Open source e-commerce is increasingly becoming the wave of the future - or should that be the present… because clever online sales software platforms like Magento e-commerce look to be taking the market by storm.

There seems little doubt that open source is establishing a lead over proprietary vendors. Established companies are unable to lance the boil that - to them - is open source.

Open-source vendors care just as much about quality, stability and performance as proprietary vendors. Combine this with a greater attention to customer needs such as shifting the risk of deployment on to open source vendors themselves, rather than foisting it on to customers - and it is clear that open source is proving to be a major competitive force that proprietary firms and corporations are increasingly unable to contain.

A range of criticisms have been levelled at open source, from requiring too many developers and forcing customers to carry out their own upgrades to development paths fraught with difficulty and fragmentation.

Magento e-commerce better than proprietary solutions

But these issues are now in the past. The open source business model and software development path is stepping up to the plate and proving more than a match for mighty behemoths such as Microsoft and IBM.

Mark Chapman, E Business Marketing Manager at digital developer Fuse Optimisation, said, "The big players are trying to fight against the open source onslaught but products like Magento are emerging from the shadows putting pressure on these proprietary firms. It looks like a battle - or even a war - that proprietary companies won't win."

Hundreds of thousands of merchants now conduct billions of pounds of e-commerce business and transactions with Magento, a cost efficient and flexible solution for all types of merchants.

An e-commerce platform is mission critical for any online trader. Unlike e-commerce platforms of the past, Magento can be relied upon. Magento is being chosen time and again because merchants appreciate access to strong support and an excellent warranty as well as robust service level agreements. In addition, Magento has shown itself to help companies be quick to market.

Magento customers today include all kinds of big players in the FTSE and Fortune 500s, as well as medium and small enterprises, whether pure-play online merchants to bricks and mortar retailers.

For your business - Magento open source e-commerce platform

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform that provides merchants with a sophisticated software platform to manage their online sales. Magento enables online businesses to develop and rapidly deploy multiple types of e-commerce sites - globally if required - from a single instance of the platform.

To enquire about Fuse Magento solutions that meet your e-commerce requirements, our experienced team is always available. Contact us now.

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