<h3>MACH-based, blazing-fast AI search at massive scale: Algolia</h3>
 Algolia is the world’s only end-to-end AI search and discovery platform. Our engineers invented a breakthrough use of AI to create exponentially better search &amp; discovery. Our proprietary NeuralSearch technology combines vector-based natural language processing &amp; keyword matching in a single API.Algolia empowers both builders and business users with a better way to build unique, engaging end user experiences at Internet scale to predict what customers want, giving them better search experience which drives user satisfaction and revenue.Using artificial intelligence (AI), Algolia’s Search and Recommend APIs simplify the ability to understand users’ intent to personalize experiences and offers — even from "first visit” and “first search”. This enables customers to discover goods, offers, and content so quickly, that they don’t go anywhere else.Search and recommendations are more than simply a set of results. It’s the instant gratification that a customer gets from being understood, as the product that they seek is surfaced in milliseconds, generating the maximum yield from any interaction.Algolia powers 1.7 trillion searches a year and indexed 30+ billion records – putting this in context, that’s bigger than Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.As the first Search &amp; Discovery platform to join the MACH Alliance in June 2020, Algolia is fully aligned with the mission to "Future proof enterprise technology and propel current and future digital experiences." With more than 17,000 customers, Algolia has worked with many MACH members to bring the best composable experiences to life including 2022 MACH Award recipients Harry Rosen, selfologi, and Embonor.There have never been more ways to interact with an application through multiple digital touch points – the web, mobile, connected devices, and more.At Algolia, we are laser-focused on providing the best search experience that is fast, scalable, personalized and easy to implement for developers but also easy to use for business teams.For further details on MACH at Algolia, please&nbsp;<a href="http://partners@algolia.com/">email the team</a>.

Bernadette Nixon

<h3>Let your products tell their story with Akeneo’s best-of-breed technology and extensive partner network</h3>Akeneo Product Cloud helps you manage, enrich, and innovate product record. With seamless data management, efficient AI supplier onboarding, and a comprehensive app store tailored to support business and buyers’ needs.The market for technologies that fuel product experiences - including product information management (PIM) - is expanding rapidly, with reports citing annual growth rates of more than 25%. This is driven by brands and retailers in B2C and B2B alike, as they seek to unlock growth through product experiences as either an entrance to a new market, or an expansion to existing sales and marketing channels.Akeneo aims to help these businesses by offering a platform that empowers them to capitalize on new channels and market opportunities with a complete, composable SaaS-based solution for managing, orchestrating, activating, and optimizing the entire product record. This drives compelling, consistent product experiences across all owned and unowned channels and routes-to-market.Combined with Akeneo App Store, Akeneo Product Cloud empowers businesses to deliver world-class product experiences that unlock growth by driving improved customer experiences, increased sales, reduced time-to-market, accelerated expansion, and increased team productivity.Akeneo’s strategy has been to develop an extensive, standardized ecosystem based on an open, highly scalable SaaS platform that integrates with a wide range of composable commerce technologies. This has already seen the inclusion of a range of more than 130 connectors, add-ons, and integrations via the Akeneo App Store.These values mirror those of the MACH Alliance, and Akeneo is a strong advocate for the power of open and integrated technology that helps organizations unlock revenue. Openness and collaboration lie at the heart of Akeneo’s technology, to help brands dismantle silos that can hamper best practices for product experiences.Innovation at Akeneo has focused on centralizing, enriching, orchestrating, and activating the entire product record, and enabling the measurement of product data quality. This demands an open API architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing legacy systems and future technology investments.This has been seen in the ‘Tailored Exports’ functionality, which allows users to take their internal product catalog structure and syndicate the data by mapping to an external recipient’s requirements that don’t have any automation endpoints - such as a new marketplace or small retail chain - without having to recreate the information, saving substantial time spent on manipulating files while still delivering omnichannel product experiences.Looking to the future, the Akeneo Product Cloud is being developed as the composable solution that removes silos to managing, orchestrating, and optimizing the entire product record, accelerates the activation of product information across all owned and unowned channels, and dramatically improves product information quality and accuracy through analytics and insights.Akeneo remains fixed on enabling the growth of its customers through the next wave of product experiences.For further detail on MACH at Akeneo, please contact <a href="mailto: marketing@akeneo.com" target="_blank">the team.</a>

