The monolithic approach to DXP, is the traditional way of expanding a proprietary CMS into a full-fledged DXP with a prepackaged software suite. This gives you an all-in-one software suite. The monolithic offerings often have one approach to setting up workflows and structures on how they are implemented.With monolithic digital experience platforms, one vendor is in control of everything. All features are in the same dashboard or suite, and it’s often hard to integrate these tools with other tools that are not a part of the package. The monolithic approach is perfect if you handle everything from one place. It also offers the benefit of requiring less work to set up because it’s all tightly integrated and controlled by the same vendor.  However, it can be tricky to change one of the tools to another tool that is not a part of the vendor's suite. If you want more control over your tech stack, you should look at a Composable DXP instead.