Deepesh Rajpal's Desk

I want to create and host a HTTPS secure static website using AWS S3 bucket, Cloudfront, and Godaddy.  If you are looking for options on hosting that is cost-effective, can scale just in case your site goes viral and is fairly easy to maintain?  and  It's important to host your websites and web apps with HTTPS enabled. here a right architecture for you to host. We will be using AWS S3 for hosting our static website content (will post a separate blog, how to host an Angular application). AWS CloudFront for faster distribution, using AWS certificate manager and finally we will be using our DNS service from Godaddy. (I could have used AWS Route53 but why to pay that extra 50 bucks).  **imp. - because of GoDaddy only allows CNAME for subdomains;  we will do cloudfront distribution for www.myexample.com, and use domain forwarding from myexample.com to www.myexample.com 1. Setup S3 bucket and upload your website content to your bucket.  Just re...

Selling online is becoming strategically important and complex as it is expending faster than traditional retail. With this growth in number of users buying online, we have also seen eCommerce reaching multiple geography and 100s of thousand product options to sell. It becomes very important for a eCommerce site to strength companies online presence by standing out of crowd and enhancing the customer buying experience . A greater customer experience could be achieved by present buyers with product images/videos, product descriptions and product feature details (supporting multiple languages / locales), pricing and much more in an aesthetically appealing and easy-to-browse presentation. More over an enterprise needs a good CMS (Content Management System), to support such data and empowering their marketing strategy team to upload and manage all of the necessary content to provide a meaningful user experience from one central location. Here’s are my top picks as a good open-s...

I read this story of "Old Warwick" today. It brought a smile to my face, and I think it shares a wonderful lesson for every leader to learn. A man was lost while driving through the country. As he tried to reach for the map, he accidentally drove off the road into a ditch. Thought he wasn't injured, his car was stuck deep in the mud. So the man walked to a nearby farm to ask for help. "Warwick can get you out of that ditch," said the farmer, pointing to an old mule standing in a field. The man looked at the decrepit old mule and looked at the farmer who just stood there repeating, "Yep, old Warwick can do the job." The man figured he had nothing to lose. The two men and the mule made their way back to the ditch. The farmer hitched the mule to the car. With a snap of the reins, he shouted, "Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull, Warwick!" And the mule pulled that car right out of the ditch. The man was amazed. He thanked the farmer...

Isn't it important to make sure that each user coming to your online commerce channel should quickly and effectively able to find the right product they need and wanted to buy? Modern sales channel, works over a concept called ‘guiding selling’ to reduce user time and increase sales efficiency. Concept is applicable of both B2B and B2C online channel, where more than user replying of his knowledge of product he wants to buy, he can reply on system to suggest based on the information of what he wants to buy. Such efforts of reducing user time to find right product could prove decisive between converting a shopper to a customer. There are multiple ways, selling channel can help user, and one of the core concepts is ‘Customer Segmentation’. Before that let’s user stand how catalog and product categories works. Catalog & Product Categories: Creating and grouping product under categories, assigning them to selling catalog, could prove helpful for a customer to navigate to ...

One of the prerequisites from a good B2B e-Commerce platform is to enable SALES with an ability to quickly understand  & sell , but right product at a right price ( adhering  configure --> price --> quote).  A good solution needs to be enabled with capability to define and cover following three important stages in  a sales process. Ask any corporation and they will agree how critical it is, to have your FIELD sales making those big bucks through enterprise sales. An ideal solution needs to focus on how we can help field sales converting the big opportunity into an ORDER, by enabling an efficient quoting solution to maximize the efficiency of your expensive sales resources. Part of Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Suite,   Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)  solution,  is an answer from IBM Sterling towards growing demand on good B2B quoting solution. A product and a solution that could be easily integrated with Salesforce.com...

On the Internet, B2B (business-to-business), also known as e-biz, is the exchange of products, services, or information between businesses rather than between businesses and consumers. Although early interest centered on the growth of retailing on the Internet (sometimes called e-tailing), forecasts are that B2B revenue will far exceed business-to-consumers (B2C) revenue in the near future. According to studies published in early 2000, the money volume of B2B exceeds that of e-tailing by 10 to 1. Over the next five years, B2B is expected to have a compound annual growth of 41%. The Gartner Group estimates B2B revenue worldwide to be $7.29 trillion dollars by 2004. In early 2000, the volume of investment in B2B by venture capitalists was reported to be accelerating sharply although profitable B2B sites were not yet easy to find. B2B Web sites can be sorted into: Company Web sites, since the target audience for many company Web sites is other companies and their employees. Comp...