The Ultimate Guide to Composable Commerce

The Ultimate Guide to Composable Commerce

The Ultimate Guide to Composable Commerce

The Ultimate Guide to Composable Commerce

Author

Maxime Julia Lawende

Content Marketeer

Author

Maxime Julia Lawende

Content Marketeer

Author

Maxime Julia Lawende

Content Marketeer

Author

Maxime Julia Lawende

Content Marketeer

Category

Educational

Publish Date

Aug 20, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the world of commerce is more dynamic than ever before. Rapid shifts in consumer behavior, an explosion of data, and the continuous emergence of new sales channels and SaaS technologies are pushing businesses to their limits. In such an environment, sticking with outdated, static technology is not just a hindrance; it’s a risk to survival.

To thrive in this ever-evolving marketplace, your business needs more than just flexibility—it needs a robust, adaptable foundation that opens the door to unlimited growth and puts you in full control of your destiny. Welcome to the revolutionary world of Composable Commerce, where you have the power to build your ideal commerce solution, piece by piece.

What is Composable Commerce?

Imagine a world where you're not forced to fit your unique business into a rigid, one-size-fits-all platform. Composable Commerce frees you from that constraint by allowing you to choose the best tools and seamlessly integrate them into a customized, agile platform designed specifically for your needs.

By adopting this composable approach, you gain the freedom to select best-of-breed commerce components—whether for order management, search functionality, checkout processes, or promotional tools—and compose them into a tailored application that perfectly aligns with your business goals.

Composable Commerce delivers the scalability, flexibility, and enterprise-grade power of a traditional platform, but with the ease, speed, and modernity of today’s SaaS tools. This is achieved by combining or composing Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs), which are individual features or capabilities sourced from third-party software providers. Each PBC is like a building block, and when assembled and orchestrated correctly, they create a seamless, powerful commerce experience.

At the heart of Composable Commerce lies a shift in perspective: from a platform-centric approach to one that puts the customer first.

The Art of Composing and Orchestration

To support the complexity of a growing retail brand, it’s essential to curate a suite of top-tier technologies that can be composed and orchestrated effectively. This enables your team to deliver the exceptional experiences your customers expect while supporting the diverse business models and revenue streams that drive your brand’s growth.

Composable Commerce empowers brands to craft flexible digital retail experiences that are future-proof, allowing you to stay ahead of the curve and maximize your technology investments. Through tools like the Deity Commerce Composer, you can connect external and internal systems, seamlessly orchestrating data flows without being constrained by direct integrations.

Deity’s Unique Orchestration

Most composable and MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) vendors focus solely on on-session data, neglecting the critical off-session data that is vital to your business processes—like synchronizing ERP data, stock levels, and batch information. Deity’s unique approach allows you to combine both on-session and off-session data, ensuring you maintain full control over your business operations, from backend to frontend, all within a single, convenient overview.

With Deity’s low-code/no-code Orchestration Studio, you can apply business rules and dynamically transform data flows from source to destination, making it easier than ever to connect with any e-commerce service quickly and securely.

The End of Replatforming: A New Era of Flexibility

For years, businesses have faced the daunting challenge of replatforming—an expensive, time-consuming process that often feels like a necessary evil. But with Composable Commerce, the days of jumping from one monolithic platform to another are over. Instead, you can enjoy the flexibility and agility to create your own solution using the best services available, free from the restrictions of vendor lock-in.

Transitioning to a composable architecture transforms your platform from a costly necessity into a powerful tool that actively drives your business growth. According to Gartner, businesses that embrace a composable approach will outpace their monolithic competitors by more than 80% in rolling out new features and meeting customer expectations.

Architecting Your Success in Ecommerce

The right architectural foundation can make all the difference in your e-commerce success. Whether it’s scalability, speed, omnichannel capabilities, or the ability to innovate, choosing the right technology stack is crucial. Deity’s Composable Commerce Architecture, complete with Composer and Orchestration Studio, is designed to provide a flexible, powerful foundation for the future of your brand.

Composable for Enterprise: The Best of Both Worlds

For established enterprises, embracing Composable Commerce doesn’t mean abandoning the systems that have served you well for years. Deity offers a seamless way to connect your current, even legacy, systems with the new composable architecture, ensuring continuity and stability while unlocking new opportunities for innovation and growth.

Embrace Composable Commerce in Four Steps

1. Discovery & Defining: Start by assessing your current setup, identifying key features, evaluating processes, and defining future goals. This lays the foundation for a blueprint of your new software ecosystem.

2. Composing & Orchestration: With the blueprint in hand, work with your development team to build the foundation of your composable architecture, connecting and configuring systems through Deity’s tools.

3. Creating the Experience: While backend components are assembled, craft stunning front-end experiences that bring your brand to life across all channels—web, apps, and even physical devices.

4. Optimize & Build: Your new platform is built to scale, ensuring near-perfect uptime and the flexibility to quickly add new features as needed.

