/app/code/CosmoCommerce

2 Create module folder

/app/code/CosmoCommerce/Demo

3 Create module config folder

/app/code/CosmoCommerce/Demo/etc

4 Create module registration file

/app/code/CosmoCommerce/Demo/registration.php

\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
'CosmoCommerce_Demo',
__DIR__
);

5 Create module config file

/app/code/CosmoCommerce/Demo/etc/module.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/Module/etc/module.xsd">
<module name="CosmoCommerce_Demo" setup_version="1.0.0">
<sequence>
<module name="Magento_Backend"/>
</sequence>
</module>
</config>

Code download

https://github.com/cosmocommerce/magento2-simplest-module

Magento Enterprise Edition 2.1 gives you that power.

Drive Sales and Improve Productivity
It all starts with Content Staging and Preview. Now you can easily stage, preview, and schedule a wide range of new content, including updates to products, categories, and promotions. User-friendly tools developed through extensive usability testing make the whole process fast and efficient. Plus, a new timeline dashboard provides at-a-glance visibility of all scheduled updates, so your team can easily coordinate campaigns to maximize sales impact.

Enterprise Edition 2.1 takes the worry out of scheduled updates. Now you can preview changes across your site by store view and date, and share links to staged content with other team members to make reviews and approvals easier. You can also preview changes in checkout to confirm all promotions are working as expected. Updates are automatically published and removed at scheduled times, so you can “set it, and forget it!”

Boost Conversion Rates

Enterprise Edition 2.1 features PayPal enhancements that streamline your checkout experience, and boost sales. PayPal In-context Checkout increases conversion rates by 69 basis points[1] by enabling shoppers to pay with PayPal without ever leaving your site. Securely storing credit card information through PayPal Saved Credit Cards means fewer security headaches, and more frequent purchases: Customers love to check out quickly without entering their credit card information.

(From Magento Official Blog)

In case you missed it, last week we announced the launch of Magento Marketplace our next generation extension marketplace!

When we set out to build Marketplace, we focused on a few core principles in designing the features and functions of the new Magento extension store. First and foremost, we wanted to deliver a great merchant experience, and an important part of that experience is to show off the amazing work that the ecosystem of Magento developers have created over the years. We have worked hard to ensure that Magento Marketplace represents the best that the Magento community has to offer.

What’s new in Magento Marketplace?

• A thoughtfully laid out store and smarter search and browse functionality to find extensions faster and easier

• Curated set of high-quality products and services that have been through Technical, Marketing, and Business Value reviews

• Marketplace account that keeps track of purchase history and information 

We are looking forward to working with you to make Marketplace a success. Welcome to the new Magento Marketplace!

(From Magento Official Blog)

New white paper shows Magento’s next generation platform handles up to 39% more orders per hour and delivers nearly instant server response times for catalog browsing.

Magento 2.0 was designed to meet an ambitious set of goals: offer unmatched flexibility, enable a faster time to market and easier upgrades, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and provide new functionality, while also delivering better performance and scale out-of-the-box.

Magento 2.0 achieved these goals with a more open and modular architecture and a comprehensive set of performance and scalability enhancements that:

• Optimize web pages for faster delivery

• Accelerate server response times for all site activities

• Increase efficiency for backend operations

• Boost database flexibility and scalability to handle peak loads

Benchmark testing comparing out-of-the-box supported and recommended configurations for Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0 and Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.2 show that the Magento 2.0 platform consistently outperforms the Magento 1.x platform across all metrics and use cases. A sampling of the findings reveals that Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0 can:

• Process up to 39% more orders per hour

• Deliver nearly instant server response times for catalog browsing

• Enable up to 66% faster add-to-cart server response times

• Provide up to 51% faster end-to-end checkout times

To learn more about the Magento 2.0 performance and scalability enhancements, recommended product configurations, and benchmark tests, download our new “Magento 2.0 Site Performance and Scalability Optimizations” white paper.

(From Magento Official Blog)

Hot off the presses for 2016, a joint study from The National Center for the Middle Market and Magento Commerce reveals that digitization remains a chief concern for businesses.

