Magento 2 What to Expect Paal Soberg Magento Solution Consultant - Session Digital 

Intro 

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 

Magento Overview 

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 

20% of the Top 10k eCommerce sites in the world uses Magento 

270k+ sites use Magento world-wide 

Q4 2015 Magento 2 General Availability 

Magento 2 Overview 

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 

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 

I’m a Merchant - What Can I Expect? 

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 

New Navigation 

Product Administration 

Configurable Products 

Filters & Columns 

Checkout Improvements ● Assumed guest checkout ● Automatic recognition of registered users ● Shipping rates appears when required information added ● Billing Address only when payment is required 

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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 

I’m a Merchant - When Can I Have M2? 

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 

Questions? 

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