We all have heard of the Magento Imagine conference. If Magento is anyhow related to your life or business, this is the event you can’t miss.
This year, Magento Imagine gathered over 2200 attendees from all around the world and delivered some awesome content. We were there and have prepared this infographic for all of you who couldn’t enjoy the event or enjoyed it so much that you would love to recap what happened.
Text transcription is available below.
Key Announcements:
- Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition
- Magento Marketplace
- Strategic Partnerships
- Magento B2B package is coming
- Magento 1.x supported until the end of 2018 (3 years after Magento 2.0 release)
Magento Key Stats:
- $50B Annual Commerce Value on Magento
- #1 Platform in B2B and B2C according to IR
- 250K Merchants
- 3100 Enterprise Customers
- 300 Top-Tier Solution & Technology Partners
- 1000+ Solution Implementers
- 125K Developers
- 5900+ Certified Developers
Magento 2 Facts:
- 228K+ Magento 2 Downloads
- 800 Magento 2 Stores Live
- 105+ Magento 2.0 Trained Partners
Enterprise at Scale:
- Magento 2 delivers 117% more orders per hour than prior versions
- Faster Response times in Browsing and Checkout
- A New Standard for Performance & Scalability
Premier Technology Partnerships Announced:
- PayPal
- dotmailer
- Celebros
- Fastly
- New Relic
- TaxJar*
- Temando
*Free Tax Calculations for All Magento Merchants (CE and EE)!
Magento Marketplace:
- 155 Extensions available
- 405 Extensions listed as available on Magento Connect
- 196 Extensions coming soon
- 50+ Extension vendors
Magento ECE:
- Key Features: Rapid Deployment, Fully Customizable, Secure, Scalable, All in One
Fastly CDN and DDoS Protection - Unrestricted New Relic APM Pro and Blackfire.io Enterprise
- Triple Redundant, Dedicated AWS Production Environment
- 24×7 Monitoring, Application and Infrastructure Support
- Available from May 1st
- Pricing on request
Magento Commerce Order Management:
- Complete omnichannel fulfilment system
- Foundation for complementary solutions built by partners
- Fraport as one of the first success stories
Magento 2 Trainings Available:
- Magento training: Fundamentals of Magento 2.0
- Magento training: Core Principles of Theming in Magento 2.0
- Magento training: Managing Your Magento 2.0 Store (in FR and EN languages)
- Magento training: Requirements Gathering for your Magento 2.0 Implementation
- Magento training: Responsive Web Design for Magento 2.0
- Magento training: Managing Your Magento 2 – Enterprise Edition
What’s coming in Magento 2.1:
Staging & Preview
- Get Previews of Changes to Products, Categories, Content, Promotions, Pricing and Themes
- View Updates by Date and Campaign
- Manage Changes with a Comprehensive Timeline
- Automatically Put Updates Into Production
New Site Search
- Improve Search Quality
- Better Buyer Experience with Background Re-Indexing and Horizontal Scaling
- Flexible Technology that can be Used for Real-Time Reporting, Personalization and Performance Optimization
- Get Started with 33 Languages Out-of-the-Box
In-Context Checkout & PCI Compliance
- Checkout without Shopper Leaving Your Site (PayPal)
- Securely Stored Credit Cards Support (PayPal)
- Simplify PCI Compliance
Code migration tool
Coming up in June 2016!
What’s coming in further Magento releases:
- Enhanced Content Management System
- New Promotion Types
- Expanded Reports & Analytics
Magento B2B module available in Q3 2016:
- Account Management with Permissions
- Custom Catalogs
- Custom Pricing
- Quoting
- Repeat Ordering
Amazing Community Initiatives:
- #MageHackathon
- #BigDamRun
- #PreImagine
- #RoadToImagine
Magento Masters Recognized:
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- Alexander Galtsow
- Anna Völkl
- Antonio Carboni
- Brent Peterson
- David Alger
- David Manners
- Fabrizio Branca
- Hirokazu Nishi
- James Cowie
- James Lee
- Joshua Warren
- Kristof Ringleff
- Kuba Zwolinski
- Marius Străjeru
- Mathew Beane
- Miguel Balparda
- Mukesh Tiwari
- Phillip Jackson
- Sander Mangel
- Vinai Kopp