Emily Pfeiffer

Most US online adults use the search (not menu) function on a site to find products. Learn how quality data powers commerce search experiences.

Read part one of our blog series covering generative AI’s impact on commerce tech from Forrester Principal Analyst Emily Pfeiffer and Senior Researcher Nicole Murgia.

Strong commerce search functionality will be pivotal in your customers’ digital shopping experiences this holiday season — learn what you must do to tune that.

Digital commerce in 2024 will adopt artificial intelligence and augmented reality to solve specific use cases. Overall, digital businesses will apply surgical precision, rather than sweeping change, to their technology decisions. Read our predictions.

A retailer’s solution to solve increased shrink may already be in its arsenal. Learn how store fulfillment tech such as order management systems may help prevent retail theft.

Our just-published Forrester Wave™ delivers the first evaluation of the commerce search and product discovery market, featuring the 10 leading vendors in the space.

Our newly-published Vendor Landscape for Commerce Search and Product Discovery lists the 28 most notable vendors in the space and details the 10 most important use cases they’re focusing on for clients today.  

Our just-published The Forrester Wave™: Order Management Systems, Q2 2023, illustrates a fractured market of eight order management system vendors, all racing to match an unprecedented rate of change.

Our new commerce search landscape report publishes in just a few weeks. It features a long list of vendors and illustrates the functions and use cases that digital businesses can expect from them. I am thrilled to announce that our Forrester Wave™ evaluation analyzing this market will follow this year, covering the latest major commerce tech spin-off market!

Here’s a snippet of the advice we gave to retailers looking to meet customers’ high expectations around shipping and fulfillment this holiday season and beyond.

Digital commerce stacks are weighed down by legacy bloat. Discover how function-first buying can boost efficiency and slim down costs by separating required and common functions in digital commerce tech stacks.

Digital business leaders can use these tips to evolve their evaluation, selection, and evolution practices for both platforms and partners. Plus, learn about a robust new body of research that will help you supercharge the effectiveness of your digital ecosystem.

Different roles have different relationships to headless commerce. Yet the concept is easier explained when you can settle on a frame of reference.

The Forrester Wave™ for B2C Commerce Solutions surfaced a significant shift in the market, which we predicted but did not expect to see so quickly or so clearly.

We forecast that global OMS spending will nearly double over the next five years, with a CAGR of 12.8%. Here’s why.

Speed, options, and transparency should guide holiday-season planning. Learn how to deliver on customers' expectations this year.

Today’s world, rife with supply chain emergencies, natural disasters, and pandemic responses, requires agility and adaptability that businesses cannot deliver with static, overly-customized tech.