Celebrating one year of our Storyblok Technology Ecosystem!

Over the past few years, Storyblok’s customers have already created more than 120.000 projects, using not only our headless content management system (CMS) but also multiple technologies in a modular way. We have been working tirelessly for the past few years to provide our agency partners with our best-in-class Partner Program, a goal we have achieved and continue to excel at. The completion of our efforts to create the best digital stories for our partners was the launch of our Technology Ecosystem on June 20, 2022.

Today, we celebrate the one-year anniversary of our Storyblok Technology Ecosystem, of which we are incredibly proud! In this article, we’ll share some of the benefits we, our partners, and their clients experienced, some of the best practices and lessons we learned along the way, and some magnificent milestones we have achieved, which would not be possible without our amazing technology partners.

Storyblok Technology Ecosystem is a program that offers a selection of ready-to-use technology solutions including integrations, add-ons, and plug-ins that work well with each other, with Storyblok as the main content platform. They can be connected to our API-driven CMS to provide you and your clients with more features and functionalities, making it more valuable, and ultimately, creating a fully compatible digital landscape to serve with best-of-breed technologies. Our CMS is designed to work seamlessly with other API-led technologies, thanks to our API-driven architecture. This also gives developers more flexibility and productivity, and enhances the user experience.

The Storyblok Technology Ecosystem continues to expand and includes such amazing partners as BigCommerce, Netlify, Cloudinary, Commercetools, Shopify, Lokalise, Algolia, Conscia, Bynder, and more. Storyblok connects with various solutions for eCommerce, personalization, localization, deployment and hosting, marketing, analytics, and more to help businesses create successful digital experiences across channels using flexible, modular technology.

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In celebration of the 1-year of our Technology Ecosystem, we'd like to share the magnificent milestones we've collectively achieved over the year. We’re proud that we managed to achieve them in such a short time as it shows how beneficial this initiative is, both for us and our partners.

• We have established cooperation with 40 technology partners.
• Overall, we managed to release 27 integrations, with a large part of it formed during the growth of our Ecosystem. Additionally, we regularly release integration demos and tutorials for developers.
• We organized close to 50 technology-related events where we shared knowledge and learned from our tech partners, including Stories from the Blok - Technology Editions, networking events, webinars, and conferences.
• We conducted enablement sessions with a significant number of strategic tech partners.
• Overall, we closed 100+ deals influenced by our Technology Ecosystem, with many of them taking place during our joint operation within the Ecosystem.

We’re truly delighted with these achievements, and the best part is that it wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for our cooperation, shared inspiration, and exceptional expertise within the digital world of technology. We sincerely congratulate all the partners involved, and from the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for trusting us and being with us!

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In order to further spread the knowledge about technology and tech ecosystems to the world, we decided to launch our one-of-a-kind Ecosystem Expanded article series. As part of this initiative, at the launch of each integration, we create a specially dedicated article on our partner blog explaining the integration’s benefits, showing how it works, and highlighting its impact on our clients’ digital platforms.

Check out some of our Ecosystem Expanded articles:

Ecosystem Expanded: BigCommerce
Ecosystem Expanded: Vue Storefront
Ecosystem Expanded: Lokalise
Ecosystem Expanded: Cloudinary
Ecosystem Expanded: Semrush

Additionally, together with our tech partners, we plan social media tech campaigns to highlight our collaboration and spread awareness around our Technology Ecosystem. Moreover, we love releasing blog articles talking about interesting facts about our Ecosystem, best practices on how to best leverage its benefits, and our collaboration with technology partners. We also conduct PR initiatives and campaigns to reach as many recipients as possible and promote our Ecosystem’s and our tech partners’ values.

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We are happy to be a part of the amazing projects that have been developed in collaboration between our partner agencies and their clients, as well as our technology partners:

Paul Smith's digital flagship store experience

Paul Smith is the leading independent design company in Britain. The company aimed to innovate their approach and communication with their customers, refresh their brand, and design a website that replicates the unique customer experience of their physical flagship stores. To achieve all this, they enlisted Limesharp, our partnering agency, for their technical expertise and previous experience with eCommerce brands.

The project involved a composable stack - Limesharp used Vue.js, Larevel, Magento, Cloudinary, Klevu, and Storyblok for different purposes. Klevu provides eCommerce personalization, Smart Search, Smart Category Merchandising, and Smart Recommendations based on AI and NLP. It helps Paul Smith find the best products for their customers and optimize their conversion and revenue.

Cloudinary automates and optimizes image management for Paul Smith. It links the creative team and assigns SKUs to images. It also enables more video content for sales. Paul Smith saves 40% time on image handling with Cloudinary.
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Webmatch helping TAMRON build a future-proof platform

As a leading manufacturer of interchangeable camera lenses, TAMRON wanted to sell online and improve customer outreach. Together with Webmatch, our partner agency, they analyzed the company’s customer journeys and found online sales growing in Europe. I turned out that TAMRON needed their own website to offer products directly.

Webmatch helped TAMRON build a webshop with a headless solution. The company moved from Typo3 to Storyblok, which lets them tell their story and sell online. TAMRON used commercetools for product data and sales, and Vue Storefront for the front-end. With Storyblok’s help, Webmatch was able to connect all the solutions with pre-built integrations. Furthermore, Storyblok's Visual Editor and rights & roles management let TAMRON use the system in 16 countries and 18 languages. Overall, the project took less than 5 months and launched in September 2022.
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Coachhub delivering coaching experiences with Storyblok and Lokalise

CoachHub, a personalized, measurable, and scalable digital coaching platform, needed a coaching content library that helps employees grow professionally. The library had to offer personalized and interactive content in 8 languages, which created the need to find an agile and efficient localization solution. Before the project, Coachhub did all the translations manually, which was ineffective and time-consuming.

With Storyblok's integration capabilities, CoachHub used Lokalise, a localization tool that leverages their translators and memory database. Storyblok's Visual Editor helped them preview their content layout and multimedia in real-time. This was important for their expanding content platform.
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How Xlash achieved global eCommerce growth

Xlash, a fast-growing makeup and skincare brand, reinvented its system with Made People, our Swedish partner agency. They used Storyblok for scalability and best-of-breed selection. One month after launch, organic traffic doubled, with 90% from mobile. The solution met their needs for new locales and regions.

Previously, Xlash had 8 WordPress stores with a custom middle layer, which were messy, slow, and static. They faced challenges with streamlining multiple stores for different markets, scaling with a monolithic architecture, and syncing the storefront with their ERP system.
Storyblok helped Xlash grow and scale with the Visual Editor that shows what customers see, managing content across all markets and languages in one place, and workflows among teams. Finally, XLASH enjoyed easy onboarding and implementation in 4 months.
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As we celebrate one year of our Technology Ecosystem, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our tech partners, without whom this initiative would not exist and certainly would not be the same. Thanks to you, we can learn something new every day, broaden our horizons, exchange knowledge about the digital landscape, and most importantly, create a better world of technology together from which our partners and customers can benefit.

We are grateful for the achievements we have come across, the challenges we have overcome, and the opportunities we have created. Technology has been a powerful tool for innovation, collaboration, and transformation in our society. That is why we are committed to using technology for good, to empower our users and partners, and to foster a culture of learning and growth. We invite you to join us in this journey, as we continue to explore the possibilities and potentials of our Technology Ecosystem, which we still aim to expand with new amazing technology partners and digital solutions.

Check out our amazing Technology Partner Listing or contact us if you’d like to join our Technology Ecosystem.