1. Adopt SAP composable storefront
With its previous announcement, SAP rebranded SAP Spartacus as composable storefront, designating it as the flagship storefront solution and taking over from the accelerator storefront. Yet, the anticipated uptick in Spartacus implementations hasn't materialized, possibly due to a misconception about needing a cloud migration first.
In fact, decoupling your storefront before the migration might be the key strategy to reduce its cost. Clients who preemptively adopted Spartacus are now at an advantage. Their upcoming cloud migration is simpler and more economical. This benefit is largely because Spartacus, being decoupled, interacts with SAP Commerce exclusively via API, streamlining the complexities associated with SAP Commerce.
So here’s hint number one: start with your storefront migration. Doing so not only preps your SAP Commerce for the cloud but also revamps the front end, providing customers with an enhanced user experience.
Here's a significant point to note: migration tasks focused primarily on the front end can account for a considerable portion of the overall effort. By transitioning to the composable storefront ahead of time, businesses can potentially save between 25% to 35% in migration efforts.