Magento 2 Migration: 15 Compelling Reasons to Upgrade Now

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15 Compelling Reasons You Should Migrate
YourWebShop to Magento 2
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Ever encountered prompts to upgrade your software
applications? Yes, of course! We all have at some
point, for our applications, software suites or
operating systems.
Every few years, software product manufacturers
do come out with an upgrade in order to
re-envision the possibilities of their platform
keeping pace with the latest development
practices.
Magento, the leading ecommerce platform, also
followed suit and unveiled Magento 2 in 2015 to
lay a strong technological foundation for future
growths.
Our team of Magento Certified Solutions
specialists was super-excited to explore the new
advanced features of the latest version.
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Addressing the dilemma of e-commerce owners

• New releases, however, do not leave everyone
  excited! Some of our e-commerce clients who were
  running their web shops on the previous version,
  Magento 1 were confused about their future moves
  after the launch of Magento 2.
• Unfortunately, the scenario hasnt changed much
  and some degree of confusion is still lurking
  among a lot of e-commerce owners. They arent so
  sure whether to upgrade to Magento 2 or not and
  even if they should, why?
• If this sounds like you then you are on the right
  page! In todays post, we would be unearthing an
  array of capabilities of Magento 2 and empowering
  you to make an informed decision.

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Why should you migrate to Magento 2?
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Here are 15 persuasive reasons compiled by our
Magento development experts to help you overcome
the barriers that are hindering your path towards
Magento 2 advantages
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• Contemporary online shoppers perform more than
  50 of online transactions on mobile devices. The
  responsive frontend design of Magento 2 makes it
  possible for you to deliver intuitive shopping
  experiences to your customers across all types of
  devices.
• If your web shop is not responsive, heres what
  you are missing out! Responsive themes not only
  enhance user experience but also impacts ranking
  of your website in search engine result pages
  (SERPs).

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Mobile SEO-friendly
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• If your web shop is running on Magento 1 then you
  are well aware that each time a product is added
  to the shopping cart, the system reloads the
  page. This in turn negatively impacts the user
  experience.
• And this is a known fact that if a page takes
  more than 3 seconds to load then it usually leads
  to cart abandonment. This is something you cannot
  ignore if you want to run a profitable web shop.

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Ajax cart
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• In case your customers are adding more products
  to their cart then this page reload time can add
  up and become a major pain point.
• Magento 2 addresses this issue by including an
  Ajax Cart out-of-the-box, i.e., without you
  having to install any module.
• Ajax Cart uses JavaScript to add items to the
  shopping cart and it doesnt make the entire page
  to reload, thus enhancing user experience.

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• Caching systems store the page elements of
  frequently accessed web pages to serve your site
  visitors faster by reducing load time.
• Thus, caching systems accelerate performance of
  your website and help you deliver great user
  experience.
• The best thing about Magento 2 Enterprise Edition
  is that caching system like Varnish, a widely
  used HTTP accelerator, comes built-in with native
  support.

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Varnish caching
system
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• In Magento 2, the admin Dashboard enables you to
  find crucial business information about your
  e-store in one single place thanks to its
  sophisticated and intuitive interface.
• It allows you to find out the overall state of
  your business effortlessly by just viewing the
  financial data displayed by the dashboard.

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Modern admin Dashboard and simpler navigation
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• The Dashboard primarily presents an overview of
• last orders placed,
• frequently searched terms,
• most viewed products,
• average order amount,
• new customers,
• lifetime sales, etc.
• Furthermore, the admin interface of Magento 2 is
  simpler making it a welcome feature for e-store
  owners.

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• Furthermore, the admin interface of Magento 2 is
  simpler making it a welcome feature for e-store
  owners.
• E-commerce merchants who have already used the
  complex admin interface of Magento 1 would
  definitely enjoy this easier and simpler admin
  navigation of Magento 2.
• So, with Magento 2 you can manage your online
  store efficiently as well as effortlessly.

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• Magento enables you to make a robust and
  profitable online presence thanks to its amazing
  out-of-the-box features.
• Moreover, it also provides you with the
  flexibility to enhance your e-stores overall
  performance with the myriads of Magento
  extensions available.

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Installation of modules
easier and cheaper
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• However, installing new modules and extensions in
  Magento 2 is easier as well as cheaper compared
  to Magento 1.x versions.
• This is because of HTML5, Less, CSS3 and
  require.js which makes the front-end development
  simpler and thus modifying the functionalities
  easier.

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• Yet another useful and welcome feature of Magento
  platform is that it allows you to integrate
  various systems like inventory management
  software, customer relationship management tool
  and enterprise resource planning software to your
  e-commerce website.
• The integration at times doesnt go smoothly and
  while Magento communicates with the other
  systems, the messages get lost. To track those
  messages becomes a daunting task, however.

Easy integration
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Easy integration
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• This issue is addressed by the Magento 2
  Enterprise Edition with a framework called
  RabbitMQ (Message Queue) which monitors
  communication between Magento and enterprise
  softwares.
• As the second part of its name suggests, this
  framework stores unsent messages and forwards
  them to the relevant system as early as possible.

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• Smooth and simple checkout process plays a
  crucial role in increasing conversion
  rates.Magento 2, with its new and streamlined
  checkout ensures faster and easier checkout
  process for customers.

