Analyst firm Forrester recently released its Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions For B2B, Q2 2024. The Wave provides a mix of traditional and MACH-focused vendors, with Shopify, Salesforce, commercetools, and Adobe mentioned among the Leaders.

“The B2B commerce solutions market is no longer “a tale of two cities,” stuck between choosing either cloud architecture or robust features,” said Forrester Principal Analyst Joe Cicman.

“Collectively, the vendors have closed the chasm: The new-school cloud-native vendors have invested in features — and the stalwarts have invested in modernized architecture. You can breathe a sigh of relief that in your next selection, you won’t have to make the choice of that painful trade-off,” he added. 

Elsewhere, a composable CMS option for Headless Drupal is now available, EPAM has achieved commercetools platinum partner status, and BigCommerce launches a new open-source B2B buyer portal.

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• EPAM Systems Elevates to Platinum Partner Status with commercetools: “EPAM’s elevated partnership with commercetools signifies a pivotal advancement in the availability and implementation of composable commerce technologies.”

• Octahedroid Introduces Composable CMS for Headless Drupal at DrupalCon Portland 2024: “These tools aim to simplify the content management process in Drupal, making it more flexible and user-friendly for various stakeholders involved in website development and maintenance.”

• BigCommerce Open Sources B2B Edition Buyer Portal: “With this release, BigCommerce B2B Edition is the only Enterprise focused, open-source B2B buyer portal application backed by a robust set of SaaS APIs.”

• Bloomreach Earns the TrustRadius 2024 Top Rated Award for Marketing Automation: “Bloomreach’s commerce experience earning a TrustRadius Top Rated Award is a testament to their excellence in customer satisfaction for marketing automation and content management.”

New RFPs From DXP360

• [New] [RFP Value: Undisclosed Budget] [UK] CMS and CDP Implementation for Community Development Platform

• [New] [RFP Value: $20,000] [Canada] FileMaker Database Redevelopment

• [New] [RFP Value: $25,000] [NZ] Custom eCommerce Build for Automotive Company

• [New] [RFP Value: $15,000] [USA] Agency Needed for AI Enterprise SaaS Platform

• [New] [RFP Value: $20,000] [EU] Flutter Development for iOS and Android App

Stories that caught our eye

1. Loop Now Supports Merchants on Salesforce Commerce Cloud: Expanding returns management software beyond the Shopify ecosystem.

2. Is Composable Commerce Right For Your Business?: Some guidance on what factors to consider. 

3. Bloomreach Launches Omniconnect: A way to easily connect valuable data from other platforms.

4. Webstudio Beta: A no-code frontend for headless CMS. 

5. Bodiless CDP?: A hybrid between traditional and composable approaches. 

6. Orchestration vs Federation: A look at how these capabilities work in a composable architecture.

The word on the street…

1. [LinkedIn]: Putting the power back in marketers’ hands: dotCMS’ CEO Zain Ishaq advocates for the need for a universal CMS that empowers marketers.

2. [LinkedIn]: Hybrid composable: Amplience CTO John Williams questions whether CMS vendors adding traditional features enhances their offerings or dilutes the promise of headless.