What is Composable Commerce?

Composable commerce is a cutting-edge approach to building digital commerce platforms that provides businesses with unmatched flexibility and adaptability by using a modular architecture. Unlike traditional monolithic systems, which are often rigid and difficult to modify, composable commerce enables businesses to select and integrate various components or Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs) tailored to their unique business needs.

Composable Commerce is a development strategy and industry term being used and highlighted by, among others, Gartner Group. The foundation of composable commerce lies in the MACH principles and takes advantage of a modular, cloud-native architecture:

1. Microservices-based: The functionality is divided into separate consumable parts that are divided into business value or business process.
2. API-first: Concept using standardised communication between different applications, enabling fast integration of services. It is a prerequisite for being able to replace or add future services without having to rebuild the entire solution.
3. Cloud-native: The service is a genuine cloud service that all customers share in terms of code, enabling automatic scaling of performance and capacity and continuous updates in real time, making the solution future-proof.
4. Headless: Separates the business logic from the presentation layer, enables faster development and supports seamless communication in all channels. This means you can freely choose the user interface and build omnichannel solutions in a sustainable and future-proof way with the customer experience in focus.

With composable commerce, businesses can rapidly adapt and scale to meet evolving market needs. The modular approach allows businesses to reconfigure or replace specific PBCs as their needs change, without the complexity of having to rebuild the entire platform. The flexibility of composable commerce enables faster innovation, ensuring businesses can introduce new features and services quickly while delivering a personal customer experience across multiple channels.

By implementing a composable architecture, businesses can future proof their digital commerce, ensuring it’s scalable and adaptable, while continuously improving the customer journey. Whether in B2B or B2C, this approach supports faster time-to-market, offers greater flexibility, and provides a cost-effective way to manage digital commerce in an ever-changing landscape.

Norce Commerce is a composable commerce platform which gives you unmatched flexibility and allows you to be agile. Feel free to download our guide and find out how to future-proof and grow your digital commerce with Composable Commerce!

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