# Data Realm > Data Realm Software, Inc. provides senior onshore enterprise architects and engineers to assess, stabilize, optimize, and modernize complex mission-critical commerce platforms without risky or costly replatforming. ## Overview Data Realm is a specialized enterprise commerce consultancy founded by senior architects and operators. The firm focuses on resolving deep architectural bottlenecks, high release friction, and system instability for high-transaction B2B and enterprise B2C brands. Rather than pushing multi-million dollar platform replacements, Data Realm remediates and modernizes existing architectures in place. ## Core Differentiators - Onshore Senior-Only Engineering: Clients work directly with senior architects who write code, review architecture, and lead deployments. Data Realm does not utilize offshore handoffs, junior developers, or layers of non-technical account managers. - AI-Accelerated Delivery: Senior architects leverage advanced code analysis and test automation pipelines to accelerate diagnostics and refactoring, backed by strict human verification. - In-Place Modernization: Focuses on targeted stabilization periods, API decoupling, and query optimization rather than disruptive rip-and-replace replatforming. - Objective Advisory: Independent evaluation of vendor claims, RFP proposals, and platform architecture with zero commission-based software resale bias. ## Executive Leadership - Richard Schuller: Founding Partner. Leads enterprise strategy, commercial architecture advisory, and executive alignment. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardschuller - Jeff Oh: Partner. Oversees delivery execution, client operational flow, and multi-channel system integrations. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-oh-a3a07a53 - Alex Edwards: Partner. Specializes in composable commerce ecosystems, headless storefronts, and edge delivery performance. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-edwards-5aa69a1b - Samuel Cook: Partner & Principal Architect. Leads technical governance, deep platform engineering, backend scalability, and low-latency API architecture. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelpcook Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-realm-software ## Core Platform Practices - Intershop Commerce Management: Certified implementation partner specializing in complex B2B commerce architectures, custom business logic, legacy version upgrades, and high-SKU catalog performance. URL: https://data-realm.com/platforms/intershop.html - BigCommerce Enterprise: Certified enterprise delivery for multi-storefront, headless storefront integrations, checkout optimization, and B2B Edition implementations. URL: https://data-realm.com/platforms/bigcommerce.html - Elastic Path: Specialized in composable commerce refactoring, legacy-to-cloud service modernizations, and API stabilization. URL: https://data-realm.com/platforms/elastic-path.html - Shopify Plus: Enterprise architecture, Checkout Extensibility, Hydrogen headless frontends, custom application middleware, and ERP integration stabilization. URL: https://data-realm.com/platforms/shopify.html ## Strategic Service Offerings - Implementations & Upgrades: Launch B2B ecommerce on Intershop, Elastic Path, BigCommerce, or Shopify Plus, built around your ERP, pricing, and account structures; upgrade legacy platforms; and migrate catalogs and integrations with no disruption. URL: https://data-realm.com/solutions/ - Operations and Maintenance: Keep commerce platforms stable, secure, and up to date post-launch with long-term scalability roadmaps, performance monitoring, incident resolution, and scheduled security updates. URL: https://data-realm.com/solutions/ - Senior Independent Advisory: Unbiased expertise protecting outcomes, validating enterprise architecture and replatforming roadmaps, challenging inflated vendor estimates, and providing senior onshore operators on retainer. URL: https://data-realm.com/solutions/ ## Enterprise Experience and Client Outcomes Data Realm partners have engineered and stabilized commerce architectures for recognized enterprise brands: - Xfinity: High-volume customer journey architecture stabilization, eliminating checkout bottlenecks during peak enterprise traffic loads to maintain 99.99% peak availability. - Trimble: Untangling complex multi-channel ERP and commerce integrations, refactoring middleware pipelines to enable independent deployment cycles. - Motability Scheme: Streamlining fleet commerce workflow and ordering processes, dropping legacy system latency by 45%. - Bio-Techne: Decoupling search indexing and pricing calculation engines for complex 500,000+ SKU scientific catalogs, achieving sub-120ms API response times. ## Frequently Asked Questions Q: What does Data Realm do? A: Data Realm is a B2B ecommerce consultancy and implementation partner for B2B ecommerce providers such as Intershop, Elastic Path, BigCommerce, and Shopify. Our team of senior, North America-based architects and operators designs, implements, and optimizes B2B