 Fred de Gombert

MACH Alliance partnerships

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<h3>Designing human experience with MACH technologies: AKQA</h3>The emotional aspect of successful commerce is often overlooked. Amidst talk of content management, carts, checkout and fulfilment technologies, it is easy to forget that a decision to purchase is propelled by specific emotional triggers. This may be as simple as trusting a given supplier based on previous on-time deliveries, or as complex as a consumer identifying with specific aspects of a particular brand as they mature together.Addressing this mixture of technology, commerce and experience, AKQA is a design and innovation company with 35 studios across 24 countries. Using an interdisciplinary approach across service, experience and product design, AKQA aims to conceive and realise cohesive, responsive, accessible experiences.This spans not only technology but also creative material that builds emotional resonance, inspire, entertain and act as a catalyst for behaviour to change. This is then commercially orientated, where AKQA drives growth for customers by optimising channels, and creating new revenue streams through direct-to-consumer relationships. As this formula builds growth, AKQA ensures that the architecture can be maintained and improved to deliver personalised experiences at scale.Like many integrators, the MACH journey for AKQA is founded on a long-established history. For AKQA, MACH began with headless implementations over a decade ago, as the most viable way to create bespoke and qualitative user experiences.Embracing a composable architecture enabled AKQA to accelerate brand website and e-commerce builds by 50% while fully integrating commerce, content and digital services as they were needed.As certified partners to other Alliance members, the partnership between AKQA and the likes of Netlify and Contentful is crucial to the success of a wide array of clients.The collaborative spirit of the Alliance is seen in the AKQA methodology of answering client needs with a team of carefully selected MACH partners, chosen to deliver the best results.This collaboration has led to technological innovations within AKQA including an advanced, fully automated design system flow that exports Figma designs directly into front end website storybooks, as well as the mobile software development kits to expand this capability to iOS and Android. Elsewhere, AKQA has developed custom fields in headless content management systems, to integrate customer segmentation and content, creating personalized experiences.Looking to the future, AKQA will continue to accelerate the development of composable architecture, to deliver faster, more cost-effective, and immersive brand experiences that mix commerce, content, services and CRM as the agency expands across North America, EMEA and APAC. Design will remain at the core of these offerings as AKQA is set to explore automated performance and accessibility testing.For further details on MACH at AKQA, please <a href="mailto: machalliance@akqa.com" target="_self">contact the team.</a>

Ajaz Ahmed

akqa.com

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<h3>MACH-based commerce for modern customer journeys</h3>In the brief time since the dawn of e-commerce, the way customers find and buy products and services, has undergone profound change. The explosion of channels, devices, touch points and personalization technologies, has meant customer journeys are no longer linear, or predictable. In an age where everything is an experience, and everything can be branded, the customer journey becomes ubiquitous, built into people’s everyday experience.Consequently, content needs to be on-demand, hyper-personalized, constantly refined and optimized, every step of the way.Amplience offers marketers, merchandisers and developers a Commerce Experience Platform that enables businesses to create, launch and iterate digital experiences faster. These range from simple web use cases to complex multi-channel, personalized experiences and digital transformation initiatives. Marketers and merchandisers get agility, visibility and control, with end-to-end previews, scheduling and the ability to manage content, not code. Developers and architects get a flexible environment that supports MACH and composable solution options. Combined with a multi-CDN architecture and out-of-the-box media optimization capabilities, this means businesses can develop highly performant customer-centric experiences that both scale and convert. As a founding member of the MACH Alliance, Amplience collaborates closely with other members to deliver differentiated value based on an architectural blueprint for next generation digital experiences. Lighthouse projects delivered in conjunction with members include wholesale digital transformations at Wawa, Ulta Beauty, Very Group, Harry Rosen and ASDA. Looking forward, Amplience is rolling out support for GraphQL across both its CMS and DAM capabilities, as well as expanding its investment in the power and capability of its high performance Content Delivery APIs.Elsewhere, Amplience is innovating with experience orchestration, managing the complexity of modelling and managing digital content into the many devices and channels that modern consumers use with Content Hierarchies. These are part of an innovation strategy to invest in the tools and capabilities that enable customers taking a composable architectural approach, to bind together the data and content they need to manage the entire experience using MACH APIs and content repositories from systems outside of Amplience, without resorting to legacy integration approaches. The objective is to enable customers to cost-effectively innovate and differentiate their digital experiences as a series of iterations, while adhering to MACH principles throughout their architectures. For further detail on MACH at Amplience, please <a href="mailto: contact@amplience.com" target="_self">contact the team.</a>

