Demandware

Rising competition, changing business needs, and tightening budgets are driving companies to seek more flexible alternatives to traditional e-commerce platform providers.

With the age of online e-commerce, a drop in international tourism, and declining traffic in many malls, Macy's cut its full-year forecast raising wide concerns about the retail sector's financial health.

The Demandware Shopping Index measures digital commerce growth and is based on an analysis of the shopping activity of over 200 million shoppers worldwide, and considers shopper frequency, conversion, average order values and net change in shoppers.

Demandware, an industry-leading provider of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, and who has used its experience in advising some of the world’s largest retailers help grow their business, predicts where retail is headed in 2016.