Team Affino is incredibly proud to see The Bookseller’s new Affino-powered website go live - the culmination of many months of meticulous planning and diligent execution. There are major milestones in Affino’s history of truly world-beating deployments, and The Bookseller is now very much one of the flagship Affino B2B 3 implementations in how thoroughly it underlines so many of Affino’s core principles and methodologies, and delivers for the book trade.

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At the start of the Covid period, we determined that we would need something of a lighter touch to contrast that societal darkness. And so we set out to wholly revamp the Affino.com website - to make it clearer, more streamlined, fresher, and more friendly - while rolling out various new technologies and functionalities. We greatly expanded the colour palette and introduced a number of more vibrant tones to meet that purpose.

I and Designer Mark Foster, with help from Lead Front-End ...

Most should be familiar with the concept of Customer Acquisition Costs, or CACs - where winning over entirely new customers is the most expensive process of all, while up-selling and contract / subscription renewals should take increasingly less levels of effort and maintenance. For a number of years we’ve been encouraging our own customers to move more towards subscription-style service business models which more evenly sustain a company’s cashflow.

The model of Service Subscriptions goes ...

The purpose of this article is to give you a comprehensive overview of the extensive smart GDPR Solution fully built into the Affino Unified Digital Business Platform. These screens give you a shortcut on a lot of integral complexity which does still require a fair amount of setup - but with Affino’s detailed guides and live examples is something that any Affino Client can easily and relative quickly accomplish.

Affino’s GDPR is designed to fully safe-guard the consumer as ...

A recent article in The Telegraph about a Fortnum & Mason customer data breech highlights a common area of weakness to most integrated web solutions. Your typical Digital Deployment consists of a stack of disparate component systems which need to be integrated together to be able to work as a complete solution. Every separate component system which is introduced into the mix increases your risk profile - and gives hackers and cybercriminals more avenues for attacking your systems and ...

From the earliest days, Affino has always been developed with a view to providing a fully rounded solution - giving businesses the full set of tools and utilities they need to translate their processes and workflows to an automated digital business. Affino has long combined CMS with Community and Social Tools, alongside Ecommerce, Campaigns, Messaging and seamless integration and automation between elements. Everything in Affino is driven through and controlled by a core central Social CRM ...

We are in the business of building businesses - digitized / digital businesses per se, but not necessarily in the way that you might perceive, and certainly not as a fully stand-alone and independent activity. We construct business vehicles and vessels - which still need to be properly manned and skippered. Constructing the system is only the starting point, it needs to be correctly deployed for success. Just as you can buy the most technically proficient vessel to race in the America’s ...

When it comes to committing to new technologies, there are usually some very obvious key criteria that need to be met. In weighing up the pedigree and suitability of a solution - the track record is all-important. And in track record we mean the degree by which such a solution is able to ongoingly meet objectives and obligations and adapt to different and evolving conditions.

There has to be a mutually cooperative relationship between Clients and Affino in much the same way that on-...

Formula 1 cars are the wonder of the automotive engineering world. Precision-tuned every season and constantly adapted to meet new rules and regulations. Utilising thousands of components working together in perfect harmony under some of the most extreme conditions encountered beyond the surface of the Sun. The engine needs to withstand the most incredible fluctuations, heat and pressure, while maintaining perfect operating conditions over an extended period of duress.

The very best ...