Drive profitability through agile and flexible ecommerce ecosystems. See how Composable Commerce can turbocharge your growth.
Global ecommerce world is transforming at a lightning pace and businesses must act agile and keep up with the newest trends and technologies to stay ahead of the competition.
A latest development, "Composable" is making waves and SAP has jumped onboard with its latest offering, SAP Composable Commerce.
In this article, we are covering the benefits of SAP Composable Commerce, is it the right fit for you and the features you can benefit from.
What is Composable Commerce and why it is gaining popularity
Composable Commerce is an innovative concept revolutionizing the way businesses develop and deploy websites and platforms.
By leveraging its modular design, SAP Composable Commerce Cloud improves the flexibility, scalability and usability of the ecommerce websites, making it an indispensable platform for forward-looking ecommerce businesses.
Composable Commerce Benefits
With Composable Commerce:
- Diverse components or systems can be integrated or connected to function together effortlessly and efficiently.
- Development of complex systems or applications is flexible, scalable and simple.
- Firms can benefit from an adaptive e-commerce infrastructure and swiftly adjust to changing market conditions.
Is Composable Commerce right for you?
But first things first. Is Composable Commerce the right platform for you? Answering 3Ws can help you decide.
- What is your business (the technical maturity of your enterprise architecture)?
- Why do you need Composable Commerce?
- Is it really Worth the investment? What is the ROI (return on investment)?
Composable Commerce Architecture vs. Microservices vs. MACH
Composable Commerce architecture is different from microservices or MACH architecture. Microservices, API First, Cloud Native, and Headless are all distinct architectural concepts. Composable Commerce architecture combines different e-commerce functions, through monolithic or microservices architecture.
Microservices
Microservices is an architectural style that breaks down an application into small, independent services. Each service is responsible for a specific business function. The services communicate with each other through APIs. Microservices architectures improve scalability, flexibility, and agility.
MACH
MACH is an acronym for Microservices: API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless. It is a comprehensive architecture that combines microservices with other best practices, like using APIs to expose functionality, building applications for the cloud, and decoupling the front end from the backend. MACH architectures create highly scalable, flexible, and adaptable e-commerce solutions.
Composable Commerce Architecture
CCA is a newer architecture based on the principle of composability. Composability is the ability to assemble different components to create a new solution.
In ecommerce, CCA allows businesses to assemble different ecommerce functions, like a frontend, a backend, and a payment processor, to create a custom ecommerce solution that meets their specific needs. CCA architectures can be implemented using microservices, monolithic architectures, or a combination of both.
SAP's Composable Commerce Cloud is a hybrid version that enables on-demand module offerings, allowing organizations to use only the modules they require, when they require them, so they save costs and become more adaptable to changing market situations.
Features and Addons of SAP Composable Commerce
SAP Composable Commerce provides a modular way of designing e-commerce applications. SAP Composable Commerce Cloud has various modules specific to ecommerce functions such as Product Content Management, Web Content Management, Headless Composable Storefront (Spartacus), Microservices (SAP Kyma), and Omni-channel Order Management (OMS). Each module is designed to function in collaboration with the others, allowing businesses to pick and choose the modules they require to develop a personalized ecommerce solution that matches their specific business requirements.
SAP Composable Commerce is coupled with the below modules:
SAP Commerce Cloud, Core Commerce Module (comes with Composable package)
- Product Catalog Management, Standard Cart and Checkout
- Promotions and Coupon, Bundling and Subscriptions
- B2B Commerce, Integration Pack
SAP Commerce Cloud, Product Information Management (comes as a plus addon for Composable package)
The capabilities of SAP Commerce Cloud Product Content Management (PCM) are vast for commerce stores. It enables the transfer of PIM data to other systems for selling it on Amazon or another system. An evolved PIM solution with predefined connectors and defined solutions can be extremely efficient.
SAP Commerce Cloud, Composable Storefront (comes as a plus addon for Composable package)
SAP Commerce Cloud Composable Storefront or Spartacus has WCMS update capabilities using smart-edit, a framework by SAP. CCV2 uses Rest APIs to connect to the headless storefront. Did we say headless storefront? Yes, a composable storefront is just another headless storefront. You can use any other headless storefront from the market to connect with SAP Commerce Cloud, but you may lose the capability of maintaining WCMS using smart edit while doing so.
SAP Commerce Cloud, OMS (comes as a plus addon for Composable package)
SAP Commerce Cloud comes with two order management processes, the OMM Order Management Module and OMS Order Management Service. OMS is an integrated order management system that comes with SAP ERP or SAP S/4Hana.
SAP Commerce Cloud, Product Search and Facets(comes as a plus addon for Composable package)
SAP Commerce Cloud search and indexing used for frontend and backend search enables customers to search products within the Product Catalog, either through Facet Navigation or Free Text Search, and features like Adaptive search.
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