Difference between Monolithic DXP vs. Composable DXP
What is Monolithic DXP?
A monolithic DXP is slightly akin to a traditional web content management system in which the front-end and backend layers are coupled. Such systems are generally built for powering a single digital channel like a mobile application or a website.
Most SMEs businesses generally rely on monolithic DXPs as it is integrated into their existing technology stack. If it works, they never bother to replace it with a modern solution.
Enterprises face challenges with monolithic stacks when they observe friction across channels while implementing new changes. This fragmentation can exist because of various factors such as: time-to-implementation, cost factors, coordination gaps between development and QA teams, and many more factors.
What is Composable DXP?
A composable DXP follows the same principle as a composable business. It delivers business outcomes by bridging the gap among different datasets of an organization by assembling and composting packaged business applications. It eliminates the challenges posed by monolithic DXP and takes the customer experience to the next level.
Composable DXP provides you the liberty to link up diverse channels using the power of APIs. You can also leverage APIs to seamlessly connect other vital components or apps of your business. You can quickly assemble systems to deliver a personalized digital experience. You can bring content and data together to take your CX initiatives to the next level.
In the near future, the majority of DXP applications will be composable in order to stay flexible and relevant for delivering a high-quality customer experience as and when needed.
How to Convert Your DXP Technology Stack Into Composable DXP
Converting DXPs into composable technology stack, both internally and externally, demands a proper planning across people, process, and technology. Due to tightly coupled architecture, integrations of DXPs with adjacent technologies are often cumbersome and time-consuming. Plus, it can also be expensive. It is also one of the reasons why a typical composable DXP implementation can take months and even cost you hefty amount.
Where to Start?
The existing bundled business capability in DXP can be a good starting point for planning and future-proofing your DXP. Composable DXPs should support the digital experience transformation using substantial assembly and composition of your existing bundled business capabilities.
For composable DXP to be successful, your bundled business capability should be:
- Modular: Give the capability to slice into a cohesive set of components, such as composable content and composable UX.
- Independent: Self-sufficient and nominal dependencies on other apps to ensure flexibility in composition.
- Orchestrated: Bundled in structure to assemble digital experiences through APIs, headless CaaS or other technical process.
- Discoverable: Designed with semantic clarity to be easily accessible to nontechnical business users as well as designers, developers and other stakeholders.
How to Execute?
Composable DXPs provide a target architecture to resolve CX challenges, but on the journey, you will need to pay special attention to interfaces such as APIs, webhooks and events. APIs are widely recognized as key connecting nerve in DXP projects.
In addition, applications must modularize features into encapsulated bundled business capabilities to allow for independent deployment to become composable. The journey to composable DXPs and the future of applications will be incremental and modular.
In the future, the organization’s composable DXP capabilities will be orchestrated on the fly (often using AI/ML techniques) to contextualize and personalize the digital experience for that particular person, at that particular moment. Packaged business capabilities are the software components underlying this that represent well-defined business capabilities recognizable by a nontechnical business user, and are assembled into application experiences for them.
Pimcore DXP: Future-proof Your DXP with a Flexible Microservices-based Architecture
Currently, most DXP products are too large and not task-oriented. This prevents organizations from managing them easily, or changing them quickly. DXP capabilities are not easily decomposable or replaceable. However, several DXPs do have extensibility built in, via robust APIs, extension frameworks. These can be the starting point on the journey toward composability.
Pimcore DXP using the combined effect in the MACHO-based (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless, and Open Source) architecture helps you deliver truly composable DXPs.
With the help of pre-built data and experience management building blocks, your teams can easily create a custom infrastructure. Furthermore, they can agilely scale and evolve the IT-framework as needed using a low-code approach. You can extend the platform as you need it - regardless of the front end on your customers' devices. It gives companies the flexibility and freedom to create and collaborate on content in a central location and provide consistent, predictable data to multiple online and offline output channels.
Pimcore DXP also allows direct GitHub access and Docker images for your preferred deployment on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or other leading on-demand cloud hosting providers.
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