Composable Commerce

Composable Commerce: The very last total Re-platforming?

Re-platforming is often costly and time-consuming. It requires significant investment and often results in a system that offers essentially the same functionality as the old one, just when you think you've finished developing it. Can't this be done differently? A vision based on composable commerce probably eliminates the need for total re-platforming.

What is Composable Commerce?

Composable commerce is a model developed by Gartner. It combines the customer journey, the technical architecture and the functional building blocks (functions) into a single strategy and platform. This platform remains flexible because individual functions can be combined and easily replaced with cheaper, better or more modern alternatives. The result is a modular system, as opposed to a monolithic system that is difficult to adapt. This modular system is developed faster, is easier to customize and requires focusing only on the features that are actually needed. This allows you to react to the market faster than your competitors and continue to amaze customers.

Advantages and challenges of Composable Commerce

Advantages

• Flexibility and agility: you choose the software components that are best for the function it performs in line with strategy and goals. This allows the organization to use the system better and longer and move with market needs.
• More efficient deployment of software: activate only what you need.
• The best customer experience: more freedom to give customers the best experience.

Challenges

• Don't make the setup too complex: use what you actually need.
• Arrange your maintenance well: clear who manages and maintains what.
• Perform good chain management so that the rollout remains effective.

MACH too?

MACH stands for Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless. This is a belief of many technology players that this is how you can establish the perfect composable setup. This architecture provides a flexible and robust digital infrastructure.

Should everything be done at once or can you reuse existing components?

MACH is a vision for flexible and robust setup of your digital platforms. When re-platforming, you can choose to develop a fully MACH-compliant platform right away. However, if the current landscape contains components that work well and offer great capabilities, it is not necessary to replace the entire platform at once. It can also be done in stages. Exceptions can be accepted, provided they can be connected via APIs fast enough.

TRIMM and Composable Commerce

At TRIMM, we have been working according to the philosophy of composable commerce for many years. We select the best tools that combine to form a working solution and achieve the desired results. With our partners such as Commercetools, Magnolia DXP, Elasticsearch and Keycloak, we create composable solutions that can interface with Infor M3, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce CRM/Pardot and Hubspot, among others. We also have the experience with tools like Shopify and Magento. So re-platforming existing solutions is definitely in trusted hands with us.

Conclusion

In a world that is constantly changing, composable commerce offers a flexible and efficient way to build and adapt digital platforms. By using a modular approach and MACH principles, organizations can respond quickly to market changes and technological advances. This ensures that they not only remain competitive, but also continue to meet the expectations of their customers and employees. At TRIMM, we embrace this approach to provide the best solutions to our customers.