The research, “How Digital Are You?,” found that the fastest-growing middle market firms place a greater emphasis on digitization than their similar-sized counterparts. The data also highlighted the shifting focus of mid-market players’ digitization investments, marking a departure from the back office and operations-focused spending that has defined digitization activities in the past.

Unique among participating industries, the retail and wholesale sector has experienced a sea change led by technology and shifting consumer expectations. On the heels of NRF last week, here are a few unique insights for the retail industry:

• Mounting pressure to digitize retail and wholesale trade
  As brick-and-mortar stores struggle to keep up with strong online competition, the pressure to digitize has never been greater. While more than three quarters (78 percent) of retail and wholesale trade businesses say digitization is important relative to other business priorities, retail lags other sectors in the priority it places on digitization who rate digitization importance at 90 to 93 percent. 

• Bogged down by complexity and slow progress
  Not surprisingly, retailers and wholesalers were more likely to report a slower pace of digitization than other industries (37 percent). Integrating with legacy systems combined with a failure to prioritize the implementation of digitization efforts contribute to the problem. While the average payoff timeframe for digitization projects is three years, many firms cited waiting up to five years or more to realize a return on their investment.

• Wake up and smell the innovation
  The study revealed that most retail digitization investment goes towards back office operations (e.g. accounting) and facilitating current business (sales, customer service, marketing and logistics), with only 8 percent currently being invested in innovation projects which are important drivers of future growth and profitability for these companies. As the barriers to embracing next-era technologies dissipate, retailers will need to step up their game or get left behind. 

• New Year, New Me for Retail
  The data revealed that the business services and technology sector had the greatest percentage (50 percent) of companies that consider themselves digitally advanced, while more than one third of retailers (35 percent) feel somewhat or very far behind on digital readiness, leading 29 percent to increase their investment in digitization projects in the next 12 months.

"Clearly, the study validates that improving digitization is important to every industry in the digital age and that technology is rewriting the rules of the game. Businesses that are complacent or just average in this area will get left behind," said Peter Sheldon, Chief Strategy Officer, Magento Commerce. "To keep pace, companies must take necessary steps to address key digitization barriers and move quickly to successfully adopt next-era digital tools. In doing so, these businesses secure not only continued relevance, but also superior returns and growth."

To learn more about the study:

• Read the press release

• Download the full report 

(From Magento Official Blog)

Our next-generation platform, Magento 2.0, is built on a robust, modern architecture designed to adapt and scale to meet the challenges of the increasingly complex commerce market and to keep pace with the breakneck pace of innovation. In short, it’s architected for change.

To help you understand how Magento 2.0 is designed for speed, extensibility and scalability, we’ve prepared a comprehensive white paper covering the core principles behind the Magento 2.0 architecture. The paper provides details on how the platform has been built from the ground up to be open and flexible so merchants can bring their commerce vision to fruition even faster.

“Magento 2 has taken areas Magento is famous for such as openness and flexibility, and amplified them. It has incorporated best practices around modularity and superior scalability,” said Magento Chief Architect Alan Kent. “And then it has gone further, modernizing the platform technologies and development practices including test automation and removing extension conflicts. The platform was designed with a goal to accelerate innovation, and empower developers with complete control of their implementation and full confidence and predictability in adding and developing extensions”

Among the principles of Magento architecture covered in the whitepaper are:

• Modern Tech Stack based on popular, innovative PHP frameworks and coding patterns.

• Layered Product Architecture that supports the separation of visual presentation from backend business logic. This compartmentalization simplifies customization of store appearance and behavior.  Architectural layers also provide programmers with a high-level model for understanding the optimal placement of features and code in a complex system.

• Modular Codebase to offer limitless flexibility and to enable fine grain customizations and make it easier to add or replace functionality as merchant needs change

• Customizable Store Branding and theming to quickly create and painlessly maintain site variations for seasonal campaigns or market expansions

• Extensive and Efficient APIs to seamlessly integrate and operate at scale with any third-party solution like ERP, PIM, OMS, CRM, CMS, promotions and taxes.

