Executing the Digital Recipe: Composition, Collaboration, and Results With Hcl DX and Volt Foundry (Part 2)

In Part 1, we introduced the composable kitchen metaphor, showing how HCL DX acts as the ‘pantry’ for content ‘ingredients’ and Volt Foundry provides the ‘tools’ for API ‘cooking methods.’ Now, we’ll look at how these elements come together to create the final experience. 

Recipes: Building Experiences (Hcl DX’s Composition Platform)

Recipes bring ingredients and methods together. In digital, these are combinations of services and layouts. DX provides the platform to design and reuse them:

• Low-code compose experience: For content creators, DX offers a new low-code "compose" experience that lets them build and arrange content and applications visually, much like a chef selecting a recipe template and customizing it with available ingredients.
• Design Studio and low-code builder: Assemble layouts and applications quickly.
• Script applications: Developers can use React, Angular, and modern frameworks, integrated with Foundry's services. DX enables these to run alongside Java Portlets, protecting your current technology investments.
• Composable by design: APIs and UI modules allow DX to fit into broader solutions. This means DX can serve as a component in larger "recipes."
• Practitioner studio: This reimagined practitioner experience brings all DX tools together in one place, serving as a central hub for all content, site management, and administration, making "recipe creation" intuitive.

The Meal: Complete Digital Experiences

The final meal is the larger, more complex system resulting from combining various ingredients and cooking methods according to a recipe. This is the complete, functional application users interact with. HCL DX serves up these comprehensive digital "meals" across all channels:

• Multi-experience support: Deliver on web, mobile, kiosks, and apps. Foundry also allows for offline capabilities with built-in conflict resolution.
• Headless or head-optional: Strong APIs deploy headless and head-optional models, allowing you to code in your framework of choice and access content and data everywhere.  This means you can present your "meal" in any serving dish you prefer.
• Unified solution: By bringing together the "ingredients" (WCM, DAM), "cooking methods" (Volt Foundry's orchestration), and "recipes" (DX's composition and Script Apps), HCL DX, combined with HCL Volt Foundry, ensures a complete, cohesive, and personalized digital "meal" for your customers, employees, and partners.

The Culinary Team: Roles in Crafting the Digital Experience

Cooking a great meal takes more than good ingredients and a recipe. It depends on the team members who know their roles and work together. The same goes for digital experience. You need people with different skills working in sync to build and deliver value.

Let's consider the key roles in both scenarios and how they relate to the composable digital experience:

Together, HCL DX and Volt Foundry optimize roles like a well-run kitchen. Each contributor plays a part in delivering faster, scalable, and more engaging digital experiences.

The Benefits: A Faster, Smarter Kitchen

The shift to a composable strategy powered by HCL DX and Volt Foundry delivers measurable advantages:

• Faster time to market: DX and Foundry cut development cycles by up to 60% by simplifying backend integration, visual mapping, and reusable services. This speeds up modern app delivery.
• Agility for developers: Frontend teams focus on UI and UX, because backend complexity is managed in the middleware.
• Future-ready: The platform is cloud native, based on technologies like Kubernetes and Helm, providing scalability and automation. This allows you to adapt quickly to future demands.
• Protecting investments: The solution supports existing Java Portlets and web apps while enabling modern frameworks, allowing you to gradually modernize your "kitchen" without discarding valuable existing "utensils."

Conclusion: Start Cooking With Hcl DX and Volt Foundry

The composable approach with HCL Digital Experience and HCL Volt Foundry turns traditional monolithic digital strategies into a flexible and creative approach. 

Your ingredients are content and assets, your cooking methods are API orchestration and integration, and your recipes are composable experiences built to order. Together, they help teams serve better experiences for every user.

HCL Digital Experience and HCL Volt Foundry help your teams build, connect, and deliver modern digital experiences fast. Contact us for a demo or explore our resources to learn more.