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Podcast: Inside Commerce: Ecommerce Strategy, CX and Technology Podcast
Episode: EP208: Why Maplins Made A Platform Pivot From Open Source Magento to Shopify
Description: It’s fair to say that Maplin's MD Ollie Marshall has a been a Magento Open Source loyalist and enthusiast for many years. We recorded an episode with him two years ago on how Maplin built a scalable Magento solution, at which point open source aligned with the business and technical needs.
When he announced that Maplin's ecommerce stack would pivot, moving away from open source to a new SaaS solution, we thought it would be interesting to find what brought about the strategic change of direction, and why now.
In this episode we explore th...