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Feb 9th 2022 product
A headless tech stack with the best-of-breed building blocks benefits ecommerce companies with multiple strategic capabilities, which they are unlikely to achieve when relying on a traditional Monolithic architecture. There are many reasons to move from a monolith to headless architecture. These include the flexibility in building and customizing their ecommerce platform solution for a specific use-case or need, the speed of launching new products and services, the ability to deliver the best experience to the customers regardless of platform or device. The transition unlocks future strategic growth opportunities.
To unlock the benefits of Headless architecture, companies need to plan their digital transformation and consider every essential building block required for creating a state of the art ecommerce platform solution.
According to the Mach Alliance, a typical Headless architecture of an ecommerce website will have the following building blocks:
On this diagram, each block represents an essential ecommerce functionality and not necessarily a separate tool. There might be several tools with overlapping functionalities or solutions. What we want to concentrate on when selecting the best-of-breed components is which functionalities deliver the most value to your specific use case and how they can be combined together effectively to ensure that your ecommerce business continuously achieves its business goals.
Front end – the first element of the architecture is a front-end framework. This is the presentation layer that is going to put your ecommerce platform user interface in front of your customers, to provide the best possible digital user experience
API layer – API layer is the access point to all your building blocks.
Learn about how ecommerce industry leaders are implementing merchandising strategies:
How to increase online sales with Search merchandising
How to boost online sales with Category merchandising
Best ways to leverage AI to optimize a user conversion
Best practices for ecommerce personalization
Learn about how ecommerce industry leaders are implementing customer service solutions to increase brand loyalty:
The digital transformation from Monolith to Headless or Composable architecture is an essential and much needed step to prepare your ecommerce platform for future industry changes and technological advancements.
To learn more about ways to select and implement best-of-breed composable building blocks, and unlock the benefits of a fast, scalable, and flexible architecture, contact our team, or visit the links below:
Composable Commerce: how to select best-of-breed components to meet your business needs
Composable Commerce: how to improve omnichannel product discovery experience
Composable Commerce: how to build an In-Store Product Search Kiosk and Store Locator
Composable Commerce: How to integrate your product catalog into WeChat, Google Home, and Alexa
How Composable Commerce can boost customer spending during Black Friday and Cyber Week
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