MACH Alliance

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The MACH Alliance
Company typeAdvocacy group
IndustryInformation technology
Founded2020
Area served
Global
Key people
Jon Panella (Chairperson)
Casper Rasmussen (President)
Number of employees
6
Website https://machalliance.org

The MACH Alliance is a nonprofit profit advocacy group whose members include software vendors, systems integrators, agencies, and individual experts, called "Ambassadors", [1] advocating for open technology ecosystems. [2] [3] The Alliance was formed in June 2020 [4] and has, as of April 2024, over 100 members [5] spanning three continents. [6]

Contents

History

The MACH alliance was founded in June 2020 [4] by four companies: Contentstack, Commercetools, Valtech and EPAM Systems, plus ten inaugural members: Algolia, Amplience, Cloudinary, Constructor.io, Contentful, E2X, Fluent commerce, Frontastic, Mobify and Vue Storefront. [7]

MACH is an acronym for: [8] [9]

About a year later, MACH membership reached 30 members [10] and again a year later doubled to about 60 members. [11]

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. [12]

Activities

The MACH alliance's main activities in support of their advocacy are events and the publication of various content pieces. [13] [14]

Services

Users can choose cloud services. [9] [15] The ability to choose only requires cloud services, which reduce costs. [9] [15] [16] [17] MACH has specialized expert applications. [9] [16] [17] MACH-based cloud services provide rollouts that can be scaled faster. [17]

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. [9]

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References

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  2. ↑ Adrian Bridgwater (2022-08-22). "Why Headless in MACH is a no-brainer". IDG Connect. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  3. ↑ Katy White (2021-01-20). "What is the MACH alliance?". deptagency.com. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  4. 1 2 Janus Boye (2021-10-11). "What's the MACH Alliance all about?". www.boye-co.com. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  5. ↑ Roy Edwards. "MACH Alliance surpasses 100 members". www.enterprisetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  6. ↑ "From Launch to the "Coolest Tech in Town Club" in a Year". The Baas Company. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  7. ↑ Roy Edwards (2020-06-24). "MACH Alliance launched to empower enterprises with modern, SaaS technology". enterprise times. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  8. ↑ Emily Seares (2022-10-25). "'The coolest tech club in town': how Mach is changing digital offerings". Raconteur. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Bill Doerrfeld (2022-12-08). "Introduction to MACH Architecture". DevOps.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  10. ↑ Adrian Bridgwater (2021-08-30). "The speed of software, MACH Alliance hits 30". ComputerWeekly. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  11. ↑ Gabrielle Rodgers (2022-03-02). "MACH Alliance Adds 8 Members That Support Composable Architectures". CMSWIRE. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  12. ↑ Gary Ballabio (2022-03-28). "What Is the MACH Alliance?". Cloudinary. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  13. ↑ "Upcoming Events". MACH Alliance. 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  14. ↑ "Insights". MACH Alliance. 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  15. 1 2 Alice Cumming (2022-12-13). "Demystifying MACH – the 2023 e-commerce buzzword". Business Leader. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  16. 1 2 Phil Wainewright (2022-07-07). "The next fundamental shift in business tech arrives at MACH One". diginomica. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  17. 1 2 3 Stefan Schinkel (2021-12-01). "What is MACH Alliance?". dotcms. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
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