Composability Requires Solution Expertise

Headless, Composability, AI. If you're in the CMS space in any way, these are the keywords that come up again and again. Yes, yes, we know; it's going to solve a lot of pain points from our monolithic CMS days, it's going to revolutionize content creation and save millions in costs. Every part of your digital architecture has been chopped up and replaced with hundreds of SaaS products. The market is now fully invested in unopinionated products that can integrate with any other product on the market. The most popular products have built-in or out-of-the-box integrations with each other, so there's less dev for you to oversee.

However, with that entire policy shift in mind, it's now harder to form your own opinion on these unopinionated services — especially if the digital space is not your expertise and you're more interested in the outcome than the logistics of it. Composability instantly gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling inside because you have choices. Your entire digital ecosystem is not tied to one vendor; you can chop and change as you see fit. Just like lego right? You have a ton of different blocks you can arrange together in many ways. But unlike lego there's a cost to making non optimal choices...read on.

Composability introduces new pain points of its own. Freedom brings choice, and choice requires you to do just that... choose. This is why solution expertise is more important than ever. Technology choices have architectural consequences. You want to have the highest confidence the choices you make in your composability stack give you the outcomes you're working towards. What if two composable sass products you've chosen don't have an out of the box connector with each other? You often hear "Just connect the APIs", which implies it's as straight forward as that 4 piece jigsaw you gave your 2 year old last Christmas. However much more thinking over the integration is required; How do you handle data modelling from one end to the other? Where and how will the workflow orchestration take place? Have you thought about error handling and reporting? What are the consequences of the integration failing or being incorrect? Solution expertise ensure that these questions are raised and emphasised on before vendor selection decision takes place.


The abundance of options within the sass world leads to choice paralysis. Endless vendor evaluations and stalled projects. Solution expertise brings experience and customer references to cut through the noise and get to the best of breed in the market in that moment. That being said, SaaS market also moves very quickly, products shut down, merge or even change pricing. Solution experts can anticipate these risks and design your integrations so that you can flex and switch with minimal disruption. You're probably wondering if you do hire a solution architect then how does that investment pay off? Well, the value you're exchanging for money is time & experience. You're gaining an expert to help you make the right decisions much more quickly. Should you use Stripe or Worldpay as your payment provider? What are the pros and cons? How about PCI Compliance? Do they have out of the box fraud checks? Is it powered by AI? These questions you're solutions architect and also raise ones that you never knew to ask.

Solution Engineers and Architects help customers navigate that noise and keep pace. We help identify the right fit and cut risks by leveraging our experience with other customers. So the more freedom you have, the more expertise and guidance you need. In this era of unopinionated technology, composable solutions give you many more levers but that control is only as good as the expertise behind it. To win, you must have a solutions partner that is in the space and can bucket their experience for you to dip into. So do yourself a solid and consider all aspects of your vendor choice before you commit to it.