MACH Principles in E-commerce, Explained
Cost efficiency, adaptability and outstanding shopping experiences - these are the goals of all...
Global e-commerce sales surpassed an incredible $5.7 trillion in 2022. With such a booming market, the need for customized solutions is becoming more apparent. Customers prefer personalized experiences with their preferred brands, and businesses want to tailor their e-commerce platforms. For both sides, customization is key to success. This is where Composable Commerce comes in.
A concept first coined by Gartner, Composable Commerce enables businesses to build scalable and customizable e-commerce platforms that best fit their unique requirements.
"While we become increasingly detached from physical stores, the need for specialized knowledge, helpful information, interesting insights, and real-world experience is still something that shoppers crave. To master these new challenges, a composable MACH infrastructure helps companies to serve customers with a "Rich, Relevant & Real-time" shopping experience at every touchpoint."
- Boris Krstic, Co-Founder and CEO of Actindo
Composable Commerce is a software architecture that separates the frontend and the backend of a business, allowing you to pick and mix best-of-breed technologies, for a flexible and agile e-commerce architecture.
It leverages modern technologies like MACH (Microservices, API, Cloud, Headless) and JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) to make it truly modern and future-ready. The frontend and backend of the software communicate via API, and each component on the platform can be replaced without impacting other parts of the system.
Unlike Traditional Commerce platforms, in Composable Commerce you can choose components from different vendors and compose them into a single platform. These components are called Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs).
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Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs) are often confused with Microservices. These two terms are similar and complementary, but not the same. Microservices can be understood as the small functions or features of a platform, while Packaged Business Capabilities are a collection of Microservices. As the name suggests, PBCs are built around providing a specific business function through clear and well-defined business tasks.
These Packaged Business Capabilities are the building blocks of Composable Commerce. Whereas Traditional Commerce platforms are inflexible and incapable of handling the growing demands of a business, Composable Commerce allows businesses to build an agile commerce platform designed for modern touchpoints.
Composable Commerce is an approach that allows businesses to build a customized e-commerce platform using Microservices, rather than a Traditional Commerce platform. It offers several benefits to businesses, including:
Overall, Composable Commerce provides a more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective way for businesses to build and manage their e-commerce platform, allowing them to quickly adapt to changes in the market and provide a better user experience.
Composable commerce’s biggest strength is being able to customize your own e-commerce setup, fast. To perfectly meet the needs of your business, now and in the future. It allows you to pick and choose the components and functions you need, and isn’t limited to the basic functions of an all-in-one suite.
However this doesn't mean that you will face a "system chaos", due to fragile point-to-point connections. Thanks to innovative MACH architecture, every application is seamlessly integrated as part of your e-commerce platform for a powerful, optimally networked IT ecosystem.
Composable Commerce focuses on uniqueness and differentiation. You can choose the systems that are perfectly aligned with your business - from your store system to your CRM, to payment and shipping providers. Your entire e-commerce tech stack becomes leaner, faster, more flexible, and much easier to maintain. This not only simplifies your work but also creates an exceptional customer experience across all channels.
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Transitioning a Traditional IT landscape to a Composable Commerce platform requires careful planning and implementation to ensure that the platform meets all business requirements and can be used optimally.
We recommend the following steps to switch to a Composable Commerce platform:
It is important to work with a team of experienced developers and consultants to ensure a smooth transition and successful implementation.
At Actindo, we have long recognized the trend towards modular IT, and with our Actindo Core1 platform, we offer a flexible all-in-one solution that makes it possible to integrate and centrally control all touchpoints as well as existing (legacy) systems.
It is based on the innovative MACH+ architecture and provides a modular commerce setup and an innovative Headless ERP strategy. It can be deployed both as a central solution and as a scalable layer on top of existing systems, enabling easy modernization of Traditional legacy IT.
Switching from a traditional ERP system to a Composable Commerce approach doesn't need to be a costly mammoth project. Reliable legacy systems can be easily integrated into the modern commerce environment and linked to modern applications with Actindo's Digital Operations Platform.
If you're interested in getting started with Composable Commerce, book a 30-minute demo call with our experts to find out how. In the call, our experts will give you a full overview of the Actindo Digital Operations Platform and address all your individual requirements and questions.
Composable Commerce offers a new approach to creating and managing e-commerce experiences that is flexible, scalable, and future-proof. By breaking down traditional monolithic platforms into smaller, specialized services, businesses can leverage the best-in-class capabilities of each component, enabling them to innovate and respond to changing customer needs faster than ever before.
Gartner predicts that businesses that have adopted Composable Commerce will outpace their competitors by 80% when it comes to implementing new features.
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