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There’s a lot of exciting stuff happening in the tech landscape right now. Did you read our post about Junipeer, which is completely changing the way we work with integrations? For now, though, this post is going to be about a different thing, something called headless CMS.
A headless CMS handles the content management and is accessed via an API. How you choose to display the content to your customers is really up to you. So the backend and frontend don’t have to be the same thing. More flexibility and better opportunities for customisation. In short, it means you don’t need ONE service or solution for exactly everything.
Why do things halfway well?
This follows a clear trend in our industry where single, large systems that do everything are on their way out. Now you can choose niche service providers that, instead of doing everything halfway well, can do exactly what it should and nothing else, but in an excellent way. For example, you can choose the absolute best search engine, PIM or e-commerce system without being tied to a specific CMS. Headless, “best of breed” or composable commerce as it is also known as in e-commerce.
The benefits are of course many.
Content is put first. The big, heavy development (backend) is handled independently of what you do on the outside (frontend). Both parts can be developed separately, independently of each other. What’s more, you can structure the content exactly as you want.
Flexibility. You will not be limited at all to the features offered by monolith services.
Increased performance and stability. When a system is allowed to focus on one task, it becomes more secure. With a headless CMS, the backend, where all the logic is handled, really gets to be the backend.
Easier to develop further. Want to change the look of your e-commerce? Need to restructure your content? It’s much easier when the content isn’t locked into one tool.
Are you a service provider? Then there’s a lot to gain. In the past, you might have had to maintain several different modules for different systems. That’s no longer necessary. Now you can have a headless solution for all platforms.
New service can save development hours
We have been working strategically with integration work for a long time and headless is a natural complement to this. A specific service that solves specific needs and then talks to the other systems via APIs. It suits us very well. But while the technology and the new way of building solutions is superior, there are of course still challenges. Initiatives and ideas with high customisation requirements still risk dragging on development hours. No revolution there yet, but …
After the summer we will launch a service, entirely based on headless, that addresses this and that we believe will drastically reduce the time it takes to set up a headless front end for e-commerce with integrations and all. We can’t say too much now, other than that it’s going to be absolutely amazing.
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