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Nowadays, adding a shoppable storefront of plugins and third-party integrations might not seem novel for an enterprise CMS or DXP. But <a href="https://www.contentstack.com/" target="_blank">Contentstack</a> is upping the ante by embracing a more composable posture in its new Contentstack Marketplace, which just launched yesterday.
According to the company's press release, Contentstack Marketplace will feature a hub for partners and customers to contribute to its community while providing an array of apps, extensions, and Starters – including one-click integrations for AI-powered search from <a href="https://www.algolia.com/" target="_blank">Algolia</a>, e-commerce solutions from <a href="https://www.bigcommerce.com/" target="_blank">BigCommerce</a>, and media delivery from <a href="https://cloudinary.com/" target="_blank">Cloudinary. </a>
With its Contentstack Marketplace, the company envisions an ecosystem where customers can adopt new functionality as their needs evolve, with lower investment and reduced risk.
<h2>Embracing MACH and the composable revolution</h2>
At the core of Contentstack's new Marketplace is the company's focus on composability. The headless CMS provider says that digital experience architectures require composable principles and a <a href="https://machalliance.org/" target="_blank">MACH</a> (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) technology approach. In their press release, the company says organizations that successfully transformed their digital technology and practices are leapfrogging the competition with outstanding digital-first customer experiences. 
Contentstack also says that the move from a single-vendor platform model to a best-of-breed, composable stack requires "connective tissue" between the various products. The key in these distributed models is to enable connectivity, ensure interoperability, and harmonize customer support across the vendor ecosystem. To address these challenges, the Contentstack Marketplace will feature a multi-vendor support program called <a href="https://www.contentstack.com/company/press/contentstack-expands-customer-support-launch-industry-first-cross-vendor-service-commitment-program/?utm_medium=press-link&amp;utm_source=prnewswire.com&amp;utm_campaign=marketplace-press-release" target="_blank">Care Without Compromise</a> that helps reinforce these advantages across a composable digital experience stack.
"The monolith has shattered. The creation of this co-innovation platform facilitates the interoperability of composable digital experience stacks with Contentstack's award-winning CMS at the core," said Nishant Patel, chief technology officer for Contentstack. "Our Marketplace allows customers and partners to easily set up connectivity between adjacent technologies and share extensions and solutions across the Contentstack community; something that legacy will never allow them to do."
As a founding member of the <a href="https://machalliance.org/" target="_blank">MACH Alliance</a>, Contentstack's Marketplace strategy appears perfectly aligned with the goals of the organization. Over the last 18 months, the MACH alliance has made a significant imprint on the CMS, DXP, and digital experience industries by trumpeting the values of composable architectures and elevating the conversation around the tenants of MACH. With over 40 members in its ranks, the MACH Alliance continues to grow its influence by adding pure-play composable vendors and market enablers that support the mission of the composable community. 
<h2>Powering a true no-code marketplace experience</h2>
Along with the monolith, Contentstack is attempting to shatter the typical CMS and DXP marketplace model by equipping users with one-click capabilities that accelerate and streamline the integration experience. 
While the concept of a "marketplace" suggests off-the-shelf simplicity, it is often an illusion. In most cases, marketplaces are just repos for code and installation guidelines that still necessitate intensive integration support from an in-house IT team. Along with the additional cost and time to implement new features, many of these integrations place the burden of security on the customer – not the platform. 
According to Contentstack, its new Marketplace will provide integrations and extensions that are pre-built and follow a no-code installation process. Additionally, developers can use Contentstack's newly released design framework Venus and its library of prefab components to quickly and easily build solutions in the native Contentstack user experience. This allows customers to accelerate their integration from weeks to days – or even minutes. 
Contentstack Marketplace and its ecosystem of apps are available to all Contentstack customers at no additional cost, enabling enterprise developers and business teams to build and deploy content across multiple channels and touchpoints in their consumer journeys. With a focus on accelerating "idea-to-life," Contentstack's built-in collaboration tools also aim to help businesses keep content and customer experiences fresh. 
<h2>About Contentstack</h2>
Contentstack – the pioneering Agile Content Management System (CMS) – empowers marketers and developers to collaborate around content like never before. Together, they can orchestrate superior customer journeys and deliver dynamic digital experiences across channels, audiences, brands, and regions. Companies such as Chase, Express, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Mattel, McDonald's, Mitsubishi, Riot Games, Sephora, and Shell trust Contentstack to power their most critical content experiences. Famous for its Care Without Compromise™, Contentstack has the industry's highest customer satisfaction. As a founder of the MACH Alliance, Contentstack advocates for open and composable technology that is Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless.

