The MACH Alliance is a non-profit institution that advocates for open and best-of-breed enterprise technology ecosystems. The MACH acronym stands for the four principles that the Alliance supports:

• Microservices-based: Individual business functions that are independently developed, deployed, managed, and scaled. Allowing businesses to be more agile by updating specific functions without affecting the entire system.
• API-first: All functionality of products is exposed through APIs. This enables different systems to work together efficiently.
• Cloud-native SaaS: Fully leverages the cloud, beyond storage and hosting, including scaling and automatically updating. It allows businesses to benefit from continuous updates and security without having to worry about their infrastructure.
• Headless: Decouples the front-end presentation from backend logic and channel, programming language, and is framework agnostic. Allows businesses to deliver consistent digital experiences across multiple platforms.

The MACH Alliance immensely benefits businesses by enabling agility, flexibility, and transformation, and accelerates their speed and performance. By promoting open, best-of-breed systems, the MACH Alliance also helps businesses avoid vendor lock-in, ensuring that they’re flexible and allow their customers freedom.