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Ecosystem of “composable” solutions. It improves speed, promotes scalability and ensures the security of your digital projects.

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Composable technologies

What are Composable Technologies

Composable technologies are a new approach to software development that is based on the idea of building applications from independent components. This allows companies to create more flexible and adaptable applications.

Composable technologies are developed under the principles of MACH architecture, based on Microservices, API - first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless. This approach helps companies to be better prepared for change since a composable ecosystem makes it possible to easily exchange its parts to be able to replace them with others that are better adapted to what the company needs at all times.

A composable ecosystem helps you improve aspects such as speed and safety, It makes it easier for you that you couldn't before, such as having Real-time data and evolve your applications separately as well as the server management and updates.

Composable Technologies

Advantages of Composable Technologies

Efficient software

By adopting Composable Commerce, which uses microservices, your business capabilities will evolve quickly and in an agile manner.

Composable Solutions

Headless commerce solutions allow you to make changes and innovate quickly according to customer needs.

Cloud-based SaaS

The installations are over, the versions are over, the maintenance is over.

Productivity

It saves development time because you only develop, use, and test the features you need, thanks to a modular approach to your business capabilities.

Supple

With full access to every minimum functionality via API, each solution can be 100% adapted to the business.

Performance

A lot of work is downloaded from the server and it's easier to distribute your application geographically, enhancing performance across different systems.

The MACH architecture

and composable technologies


The MACH architecture provides a framework for developing composable applications, and composable technologies allow applications to be built in a more flexible and adaptable way. These two powerful concepts drive the development of your composable commerce projects, marking a revolutionary trend.

Microservices

These are principles of software architecture that have been in the market for a long time and that seek to separate functional blocks into minimal and independent pieces, forming a composable architecture and aligning with your business capabilities. This makes the software much easier to maintain, evolve, and scale across various systems.

API first

This flexible approach allows us to choose from all the available features and create software that uses only the parts we need, better adapting the solution to our case. In addition, these APIs allow us an infinite level of integrations across multiple systems.

Cloud-based SaaS

All these APIs that we have mentioned above are not only in the cloud, with all the advantages of performance and high availability, but they work in SaaS mode, that is, as a service. This means that there are no software downloads or versions or updates to worry about. APIs just work.

Headless

Headless commerce allows us to completely decouple the Front from the Back, that is, the visual part from the business logic. This headless architecture enables these two large blocks to evolve separately, offering great performance, security, and time-to-market benefits compared to traditional e-commerce architecture.

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La arquitectura MACH explicada a profesionales de negocio

Durante el año pasado, vendors MACH han conseguido 2,5 mil millones de dólares en financiación, un volumen que por sí solo supera al que han recibido enteras ciudades como Madrid o Barcelona en el sector de startups durante el mismo año y acumulan en global una valoración de 20 mil millones de dólares. Algo grande está pasando en este sector, y no se trata de una moda pasajera.

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Find out who our Composable Partners are

Algolia

It offers dynamic, personalized experiences that allow brands to quickly predict a visitor's intent on their digital property (web, mobile, or other) in real time.

BigCommerce

It's a versatile eCommerce platform ready for the flexibility of Open SaaS, ideal for Composable Commerce setups. Secure, stable, and scalable.

Uniform

It's the first vendor-independent digital experience composition solution built to meet today's performance and scalability requirements, perfect for your composable commerce stack and headless architecture, enhancing your online experience.

Contentstack

It is a headless commerce content management platform, based on API-first, that allows developers and content managers to create and manage content simultaneously and independently, to create websites and applications quickly, enhancing user experiences.

Contentful

It allows you to create omnichannel digital experiences, enhancing your ecommerce experiences and online shopping experiences. It's a content platform that helps digital teams and brands innovate, iterate, and go to market faster with an agile and modern tech solution, simplifying your setup process.

Commercetools

It's a composable commerce solution built on modern MACH (Microservice-based, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless Commerce) principles. It makes it possible to adapt to the needs of each business, so that powerful and highly personalized customer experiences can be created with customers, enhancing their online shopping experiences and supporting your digital transformation.

FAQs about Composable Technologies

Frequently asked questions about the composable solution ecosystem.

What are Composable Technologies?

Composable technologies are a digital architecture model where each business function (CMS, PIM, eCommerce, DAM, CPQ,) lives on a dedicated, best-in-class platform, connected to the others via API.

Instead of depending on a monolithic system that does everything at an average level, you choose the best tool for each need and integrate them as your business evolves.

What technologies make up a typical composable stack?

A typical industrial composable stack usually combines:

  • Headless CMS, to manage content flexibly and publish it across different channels.
  • PIM, as the single source of truth for product data.
  • Composable eCommerce platform, to manage the buying experience and connect the catalogue with commercial processes.
  • DAM, to centralise, organise and distribute brand and product visual assets.
  • CPQ, to configure complex products, calculate prices and generate quotes more efficiently.
  • ERP connected via API, to synchronise key information such as stock, orders, prices, customers and invoicing.

Un stack composable industrial suele combinar:

When is composable better than an all-in-one system?

When you need flexibility to evolve, integrate existing systems and avoid vendor lock-in.

A monolithic system may move faster at the start, but as the business grows (more channels, more markets, more pricing complexity) the rigidity becomes a problem.

Composable requires more upfront design and pays off with autonomy and speed of change in the medium and long term.

How do I start with composable without rebuilding everything at once?

The usual approach is to identify the most pressing bottleneck and start there.

Some industrial companies begin by introducing a PIM because their catalogue has become unmanageable; others prioritise a modern CMS to improve SEO and lead generation; others need a CPQ to speed up quotes.

The key is to define a Digital Roadmap that organises the transition in phases, measuring the impact of each piece before moving on.

Why is composable relevant for industrial and B2B companies?

Industrial companies tend to have extensive catalogues, legacy systems (ERP, MRP) and the need to publish across multiple channels (web, marketplaces, customer portals).

A composable stack lets you keep the existing ERP and progressively add a PIM, a modern eCommerce or a CPQ without replatforming everything at once. Each piece is added when it brings value.

How much does the Composable Technologies service cost?

A complete composable stack is a larger investment, addressed in phases

It depends on the scope: implementing a single piece (a PIM, a CMS, an eCommerce platform).

The right comparison is not against a single monolithic project, but against total cost of ownership over five years: licences, maintenance, evolution, replatforming.

Composable usually wins in that horizon.

What makes Novicell a composable agency?

You’re in the right place: at Novicell, we advise companies on how to approach their composable technology stack.

We have been a member of the MACH Alliance since its early days, the organisation that defines composable architecture standards globally.

With over 20 years of experience delivering digital projects, and a team certified across key platforms, we design tailored composable architectures for industrial and B2B companies, connecting them with their existing ERP without forcing them to replatform everything at once.