout would hit a brick wall. The answer was a templated site — designed to provide HCPs with a web presence online. 

That was the easy part. 

The harder nut to crack was finding a system that could update product information from a central location to a network of sites. It would be impossible to manually update multiple websites accurately with product information on a regular basis. To make this idea work, would require a system that could seamlessly push out content from a single source of truth. That was going to require a headless CMS approach. 

What is a Headless CMS?

Before moving on, let’s spend a few words on what a headless CMS is. There are plenty of articles that go into detail about headless. For now, we will stay at the 3,000-foot level. 


A headless platform has no default front-end system determining how content is being presented to the end-user. Instead, it’s front-end agnostic. 

Put another way, by adopting a headless system, Standard Process had a solution to deliver product content to its growing network of HCPs.

But what partner could deliver this solution? Ascedia was put in charge of finding the right vendor to handle this project. 

Enter Core dna.

After an exhaustive search, Ascedia recommended Core dna as the vendor to deliver a seamless headless CMS solution to Standard Process. 

There are a growing number of companies that provide a headless solution. But it was only Core dna      that had the willingness, pre-built capabilities, and flexibility to develop the specific requirements Standard Process needed to execute the project. 

Nick Rudich, Executive Director at Ascedia and lead contact working with Standard Process had this to say: “None of the other companies I interviewed were willing to make the adjustments or changes we needed. Core dna was different. They were flexible and made the investment we needed for this project.”