# Notes from the platforms we build and run.

> Case studies, business and technical writing on Intershop, ANOM, performance, security and AI.


- [No order, no hero](https://alephfront.com/blog/agentic-sourcing-order-layer/index.md): Your customers' procurement teams are investing in AI agents. McKinsey sees them adding 3 to 6 percent in savings, but a decision only pays off once a supplier can execute it. When an agent decides, can your shop take the order?
- [ISO/IEC 27001:2022: what the certification means for your B2B shop](https://alephfront.com/blog/iso-27001-certification/index.md): The information security management system behind Aleph Front and ANOM is now certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by an accredited body. Here is what it covers, how we got there, and why it matters when your commerce platform holds your customers' prices, orders and accounts.
- [ANOM fits on 24 floppy disks](https://alephfront.com/blog/anom-fits-on-floppy-disks/index.md): Compressed, the whole ANOM back-office weighs 33 MiB, updates included. That is 24 floppy disks, or less than three high-resolution photos. Here is why it matters for your servers, and where it goes next.
- [Price lists, the curse of B2B platforms](https://alephfront.com/blog/b2b-price-lists-curse/index.md): Every B2B buyer has their own price, and every commerce platform has to pick a poison to serve it. We built the three strategies the market uses and measured them, because nobody publishes these numbers.
- [A thousand partners, one server: EDI done right with ANOM](https://alephfront.com/blog/what-makes-edi-hard-anom/index.md): EDI, in EDIFACT or X12, still trips up every new trading partner: specifications that differ, identifiers that change, files that fail for no clear reason. Here is where the difficulty comes from, and how ANOM handles it natively, with a built-in partner simulator and an engine that carries a thousand partners on a single server.
- [Two platforms, one foundation: Tivoly Group goes live on Intershop, delivered by Aleph Front](https://alephfront.com/blog/tivoly-group-two-b2b-platforms-intershop-golive/index.md): tivoly.com and peugeot-outils-pro.com are live on Intershop Commerce Platform, delivered by Aleph Front with ANOM (Aleph Accelerator). The launch also marks Aleph Front's official public debut as the Aleph Archives subsidiary exclusively focused on Intershop B2B integration.
- [Beyond keywords: building a recommendation engine for how people actually shop in 2026](https://alephfront.com/blog/recommendation-engine-beyond-keywords/index.md): Recommendation has moved from a static 'customers also bought' strip to an intent-aware, real-time, vector-based discovery layer. Here is where the field is heading, and what we are building for B2B Intershop: a sovereign, first-party recommendation engine.
- [Better product content, on your own terms: AI for descriptions, translation, and attribute enrichment](https://alephfront.com/blog/ai-product-content-local-sovereign-enrichment/index.md): AI is now the default engine for product data enrichment: descriptions, translation, and attribute completion. Here is why we run it as local, sovereign models inside your own environment rather than shipping your catalogue to a third-party service.
- [From 535ms to 0.15ms: how we made Infor M3 pricing instant on Intershop](https://alephfront.com/blog/infor-m3-pricing-api-sub-millisecond-caching/index.md): Infor M3's pricing API is powerful but slow. Here is how we brought response times from half a second to sub-millisecond using a smart caching layer, with real production numbers.
- [PIM and Intershop: why product governance belongs outside your commerce backend](https://alephfront.com/blog/pim-intershop-product-governance/index.md): Your e-commerce backend is not a product information system. Here is why separating product governance from your commerce platform makes your Intershop implementation faster, cleaner, and easier to scale.
- [Why generic helpdesks fail B2B e-commerce teams](https://alephfront.com/blog/generic-helpdesks-fail-b2b-ecommerce/index.md): Generic ticketing systems were not built for e-commerce. Here is why B2B commerce teams need a helpdesk that understands their platform.
- [Migrating to Intershop: what to expect when leaving another commerce platform](https://alephfront.com/blog/migrating-to-intershop/index.md): Platform migrations are complex. Here is an honest breakdown of what it takes to move from another commerce platform to Intershop, and why organisations are making the switch.
- [What 60-80% of your B2B traffic really is, and how to stop it](https://alephfront.com/blog/bot-traffic-killing-b2b-ecommerce/index.md): Most B2B e-commerce platforms serve more bots than buyers. Here are real numbers from production platforms and what you can do about it.
- [Why we only integrate Intershop, and why that matters](https://alephfront.com/blog/why-we-only-integrate-intershop/index.md): Most e-commerce integrators spread across five or six platforms. We chose to go deep on one. Here is why that decision makes a measurable difference for our clients.
- [Intershop Partner of the Year 2024](https://alephfront.com/blog/intershop-partner-of-the-year-2024/index.md): We are proud to have been recognized as Intershop Partner of the Year 2024 at the Intershop Partner Summit in Berlin.