Last week I had an opportunity to take part in the biggest Magento event in Asia-Pacific – Magento Live Australia. This is official Magento conference where Magento merchants, solution providers technology partners meet with Magento Inc. team and each other. In this blog post I share with you the event highlights.

Magento ecosystem update

Extensive ecosystem is a strong advantage of Magento.

Here are the fresh update of the ecosystem:

• $155B gross merchandise revenue turned by merchants through Magento
• 72M of buyers
• $7B Magento economy (business of companies related with Magento like implementation partners, consultants, extension providers
• 511 unique contributor to open source code with 1,606 pull requests created
• 300K Magento official forum members
• New Magento customers in APAC region include such known brands as Louise Vutton, Samsung, BVLGARI, Australia Post, Forever New, Auckland Airport, Linen House
• Magento Marketplace has over 3,000 extensions listed, 123,000 orders and over 200K monthly visits

Solid growth for Magento Marketplace in 2017, 3000+ certified extensions, 123K orders, 600% visitor growth, not too shabby! #MLAU18 pic.twitter.com/0J3KhJEdnV

— ebizmarts (@ebizmarts) February 23, 2018

Magento roadmap

The changes that Magento plans to roll out consist from three streams:

• Shopping experience
  • Adding new sales channels, first one will be out of the box integration with Amazon marketplace
  • New Page builder that helps merchants to create more dynamic and engaging pages in less time through easy to use online interface
  • Progressive Web Application (PWA)
• Omni-selling and fulfillment
  • Multi-source inventory, open source project available at Github
  • Extensions touch points for Magento Order Management
• Merchant intelligence
  • Magento Business Intelligence for Magento Order Management
  • Personalization and segmentation through Magento Business Intelligence

Miscellaneous

Other interesting things that should be noted:

• Magento 2 developers certifications will be available this year
• Magento has launched Magento Shipping with Temando, integrated shipping management solution. It already supports 2 carriers in Australia, the price starts from $99/month
• Magento Innovation Lab helps developers to showcase innovative solutions enhancing the ecosystem

References (updated)

• Magento Live Australia 2018 presentations
• Conference photos