John Williams

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<h3>MACH-based commerce engines to power growth</h3>The relatively brief history of e-commerce has been characterised by phenomenal growth as seen in the expected CAGR of 14.7% from 2020 to 2027. This demands that the brands, retailers and enterprises looking to capitalize on that growth must look for technologies that can accommodate not only the scenarios of today but also the success of tomorrow.BigCommerce is a composable open SaaS commerce platform designed to span this scalability gap. Developed to create robust, scalable, secure and differentiated modern omnichannel experiences, BigCommerce spans both B2C, B2B, and Hybrid merchants focused on optimizing their business for growth.As an API-first solution, BigCommerce builds the commerce layer and frees developers to choose their preferred front end. At the time of writing, BigCommerce offers the most headless integrations of any commerce platform and has a global network of over 2,000 partners.With a cloud-native, API-first technological heritage and such a powerful base of collaboration partners spanning SIs, CDNs, CMSs and composable DXPs, it was inevitable that BigCommerce would join the MACH Alliance shortly after it launched. To date, BigCommerce has collaborated extensively with partners such as EPAM, E2X and Valtech.This collaboration has been driven by recent innovations. BigCommerce Multi-StoreFront (MSF) enables businesses to move into new regions, customer segments or launch unique brands through different storefronts, yet remain managed from one single backend. Elsewhere, based on the recognition of the importance of third-party channels, BigCommerce acquired Feedonomics in July 2021.Today’s merchants know they need to meet their customers where they shop and spend their time online, but they often struggle to determine the best combination of channels for their business or the best solutions they should utilize to drive the best return on ad spend and conversion on each channel.BigCommerce Feedonomics is platform-agnostic. Merchants can grow their GMV by using Feedonomics to connect to hundreds of global advertising, marketplace, social and search channels, optimizing their products to drive return on ad spend.Elsewhere, BigCommerce recently introduced Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS). Amongst other case studies, this has enabled the 2,000 wine brands in the WineDirect ecosystem to build a world-class online presence, extending their market reach, and engaging with and selling to consumers online.BigCommerce has also released new APIs to enable Multi-Location Inventory use cases, with a special emphasis on enabling ‘Buy Online Pick Up in Store’ (BOPIS) capabilities and allowing large enterprise merchants to execute complex inventory scenarios.For further detail on MACH at BigCommerce, please <a href="mailto: meghan.stabler@bigcommerce.com" target="_blank">contact the team</a>.

