Case Study: Express improves time-to-market 400% with commercetools composable commerce
Key results
The challenge
Express, a US fashion retailer, ran a monolithic Oracle ATG commerce platform that limited agility in a fast-moving apparel market. Releases could take every two to three months, constraining how quickly the team could respond to customer demand.
The solution
Express migrated to commercetools' headless, API-first commerce platform running on AWS cloud infrastructure. The composable architecture supported faster deployment cycles and provided consistent performance across development, test, and production environments.
“One of the nice things about commercetools is you can expect a similar type of performance in your dev and test environments as you would in production.”
JMJon MutterVP, Customer Applications, Express
The results, in context
The published story reports a 400% improvement in time to market and 99.999% uptime, with the platform able to process up to 100,000 orders per minute across a 75K-SKU catalog and a 138ms response time. Express moved from releases every two to three months to multiple releases per week.