Universal Commerce
Solution Overview
Intelligent Commerce as a Service — Composable, Agentic and Autonomous Commerce on a single solution stack from Total Experience to Data Fabric.
UNIVERSAL COMMERCE SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE
Five layers. Connected commerce intelligence.
Universal Commerce combines a Total Experience layer, AI-Native Composition & Orchestration, Packaged Business Capabilities, an Intelligence Layer with Frontier and Sovereign AI models, and a Data Fabric with a unified commerce data lake and semantic mesh.
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Total Experience
Connect web, mobile, social, voice, store-assisted and conversational experiences. Share the relevant product, customer and service context while tailoring each channel to its audience.
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AI-Native Composition & Orchestration
Use Universal Composer to coordinate AI assistance, business rules, APIs and workflows across customer journeys and enterprise operations. Route exceptions and sensitive decisions to the appropriate people.
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Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs)
Compose modular capabilities such as catalogue, search, CMS, PIM, cart, checkout, payments, subscriptions, marketplace services and order management. Integrate suitable platforms from the MACH ecosystem with existing enterprise applications. MACH refers to microservices-based, API-first, cloud-native and headless approaches.
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Intelligence: Frontier & Sovereign AI
Choose Frontier models for advanced language and reasoning tasks and Sovereign AI models for deployment and data-control requirements. Model selection, grounding, permissions and approval policies depend on the use case; AI outputs still require evaluation.
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Data Fabric: Unified Commerce Data Lake & Semantic Mesh
Connect product, customer, order, inventory and business events through a unified commerce data lake. A semantic mesh relates these records using shared business definitions, supporting grounded retrieval, commerce insights and consistent measures.
Meet Universal Composer and Universal Dashboard, the AI-native composition and enterprise data tools behind the architecture.
Explore how the architecture supports five commerce business models, from consumer storefronts to B2B and marketplace operations.
Three pillars. One
unified solution stack.
Start with one pillar. Add the others as your business evolves. No re-platforming required. Each pillar is available as a standalone XCaaS engagement or combined for full coverage.
- ✓Pre-composed B2C, DTC, B2B, Marketplace & Omni-channel
- ✓Integrated OMS, Search, CMS, Payments, Loyalty & more
- ✓Legacy modernisation from Magento, Hybris, IBM WebSphere
- ✓Plans configured around business outcomes
- ✓AI Conversational Shopping Assistant
- ✓AI Shopping Visibility across LLM channels
- ✓Commerce Insight Agent — chat with your data
- ✓AI assistance, visibility and insights
- ✓Catalog Management, Promotions & Pricing agents
- ✓Cart Recovery, Order Orchestration & Returns agents
- ✓MCP-connected, RAG-grounded, always-on 24/7
- ✓Automation scoped to your workflows
Build commerce that
fits your business exactly.
MACH-native architecture with pre-composed solution accelerators — choose the business model, business capabilities, and channels that fit your business and compose them into a production-ready commerce solution in weeks, not months.
AI that understands
intent and acts on it.
LLM-powered agents grounded in your Semantic Data Mesh — delivering conversational discovery, AI shopping visibility, commerce intelligence, and personalisation at scale across every customer engagement channel.
Backend operations
that run themselves.
Specialised AI agents that take over entire operational workflows end-to-end — making decisions, executing actions, and learning from outcomes 24/7 within defined business rules and approval policies. MCP-connected, RAG-grounded, always-on.
Three commerce capabilities.
One connected solution.
Universal Commerce brings together three commerce approaches in an XCaaS solution — Composable, Agentic and Autonomous — delivering composable, agentic, and autonomous commerce with expert services, cloud, and best-of-breed PBCs in a tailored engagement.
CHOOSE THE CAPABILITIES YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS
How the three commerce approaches work together.
| Approach | Primary role and example |
|---|---|
| Composable Commerce | Assemble modular capabilities and connect enterprise systems—for example, a storefront linked to catalogue, search, checkout and order management. |
| Agentic Commerce | Use grounded AI assistance to support decisions and interactions—for example, a shopping assistant that helps customers compare products. |
| Autonomous Commerce | Execute authorised workflows through defined rules and connected tools—for example, routing an order and escalating fulfilment exceptions. |
Combine these approaches across B2C/DTC, B2B, subscription, marketplace and omni-channel commerce. Deployment scope and service commitments are agreed for the selected solution.
Ready to shape your
XCaaS outcomes?
Whether you're a startup going live or an enterprise escaping a legacy monolith — let's design your Universal Commerce XCaaS roadmap.
Solution Overview: what it means for your business
Explore how the five-layer architecture connects customer experiences to business capabilities, AI intelligence and shared data. Select a commerce business model to see how these layers work together in an operating journey.
Explore commerce business models and the five-layer solution architecture.