Travis Hess

bigcommerce.com

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<h3>Moving MACH into the B2B realm</h3>Business-to-business (B2B) digital maturity continues to evolve to provide modern e-commerce experiences. Over 80% of B2B buyers prefer to order or pay through digital channels. Consequently, sales are more complex, fulfilment increasingly sophisticated, and the risk to a brand of not managing both exceptionally well, is critical. The rewards for establishing dominance are substantial - Forrester estimates that US B2B e-commerce alone will reach $3 trillion by 2027 and account for almost a quarter of total US B2B sales.commercetools is a digital commerce software provider that empowers organisations to embrace innovation and thrive by providing flexible APIs that enable an agile, customizable commerce infrastructure at scale. Spanning B2B, DTC and B2C spaces, commercetools’ portfolio enables companies of all sizes, industries, and business models to challenge the status quo of their industry and differentiate themselves.As a founding member of the MACH Alliance, commercetools actively promotes and advocates for the headless approach. commercetools has been a part of many projects with other Alliance members and is currently working on robust relationships with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netlify to leverage their services across all regions.commercetools continues to lead the industry and push the technical and architectural innovation capabilities of MACH forward.This pre-packaged solution enables brands and retailers to leverage headless architecture without the complexity of a major re-platforming.In Q3 of 2022, commercetools added complex business model processing functionality to its market-leading composable commerce product. This automates time-intensive processes such as quotes and promotional pricing, enabling businesses to focus on maximising customer experience, improving service and increasing revenue.Additionally, commercetools is doubling down on the distinct features that support manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers by addressing hybrid scenarios where businesses operate across multiple business models.Available as a portfolio, these products make it easy for mid-market and high-growth companies across sectors to take advantage of a MACH-based solution with enterprise-level sophistication.For further details on MACH at commercetools, please <a href="mailto:comms@commercetools.com" target="_blank">contact the team.</a>

Dirk Hoerig

commercetools.com

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<h3>A content-centric MACH evolution</h3>In the online world, content defines experience. It determines how colleagues collaborate, share and access information. It is the expression of how customers engage with their preferred brands. Consequently, success in this digital-first era means blending content, such as video, photos, text and audio, to create compelling products and experiences on any device. Digital builders – developers, content creators, architects and marketers - are the creative force behind customer engagement.But most digital content created is used once and then stored in silos, inaccessible and difficult to find and reuse. This wastes time, frustrates teams and misses opportunities. Instead of evolving the digital experience, teams are stuck reinventing the wheel.Contentful is a composable content platform that recognizes that web CMS simply isn’t suited to supporting the wide array of digital channels people use.With structured content, unified in a single platform designed for digital business, Contentful makes it possible to create once and publish everywhere, putting content at the heart of every interaction.As an inaugural member of the MACH Alliance, Contentful endorses and advocates passionately for the Alliance’s goals of educating companies on the value of the composable approach. Contentful partners with a considerable proportion of MACH Alliance members and has worked on many joint projects.Contentful currently focuses its API-first, composable content platform approach on developing task-focused workflows and functionalities for specific jobs to be done, increasing the impact of content on the end-user experience.This spans the specific needs of exploratory projects or small teams, to enterprise organizations creating digital experiences for multiple regions, brands, and applications.Recent innovations from Contentful include the App Framework that enables customers and partners to build a variety of apps that may become available on the Contentful Marketplace. Contentful released its first-party apps in March 2021 to provide an interface for content teams throughout a business.In October 2022, Contentful rolled workflows and automation into its Contentful Studio add-in product to provide even greater capabilities for content teams - both technical and non-technical - to work independently but in coordination, enhancing collaboration and supporting governance.Additional new releases include orchestration of multiple content repositories and further work on the Contentful portfolio of partner integrations across commerce, personalization, and experience orchestration. All these integrations serve to create the digital workspaces that support the way different content teams prefer to work.

