Steve Dennis

Executive Director at Spike | Go-live confidence for UK retailers | End-to-end & non-functional testing across ecommerce, ERP & stores | In testing since 1995 | RTIH Top 100 Retail Tech Influencer 2026

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Friction Free With New Priorities

According to Gartner: “By 2025, organizations offering unified commerce experience, by moving customers, without friction through purchase journeys, will see at least a 20% uplift in total revenue."

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The 4 Golden Rules for pain-free technology transformation

We are delighted to support the retail industry as an associate partner of the British Retail Consortium.

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Web page speed: Keeping your ecommerce website turbocharged

For most ecommerce sites 2020 has allowed an ever rising influx of customers to flock online and buy pretty much everything they want or need as...

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What the tech? A look back at 2020 in software and retail

Who’d have thought when walking on the street someone wearing a mask and people keeping their distance from you would be the norm? There are a lot of...

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2020: What to expect?

Black Friday is “dead”. The virus has “killed” retail. How many times have these phrases circulated the news and internet in earlier coverage of the...

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Retailers - Prepare your software for peak seasons!

This article was written in 2020 and while being accurate at the time, please see newer articles for more current thinking. As we move towards the...

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Accelerating streaming applications with load testing

Streaming content has become standard as internet connection speeds have increased over the past 20 years, both in the home and across mobile...

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