Today at NRF2021, Acquia announced Acquia Digital Commerce, a solution that enables marketers to unify data, content, commerce, and digital merchandising into a single data layer to deliver a seamless omnichannel experience across the customer lifecycle. Using Acquia Digital Commerce with Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP), marketers can drive real-time, personalized, shoppable experiences at every customer touchpoint. Together with partners commercetools and Lucidworks, Acquia has built a best-of-breed, open, composable commerce solution, giving marketers the flexibility they need to create digital experiences across the entire customer journey.
According to McKinsey, over 75% of U.S. consumers have changed shopping behavior and switched to new brands during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have shifted to digital channels permanently. Using Acquia CDP’s customer data profiles and advanced segmentation, retailers can gain a deeper understanding of new and existing customers – and serve up personalized, shoppable, content-driven commerce experiences with Acquia Digital Commerce. These experiences, combined with intelligent promotions, increase conversions and improve customer lifetime value (LTV).
“As retailers adjust to a hybrid of in-person and online commerce shopping behaviors, solutions like Acquia Digital Commerce become even more valuable,” said Kevin Cochrane, SVP of product marketing at Acquia. “By understanding customer segments and serving the right content and products at the right time on the right channel, retailers can reach customers with personal experiences that drive revenue.”
Acquia Digital Commerce delivers the agility to build digital experiences across every channel, and the flexibility to support multi-tenant architectures and composable, multi-site experiences. With a microservices-based architecture, Acquia Digital Commerce ensures repeatability and reuse to drive standardization and compliance at scale, and enables continuous refinement and testing to optimize results.
Teams can maximize their commerce investments by integrating this headless, cloud-native shopping platform with Acquia Open DXP. commercetools provides an omnichannel shopping platform and the Lucidworks AI-powered product discovery solution delivers personally relevant products and content to customers.
Open, Best-of-Breed Solution Helps Retailers Stay Nimble
Today also marks the launch of the Acquia DX Alliance, the company’s open technology partner community, to drive collaboration through an ecosystem of leading technology vendors providing choice and jointly delivering interoperable solutions that extend Acquia Open DXP. Building a robust technology partner community enables Acquia and its partners to best support rapidly evolving customer needs.
“By leveraging the market-leading solutions offered by commercetools, Acquia, and Lucidworks, retailers can quickly and effectively engage with end-consumers by composing relevant shopping experiences to meet customers on their own terms,” said Kelly Goetsch, chief product officer at commercetools. “It’s more important than ever to be able to pivot quickly, and our joint solution offers exactly that.”
“Omnichannel personalization remains a top priority for brands; however, most companies lack the ability to optimize digital experiences in real-time, leading to missed revenue or loss of potential new customers,” said Peter Curran, general manager of digital commerce at Lucidworks. “We’re excited to be part of this best-of-breed solution to provide merchandisers and marketers with a single-layer view of all the information they need to make more informed decisions that serve their unique customer base. The value of Lucidworks advanced machine learning capabilities is compounded by Acquia Open DXP and commercetools Commerce Engine, ensuring that customers are maximizing their investments in the digital experience.”
