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Maximise your tech investment with Composable Commerce

Are you looking for ways to scale your business as quickly and efficiently as possible. Do you also want to ensure that your infrastructure is secure, reliable and under your control? Then check out our Path to Composable eBook and learn how you can leverage your investment in your existing platforms whilst evolving your tech stack to give you agility and flexibility to future proof your business.

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Digital commerce platforms are experiencing ongoing modularisation in a cloud-native, multi-experience world. Application leaders responsible for digital commerce should prepare for a “composable” approach using packaged business capabilities to move toward future-proof digital commerce experiences.

Mike Lowndes, Sandy Shen, Gartner

Jump start your composable business

Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increasing challenge for merchants to keep up with customer demands. With the rise of the mobile web and shorter innovation cycles, it’s become more important than ever for merchants to have a structure in place that allows them to be agile and quick. Time to market is now a leading competitive differentiator.​

​Monolithic eCommerce applications, which are still used by many big retailers worldwide, have become a bottleneck for innovation. While they can be deployed all at once, they are also complex and inflexible.

There is a new approach to commerce that will help you overcome these challenges. This composable approach is based on MACH architecture and leverages your investment in your existing platforms whilst evolving your tech stack to give you agility and flexibility to future proof your business.​

Composable commerce involves taking best of breed technologies from various vendors rather than a single vendor and composing them in a modular way to suit your business needs. Without affecting the rest of your architecture these technologies can be easily added, replaced, and removed as your business needs grow or change.

The key benefits of composable:

Future proof tech stack

Flexibility

Faster time to market

Increased delivery efficiency

Highly scalable

No vendor lock in

Gear up for modern commerce

Composable architecture is based on the MACH Principles. The MACH principles presented by the MACH Alliance advocates for an open and best-of-breed enterprise technology ecosystem. The ecosystem technology is: Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless.

1. Microservices

Individual pieces of business functionality that are independently developed, deployed, and managed.

2. API-first

All functionality is exposed through an API.​

3. Cloud-native SaaS

SaaS that leverages the cloud, beyond storage and hosting, including elastic scaling and automatically updating.

4. Headless

Front-end presentation is decoupled from back-end logic and channel, programming language, and is framework agnostic.

Are you ready for composable?

Interested in learning more about how composable commerce can benefit your business? Get in touch with our experts today!

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Best of Both

KPS has pioneered a ‘Best of Both’ approach, ensuring legacy and newly implemented technologies can perform in a MACH compliant way. This preserves investment but also enables composable commerce opportunities in the future.

KPS is implementing solutions that bring flexibility to these hybrid environments, extracting the best possible performance out of existing “monoliths”, which you may not want to tear down and rebuild, augmented with state-of-the-art MACH components to deliver integration and a path to the future.

Composable Commerce Conversation with KPS and SAP

Barnaby Moffat, UK Commercial Director at KPS and Alex Timlin, Head of Customer Experience Solutions Go To Market at SAP, discuss the importance of composability and how a best of both approach is beneficial to future-proof and scale your business.

KPS is here to guide you through your composable journey

KPS is already helping a number of our clients on their composable journey. With our industry-leading know-how and passion for successful transformations, we develop composable eCommerce solutions that increase sales, boost conversion rates and deliver excellent customer experiences.

Why don’t you just take a look for yourselves?

The Body Shop

Working seamlessly with a whole host of fantastic partners, including Adyen, Amplience, Monetate and BazaarVoice, the KPS team helped The Body Shop develop an entirely new global cloud-based scalable e-commerce platform, providing a single view of the customer and solid foundations for future growth and agility.

Headless architecture and seamless backend integration mean that The Body Shop can now publish their own dynamic web content, giving the business the control and input they need to drive their rebranding vision forward.

The improved functionality handled the peak Black Friday demand perfectly – with day-to-day performance/reliability now coasting at 99.9% uptime. The new platform also enabled acceleration in a broader feature set, greater personalisation and stronger conversion rate optimisation.

Elkjøp

As a partner of the MACH Alliance, KPS is deploying a powerful transformation model for Elkjøp to implement a resilient and future-proof, frontend-driven IT architecture. A smooth integration of all business processes in the backend is achieved via API integration to SaaS.

MACH provides the technological principles behind building an end-to-end customer-centric system. Central, cloud-based microservices, e.g. for pricing and promotions, serve as a single point of truth across all channels. Headless applications supply the front end, which is optimised for the customer experience, with the required functions and information, scalable and fast. Dynamic Yield’s personalisation engine drives the individualisation – via APIs, microservices and of course headless and scalable in the Microsoft Azure Cloud.

The modular approach, which can be implemented immediately, enables a holistic transformation in a comparatively short time.

Mirka

With an archaic legacy online store slowing them down, Mirka wanted to create an omnichannel experience that would allow them to grow and interact with their customers at a deeper level.

Launching a brand-new cloud-based ‘Partner Portal’, employing the Spartacus headless storefront application, in just six months – KPS have delivered a new transactional platform with a wealth of content and features that are transforming Mirka’s customer experience.

Now Mirka’s team can build stronger relationships with their customers, and the business has the perfect digital steppingstone for future growth and agility.

KPS has a successful partner ecosystem

As a member of the MACH alliance, we work with the best of breed technology partners.

Together we assure our customers a very broad portfolio of future-oriented solutions to strengthen their competitive edge.

Path to Composable eBook

Download the eBook to discover how you can can maximise your investments and future proof your business with composable commerce.

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  • How composable commerce can benefit your business
  • How to protect your investments whilst embracing composable
  • How to get started on your journey

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Questions? Feel free to contact us!

E-Mail: booster@kps.com

Stefan Metzger

Managing Director