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FLEXIBILITY

Integrate best-of-breed solutions in a unified ecosystem

GROWTH

Effortlessly add new systems to the centralized hub

EFFICIENCY

Embrace agility with efficient data processing and streamlined communication

Unlock the integrated power of composable commerce

Composable commerce offers a world of possibilities for tailoring digital solutions to your unique business needs. Yet, the key to success lies in how seamlessly your packaged business capabilities (PBCs) communicate within this ecosystem. While traditional approaches rely on pre-built connectors, today’s enterprises require a more sophisticated integration solution to tackle evolving challenges head-on.

Enter the Event-streaming Platform for Composable Commerce Starter Kit: a unified integration strategy that simplifies PBC integrations and facilitates seamless interactions between systems through two crucial layers:

This modern and unified integration approach streamlines the management, integration, and scalability of composable commerce ecosystems. The starter kit also provides the option to leverage the very best in event-streaming platforms, including Kafka, AWS Kinesis or Google Pub/Sub. Experience the future of flexibility and efficiency today.

Event streaming for composable commerce features

Integration flow between Order, Payment, Product, and Another App through Kafka.

SIMPLIFIED INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

Streamline PBC integration

A centralized messaging platform and GraphQL facade simplify managing connections between PBCs. It reduces complexity compared to point-to-point integrations, enabling easier monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance.

CONSISTENCY AND CONTROL

Standardize data exchange

The messaging platform and the facade enforce standardized data exchange practices across composable commerce ecosystems. Within the messaging platform, data from various PBCs is aggregated and transformed into a unified canonical domain model aligning with enterprise information architectures. This eliminates complex point-to-point mappings between corporate and PBC data models, providing a consistent single source of truth for the ecosystem.

Flow between Producers and Consumers through a Kafka cluster.
Kafka features: Fault-tolerant, High throughput, Compatibility, and Flexible messaging.

SCALABILITY AND ADAPTABILITY

Scale your commerce ecosystem with ease

Modern streaming platforms like Kafka and GraphQL provide a scalable infrastructure to accommodate ecosystem growth. Adding new systems has lower integration effort due to the centralized architecture. Kafka connectors easily integrate diverse systems and PBCs into the ecosystem and messaging workflow.

REAL-TIME DATA UPDATES

Respond to events in real time

The event-driven architecture of Kafka, AWS Kinesis or Google Pub/Sub rapidly propagate data updates across PBCs enabling real-time synchronization. This allows quick responses to events such as customer experience and changing market demands.

Data flow from multiple sources into a Kafka cluster for processing.
Data replication across multiple availability zones and brokers in a Kafka setup.

FAULT TOLERANCE

Safeguard against failures and data loss

The distributed architecture, replication, immutable persisted data, and high availability features of modern streaming platforms like Kafka, AWS Kinesis or Google Pub/Sub provide durability, fault tolerance, and resilience against failures. This prevents message loss and enables continuous operation.

ABSTRACTION OF COMPLEXITY

Simplify client interactions

The GraphQL API facade provides a simplified and standardized interface for clients to interact with the underlying complexities of the integrated PBCs and messaging platform. Client code is cleaner and easier to maintain due to interacting with a single API as opposed to individual PBCs, which streamlines development and integration.

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GraphQL query for listing products with user and database interactions.

PRECISE DATA QUERIES

Optimize bandwidth usage

GraphQL enables optimized bandwidth usage by allowing clients to precisely request only the data they need. You can specify the exact fields required rather than receiving entire objects with unnecessary extra data. This prevents overfetching, and transfers just the relevant data over the network. With field-specific queries, GraphQL eliminates bandwidth wastage and improves performance.

VENDOR-AGNOSTIC INTEGRATIONS

Reduce vendor lock-in risks

The unified integration approach leveraging Kafka and GraphQL, or other options like AWS Kinesis or Google Pub/Sub, reduces dependence on individual vendor PBC connectors. By moving integration logic to the centralized messaging platform and API facade layers, integrating new systems no longer relies solely on vendor-supplied connectors. This vendor-agnostic architecture decreases lock-in risks and provides flexibility to change or replace PBCs independently.

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Our clients

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RETAIL

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HI-TECH

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MANUFACTURING

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FINANCE & INSURANCE

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Event streaming for composable commerce use cases

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Real-time order management

Sync order data across systems like OMS, WMS, ERP for real-time visibility

Inventory management

Integrate inventory data from warehouses, stores, suppliers for unified visibility

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Product information management

Centralize product data from PIM, DAM, MDM systems into one version of truth

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Promotions and pricing

Rapidly launch promotions across channels by integrating CMS, ecommerce, POS systems

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Loyalty and payments

Connect loyalty and payment systems to commerce for integrated customer experiences

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Analytics and reporting

Aggregate data across systems into a data lake for unified analytics and reporting

Industries

Retail and Brands

The starter kit provides major benefits for retailers and brands building composable commerce ecosystems, including faster time-to-market, increased agility to meet changing needs, reduced vendor lock-in risks, enhanced customer experiences through real-time data, improved brand consistency across channels, and increased opportunities to quickly address issues and deliver innovations. By enabling seamless, scalable and flexible integrations, this approach allows retailers and brands to achieve key business goals.

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Manufacturing

The starter kit provides manufacturers with real-time inventory and demand visibility, faster product rollouts across retailers, improved control over product data, rapid response to issues, enhanced sales opportunities, and reduced IT costs through vendor-agnostic integrations. By enabling seamless data flows, automation and responsiveness across retailer ecosystems, it delivers substantial value to manufacturers across planning, product launches, quality management and supply chain processes.

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Pharma

For pharmaceutical companies, the starter kit enables real-time visibility into medication stock levels across pharmacy networks, rapid rollout of drug recalls if required, improved compliance with regulatory changes, consistent pricing across pharmacy channels, ability to quickly address patient access issues, and aggregation of real-world data from across providers to support clinical trials and research. By facilitating seamless, real-time integrations across disparate healthcare systems, the unified architecture delivers automation, control, and responsiveness benefits to pharma companies across pharmacovigilance, commercial operations, patient services, and R&D processes.

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Financial Services and Insurance

For financial services and insurance companies, the key benefits of the starter kit include real-time data synchronization across internal and external systems to accelerate transactions, faster rollout of new products/pricing, improved regulatory compliance through data consistency, reduced fraud risk with enhanced data sharing, superior customer experiences from integrated channels, and future-proofing integrations to enable innovation. By providing scalable, resilient, and standard integrations between core banking, insurance, lending, and capital market systems, the unified architecture delivers more agility, efficiency and transparency across critical financial processes.

How the Event-streaming Platform for Composable Commerce Starter Kit works

The unified integration approach powered by Apache Kafka, or other options such as AWS Kinesis or Google Pub/Sub, enables seamless orchestration of data across multiple systems and domains within a composable commerce ecosystem. It leverages a centralized messaging platform to aggregate diverse message types and context data from various packaged business capabilities (PBCs) into a consolidated generic domain model. This simplifies internal complexity and provides a unified view of information originating from different sources. The messaging platform also facilitates connections between multiple domains, linking related data flows like inventory and product details. Robust error handling is implemented using dead letter queues to systematically address failed integration events alongside retries. By aggregating data, connecting domains, and managing errors, this integration approach efficiently delivers an integrated, accurate and scalable flow of information across the composable commerce ecosystem.

Accelerate your composable commerce journey

We provide flexible engagement options to design and build composable commerce ecosystems with best-in-class PBC vendors. Contact us today to start with a workshop, discovery, or PoC.

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