Contentstack Launches New Marketplace to Accelerate Composable Digital Experience Innovation

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If there's one company that's cornered the market on intuitive names, it's <a href="https://gathercontent.com/" target="_blank">GatherContent</a>. 
As their moniker suggests, they are a platform that brings together, well... content. But along this journey, they're also connecting the people, processes, and technologies that make "<a href="https://review.content-science.com/what-is-content-operations/" target="_blank">Content Operations</a>" a real phenomenon. 
And let's face it: with so much content distributed across an expanding array of sources and endpoints, their role as the "gatherer" has never been more apropos. 
Now, GatherContent is making it easier for customers to streamline their martech stack experience. The company just announced a new set of integrations with <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/gatsby-unveils-v3-0-cloud-hosting-and-more-at-gatsbyconf-2021/" target="_blank">Gatsby</a> and <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/top-free-headless-cms-platforms/" target="_blank">Netlify</a>, and deepened their existing integrations with <a href="https://www.adobe.io/apis/experiencecloud/aem.html" target="_blank">Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)</a>, <a href="https://www.drupal.org/" target="_blank">Drupal</a>, <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-monthly-recap-salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-slack-contentsquare-accelerates-ml-capabilities-and-more/" target="_blank">Slack</a>, <a href="https://vercel.com/" target="_blank">Vercel</a>, and <a href="https://zapier.com/" target="_blank">Zapier</a>.
Currently, GatherContent allows customers to seamlessly integrate their product with their own technology stack through these <a href="https://gathercontent.com/integrations" target="_blank">integrations</a>, as well as APIs and headless capabilities. This gives users a great deal of flexibility when it comes to multi-channel publishing and connecting GatherContent to production and project management workflows.
According to Gartner’s <a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3992875" target="_blank">2020 Marketing Technology Survey</a>, marketers only use 58% of their martech stack’s full breadth of capabilities because they have trouble with cross-functional collaboration compounded by a “sprawling array” of platform solutions. This is all validated by the eponymous <a href="https://chiefmartec.com/2020/04/marketing-technology-landscape-2020-martech-5000/" target="_blank">Brinker Diagram</a>, which illustrates the flood of technologies available to marketers – including CMS. 
“GatherContent is the glue that connects these other platforms together,” said Angus Edwardson, Co-Founder and VP of Product of GatherContent. “Our goal is to allow GatherContent to easily slide into existing marketing workflows with as few barriers as possible.”
In addition to their new and enhanced integrations, GatherContent has expanded its API – including JavaScript helper libraries that use the popular <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/top-jamstack-static-site-generators-for-2021/" target="_blank">JAMstack</a> as a backbone. This makes it easier for developers to build on top of GatherContent and create seamless integrations with their existing martech stack that includes CMS, CRM, SEO tools, and more. 
“Marketing technology stacks are getting more cluttered," said Edwardson. "But when connected together in a way that makes sense, the result is better content, produced faster and with reduced risk.” 
<h2>About GatherContent</h2>
GatherContent is a Content Operations platform that brings together people, process, and technology. GatherContent has helped thousands of businesses save time and money, improve content quality, and reduce regulatory risk. The platform replaces the broken status quo of docs, spreadsheets, shared drives, and emails. These tools weren’t designed to manage high volume content production and workflow when many stakeholders are involved. Recognized as a Content Distribution Leader, Creation High Performer in G2’s Summer 2021 report, GatherContent is free to try, quick to set up, and very easy to use. Learn more at <a href="https://gathercontent.com/" target="_blank">https://gathercontent.com/</a>.

GatherContent Adds New Integrations to Help Streamline Martech Stacks

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