Content management systems and E-commerce: a comparative case study

Amal A. Al Rasheed; Samir D. El-Masri

doi:10.1117/12.920239

13 January 2012 Content management systems and E-commerce: a comparative case study

Amal A. Al Rasheed, Samir D. El-Masri

Proceedings Volume 8350, Fourth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2011): Computer Vision and Image Analysis; Pattern Recognition and Basic Technologies; 83502N (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920239
Event: Fourth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 11), 2011, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

The need for CMS's to create and edit e-commerce websites has increased with the growing importance of e-commerce. In this paper, the various features essential for e-commerce CMS's are explored. The aim of the paper was to find the best CMS solution for e-commerce which includes the best of both CMS and store management. Accordingly, we conducted a study on three popular open source CMS's for e-commerce: VirtueMart from Joomla!, Ubercart from Drupal, and Magento. We took into account features like hosting and installation, performance, support/community, content management, add on modules and functional features. We concluded with improvements that could be made in order to alleviate problems.

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Amal A. Al Rasheed and Samir D. El-Masri "Content management systems and E-commerce: a comparative case study", Proc. SPIE 8350, Fourth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2011): Computer Vision and Image Analysis; Pattern Recognition and Basic Technologies, 83502N (13 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920239

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