Magento Live! 2015 saw the launch of Magento 2.0. The two day event in Sydney was a great place to be for NextByte Technologies interact with different players in the industry and stay tuned with the latest and upcoming. The conference had a host of presentations covering different facets of eCommerce Business.
Event was launched with the keynote address by Mark Lavelle, CEO, Magento introducing Magento 2.0. Next two days followed presentations from different eCommerce companies adapting Magento 2.0.
Some takeaways from the show:
What’s good
- Built for the future, better designed and mobile friendly
- Full page caching built in for both Community & Enterprise editions
- Better handling for upgrades with new & improved structure
- Streamlined checkout process
What didn’t change
- search still remains an enigma and one needs to use custom solution for better results
- Limited built-in control over importing database and images
Migration from old Magento sites to the new one would be a challenge as the new system is built on a completely new core. Existing sites to plan a longer migration cycle as all customization would need to be rewritten for Magento 2.0. But it seems there are more benefits with the new & improved Magento 2.0 over the existing lot. Looking forward to working on it.
