Shopware are gradually winning some nice stores in the UK and I think we’ll be seeing a lot more of them over the next couple of years.

Since its launch back in 2008, Magento has dominated the SMB and mid-market eCommerce platform space. A decade is a long time in the eCommerce world, and for much of that time, Magento has appeared to be a clear leader, in terms of reliability, extensibility and depth of functionality.

Shopware is an enterprise-level eCommerce platform, well-known for having the most live stores in Germany and also for powering some of the largest online stores in the market. Having grown to arguably market-leading status in it’s native Germany, Shopware is now starting to enter new European territories and is making big strides in the UK.

Over the last 6 months or so, I’ve been looking at various different platforms that are in the same market as Magento Enterprise and the higher end of Magento Community – including Shopware, which is a German solution which has recently entered the UK market.