The MACH Alliance is a nonprofit profit

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whose members include

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

vendor In a supply chain, a vendor, supplier, provider or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain. Today, these terms ...

systems integrator A systems integrator (or system integrator) is a person or company that specializes in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together, a practice known as system integration. They also sol ...

s, agencies, and individual experts known as "Ambassadors", advocating for open technology ecosystems. The Alliance was formed in June 2020 and has, as of April 2024, over 100 members spanning three continents.

History

The MACH Alliance was founded in June 2020 by four companies: Contentstack,

Commercetools Commercetools, stylized as commercetools, is a cloud-based headless commerce platform that provides APIs to power e-commerce sales and similar functions for large businesses. Both the company and platform are called Commercetools. The company is ...

, Valtech and

EPAM Systems EPAM Systems, Inc. ("Effective Programming for America") is an American company that specializes in service development, digital platform engineering, and digital product design, operating out of Newtown, Pennsylvania. History Early years In ...

, plus ten inaugural members:

Algolia Algolia is a proprietary search engine offering, usable through the software as a service (SaaS) model. Company Algolia was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, both originally from Paris, France. It was originally a comp ...

, Amplience,

Cloudinary Cloudinary is a SaaS technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Israel, England, Poland, and Singapore. The company provides cloud-based image and video management services. It enables users to upload, store, man ...

, Constructor.io,

Contentful Contentful is a headless content management system (CMS), founded in 2013 in Berlin, Germany by Sascha Konietzke and Paolo Negri. The company and the platform are both called Contentful. As of June 2021, the company is headquartered in San Franc ...

, E2X, Fluent commerce, Frontastic, Mobify and Vue Storefront. MACH is an acronym for: *

Microservices A microservice architecture – a variant of the service-oriented architecture structural style – is an architectural pattern that arranges an application as a collection of loosely-coupled, fine-grained services, communicating through lightw ...

-based, *

API An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software Interface (computing), interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standa ...

-first, * Cloud-native software-as-a-service and * Headless offerings. About a year later, MACH membership reached 30 members and again a year later doubled to about 60 members.

Membership

The MACH Alliance actively seeks software vendors, systems integrators, agencies, consultancies, and individual experts who share their vision for open and best-of-breed (a collection of specialized expert applications) enterprise technology ecosystems. The MACH Alliance established certification standards that help identify those that embrace MACH philosophies and offer MACH-certified services. In order to become a member, an organization must be in full compliance.

Activities

The MACH alliance's main activities in support of their advocacy are events and the publication of various content pieces.

Services

Users can choose cloud services. The ability to choose only requires cloud services, which reduce costs. MACH has specialized expert applications. MACH-based cloud services provide rollouts that can be scaled faster. Managing many cloud services from different vendors can bring maintenance hurdles and costs associated with tracking, monitoring, securing the integration points, and integrating the service components. MACH is currently a general architecture rather than a standard specification, which implies that technologies and behaviors may differ from cloud service to cloud service.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://machalliance.org Organizations established in 2020 Information technology lobbying organizations