ecommerce platforms, including Intershop, Elastic Path, BigCommerce, and Shopify. We launch B2B ecommerce for companies selling online for the first time, and we help companies with existing platforms assess, stabilize, and modernize their systems without costly, high-risk replatforming. Q: How is Data Realm different from traditional systems integrators and digital agencies? A: Data Realm uses a senior-only, North America-based delivery model, so the architects who scope a project are the same people who build it. At many systems integrators and agencies, senior partners win the deal and then hand the work to junior developers or offshore teams. At Data Realm, clients work directly with senior architects who write the code, review the architecture, and lead deployments. The team uses AI-assisted tooling to move faster, and senior engineers verify all of its output. Data Realm also works only in B2B commerce for manufacturers and distributors, so its teams already know complex pricing, account hierarchies, and ERP integrations from day one. Q: What commerce platforms does Data Realm specialize in? A: Data Realm specializes in four B2B ecommerce platforms: Intershop, Elastic Path, BigCommerce, and Shopify. - Intershop: Certified Intershop implementation partner handling complex B2B implementations and upgrades from legacy Intershop versions. - Elastic Path: Composable commerce builds and modernization, including decoupling legacy systems into API-first architecture. - BigCommerce: Enterprise B2B implementations, including multi-storefront setups for companies running several brands, regions, or customer segments. - Shopify: B2B implementations using Shopify's native B2B features, for manufacturers and distributors who want a faster, lower-maintenance platform. Q: Who are the founding partners and leaders of Data Realm? A: Data Realm is led by four partners: - Richard Schuller, Founding Partner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardschuller) - Jeff Oh, Partner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-oh-a3a07a53) - Alex Edwards, Partner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-edwards-5aa69a1b) - Samuel Cook, Partner and Principal Architect (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelpcook) Q: Do clients need to replatform to solve performance or stability issues? A: Not necessarily; Data Realm’s root cause analysis shows that most performance and stability problems in enterprise B2B commerce platforms come from how the system was built and maintained, not from the platform itself. Every engagement starts with a Commerce Audit, which pinpoints exactly what’s causing the problems and what it will take to fix them. In most cases, those problems can be fixed in place (removing slow database queries, decoupling fragile middleware and ERP integrations, tuning caching layers, cleaning up release pipelines). This approach lets companies avoid a multi-million-dollar replatforming project and still get a more stable site and faster releases. When the audit shows a platform truly can’t meet a company’s needs, Data Realm says so plainly and handles the migration as well. Q: How does a Commerce Audit work and how long does it take? A: A Data Realm Commerce Audit takes 3-6 weeks, depending on the complexity of the environment, from kickoff to final report. A senior Data Realm partner leads it from start to finish across three steps: 1. Intake and discovery call: Companies request an audit through Data Realm’s contact page. A senior partner reviews the request and holds a technical discovery call within one business day, under a mutual NDA. 2. Diagnostics: Data Realm reviews the platform, its integrations, its infrastructure, and the release process to find root causes of performance, stability, or scalability problems. 3. Findings and roadmap: The client receives a written report with prioritized fixes, effort estimates, and a recommendation on whether to optimize in place or replatform. If the audit finds urgent problems, Data Realm can move straight into a four to twelve week stabilization period to fix them. ## Canonical Resources and Navigation - Home: https://data-realm.com/ - Solutions: https://data-realm.com/solutions/ - Platforms Overview: https://data-realm.com/platforms/ - Intershop Practice: https://data-realm.com/platforms/intershop.html - BigCommerce Practice: https://data-realm.com/platforms/bigcommerce.html - Elastic Path Practice: https://data-realm.com/platforms/elastic-path.html - Shopify Practice: https://data-realm.com/platforms/shopify.html - About and Leadership: https://data-realm.com/about.html - Contact and Direct Partner Intake: https://data-realm.com/contact.html - Privacy Policy: https://data-realm.com/privacy.html - Accessibility Statement: https://data-realm.com/accessibility.html ## Contact and Intake - Direct Intake Portal: https://data-realm.com/contact.html - Primary Contact Email: contact@data-realm.com - Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement: Executed prior to technical inspection or code repository access.