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As Frasers Group has grown over the years, with online revenues exceeding £1bn, it has increasingly encountered challenges to innovate the proprietary in-house commerce platform, which serves multiple businesses and brands, across multiple geographic regions. To address the challenge of reducing time to market, Frasers Group engaged Lab Digital to help meet key business challenges:
Respond faster to customer trends and contribute to the business agility by reducing the time to market for features, products, prices, promotions, and content.
Elevate the customer experience in look & feel, speed, and improve accessibility with translated local websites to help the brands on their global digital journey.
Equip Sports Direct and the rest of the Frasers Group with a composable commerce platform that is ready for the challenges of the rapidly changing e-commerce landscape globally.
Allowing hands-on content management via a headless CMS, powering storefronts and more later, makes life for content marketing much easier.
Content, products, prices, and promotions can be updated in minutes instead of overnight.
Data streaming and consolidating a scattered on-premises data landscape to a cloud hosted platform.
Machine translations via a translation service, powered by OpenAI, costing a fractions of cents per product while being much faster and cost effective compared to commercial SaaS translation services.
Deployments are possible without downtime and as much as you want, due to a robust pipeline and (test)automation.
Infrastructure as code reducing errors and improve consistency.
Vercel hosting for a next level CDN, feature environments and business acceptance testing, speeding up collaboration greatly.
We’ve set up an organisation where teams were mixed with Frasers Group developers, to help them onboard in a future platform with modern technologies and program languages. When it was time to scale up, other agencies have been involved into growing the teams even further.
By organising mixed teams around customer journeys, as well as a platform team supporting the data and bridge to the legacy landscape; we can: create focus for each team with a shared roadmap. By having more of a product mindset, involving business besides IT, we are an example for Business-IT alignment within the Frasers organisation.
At the core of the platform are commercetools as the eCommerce engine, Amplience as the CMS (Content Management System), and Algolia for search and merchandising capabilities. This is managed and coordinated by Lab Digital’s MACH Composer framework. MACH technologies allowed us to select best-in-class vendors to meet the objectives of business users, and by engaging fully with our partners we have delivered truly composable commerce and a solid foundation for future expansion.
Frasers Group started as a small store in Maidenhead in 1982 and from there, grew to become a global powerhouse. As the business evolved, 2019 saw the rebrand of Sports Direct International to Frasers Group plc; a reflection of the Groups growth and change in market identity.
Led by Chief Executive Michael Murray, the business is set on a formidable upwards trajectory as it continues to expand with its pioneering approach to retail. Frasers Group provides consumers with access to the world’s best Sports, Premium and Luxury brands with a vision to build the planet's most admired and compelling brand ecosystem.
As a leader in the industry, Frasers Group is committed to rethinking retail by driving digital innovation and providing unique store experiences to its consumers globally.
