Case Study: a leading French cosmetics retailer achieves zero-downtime ecommerce modernization with Expert Soft and SAP Spartacus

a leading French cosmetics retailer achieves zero-downtime migration with Expert Soft

The client, a leading French cosmetics retailer, needed to modernize its ecommerce experience by migrating from a legacy JSP-based storefront to the Angular-based Spartacus framework. The challenge was to achieve this without disrupting the live production environment while improving maintainability and supporting long-term scalability. Expert Soft was engaged to manage this complex transition.

Expert Soft implemented a multi-phase strategy that included a dual-environment setup for a parallel rollout, ensuring zero downtime. The solution featured robust configuration inheritance, custom patches for technical challenges, and site-level CMS restrictions to allow for a seamless content redesign. The results included a successful, disruption-free migration, improved platform maintainability and scalability, and significantly accelerated development cycles. Expert Soft delivered a modernized, flexible storefront architecture ready for future growth.