Headless CMS vendor Storyblok had its 6th birthday last week. But that wasn’t the only milestone for the Austria-based CMS. They also released another report, this one commissioned by O’Reilly, which explores composable architecture and how it meets the demands of evolution and innovation for modern businesses.

The report covers “stakeholder considerations, strategies for effective decoupling, informed technology selections, the advantages of serverless frameworks, and the pivotal role that heightened scalability plays in driving innovation and sharpening business competitiveness.”

Elsewhere, Merkle partners with Magnolia and Contentful, commercetools appoints a new CFO, and a spicy LinkedIn post says that many of the terms used in the DXP space today might simply be buzzwords to describe pre-existing ways of working.

Featured Stories

• Merkle Launches Global Composable Commerce Accelerator for Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Partnering with Contentful and Magnolia: “As an early pioneer of composability, we've seen the market moving steadily towards the understanding that an enterprise needs more than an off-the-shelf digital platform.”

• commercetools Announces the Appointment of Dan Murphy as Chief Financial Officer: “Dan’s financial and strategic operational track record of driving growth is impressive to say the least. He will undoubtedly make an immediate impact as commercetools continues its dominance of the composable commerce market and expands our global customer base.”

• Hygraph and Mux Are Excited to Officially Announce Their Partnership: “Happy to announce our new partnership with Mux, an API-first video platform designed by experts to make world-class video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.” 

• Introducing Strapi v4.13 with Assignees for Review Workflows, Additional TypeScript Support & Cloud Regions + Shared Projects: “With assignees for review workflows, new list view filters, additional TypeScript support and many more improvements, Strapi v4.13 comes jam-packed with new features and a number of useful improvements.”

Composable software RFPs from DXP360

• [RFP Value: $60,000+] Canadian Local Government Website Redesign and Maintenance: “Additional funds are then available for ongoing maintenance support of the website thereafter.”

• [RFP Value: Undisclosed] French University Seeks WordPress Website(s) Redesign: This RFP indicates a number of WordPress websites in need of a revamp but doesn’t specify if remaining with WordPress is mandatory.

• [RFP Value: $56,800] UK Hospital Seeks Website Development and Web Hosting: “Must be modern, easy to understand and a consistent experience for those needing to navigate and understand services for children and young people affected by cancer.”

Stories that caught our eye

1. Sequel.io Launches One-Click Event CMS Solution: The new Sequel.io feature makes marketers more efficient with one-click event landing page publishing.

2. RFP Alternatives: Kelly Goetsch of commercetools shares 25 questions enterprises can ask vendors instead of a traditional RFP.

3. Bloomreach Integrates TikTok for Optimized Ad Targeting: Bloomreach customers can get more granular with their social media ads on TikTok.

4. BigCommerce Total Economic Impact Study: Merchants can get a 211% ROI.

5. Future-Proof Content Management?: In this interview, Hygraph CEO Michael Lukaszcyk explains the value of federated content.

6. Powering NextGen Retail: Composable architectures have a big role to play.

The word on the street…

1. [LinkedIn]: Is it all just jargon?: Tim Benniks says that terms like MACH, composable, and DXC could just be putting old wine in a new bottle. Do you agree?

2. [LinkedIn]: Composable vs. MACH:  Kelly Goetsch breaks down what’s different between composable and MACH.

3. [LinkedIn]: Drupal challenges:DXP360 explains why keeping Drupal as a CMS may be more trouble than it’s worth.