Karthik Rau

contentful.com

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<h3>Innovating the next generation of digital experiences.</h3>Contentstack is the Content Experience Platform (CXP) category leader. With technology built on a heritage of agile, headless content management systems (CMS), Contentstack focuses relentlessly on making the creation of the next generation of content experiences, faster and easier.In an age where digital experiences span not only websites and mobile technology, but also wearables, augmented reality, social platforms, omnichannel retail, and more, the ability to create experiences quickly, whilst they are relevant; and consistently, so brands present themselves as a single entity, regardless of how the customer chooses to interact, is now business-critical.The mission is to make Contentstack indispensable for organizations to tell their stories and connect with the people they care about through inspiring, modern experiences.This has resonated incredibly well within the market: in 2022, Contentstack more than doubled the number of Fortune 1000 companies that have adopted the platform.Contentstack is known particularly for its close-knit staff, brought together under the ‘One Team, One Dream’ culture. This culture focuses on providing employees with an opportunity to do the best work of their lives, built upon a passionate care for the customers and communities served by Contentstack.This global tribe now spans the US, India, Europe and beyond, united by a common, determined attitude to question the status quo and lead the industry with wave after wave of innovation.It is this disruptive mindset that led to Contentstack becoming a founding member of the MACH Alliance. Contentstack is a passionate advocate of composable strategies to drive competitive advantage.The Contentstack programme has developed partnerships with a range of technology providers including commerce platforms, system integrators, creative digital agencies and a host of other companies dedicated to unleashing the power of headless technologies.Innovation has played a key role in driving the success of the programme. Contentstack has recently launched the first ever, no-code Automation Hub and the Contentstack Marketplace to accelerate composable, digital experience innovation.These follow projects that have seen Contentstack become the first multi-cloud CMS on the market; the creation of an augmented reality proof of concepts in just four weeks; and Care Without Compromise - the industry’s first ever cross-vendor support scheme.The next wave of disruption from Contentstack will focus on accelerating co-innovation between IT and business teams, removing the barriers to creating the best possible digital experiences. Contentstack will keep challenging the status quo, enabling enterprises to accelerate not just their processes, but also provide a much more effective and collaborative environment for their people.For further details on MACH at Contentstack, please <a href="mailto:todd.rathje@contentstack.com" target="_self">contact the team.</a>

Neha Sampat

contentstack.com

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<h3>Customer experience for markets of one</h3>Dynamic Yield, a Mastercard company with a decade of experience in the personalization space, helps businesses across industries deliver digital customer experiences that are personalized, optimized, and synchronized.With Dynamic Yield, marketers, product managers, developers, and digital teams can algorithmically match content, products, and offers to each individual customer for the acceleration of revenue and customer loyalty.Redefining personalization technology, Dynamic Yield’s Experience OS unifies business silos to deliver ongoing, personalized engagement from a single, fully customizable platform.With it, companies can build their own mix of powerful personalization capabilities, which can include a wide array of experience types, support any digital channel, adjust according to industry and KPIs, and improve time-to-market efficiency.Dynamic Yield firmly believes that today’s customer experience design ideas are restricted by the limitations of traditional technology. Legacy platforms and tech stacks were not designed to make connections between providers to encourage easy personalization across solutions or business types.Redefining personalization technology, Dynamic Yield’s Experience OS unifies business silos to deliver ongoing, personalized engagement from a single, fully customizable platform.With it, companies can build their own mix of powerful personalization capabilities, which can include a wide array of experience types, support any digital channel, adjust according to industry and KPIs, and improve time-to-market efficiency.Dynamic Yield firmly believes that today’s customer experience design ideas are restricted by the limitations of traditional technology. Legacy platforms and tech stacks were not designed to make connections between providers to encourage easy personalization across solutions or business types.Enter Experience OS: a framework where apps are organized in a core dashboard that is open, modular, and fully customizable.This unified approach allows teams to build their own mix of capabilities and consistently activate their data to easily personalize consumer touchpoints. With the flexibility to plug in a combination of tools, companies can use the adaptable, technology-agnostic platform to meet their evolving needs.Grounded entirely in MACH principles, with substantial product investment aimed at the opportunities afforded by composable commerce, Dynamic Yield has publicly stated its intention to be the leading MACH solution in the Experience Optimization space. This has already led to collaboration with other MACH Alliance members, including a partnership that now serves one of the largest supermarket chains in the UK.By focusing on granular aspects of CX, Dynamic Yield has made substantial improvements to specific interactions through a breadth of Experience OS applications. This includes Dynamic Yield’s Experience Email application, which enables brands to deliver affinity-based, one-to-one personalized emails at scale, regardless of email service provider (ESP).Dynamic Yield has also embraced deep learning and built a self-training system that adapts digital experiences to individuals by extrapolating buying intent from customer data and predicting products they may be interested in.With one eye on an ever-changing future, Dynamic Yield’s Experience OS is set to focus on the possibilities for hyper-personalization afforded by new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, integrated digitalization as more businesses seek to move beyond web and stitch together more channels, and the growing demand for industry-specific personalization to support the needs of different verticals.For further details on MACH at Dynamic Yield, please <a href="mailto:emma.furlong@dynamicyield.com" target="_blank">contact the team.</a>

