The decision to move to a DXP should not be taken lightly. You must understand the difference between a “composable” and “monolithic” approach to determine which is best for your business needs.
Composable: A composable approach is the multiple best-of-breed solutions, services and applications which are brought together to create a comprehensive DXP
A composable DXP is the multiple best-of-breed solutions, services and applications that are brought together to create a comprehensive DXP. This allows you to use your existing technology investments for as long as possible, with the option of upgrading when it makes sense for your business.
Uniform software experts say, “World’s 1st vendor-agnostic composable DXP, built for scalability demands and today’s performance.”
Monolithic: The monolithic approach relies on a single vendor’s DXP platform to deliver features and capabilities to the end user
A monolithic approach relies on a single vendor’s DXP platform to deliver features and capabilities to the end user. This approach is more secure, easier to maintain, more reliable, and scalable than its composable counterpart because it does not require teams to integrate different components together.
Composable: A composable DXP will be more agile and easier to maintain than a monolithic one
A composable DXP is easier to maintain than a monolithic one because you can change it without affecting the rest of the system. This allows you to adapt more quickly, which is ideal in today’s fast-paced IT world.
A monolithic DXP is harder to maintain because it’s designed as a whole, which means that any changes will affect every part of it and make it much more difficult for developers, who are already busy trying to keep up with constant updates.
Monolithic: You wouldn’t want to make big changes because it’s too difficult or too expensive to swap out pieces of the “puzzle.”
You will have to do this-
- You’d have to replace the whole DXP.
- You’d have to rewrite all the apps and services.
- You’d have to retrain all the users.
- You’d have to move all the data and applications.
- And you would want to change all your contracts with providers and customers!
Composable: Adopting a composable DXP means that when you need new functionality, you can get it in near real-time
When you need new functionality, you can get it in near real-time. You can immediately roll out the next version of their product before a single vendor. Instead, you can get new functionality from multiple vendors and sources. You could even go down the list of your favorite DXP vendors and see if there’s something they haven’t yet released, but their competitors have—and then try that on for size instead!
Monolithic: Ideally, you would have all the functionality needed in one place. But this isn’t how the world works
No one would argue that the ideal is to have all the functionality needed in one place. But this isn’t how the world works. So you often need to handle different types of data for your application, whether it’s structured or not, and you can’t always expect to handle everything with an SQL database.
What if you want to push notifications out from your app? What if multiple teams work on different parts of your software that use different languages and frameworks? The answer, then, is composition—a way for you to build a system out of smaller pieces that work together without requiring them all to be in one place at once.
At the end of the day, it’s up to you to decide which approach is right for your business. If you’re looking for a more flexible and agile DXP, then a composable solution may be ideal for you. If your company is focused on making big changes and doing things quickly, then monolithic may be better suited for what’s needed today and tomorrow.
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