{"id":9656,"date":"2017-05-09T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T05:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T05:37:48","slug":"e-commerce-future-iot-voice-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/e-commerce-future-iot-voice-interface","title":{"rendered":"From the Internet of Things to voice interface: how ecommerce directors plan to invest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><div class=\"fb-like fb-like-button_count\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/e-commerce-future-iot-voice-interface\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\"  data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Some 35% of ecommerce, multichannel and digital directors questioned for a study by commerce consultancy Salmon, <a href=\"http:\/\/internetretailing.net\/2017\/05\/ecommerce-directors-plan-use-technology-coming-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">quoted by Internet Retailing<\/a>, said enabling the Internet of Things was a priority as they looked to drive sales and improve the customer experience. The research, which also questioned directors at wholesale and manufacturing companies, found that <strong>61% were currently investing in the IoT, 69% in robots and 60% in machine learning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More than half (53%) said they planned to invest in voice interface technology over the next five years, while almost three in five (59%) wanted to take advantage of virtual\/mixed reality, 69% in robots and 60% in machine learning by 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tendinte-actuale-si-viitoare-ecommerce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tendinte-actuale-si-viitoare-ecommerce.jpg\" alt=\"Tendinte actuale si viitoare - ecommerce\" width=\"801\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tendinte-actuale-si-viitoare-ecommerce.jpg 1788w, https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tendinte-actuale-si-viitoare-ecommerce-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tendinte-actuale-si-viitoare-ecommerce-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salmon says it seems many ecommerce businesses aren\u2019t ready for the future just yet: 29% don\u2019t have the technology in place to cope with emerging trends in the next five years and 20% lack the tech to keep up with the niche players. Some are also fighting against the tide while trying to implement new technology with 30% saying that a major pain point when implementing an ecommerce platform is the businesses resistance to change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/salmon.com\/media\/filer_public\/e8\/8f\/e88f653f-09aa-4933-b445-804b9d63e034\/salmon_research_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See the whole report (PDF file)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><div class=\"fb-like fb-like-button_count\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/e-commerce-future-iot-voice-interface\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\"  data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Some 35% of ecommerce, multichannel and digital directors questioned for a study by commerce consultancy Salmon, quoted by Internet Retailing, said enabling the Internet of Things was a priority as they looked to drive sales and improve the customer experience. The research, which also questioned directors at wholesale and manufacturing companies, found that 61% were currently investing in the IoT, 69% in robots and 60% in machine learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-e-commerce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9702,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}