With SmartStore Commerce Cloud and Microsoft Cloud Services, retailers get the services and applications they need to run their businesses smoothly and efficiently. The combination also enables companies to successfully digitally transform their business and become more competitive.

Thanks to the cloud, all new functions and services can be quickly and easily deployed and made scalable, without the need for extensive expertise and long-term resource commitments. As a result, retailers can accelerate business growth and better serve their customers.

This collaboration enables retail, e-commerce and industrial companies to make data-driven decisions to address productivity, quality and cost challenges. Supported by artificial intelligence, companies can act fully automatically without having to train new staff. It also standardises processes and makes them more efficient.

Microsoft Cloud Services: Revolutionary solutions for e-commerce

Pavlos Tsulfaidis, CEO and founder of the SmartStore AG commented: "The Smartstore Commerce Cloud, in partnership with revolutionary Microsoft Cloud Services, opens the door to digital transformation in retail. With our cloud-based composable commerce platform, we are enabling businesses to achieve unprecedented scalability and reliability. Together with Microsoft and Azure Cloud Services, we are shaping the future of e-commerce – quickly, efficiently and successfully."

Microsoft Cloud for Retail delivers proven retail solutions that integrate seamlessly with retailers’ existing systems. Retailers can seamlessly connect their customers, employees, and data with the comprehensive set of retail-specific capabilities from across the Microsoft Cloud portfolio combined with the Smartstore Commerce Cloud.

The Microsoft Cloud for Retail connects disparate data sources across the retail value chain and integrates experiences across the entire shopping journey with the capabilities of Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Azure.

Cloud establishes itself in modern commerce

Microsoft has positioned itself as a market leader with its "cloud first – mobile first" strategy and has successfully moved, optimised and expanded its portfolio to the cloud. Together with Alphabet (Google) and Amazon, they dominate the cloud solutions market.

Following the recent announcement of a closer collaboration with Microsoft, SmartStore AG is further expanding the functionality of its Commerce Cloud. The pioneer in e-commerce applications is using this development to help industrial and (online) retail companies increase efficiency, automation and digitalisation.

Smartstore is a cloud-based, composable commerce platform. The most modern software architecture of the ASP.NET Core world enables enormous scalability and high reliability through cooperation with Microsoft and Azure cloud services. With the new software version Smartstore 5, SmartStore is the fastest shop system in the world.