Unlock the Future of Commerce with Deity

Composable Commerce with Deity offers a pathway to unlimited growth, unprecedented flexibility, and a truly customer-first approach. Say goodbye to the constraints of traditional platforms and embrace a future where your commerce architecture is as dynamic as the world around you. Join the revolution and start building your commerce future today!

Maxime Julia Lawende

Maxime is a true wordsmith with a creative mindset and a keen eye for detail. Focused and dedicated, she supports the creative side of Deity’s mission to achieve global excellence.

Maxime Julia Lawende

Maxime is a true wordsmith with a creative mindset and a keen eye for detail. Focused and dedicated, she supports the creative side of Deity’s mission to achieve global excellence.

Maxime Julia Lawende

Maxime is a true wordsmith with a creative mindset and a keen eye for detail. Focused and dedicated, she supports the creative side of Deity’s mission to achieve global excellence.

Maxime Julia Lawende

Maxime is a true wordsmith with a creative mindset and a keen eye for detail. Focused and dedicated, she supports the creative side of Deity’s mission to achieve global excellence.

Trusted by

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    Ivo Bronsveld

    Head of Integrations

    commercetools

    Deity opens up the world of composable commerce for commercetools merchants by providing a powerful set of building blocks. Deity is a solution to watch, they are one of the next big things in commerce.

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    Martijn Phijffer

    Business Development Man.

    PostNL

    In recent months, I've discovered Deity as a highly skilled company that swiftly addressed our complex online challenges. Their composable commerce engine is truly impressive. I strongly recommend them for any online needs.

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    Adam Watt

    Head of Engineering

    Jimmy Brings

    The Composable architecture already paid off, we've already made changes to some of the internal microservices and didn’t have to push the release out to any of the frontend components or change anything in the code base. It really builds confidence and solves the problems we had in the past, which is amazing!

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    Rouven Weßling

    Dir. Technology Partnerships

    Contentful

    The integration between Deity and Contentful opens the possibility to connect to any ecommerce service quickly and securely. We are excited about working together to help our customers make the jump from legacy systems to a composable commerce architecture.

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    Sergiu Tabaran

    Chief Operating Officer

    Absolute Web

    Deity’s innovative solution allows our merchants to adopt headless much more quickly than managing multiple layers of custom development, a huge leap forward!

  • Lazy loaded image

    Ivo Bronsveld

    Head of Integrations

    commercetools

    Deity opens up the world of composable commerce for commercetools merchants by providing a powerful set of building blocks. Deity is a solution to watch, they are one of the next big things in commerce.

  • Lazy loaded image

    Martijn Phijffer

    Business Development Man.

    PostNL

    In recent months, I've discovered Deity as a highly skilled company that swiftly addressed our complex online challenges. Their composable commerce engine is truly impressive. I strongly recommend them for any online needs.

  • Lazy loaded image

    Adam Watt

    Head of Engineering

    Jimmy Brings

    The Composable architecture already paid off, we've already made changes to some of the internal microservices and didn’t have to push the release out to any of the frontend components or change anything in the code base. It really builds confidence and solves the problems we had in the past, which is amazing!

  • Lazy loaded image

    Rouven Weßling

    Dir. Technology Partnerships

    Contentful

    The integration between Deity and Contentful opens the possibility to connect to any ecommerce service quickly and securely. We are excited about working together to help our customers make the jump from legacy systems to a composable commerce architecture.

  • Lazy loaded image

    Sergiu Tabaran

    Chief Operating Officer

    Absolute Web

    Deity’s innovative solution allows our merchants to adopt headless much more quickly than managing multiple layers of custom development, a huge leap forward!

  • Lazy loaded image

    Ivo Bronsveld

    Head of Integrations

    commercetools

    Deity opens up the world of composable commerce for commercetools merchants by providing a powerful set of building blocks. Deity is a solution to watch, they are one of the next big things in commerce.

  • Lazy loaded image

    Martijn Phijffer

    Business Development Man.

    PostNL

    In recent months, I've discovered Deity as a highly skilled company that swiftly addressed our complex online challenges. Their composable commerce engine is truly impressive. I strongly recommend them for any online needs.

  • Lazy loaded image

    Adam Watt

    Head of Engineering

    Jimmy Brings

    The Composable architecture already paid off, we've already made changes to some of the internal microservices and didn’t have to push the release out to any of the frontend components or change anything in the code base. It really builds confidence and solves the problems we had in the past, which is amazing!

  • Lazy loaded image

    Rouven Weßling

    Dir. Technology Partnerships

    Contentful

    The integration between Deity and Contentful opens the possibility to connect to any ecommerce service quickly and securely. We are excited about working together to help our customers make the jump from legacy systems to a composable commerce architecture.

  • Lazy loaded image

    Sergiu Tabaran

    Chief Operating Officer

    Absolute Web

    Deity’s innovative solution allows our merchants to adopt headless much more quickly than managing multiple layers of custom development, a huge leap forward!

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