E-commerce middleware: Seamless communication between systems

Middleware in use: HABA Play

Our experts recently developed middleware for the HABA Familygroup. This solution enabled a quick and seamless integration of the existing storefront onto the new Emporix platform. The key benefit: valuable development time was saved as the existing storefront remained unchanged and continued to be based on Spartacus while the commerce system was migrated to the new Emporix platform.

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What happens during implementation?

Our team developed the e-commerce middleware based on the Alokai framework and extended it considerably to create a “backend for frontend” architecture. The challenge was that the integration had to be designed in such a way that the switch between existing and new interfaces worked seamlessly. The system was adapted so that both customer-specific and system-specific adjustments could be made using simple concepts and workflows.

The result: the various extensions were bundled using the middleware and efficiently connected to the storefront.

Our solution: „Lean Commerce Stack“

For us, lean commerce means integrating systems with each other in such a way that the customer can adapt their solutions to the market situation at any time without having to rebuild the entire structure every time – we operate true composable commerce.

Before: The communication between the frontend and backend was very complex and therefore time-consuming. Several different APIs were required, as each third-party connection had to be individually connected to the storefront.

Now: With the “Lean Commerce Stack” (LCS) developed by Medienwerft, everything is connected via a single API. This not only reduces the workload for developers, but also makes third-party integrations much faster and easier to implement.