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David is the Prinicpal of the Sitecore and Optimizely practice at Perficient, David estimates, architects and delivers digital marketing solutions at scale on the Sitecore Platform. A 4X Sitecore Technology MVP, David has written articles for MSDN Magazine and the Microsoft Architecture Journal. He has spoken at Sitecore Symposium, Sitecore Virtual Developer Day, user group meetings and code camps.

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Making Sense of Search Options in Sitecore

When Sitecore announced their Cloud Offerings at Sitecore Symposium in October 2022, It crystalized their composable strategy in providing separate product offerings that were each best of breed but could be better together. When you look at Engagement Cloud and Commerce Cloud, with products that have clear capabilities with little cross over, that strategy is […]

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Sitecore DX Europe Recap

Sitecore’s first DX event took place in London, attracting customers and partners from all of Europe. These regional events will be held throughout 2023, with the next event occurring in Boston on May 9th with additional events planned for Sydney, Dubai, and Chicago later in the year. These events fill the gap left by their […]

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Sitecore SXA’s Social Share Component Will No Longer Work after May 2023

Sitecore’s SXA accelerator comes with a large library of components that help accelerate development. One of those components will no longer work after May 2023: The Social Share Component. SXA’s social share component leveraged the AddThis service to inject social sharing buttons on your website. You could create an account on AddThis, configure what buttons […]

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Making Sense of Sitecore’s Content Hub Offerings

When Sitecore announced their Cloud Offerings at Sitecore Symposium in October 2022, It crystalized their composable strategy in providing separate product offerings that were each best of breed but could be better together. When you look at Engagement Cloud and Commerce Cloud, with products that have clear capabilities with little cross over, that strategy is […]

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Making Sense of Sitecore’s Content Management System Offerings

When Sitecore announced their Cloud Offerings at Sitecore Symposium in October 2022, It crystalized their composable strategy in providing separate product offerings that were each best of breed but could be better together. When you look at Engagement Cloud and Commerce Cloud, with products that have clear capabilities with little cross over, that strategy is […]

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Perficient’s Sitecore Hackathon 2023 Entries: XM Cloud and Generating Content with AI

This year’s Sitecore Hackathon gave three ideas for teams to compete on: Best Enhancement to SXA Headless, Best Enhancement to XM Cloud and Best Migration Module to move from XP to XM Cloud or Content Hub One. Perficient was lucky to have two teams of three ready to compete, and we kicked things off with […]

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Introducing our Partnership with Vercel

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Vercel, a cloud platform that provides a seamless workflow for building and deploying modern web applications. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services to help developers streamline their development process and deliver high-performance websites and applications. Vercel’s primary focus is on serverless computing and static site […]

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Using Content Hub One to Drive Content in Sitecore Personalize

One of the biggest challenges for implementing personalization at scale is managing content. You not only need to come up with personalized content for each of the personalization scenarios you want to implement, but you need to manage the review and approval process as well as ensure you can distribute it properly across the channels […]

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Understanding the Architecture of Sitecore Personalize & CDP

Often when people think about Sitecore Personalize, they are only thinking about Web Experiments or Experiences – The feature of the product that allows them to add a pop-up, modal or swap content on their websites. But the platform really is so much more powerful than that. It is really meant to be the foundational […]

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Using NextUI with Sitecore’s Headless SXA framework

Sitecore developers transitioning from MVC to headless face something they are probably have not been used to in their time developing Sitecore solutions: “Choice.” While you could integrate whatever CSS and JavaScript libraries into your MVC solutions, it is nothing compared to the ecosystem that Next.js and React provide and how easy they make it […]

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5 Common Questions about Sitecore and Headless Content Management Systems

I too often find myself in the technical weeds when talking about headless architectures and Sitecore Headless Services. Talking about things like GraphQL and Search, Proxy Architectures to support gradual migration, and Rendering Host options and edge functions. I don’t think I’ve done a great job of bringing the conversation up a level and helping […]

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A Practical Roadmap for Existing Sitecore Customers to Move To XM Cloud

Sitecore’s XM Cloud CMS is the future of enterprise content management offerings from Sitecore, and a viable option today. With new tooling including: “Sites”, “Pages” and “Components” it offers a better content author experiences that is not available in its other CMS offerings. With built in analytics, personalization that works at the edge, you are […]

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