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Company type | Advocacy group |
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Industry | Information technology |
Founded | 2020 |
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 known as "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]
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]
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]
The MACH alliance's main activities in support of their advocacy are events and the publication of various content pieces. [13] [14]
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]