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Magento 2 - What to Expect

Paal Soberg
September 17, 2015

Magento 2 - What to Expect

Magento 2 is currently in Merchant Beta and in this presentation I've looked at what you can expect from a Merchant point of view - Presentation was given at the first meetup of www.meetup.com/liverpoolmagentogroup

Paal Soberg

September 17, 2015
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  1. Coming up... • Magento in general • Magento 2 Overview

    • I’m a Merchant - What Can I Expect? • I’m a Merchant - When Can I Have M2? • Questions? • Find Me
  2. 2008 → 2015 • Founded by Roy Rubin and Yoav

    Kutner through their company Varien Inc in 2007 • First public release of Magento March 2008 • Magento Enterprise 2009 • Sold to Ebay in 2011 and now part of Ebay Enterprise • Roy Rubin & Yoav Kutner have left in the years following Ebay takeover • Magento 2 will be released in 2015 • Ebay Enterprise / Magento sold to Private Equity firm - actively investing in platform
  3. Magento 2 - It’s been a while… • Magento 2

    has been in the works for a few years • Officially announced in 2014 with release plan for 2015 • Magento 2 Beta Since Q4 2014 • Magento 2 Merchant Beta Since July 2015 • Magento 2 General Availability - Expected for Q4 2015
  4. Magento 2 - What’s New? • New UX for Administration

    • Checkout improvements • Previous Enterprise features such as Full Page Cache is now CE feature • Performance improvements • Scalability improvements • Product import/export improvements • New Magento Connect • Code structure improvements • More Open development process
  5. Magento Administration • New UX • Touch friendly, screen optimised

    for Tablet/Mobile • Flexible data grids, drag and drop, custom views and configurable columns • Product Administration • Side navigation - re-organised • New Product Attribute swatches
  6. Checkout Improvements • Assumed guest checkout • Automatic recognition of

    registered users • Shipping rates appears when required information added • Billing Address only when payment is required
  7. Performance & Scalability • Varnish 4 Support out of the

    box • Standalone DB for Order Management System & Checkout (Enterprise) • Compatibility with MySQL cluster (Enterprise) • Concurrent order management - 50+ (Enterprise) • Concurrent product management - 250+ (Enterprise) • Magento CE can handle 50k orders per hour • Magento EE can handle 90k orders per hour and 300+ concurrent users on order
  8. Magento 2 - What happens next? • Merchant Beta is

    currently in process across the globe • General Availability expected for November 2015 • More features to be added between now and GA • New Magento Connect in time for GA • M2 Certification - based on working knowledge - late 2016 • Migration Tool from M1 to M2 • Training is available now from Magento
  9. Find Me For any questions, advice, thoughts Twitter: @wethinkcommerce Blog

    / website: thinkcommerce.no Email: [email protected] Linkedin: paalsoberg Magento 2 Content: www. sessiondigital.com/magento-2