Elastic Path


Elastic Path is a "headless" ecommerce system, allowing template-less eCommerce to be integrated as middleware into Enterprise ERP systems. The system is API based and is specifically targeted towards Enterprise level Organisations. Elastic Path is a private company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with sales offices in the UK and US.
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce 2016 names Elastic Path as a Visionary in ecommerce applications. The evaluation was based on Elastic Path's completeness of vision and ability to execute.

History

Elastic Path was started by Harry Chemko in 2000, with co-founders Mark Williams, Dave Koo, Ryan Orr, and Jason Billingsley, after completing university with a $15,000 start-up loan from a non-profit organisation.

Clients

Elastic Path has more than 200 clients worldwide including Symantec, Time Inc, Virgin Media, LVMH, Devry, SAS, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games.

Java Ecommerce Platform

Elastic Path’s Java ecommerce platform is based on open source technologies such as Spring Framework, Apache OpenJPA, Eclipse RCP, Apache Solr, Apache Velocity, Groovy, DWR, jQuery and more.