Ori Bauer

dynamicyield.com

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<h3>Engineering Digital &amp; Physical Experiences Using MACH Principles</h3>Faced with the inherent complexity of modern architectures, choosing the right partner is just as important as finding the correct technologies. This is made even more challenging as many brands must look beyond digital, into the physical space, to create data-driven, customer-centric omnichannel experiences, combining hardware, software and experiential prototyping.Building upon nearly three decades of software engineering heritage, EPAM is a global digital transformation services provider that combines both digital and physical product development alongside engineering services.Its dedicated e-commerce practice boasts more than 1,450 specialists that provide a range of services spanning consulting, customer and employee experience, user interface (UI) development, change management, technology portfolio assessment, composable ecosystems, legacy migration, commerce and headless capabilities and more.EPAM directs these services in accordance with two core objectives. Firstly, EPAM seeks to become the world’s leading digital transformation services company and partner for adaptive businesses.Secondly, it aims to redefine the digital experience sector to prepare for huge incoming shifts in media, front-end and back-end platforms, and technologies designed with humans at the center. This has inevitably led EPAM to become a business leader in the composable and MACH-based space.As a founding member of the MACH Alliance, EPAM is particularly active within the community. EPAM has a dedicated MACH competency with designers and engineers trained and certified in one or more MACH platforms.This investment is driven by a goal of bringing together like-minded companies and experts with a similar technology vision to drive next-generation digital experiences, which meet and exceed the growing expectations of modern users.EPAM engages in multiple projects with other MACH Alliance members, as well as joint marketing campaigns, thought leadership, in-person events, MACHathons and conferences.A recent example of these collaborations saw EPAM work alongside Contentstack, Algolia and commercetools to implement new eCommerce capabilities at the global bakery ingredient manufacturer, Dawn Foods.EPAM continues to invest heavily in MACH-related innovation. Enginiety, an EPAM company, recently developed IPA.C (Integration Platform Accelerator for Commerce), which complements modern, headless architecture by providing a unique progressive web app (PWA) customer experience, and the ability to connect to any backend. Innovations such as these lay the groundwork for EPAM to continue engineering a MACH-based future across diverse markets.For further information on MACH at EPAM, please <a href="mailto:wfbmach@epam.com" target="_blank">contact the team.</a>

Arkadiy Dobkin 

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<h3>Next generation order management with MACH</h3>In an omnichannel age where customers can make a purchase via any platform, it remains a universal truth that a business cannot sell what it does not have.Accurate information on stock is essential if a business wants to reduce stock-outs, cancelled or unfulfilled orders, and disappointed customers. This is even more critical as those retailers, brands and wholesalers enter periods of growth and seek to maximize margins or move into new channels, markets and regions.Fluent Commerce seeks to address this issue by offering a flexible, distributed order management system that enables adaptive workflows that let businesses optimize complex fulfilment processes, managing modes such as in-store pick, pack and pickup.Reflecting the profound impact that MACH strategies have had on the omnichannel world, Fluent Commerce joined the MACH Alliance shortly after it was formed.The MACH philosophy has been a core part of the Fluent Commerce value proposition since it was founded in 2013, and the order management specialist has collaborated with many members of the Alliance.This has seen the development of connectors and accelerators, as well as MACH education sessions and solution delivery for joint projects such as Aldo Group, Arterra Wines, Emma Sleep, Etos, Francesca’s, JD Sports, and Ted Baker.The innovation that has driven these partnerships includes the recent launch of Fluent’s Order Management Experience (OMX) framework. This is a low-code configuration-based, UX and Workflow framework that accelerates client and partner innovation.This was followed by the release of Fluent Store - built on OMX. Fluent Store is a new webapp designed to manage store fulfilment operations, which can be extended with new UX components and processes in hours and days, not weeks.These innovations and partnerships reflect the changing role of retailers and brands. As brands capitalise on the opportunities of selling direct and retailers seek to extract more value from their distribution networks, they are both looking for improved efficiencies that can better serve customers.This will necessitate partnerships, especially within the supply chain – making it even more important to track inventory accurately. Fluent Big Inventory – another system built with MACH in mind – is set to address the difficulties in tracking inventory through separate, siloed systems, and indeed across different partners.For further detail on MACH at Fluent Commerce, please <a href="mailto:info@fluentcommerce.com" target="_blank">contact the team.</a>

