Black Friday and Cyber Monday will continue to exist despite all the changes in consumer behavior brought on by COVID-19. Social segregation policies that restricted in-store purchasing in 2021 have only increased the number of online shoppers, and this trend is anticipated to continue in 2022. It’s critical to have your e-commerce site and company ready for the seasonal economic boom around Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2022.
Get ready for a spike in website traffic and revenue by getting your company in shape right away. The busiest shopping day of the year is unquestionably Black Friday. And now more than ever before as more individuals choose to purchase online. Cyber Monday 2021 saw an all-time high of $11.38 billion in internet spending, according to Statista. By surpassing last year’s $10.8 billion record, this is the biggest online shopping day in US history. It was inevitable that 2021’s rate of digital growth would slow down after the pandemic-related surge in online expenditure in 2020. Even while the 14.2% increase in e-commerce in 2021 is less than half of the record-breaking 31.8% increase in total sales that merchants achieved in 2020, it is still comparable to growth rates prior to the pandemic.
Uptime and quick issue response are more important than ever in today’s world of nonstop digital technology. Retailers now place high importance on quickly discovering and addressing IT events before they have an impact on sales, brand reputation, customer pleasure, and the general consumer experience.
9 Ways AlertOps Makes Seasonal Incident Response Simple
The AlertOps Platform comes complete with features that help your business limit the impact of IT incidents, outages and other IT-related downtime that may occur:
1. Planning, Prevention, and Protection
Our platform enables businesses to Implement monitoring controls to ensure that they are fully up, running, and adequately protected against cyberattacks. Users can easily access all the data needed to analyze and review previous Black Friday e-commerce website volume and system load and adjust infrastructure forecasts accordingly. The platform can also empower businesses to track cyberattack trends leading up to Black Friday, ensure that third-party components correspond to various SLAs, and automate infrastructure configuration and quality control testing.
2. Continuous Testing
Perform e-commerce load testing, so you can see how your site performs against expected thresholds. Furthermore, our platform promotes ongoing error and vulnerability testing, allowing your business to detect e-commerce mistakes and security issues that could hamper its performance 365 days a year.
3. Early Detection of E-Commerce Issues
With AlertOps, your business can effectively monitor its e-commerce website. This ensures that your company can identify any problems in their early stages and mitigate them before they cause an outage. Plus, you can leverage performance, error, and log monitoring data to verify your e-commerce site performs at peak levels throughout the holiday season.
4. Immediate Remediation of E-Commerce Issues
AlertOps ensures that on-call staff is immediately notified any time an e-commerce website outage occurs. The platform offers automatic escalations, so on-call personnel is automatically alerted any time an incident arises. This speeds up incident remediation — and reduces the risk of a prolonged e-commerce outage.
5. Major Incident Management
By using AlertOps your business can establish major incident management playbooks that enable your company to identify who should be alerted if an e-commerce outage occurs and document the steps and processes needed to notify the right personnel during the incident. It also ensures on-call staff uses the proper communication channels to keep in touch with one another throughout an e-commerce outage, leading to fast, efficient incident remediation.
6. Major Incident Management Playbook Automation
After you define all aspects of your major incident management playbook, AlertOps makes it simple to automate major incident response. The result: your on-call staff can automate incident management and optimize incident response.
7. Automated Communications
AlertOps minimizes the risk of missed communications during a Black Friday e-commerce outage. The platform allows your on-call staff to keep in touch with one another via text, SMS, and other contact methods. It also automates communications, enabling the right team members to engage with one another until an incident is fully resolved.
8. Comprehensive Analytics
By leveraging AlertOps, your business can gain the insights it needs to prevent holiday season e-commerce outages and other IT issues in the years to come. AlertOps ensures your business can capture data and insights at each stage of an incident. As such, the platform allows your company to identify its incident response strengths and weaknesses and determine ways to improve its incident response efforts.
9. Post-Mortem Reporting
AlertOps delivers blameless post-mortem reports that enable your business to review details surrounding major incidents, including key takeaways from the incident, and what can be done to prevent related issues. You can use post-mortem reports to find ways to continuously improve your incident response.
Deliver Best-In-Class Services at Scale 365-Days a Year
Delivering a category-leading customer experience today requires a retailer to maintain high availability across complex, interconnected services such as payment gateways, inventory and order management, and website and mobile apps…. especially during seasonal peaks. The AlertOps, incident management platform can help by providing teams with complete visibility across systems and processes, proactively resolving problems and capitalizing on real-time opportunities all while delivering the desired top-quality customer experience. Our platform with its industry-leading intelligent automation can help your business deliver remarkable services at scale 365 days a year and especially during seasonal spikes.
Be Prepared in The Face of Uncertainty with AlertOps
This holiday season be ready when disaster strikes. System failure, power outage, weather, cyber hacks – these threats defy prediction but demand resilience. Equip and empower your frontline teams with essential information to keep your people, and customers happy. Use AlertOps as your nerve center to navigate any storm that comes your way. Then fully leverage incident data and learnings, to build resilience and focus on prevention.
If your organization is ready to discover how AlertOps can help, try our 14-Day Free Trial Today.
