Emporix: E-Commerce Systems in Comparison Part 3
The Emporix e-commerce platform combines modern MACH architecture with an innovative, AI-supported process layer for commerce orchestration. Emporix has been part of our e-commerce portfolio since 2024.
Emporix: AI-supported commerce orchestration for maximum efficiency and flexibility
Emporix is an Autonomous Commerce Execution Platform (ACE) that orchestrates and optimizes commerce processes across all systems.
It combines a MACH-certified architecture with an intelligent orchestration engine and Agentic Commerce Intelligence – the heart of the platform.
This means that companies no longer operate commerce as a project, but as an operational, learning system. With preconfigured value streams (process-ready workflows for core commerce processes), Emporix enables the autonomous control and further development of complex business models without custom code or long release cycles.
Founded in 2015, the Swiss company places a special focus on providing powerful commerce solutions for companies that want to map complex and sophisticated business models in B2C and B2B. Emporix is one of the pioneers in the field of composable commerce and continues to develop the industry with ACE.
Emporix was listed as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide B2B Digital Commerce Applications for Midmarket Growth Vendor Assessment 2023. The analysts particularly emphasize the system's suitability for composable commerce implementations and point out that Emporix offers more than 100 third-party plugins for B2B solutions.
Like commercetools, Emporix is also a member of the MACH Alliance, but goes far beyond the classic MACH principle. While MACH stands for technological openness (microservices, API-first, cloud-native, headless), Emporix complements this approach with an autonomous orchestration layer that intelligently controls processes instead of just connecting them.
What does Emporix offer?
Emporix is designed not only to map complex, process-driven commerce scenarios, but also to operate them autonomously. As an Autonomous Commerce Execution Platform (ACE), Emporix combines Orchestration Engine, Agentic Commerce Intelligence and Value Streams into an adaptive system that continuously optimizes commerce processes.
To achieve this, Emporix uses an AI-supported orchestration engine that is separated from the rest of the system architecture as a no-code/low-code layer. With the Emporix Orchestration Engine, workflows (so-called value streams) can be set up that automatically adapt the underlying processes in order to achieve specific goals such as increasing customer satisfaction, conversion rates and sales. Real-time optimizations are triggered as customers move through the store. The Emporix Orchestration Engine controls business processes across all connected systems. At its heart are the preconfigured value streams, which serve as customizable end-to-end process templates. They translate complex processes into reusable, easily configurable scenarios - close to the business logic and without deep technical intervention. Each step of a process is controlled with clear rules, conditions and objectives - including market or country variants. Changes can be rolled out incrementally, without monolithic release cycles.
Examples of value streams:
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Lead-to-order: from inquiry to individual prices to order creation
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Quote-to-cash: quotation, approval, order, payment, billing
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Browse-to-Buy: catalog, search, recommendations, shopping cart, check-out
Order-to-fulfill: order check, inventory, routing, shipping, advice note
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Service-to-retain: after-sales, returns, spare parts, complaints
The Orchestration Engine offers companies several advantages that translate directly into business value. Automated, standardized processes increase efficiency and reduce the workload of teams. Business users model, control, and optimize processes themselves without having to wait for developers. This allows new markets to be developed more quickly and new products and services to be brought to market faster. At the same time, the prefabricated, tested modules reduce implementation risks, and the standardization of processes ensures a consistent customer experience across all channels.
Emporix Agentic Commerce Intelligence
With Emporix Agentic Commerce Intelligence, the platform also offers the option of integrating ready-made or individual AI agents. For this purpose, goal-oriented AI agents are used that execute commerce processes independently, make decisions in real time, and thus automate processes. The agents work within the ACE Platform and are coordinated by Commerce Orchestration. The AI agents take on business-relevant tasks along the entire customer journey – for example, in areas such as offer management, customer service, or risk management – and initiate actions across systems.
The basis for this is the connection of agentic AI and commerce orchestration through the company's own underlying iPaaS solution, which enables the seamless integration of third-party systems – such as ERP or PIM systems – reliably and without development effort. As this iPaaS layer is an integral part of the platform, there are no additional license costs. Customers can therefore access more than 2,000 ready-made connectors.
B2B features
As a headless platform, Emporix supports companies in building efficient sales landscapes in multi- and omni-channel scenarios. Emporix relies on a journey-aware frontend that integrates commerce processes, rules, and context directly into the user interface instead of a classic, rigidly linked store frontend. The system focuses on flexibly orchestrating individual business logic and processes, providing them across channels, and adapting them in real time.
Emporix can be described as a B2B-first platform that takes the special requirements of complex B2B business models into account from the outset. For example, the platform offers B2B functionalities such as individual prices, digital offer management, and extensive self-service options to provide professional buyers with an optimal digital purchasing experience.
Thanks to its microservices-based composable architecture, Emporix supports agile working methods and is very well suited to the implementation of innovative MVP projects. The platform enables a very fast time-to-value and efficient further development and optimization.
Conclusion
Emporix is a highly innovative SaaS commerce solution that offers a very attractive alternative, particularly in the B2B sector. The platform is powerful and flexibly scalable and offers extensive options for customization and integration with third-party systems. Emporix is a MACH platform (microservices-based, API-first, cloud-native, and headless), but with its AI-supported orchestration engine and Emporix Agentic Commerce Intelligence, it also has a unique selling point that sets the platform apart from other MACH solutions such as commercetools. For basecom, Emporix is a valuable addition to our MACH and composable commerce portfolio that offers our customers great potential for innovation and the future.
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About the author
Christoph Jung has been responsible for the successful implementation of a wide variety of e-commerce projects at basecom since 2017. Since 2023, he has been head of the business unit MACH, that combines various innovative web technologies.