Graham Jackson

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<h3>Engineering at scale to deliver MACH-based digital transformation</h3>As a global digital engineering company, Grid Dynamics leverages a high-performance, innovative culture to partner and build end-to-end solutions with the biggest brands in the world. Throughout a range of vertical industries, Grid Dynamics leverages fifteen years of experience across thousands of digital transformation projects to address issues of business flexibility, speed-to-market, and scale.Grid Dynamics taps its strong engineering pedigree to attract, grow and retain the best global talent. It seeks to hire the top 10 percent of engineers from the best local universities and train them in its ‘Grid University’ to orientate that talent towards a specific technology specialization as early as possible.Their focused, skillful and dedicated workforce is organized into product-oriented delivery teams to help clients solve complex business and technology problems. This structure helps accelerate digital transformation journeys for customers and amplify their results.Grid Dynamics has a rich history of designing and implementing applications with the core principles promoted by the MACH Alliance. A cloud-native company since inception, Grid Dynamics built some of the first-generation cloud, API-first, headless applications for the biggest digital natives, such as eBay and Paypal.Since then, it has expanded to the burgeoning space of digital retail, transforming monolithic architectures of brick-and-mortar department stores and brands to modern MACH commerce platforms, driving differentiated, personalized customer shopping experiences.Over the years, Grid Dynamics has forged strong partnerships with API-first cloud-native technology providers, integrating its capabilities into solutions and moving towards a composable commerce vision.Following the success of the digital commerce MACH revolution, Grid Dynamics helps other industries to realize the benefits of cloud-first thinking.A recent client, selfologi, is an example of a MACH Alliance collaboration between Grid Dynamics, commercetools, Amplience, and Algolia that produced an innovative, transactional B2C and B2B content and e-commerce marketplace—recognized as the Best Health / Pharma Project by the MACH Alliance, and as the Most Innovative Digital Healthcare Solution of The Year by Dubai-based magazine, Entrepreneur ME.Grid Dynamics has also followed MACH principles to deliver a range of AI / ML projects, spanning price, promotion, supply chain optimization, search, natural language processing, and computer vision.Looking to the future, Grid Dynamics’ R&amp;D Labs will continue to develop and publish blueprints, accelerators, and starter kits in partnership with hyperscalers and MACH Alliance members to reduce complexity, cost, and time-to-market for modern cloud-first solutions.

Leonard Livschitz

griddynamics.com

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<h3>Scalable Composable Commerce for Evolving Brands</h3>Orium provides composable commerce solutions for evolving brands, assisting them in executing, scaling, and transforming across their commerce and retail journeys through a MACH-based approach to digital commerce. As a leading composable commerce consultancy and system integrator in the Americas, Orium emphasizes the adaptability and specialization offered by headless and composable technologies to enable modern brands to succeed in the rapidly changing digital landscape.A member of the MACH Alliance since early 2021, Orium has established strong partnerships within the MACH and composable ecosystem, collaborating closely with clients and technology vendors to create engaging and adaptable customer experiences. Orium's work includes award-winning projects for companies such as Kum &amp; Go, SiteOne, Spoonflower, Altitude Sports, and Harry Rosen, focusing on implementing composable technologies to streamline operations and enhance experiences, while ensuring clients are equipped to manage these technologies effectively.Recognizing the need for versatility and reliability in digital solutions, Orium offers pre-integrated solutions like <a href="https://orium.com/composable-commerce-accelerator" target="_blank">Orium’s Composable Accelerator</a>, designed to help businesses leverage the scalability and adaptability of MACH solutions efficiently. This approach provides a comprehensive strategy for managing customer touchpoints, interactions, and data crucial for today's omnichannel experiences.In 2024, Orium acquired Gluo, a leader in headless and composable commerce in Mexico. With over thirty years of combined expertise in headless technology, Orium and Gluo support a global client roster with proven solutions to achieve business objectives.For more details on Orium's services, please contact <a href="mailto:sales@orium.com" target="_self">the team.</a>

