Despite investing significant time and money in current commerce solutions, the majority of marketers and IT professionals surveyed aren't confident in their capabilities. Nearly one third (30 percent) of brands in both B2B and B2C industries spent more than $2m for their current commerce site, and 44 percent say it took longer than a year to implement, according to the 2016 State of Digital Commerce Report from e-commerce solution provider CloudCraze.

Analyst Insight: The growth of IoT (the Internet of Things) will impact supply chains dramatically in the long run. Increasingly instrumented and connected manufacturing plants, warehouses, vehicles, and the products themselves will provide very precise, real-time 'X-ray vision' into what is happening in the plant, on the road, and in the field. - Bill McBeath, Chief Research Officer, ChainLink Research

JDA Software Group Inc. has unveiled Retail.me, a new retail-planning application based on the Google Cloud platform, and offered under a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.

Yusen Logistics Co. Ltd. and SATO Corp. have teamed up to launch an application for managing global logistics.

NetSuite Inc., a provider of cloud-based software for managing financial and omnichannel commerce, has made a number of product enhancements to NetSuite OneWorld.

Aras and T-Systems have jointly launched the T-Systems PLM (product lifecycle management) Cloud Platform powered by Aras Innovator.