Technology Focus and Luxoft's E-commerce Practice
Technology focus
Luxoft’s success as a technology services firm lies in its strong engineering DNA. Luxoft invests heavily in the study and practical application of the most up-to-date technologies, platforms and products. From a technical standpoint, Luxoft’s E-commerce Practice stands on six major pillars: E-commerce Platforms, Web Applications and Portals, Back-office System integration, Transaction Processing, Business Intelligence and Performance Engineering.
E-commerce Platforms
Today's market offers a host of e-commerce platforms from different vendors. They are comprised of modules with comprehensive functionality that cover various business processes, such as shopping carts, product catalogues, content management systems, personalization engines, merchandising management, order management, customer management, multichannel selling, analytics and reporting, and others. These modules are usually the optimal solution for mid-and large-scale businesses with high transaction volumes. For these businesses, off-the-shelf solutions can significantly reduce development budget and shorten time to market.
Luxoft focuses on the following e-commerce platforms, each of which has its own unique advantage: Microsoft Commerce Server, ATG and Elastic Path.
Web Applications and Portals
In certain cases, deployment of full-fledged e-commerce suites cannot be justified due to highly specific business requirements or to project scale. We have extensive experience in developing web applications based on standard technologies, APIs and packages, both commercial and open source. Luxoft also builds portal solutions combining various content and data sources.
Platforms
J2EE, .Net, LAMP.
Portals
BEA Web Logic Portal, IBM WebSphere Portal, JBoss Portal, LifeRay, Microsoft Sharepoint.
Back-office System Integration
Integration of web front end with other enterprise applications is an essential part of e-commerce projects, especially for large corporate customers with distributed IT infrastructure. Sometimes it becomes an even more sophisticated task than development itself. Luxoft’s E-commerce Practice team has a very good grasp of the major packaged enterprise applications, including native APIs and integration tools, and has successfully utilized the Enterprise Service Bus architecture on a large number of projects.
CRM
Microsoft CRM, SalesForce.
ERP
Oracle 11i, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP R/3.
ESB
Mule, Tibco, Sonic, JBoss ESB, WebSphere ESB.
Transaction Processing
As the number of online transactions and complicity of back-office systems grew a new class of brokering software emerged to allow distributed transactions to run on different computers, OS and DBMS. Luxoft specializes in online transaction processing software development and integration for electronic banking, order processing, and e-trading.
Platforms
IBM CICS, JBoss Messaging, Microsoft MQ, IBM MQ.
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Although modern web applications can provide large amounts of business data about their consumers, this data is useless without proper processing. Different types of statistical information on customer behavior patterns can be used for fraud prevention, personalized marketing, and other objectives. Luxoft excels in building datamarts and online analytics using the following tools: Microsoft Performance Point Server, Oracle BI, Business Objects XI.
Performance Engineering
Slow response time and delays with transaction processing are among the main factors that negatively impact user experience and hinder business growth. Performance engineering deals with both prevention of possible issues at the architecture design stage and identification of the bottlenecks in applications already in production. Our performance experts use special tools and lab equipment for stress testing and simulation of real environments.
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Tools
Mercury LoadRunner, Sigue SilkTest, Citra Test, WebLOAD, JMeter, SLAMD.