re-platforming with Evolve
the benefits of a new platform without the hassle
Let’s be honest, companies hate re-platforming. Who would like an expensive project interrupting operations, while there is a business to run? There shouldn't be such a hassle to get to the benefits! The Evolve platform solves this end-to-end, so the focus can be on what makes a company stand out, rather than the plumbing.
benefits of replatforming with Evolve
increases speed of innovation
2 years ago, a re-platforming took 1,5 years. Now it can take as little as 12 weeks.
reduces risk – battle-tested solution
Adopt the learnings of 40 well architected production sites with >2b yearly revenue.
great developer experience
Increase speed (and joy) of development by at least 20%.
getting started
We all know what an eCommerce engine is supposed to look like. From the basics like a homepage, listing pages, product detail page, cart and checkout to foundational elements like hosting, SEO and even security standards. That’s what could make it so frustrating to re-platform to modern technology standards like composable, because you had to build all those functionalities that you already had all over again, with a layering of complex integrations.
Likely, your organization looks at re-platforming with some level of trepidation. Failed SAP implementation, anyone? Generally, we see these main concerns:
Long implementation
The time is took in the past to replatform was steep, including the discovery, development and integration of systems. This drove up costs and was raking up dependencies in the business, causing “waterfall” projects.
Innovation stop
During implementation of your new platform, innovation on the old platform stands still. After implementation, time is still spent on stabilization, SEO recovery, missing features in the MVP, etc. Only afterwards will the customer start to see some innovation again!
Re-inventing the wheel
A re-platforming is a “one off” for most companies. This lack of experience translates to a lack of best practices, reinventing the wheel and falling into known traps.
Michael van Tellingen - R&D DirectorMoving to this new composable way of working used to be painful. Long implementation times would stop all innovation in your company for months or even years. And most often it would lead to a lot of waste, when you had to rebuild even basic functionalities that you used to have.
This problem is what inspired us to develop Evolve.
Replatforming is no longer a high-risk proposition
The Evolve team has been building eCommerce products for the past 10 years, for large SMB and enterprise brands. The learnings from all those projects have gone into the Evolve platform, which is the foundation we use to re-platform all our customers.
Evolve sets you up for a quick re-platform in as little as 12 weeks, freeing up the development teams to start building the next level of experiences. You benefit from all the lessons we have learned from over 40 live production sites with over 2 billion euros in yearly revenue. And the speed of innovation does not stop after the initial release. We use platform engineering principles to offer a great developer experience, making sure that you have empowered, fast-moving teams that are at least 20% more productive.
Out of the box, Evolve provides all capabilities for a production ready eCommerce site, including the platform capabilities to set you up for long term innovation.
the Evolve platform
The platform consists of a storefront and design system with the full critical purchase path for both B2C and B2B stores, a powerful graphQL middleware layer orchestrating all your data into meaningful experiences, and backend connectors to an ever-growing pool of best of breed SaaS vendors.
developer experience
The platform foundation of Evolve ensures all the plumbing is done for your teams to be productive. Our goal is to have a new environment ready in 30 minutes and your first production deploy within a day.
New development is greatly sped up through best practices like Infrastructure as code and observability, and you can make use of an expending network of integrations with top tier vendor partners.
the journey towards composable
The digital commerce industry as a whole is moving away from vendor locked, slow to change monoliths towards nimble, highly performant landscapes.
Gartner already predicted years ago that by 2023, organizations that have adopted a composable approach will outpace competition by 80% in the speed of new feature implementation. This has led to widespread adoption of this approach for B2C retailers. And we're seeing B2B retailers are increasingly making the shift as well, as 83% of B2B leaders have increasing their digital investments in 2024 compared to 2023.
With Evolve, the needed transition has become that much easier.
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Alex Bloemendal, Manager eCommerce, Zeeman.comWe’re impressed with Evolve, which greatly sped up our replatforming initiative and showed results within weeks. The combination of a well oiled team with a solid technology foundation brought great speed and confidence that we could replatform in time.
Mark van Loe, Head of Marketing, Sales & Digital, HBM MachinesIn order to become a major European ecommerce player for Tools & Machines, we need more flexibility and scalability of our technology stack. We selected Lab Digital with Evolve and haven’t regretted that decision since. With the help of Evolve we were able to kickstart our replatforming efforts and speed up the entire development process.
Alexander van der Graaf, CBDO, knivesandtools.nlWe've been working with the amazing folks of Lab Digital for quite a while, and it has been quite the ride! Not only are they a stellar group of individuals, but they've been a driving force propelling our commerce platform to new heights. Thanks to their expertise we've smoothly launched new domains, with still a few coming up.
