In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations strive to stay competitive by being agile and responsive to changing demands. However, many are hindered by their complex legacy systems built with a monolithic architecture, making it difficult to maintain, scale, and innovate. These systems are tightly coupled, making modifications time-consuming and risky. Scaling requires significant resources and integration with other systems or services, and that can be challenging. Innovation is also hampered, as new technologies require substantial changes to the existing codebase. To overcome these challenges, enterprises are turning to composable architecture–breaking applications into modular components that can be independently developed, deployed, and scaled–simplifying integration, scaling, and maintenance, accelerating time-to-market, and fostering innovation.

Do you or your organization face the same challenges? If so, it’s high time you move to the composable way of building applications!

Let’s examine some of the benefits to help you decide what’s best for you.

Composable applications offer a range of strategic advantages beyond mere savings. 

1. Embracing the Composable Approach:
   
   The composable approach transforms the way applications are built by breaking them down into modular components. These components are the building blocks of composable applications that can be independently developed, deployed, and scaled. This modular structure simplifies maintenance, enhances scalability, and promotes innovation, enabling businesses to respond swiftly to changing requirements.
    
2. Accelerating Time-to-Market:
   
   Traditional application development involves building systems from scratch, which can be time-consuming. Organizations can leverage pre-built reusable assets with an application composition platform, significantly reducing development time. By assembling these assets like building blocks, businesses can accelerate time-to-market, gaining a competitive edge in rapidly evolving markets.
    
3. Empowering Innovation:
   
   Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. Composable applications foster a culture of innovation by allowing teams to focus on developing new functionalities rather than reinventing the wheel. With reusable building blocks and low-code development capabilities, business and IT teams can collaborate effectively, driving innovation and delivering transformative solutions.
    
4. Ensuring Consistent User Experience:
   
   An application composition platform ensures a consistent user experience by implementing design standards and guidelines, providing reusable components and templates, facilitating cross-application communication, managing user access and permissions, optimizing performance and responsiveness, and conducting testing and quality assurance. These measures aim to create a seamless and familiar environment for users, reducing cognitive load and improving usability. Consistency helps users navigate and interact with different applications more effectively, establishes brand identity, and enhances recognition across the platform.
    
5. Bridging the Business-IT Gap:
   
   An application composition platform bridges the business-IT gap by providing a visual development environment, with low-code capabilities, collaboration tools, and streamlined development processes. It empowers business stakeholders to actively participate in application development, reducing dependency on IT professionals. The platform facilitates faster development, iterative feedback, and centralized governance, promoting collaboration and communication between business and IT teams. Training and support resources help to bridge the knowledge gap. Ultimately, the platform enables more efficient and effective application development that aligns business needs with IT capabilities.
    
6. Cost Optimization and Maintenance Efficiency:
   
   Traditional application development often involves duplication of effort when the same functionality has to be rebuilt for different environments, resulting in increased cost and maintenance. By leveraging an application composition platform, businesses can capitalize on reusability. Reusable assets, such as building blocks, UI components, and process models, can be shared across multiple instances, minimizing duplication and streamlining maintenance. Updates or bug fixes made to reusable assets automatically propagate to all applications, driving cost efficiencies.
    
7. Enabling Multi-Sourcing:
   
   The modularity and lose coupling inherent in composable application architecture promote a multi-sourcing approach. Organizations can engage different service providers for various building blocks while maintaining governance and quality control. This strategy optimizes resource allocation, allowing software engineers to focus on building the most innovative and distinctive components.
    

Does that sound interesting to you?

Well, it’s going to get more interesting when you learn that we at Entando provide the platform and the capability to build composable, modular, and cloud-native applications

Entando's application composition platform is a unique solution that offers several advantages for businesses and CIOs. With a composable architecture and micro frontend approach, it enables the assembly of applications using:

1. Reusable building blocks, 
2. Enhancing agility and
3. Accelerating time-to-market.

Being an open-source platform, it provides the freedom to customize and extend functionalities according to specific business needs. Leveraging Kubernetes-native capabilities ensures seamless deployment and management across diverse cloud environments. 

In summary, Entando's application composition platform stands out for its composable approach, open-source flexibility, Kubernetes-native foundation, and comprehensive support. It enables businesses to accelerate application development, customize functionalities, and deliver exceptional user experiences, all while ensuring scalability, security, and seamless integration. With Entando, businesses can unlock the power of composable applications and drive digital transformations with confidence.

Whether you are considering migrating from traditional or legacy systems to the composable approach for application development or starting from scratch, Entando provides a one-stop solution to tackle these challenges.

Having said that, with the release of our new version, Entando 7.2, we have more significant benefits and feature-packed solutions.