Lokion founding partner and COO Mike O’Hearn has amassed quite the portfolio of successful ecommerce projects over the years. And he’s seen firsthand the challenges of implementing a complex, enterprise-level site. Today, he’s sharing his advice for navigating these projects with a minimum of turbulence. Ecommerce projects can be…
Some of our latest work with Viking Range was recently featured in Luxury Daily, the world’s leading trade publication covering luxury marketing across all mediums. The article covers the launch of Viking’s D3 line with heavy emphasis on the product configuration tool we built that leveraged Adobe Scene7 Dynamic Render…
In 2008, Lokion implemented Adobe Scene7 Image Server technology within the Oracle ATG platform for the Viking Range ecommerce website in order to provide a richer user experience. We developed a product configurator that allows customers to change finishes, trim, and other options for key products. The product configurator options…
Recently, at a partner gathering in Chicago, Oracle announced that Oracle ATG and Oracle Endeca will move forward as part of “Oracle Commerce.” ATG Search will no longer be actively sold or improved beyond maintenance releases and hotfixes. Ever since its acquisition of ATG, Oracle has been continuously re-evaluating its…
Oracle’s release of the ATG Commerce Platform 10.1 this month continues the theme of reducing the effort required for an online merchant to manage their ecommerce system. In addition to the updated Merchandising UI introduced in ATG 10.0, the latest release includes additional pre-packaged templates and shortcuts for everyday tasks,…
The combined efforts of Lokion and long-time client Viking Range were recognized by LuxuryLab in the recently-released 2009 Digital IQ Index. Touted for its “unrivaled” interface and outstanding content, Viking’s industry-leading website was ranked at #1 in the Design & Home category. The report went on to call VikingRange.com a…
For this recent undertaking, Lokion provided Viking with a wide range of services including strategy, requirements gathering/documentation, sitemaps, wireframes, design, graphic production, multi-media production, content strategy, development, quality assurance, and deployment. The result is a compelling new site design that’s not only beautiful but functional. A “faceted search” tool allows…