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Streamlined
checkout
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• Lets see how
• It allows customers to register after placing an
  order rather than during the checkout process.
• Customers can find order details in every step of
  checkout process thus keeping them at ease.
• With fewer confusing formalities and fewer forms,
  customers can now focus on completing the
  checkout process thus minimizing cart
  abandonment.
• Integration with PayPal has been improved as you
  need not provide additional information like
  billing address which is handled by PayPal.
• It includes product photos in order summary which
  builds up on buyer confidence and cuts down on
  returns leading to higher conversions.

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• Magento 2 Enterprise Edition comes with
  Elasticsearch which improves quality of searches
  and thus user experience.
• It can easily handle large catalogs and scale
  search capacity as the number of queries rise. It
  already handles 33 languages out-of-the-box which
  translates into simpler global deployments.

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Elasticsearch
technology
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• Misspellings in customer searches would no longer
  be an issue because Elasticsearch offers
  suggestions as well as synonym management via
  Magento Admin.
• In short, this improved search powers you by
  increasing relevancy and conversions of your
  Magento 2 store.

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• In Magento 1, often there are problems on the
  customer side due to straining of the platform
  from the admin side resulting from database
  overload.
• This is because customers, website administrators
  and developers use the same database in Magento
  e-commerce website.
• Magento 2 Enterprise Edition offers three
  separate databases for product data, order
  management and checkout respectively.

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Multiple master
databases
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• This scalability ensures that your customers
  shopping experience is never affected by the
  merchandising activities or order management.
• Even Magento development experts enjoy scaling
  different database tiers and allocate separate
  master databases to support different website
  activities.

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• Magento 2 makes creating new product easier by
  facilitating product upload through simplified
  step-by-step process.
• Moreover, it offers a great opportunity to
  merchandise your products by allowing you to
  easily add videos from YouTube or Vimeo besides
  product photos.

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Simplified
products upload
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• Any e-commerce store that takes business
  seriously considers personalized customer
  experience a basic requirement.
• Personalized payment methods, up-sell and
  cross-sell offers, providing customers with
  discounts comes easy to web shop owners using
  Magento 2s advanced promotion rule builder.
• You can determine what content you want your
  customers to see and what specific discounts and
  gift coupons you want to offer them by monitoring
  their on-site behaviour.

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Improved
customization
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• Magento 2 is far better than its predecessor no
  doubt for it has lower hardware requirements to
  yield the same level of performance.
• Acquiring new hardware not only incurs cost but
  can also serve as a potential source of
  complications.
• Thus, Magento 2 is more cost-effective than
  Magento 1 even if you are using a hosting service.

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Lower hardware
requirements
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• Enhanced performance of your e-commerce website
  translates into more user interaction with your
  e-store and fewer abandoned carts. It has been
  observed that page loads in Magento 2 are twice
  as faster than Magento 1.

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Improved performance
and scalability
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• Research data from trusted sources reveals that
  Magento 2 stores can handle up to 37 percent more
  orders per hour compared to Magento 1 stores.
• This also means that a Magento 2 store can handle
  more traffic and manage million page views per
  hour efficiently without breaking down during
  peak hours.

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• Security is the primary concern of web shop
  owners as news of cybercrime is rampant these
  days. Magento 2 effectively addresses this
  concern with its security features including
  strong data encryption.
• This security feature protects passwords and
  other sensitive information like credit card
  information, payment and shipping module
  passwords, etc by enciphering with the AES-256
  algorithm.

Strong data encryption
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• This confidential information is further
  decrypted and the remaining information is hashed
  with a robust SHA-256.
• You can either let the encryption key tool that
  comes with Magento 2 platform to generate a key
  during installation or choose to set the key as
  per your requirement.

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• Regression testing, unfortunately, wasnt easy
  with Magento 1 to screen it for bugs.
• Especially, when your site is complicated with
  lots of customized features, modules and
  extensions, and also gets massive traffic, it is
  highly important to minimize the risks.
• Magento 2 with its built-in testing framework
  makes it much testing much easier. You can run
  automated tests on any Magento website
  irrespective of its size and complexity.

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Built-in testing framework
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• Is upgrading your e-store to
• Magento 2
• an onerous process?

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Any migration process is not absolutely painless
however, if you get proper assistance from
professionals then the process can get easier and
smoother.
Migrating to an entirely new platform would
demand serious commitment, on the part of
e-commerce owners as well as developers, to the
planning and implementation of the procedure.
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When you consider migration from Magento 1 to
Magento 2 platform you would need to keep the
following things in mind
Find out if your server meets the Magento 2
requirements or you would need to upgrade to a
new one.
Your Magento certified solution specialists would
need to check whether all the third-party
extensions installed on your web shop have
compatible Magento 2 versions or not.
Remember that the structure of Magento 2 is
completely different than Magento 1 hence all
your sites themes would have to rebuild.
In case core tables Magento 1 database were
changed during installation then migration would
get more complex.
The more customizations you have done to your
Magento 1 store the more amount of work your
migration process would demand.
You can also consider this as an opportunity to
revamp your site and enhance user experience of
your customers.
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Why partner with
Helios Solutions?
We have been a Magento e-commerce development
company for more than a decade empowering clients
with a robust and meaningful web presence.
Our Magento developers have hands-on experience
in enabling e-commerce clients to get
early-adopter advantage with Magento 2.
Many of our clients have leveraged the new
feature enhancements of Magento 2 to move their
business forward by delivering great shopping
experiences and driving sales.
You too can make your web shop scale and evolve
with this industry-leading technology and leave
your mark in the e-commerce space. Happy selling!