Integrate your Digital Asset Management (DAM) with Ucommerce Next Gen

Composable commerce offers a modern way for businesses to build digital solutions. Unlike the monolithic approach, where a single system handles everything from content management to search and e-commerce, composable commerce separates these functions into specialized, best-of-breed solutions.

While the monolithic model served businesses well for years, it often required costly and disruptive replatforming every three to five years - slowing progress and allowing competitors to pull ahead. Composable commerce solves this by enabling businesses to replace individual components as their needs change, without overhauling the entire system. This approach provides the agility and adaptability needed to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.

Ucommerce's role in the Composable Landscape

A potential challenge of a composable architecture is that systems need to be integrated, which can seem complex at first. However, in our opinion, the flexibility far outweighs the challenges it presents. 

For those who want to dive deeper into the technical side of things, we’ve got you covered. Check out our documentation for all the details on how Ucommerce Next Gen can integrate with your DAM.

What does it mean for merchants? 

You might be wondering: “Well, that all sounds great, but what’s in it for me as an e-commerce manager or backend user?”

Glad you asked.

With a proper DAM, you get the game-changing benefit of a single source of truth (SSOT) for all your digital assets. No more wasting time digging through disorganized folders or battling common issues like:

• Struggling to find the correct logo.
• Files too large to share via email.
• Uncertainty about who made changes to images.
• Endless requests to resend videos that seem to have vanished.
• Files mysteriously disappearing from the shared drive.

Integrating your DAM with Ucommerce Next Gen, you get a single, centralized location to store all your digital assets while still being able to use them seamlessly across your entire e-commerce platform. It’s efficient, it’s reliable, and it’s a dream for both managers and teams.

Sounds expensive to integrate? Not with Ucommerce Next Gen

Integrating systems might sound costly or complicated, but with Ucommerce Next Gen, it’s surprisingly simple. Thanks to our composable architecture, Ucommerce Next Gen can integrate with any dedicated DAM - or a CMS acting as one.

Scenario: The Umbraco Media Library

Let’s take Umbraco as an example: By integrating Ucommerce Next Gen with Umbraco, you can easily use the Umbraco Media Library to manage all your digital assets and use the Umbraco Media Delivery API to serve them to Ucommerce Next Gen.

Now, while that might sound a bit tech-heavy, the truth is that the process is straightforward. In just a few steps, you can set up a streamlined workflow where all your digital assets are accessible across the entire platform.

All you have to do is implement your own Umbraco image service. It can literally be done in less than 100 lines of code!

Here's what it looks like:

Whether you’re using Umbraco, another CMS, or a dedicated DAM, Ucommerce Next Gen gives you the flexibility to work with the tools you already know and love - making your e-commerce operations more efficient than ever.

Want to see it live?

Book a demo with Michael today to discover how our platform can transform your e-commerce operations. Our experts will guide you through features and answer the questions you might have. Don't miss this chance to empower your business in the digital marketplace.