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Who are Conexus PEOPLE. KNOW. HOW SPECIALISED PEOPLE. HYBRIS GOLD PARTNER. PROVEN APPROACH As an employer of choice in the global hybris retail community, Conexus are powered by positive people who have the talent and retail industry experience to safely take hybris users into the new Omni Channel Commerce world.
Conexus helps retailers to elevate their brand, inventory and customer experience through the design, implementation and on going management of innovative hybris solutions BRAND ELEVATION INTELLIGENT INVENTORY CONNECTED CUSTOMER
Our Locations ADELAIDE, SA MELBOURNE, VIC MINNEAPOLIS, USA BIRMINGHAM, UK BASINGSTOKE, UK PORTO, PORTUGAL BANGKOK, THAILAND BANGALORE, INDIA PUNE, INDIA MUMBAI, INDIA Since 1998, Conexus has optimized leading retailers all over the world, based on our experience and knowledge of developing and integrating ecommerce solutions
Our Goal REDUCE COST, RISK AND COMPLEXITY ADD SIGNIFICANT MEASURABLE VALUE FOR OUR CLIENTS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS CONFRONT BUSINESS CHALLENGES DELIVER INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
How Can You Safely Predict Traffic Impact DYNAMIC & FLUID LANDSCAPE STORE FRONT INTENSIVE TRAFFIC. BACK OFFICE ACTIVITIES Today s shoppers now seamlessly interact with your brand across a range of touch points. Searching on mobile devices, buying on their tablets, laptops or desktops, and picking-up orders in-store whilst taking advantage of the latest online and offline promotions. The truth is no one can predict accurately the exact impact, but it can be managed to reduce risk.
Store Front Intensive Traffic At peak periods the bulk of the load on the commerce infrastructure is generated by customer page views and browser activity. SEARCHING Complex search such as bespoke present finder. Product research and reviews to determine customer selection. Store Locator. VIEWING Multiple product images in varying sizes. Video streaming. Promotional Banners. Carousels. ORDERING Creating and saving wish lists. Utilising discount codes. Payment gateway. Dispatch and Click and Collect
Back office activities Sometimes overlooked is the increase in traffic at the back office systems associated with business functions and integrations. CUSTOMER SERVICE Customer queries. Order management. Fulfilment. Refunds. Returns. SALES CHANNELS Additional sales channels including marketplaces and affiliates generate additional orders and delivery updates and notifications 3 RD PARTY INTEGRATIONS Payment providers, reviews sites, analytics and tracking, CDN, ERP, WMS
Ensuring your hybris omni channel solution delivers optimal performance, even in the face of peak periods of shopping activity, can be challenging. It can also distract you from your core mission: delivering engaging omni channel experiences to their customers. PEAK PERFORMANCE PLANNING MANAGED SERVICES FLEXIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Managing the unexpected PEAK PERFORMANCE PLANNING STRATEGY. DATA COLLECTION. RESOURCING. SITE OPTIMISATION Define a peak period strategy by comparing existing capability with business forecast. Analysing historical data from various sources and comparing them to the business forecast to define the additional resource to manage the increased load. Platform improvements via numerous methods such as database housekeeping and page delivery optimisation.
Advanced Managed Services Conexus offers solutions to help ensure your hybris commerce platform delivers an outstanding omni channel experience, even during peak shopping seasons LOAD TESTING Utilising synthetic traffic to provide controllable real world load to your infrastructure, giving you accurate data to define the additional resource to meet the forecasted traffic. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Optimising user experience whilst managing cost by limiting the number of visitors to maintain page delivery time in accordance with business expectations
Flexible Environment SCALABLE Leverage the scalability and cost-effectiveness of public cloud, without having to expose some of the more critical applications and data to external resources. TAILORED Conexus will design and build both private and hybrid cloud infrastructure based on the client s requirements. FLEXIBLE The hybrid cloud enables clients to overcome issues and concerns related to security and compliance as well as unexpected costs. CONTROLABLE Hybrid clouds also provides predictability, within the context of budgeting and usage of services
The Entertainer WHAT The Entertainer wanted to move to a hybris partner that could help them evolve a long term strategy for their omni channel platform. HOW Conexus engaged on a customer acquisition phase that took 4 weeks to complete. Working together we have built a three year strategy for the solution. SUCCESS Online sales continue to grow by 40% YOY. Click and Collect traffic was up 100% during Xmas 2013. FUTURE Two full years of commerce enhancements and Keystone Managed Service delivery.
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