Jason Cottrell

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<h3>Driving MACH forward with marketing discipline</h3>Innovation in technology is often perceived as driven by experimental research departments, removed from the realities of day-to-day business.This is especially true within marketing, where the relentless demand for competitive advantage means modern technology, services and even processes are thrown into the business, or proposed to a client, without comprehensive grounding in the disciplines of marketing itself.However, there is a compelling argument to be put forward that such a grounding can yield far more powerful results for these projects. The issue lies in finding a partner with such an established marketing pedigree to match the ferocious pace of innovation.As the digital transformation hub of advertising and PR giant Publicis Groupe, Publicis Sapient brings together over three decades of engineering, design, experience, consulting, strategy, and data into one cohesive offering.Rather than strategy-first, consulting-first, systems integration-first, or technology-first; Publicis Sapient brings all its capabilities together in service of the customer.Sapient was founded in 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and became a fully owned division of Publicis in February 2015. With the backing of one of the largest marketing groups in the world, Publicis Sapient is a digital consultancy that strives to be at the forefront of the evolution of digital transformation.But even here, the consideration of ‘customer first’ is evident: any technology deployment must work across the channels that the customer defines – and then redefines - as the market shifts.This has created a clear focus on delivering microservices to drive digital transformation, which in turn has led Publicis Sapient to the MACH Alliance.Joining in 2022, Publicis Sapient continues to share its technical expertise to drive MACH-led solutions, develop best practices and create and publish technical documentation and blueprints to demonstrate how clients can adopt and integrate MACH technologies.This material reflects the tools and assets used by Publicis Sapient to unlock value for clients, especially the accelerators developed by Publicis Sapient to propel organizations toward their digital future by accelerating the time to business impact.Through customer-focused strategy and the delivery of technology and engineering, platforming and experience design, Publicis Sapient will ensure MACH Alliance technology remains at the forefront of customer-first strategies and business agility.For further details on MACH at Publicis Sapient, please <a href="mailto:giancarlo.anania@publicissapient.com" target="_blank">email the team.</a>

Nigel Vaz 

publicissapient.com

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<h3>Business transformation powered by MACH-based innovation</h3>MACH will enable businesses to embrace digital transformation and close the ‘experience gap’ between customer expectation and reality. It is the only way businesses in complex environments can unlock frictionless engagement and innovation at speed, across the entirety of their customer journey.Valtech believe that MACH and Composable Enterprise can enable digital-first, fast and innovative business transformation. Even in the most complex, multi-region, multi-business model, omni-channel commerce environments. Evidenced by their work with brands including MAC Cosmetics, AUDI, Mars and L'Oréal, Valtech enables interconnected and holistic commerce journeys through a Composable technology offering; orchestrating their digital commerce business across all touchpoints.As a founding member of the MACH Alliance, Valtech was an early adopter of MACH and was the first global partner for many leading SaaS providers, including commercetools. Through decades of commerce experience, they guide clients on how to drive outcome from solutions based on composable principles. They are also invested in the broader MACH ecosystem by being a strategic partner of multiple MACH Alliance Certified Vendors and Enablers, as well as regularly participating in MACHathon events, winning awards across numerous categories.As a globally connected company with a fully integrated local presence in more than 20 countries, Valtech combines expertise in technology, experience design and data to transform how businesses operate: optimizing business-critical digital platforms for multichannel commerce and marketing in a digital-first world. They continue to champion MACH technologies and principles to drive business transformation, removing complexity and delivering innovative, frictionless solutions for the world’s best-known brands.To discover more, or to connect with our MACH experts, visit <a href="http://www.valtech.com/" target="_blank">www.valtech.com.</a>

Olivier Padiou

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