What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Magento eCommerce platform?

The strengths and weaknesses of the Magento eCommerce platform are:

Strengths

• Complete commerce solution: Magento Commerce includes a native WCM module (Page Builder) in the core commerce platform, and provides additional solutions for order management, shipping, and data and analytics.
• Application and partner ecosystem: Magento Marketplace is a robust application exchange market that includes over 4,800 extensions to a large number of third-party commerce applications directly from the Magento admin UI, including WCM/DXP, PIM, search (product and site), CPQ, social media, reviews and ratings, marketing hub, and analytics. Magento has a large global ecosystem of technology partners, agencies, developers and SIs.
• Adobe acquisition: Magento Commerce was integrated with AEM prior to the acquisition. Now they are more tightly integrated, enterprises have access to a more comprehensive suite through direct integrations with Adobe solutions for marketing and analytics — filling a previous product gap in personalization and AI capabilities. Adobe’s global enterprise sales organization and footprint within larger clients has resulted in an increase in enterprise deals for Magento, which has historically served mostly SMBs.

Weaknesses

• SaaS offerings: Magento Commerce is a single-tenant SaaS currently available exclusively on AWS (support for Azure is coming later in 2019) that lacks key functions such as autoscaling. As an alternative, organizations can “self-host” on any IaaS provider via an on-premises deployment — but should be aware that CloudOps tools are not available.
• B2B functionality: Although approximately 40% of Magento clients today use the vendor to serve B2B commerce, the platform currently lacks major B2B functions such as out-of-the-box workflow approvals, contract-specific terms and role-based spending limits.
• Adobe-Magento integration: While Magento Commerce uses the Adobe Experience Platform connector to access functions in Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target, AI-driven personalization and dynamic multivariate testing are not fully integrated into Magento Commerce today. Behavioral data is synchronized from Magento into Adobe Analytics, but Adobe Analytics data does not yet sync back into Magento Commerce.