• Automated and Built-in Testing to speed up the QA process for a faster time to market

• Easier Upgrades to quickly add new functionality as it becomes available with Magento’s quarterly development cycle

• Download the full white paper

• View a short video about Magento architecture or performance and scalability

(From Magento Official Blog)

Today we announced the general availability of our next generation open source digital commerce platform, Magento 2.0.  The new platform empowers brands, retailers, and businesses across B2C and B2B industries to quickly and cost-effectively deliver engaging omnichannel shopping experiences. Magento 2.0 also offers enhanced performance and scalability,  new features to boost conversion rates, and business agility and productivity improvements. The new platform also builds on our open source heritage and offers unmatched flexibility and innovation opportunities to our global ecosystem of partners and developers.

Two new products based on this powerful platform are available for download today: Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0 and Magento Community Edition 2.0.

Open, Flexible Architecture

Underpinning these new releases is a next-generation architecture that offers unmatched flexibility to bring your commerce vision to life. It features a modular code base that enables easier customization, faster time-to-market, and greater deployment flexibility to public or private cloud environments. More extensive and efficient APIs allow you to connect and operate at scale with any third party solution, and theming capabilities make building site variations for new product lines or geographies easier than ever. A wide range of turnkey extensions also enable fast and affordable enhancements to your store.

Engaging Shopping Experiences

Creating engaging, seamless and personalized customer experiences across any device is central to the Magento 2.0 platform. New responsive design reference themes give you a fast way to create sites that supports anytime, anywhere sales. And you can share your products in a more immersive way through integrated video. An all-new checkout is easier to customize and further improves conversion rates by minimizing steps and required information. You can also offer convenient, one-click account creation to save customer profiles for future purchases. 

Enhanced Business Agility and Productivity

Magento Commerce is also revolutionizing the merchant experience, enabling you to operate more efficiently and handle rapid growth, without scaling up your team. The new Admin panel design offers a streamlined, consumer-like interface that saves time when managing day-to-day tasks and is intuitive for new team members to learn. It is also touch-friendly so you can make updates or track sales while on-the-go.

Improved business tools empower you to continuously optimize your operations to drive growth. You can now effortlessly customize and save views in the Admin panel to enable quick access to information critical to your business. Setting up new products is also faster, with a step-by-step product creation tool and product import capabilities that are 4x faster than before.

Enterprise-grade Scalability and Performance

The Magento platform has been supercharged to offer over 50% faster page load times across many catalog and checkout pages to help you delight your customers and improve conversion rates. It pre-integrates Varnish to cache page content for faster performance and optimizes code and images for fast loading. Your team will be delighted too, with improved Admin performance and support for more concurrent updates. Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0 also delivers enterprise-grade scalability and high availability with standalone master databases for key subsystems along with multiple slave databases.

Secure Payments

Additionally, the Magento platform comes with tight out-of-the-box integrations with PayPal, Braintree, and Authorize.net payment gateways. Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0 also integrates with WorldPay and CyberSource.  All versions provide improved security and the ability to pursue the easiest level of PCI compliance, depending on the selected payment method.

Easier Maintenance and Upgrades

And finally, this modern, modular architecture reduces the complexity and cost of maintaining your site and it futureproofs your investment by simplifying upgrades. This means you can easily incorporate innovative functionality as it is released by Magento Commerce on a quarterly basis to drive higher sales and greater efficiency.

Start Exploring Today

There are many ways to learn more about the powerful and innovative Magento Commerce platform:

• To access product information, videos, and white papers visit the Magento Enterprise Edition page.

• To learn more about merchants already deployed on Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0, check out our early adopter blog post.

• To find a Magento 2.0 Trained Solution Partner visit the Partner Directory or theblog post

• To see all the extensions available for Magento 2.0, visit our dedicated extension page.

You can also start using the new software today. Existing Enterprise Edition customers can access it via MyAccount  and Community Edition users can download it from the Community Edition download page.

Welcome to next-generation commerce!

(From Magento Official Blog)