Eric Sanner – Solutions Architect

In my previous blog https://blogs.perficient.com/2024/07/01/sitecore-personalize-close-event-logic/, I shared a method for using cookies to enable the user to dismiss an alert banner.  This process involved writing the cookie when the user clicks the close icon and checking for the cookie when the experience is displayed.  This approach worked well because the entirety of the javascript code […]

Searching for content on the web has evolved from basic string based matches to a sophisticated array of approaches including keywords, stemming, synonyms, word order, regular expressions, weights and relevance.  Users expect the highest ranking results to be the most relevant and 75% of users don’t go past the first page of results.  All of […]

Sitecore Personalize uses goals to track the performance of experiences and experiments.  But what happens if your experience is live and you don’t see any executions or goals tracked in the performance tab for the experience?  It can be hard to debug, test and troubleshoot goal tracking especially if the experience is hidden behind a […]

Welcome to my recap of Sitecore Symposium 2024! The week continued with numerous insightful sessions, informative workshops, and exciting new announcements. Here are my session notes and takeaways from the final day at Symposium, day three. Opening Keynote The morning kicked off on a high note with a special guest appearance by Brendan Hunt, who […]

Welcome to my recap of Sitecore Symposium 2024!  Day 2 at Symposium offered incredible insights and valuable information. There was no shortage of engaging sessions and thought-provoking discussions and we are so excited to bring these fresh perspectives back. Here are my session notes and takeaways from day two. Women in Digital Breakfast What an […]

Welcome to my recap of day one at Sitecore Symposium 2024! There was no shortage of inspiring sessions, key takeaways, and exciting announcements from day one. Opening Keynote The opening keynote by Sitecore executives was an excellent kickoff to Symposium, reinforcing their commitment to being a trusted partner. They emphasized their focus on core strengths […]

Sitecore Symposium 2024 is Underway! A conference like Sitecore Symposium is a great way to make a mini vacation out of your work travels. I arrived on Sunday and explored the city of Nashville. Did you know that Nashville is home to a full-scale replica of the Parthenon? It was built in 1897 as part […]

Sitecore CDP tracks user behavior by linking browsing session, events, and orders to a guest profile.  By default, guests are marked as “visitors” meaning we do not know who they are.  A guest can become a “customer” meaning we know who they are. In order to identify a guest, we must send an “IDENTITY” event.  […]

Sitecore Personalize has several out of the box components that notify the user such as popup takeover, corner popup, sidebar, and alert bar.  These components all feature a close icon that will hide the component from the screen.  But there is no logic out of the box to prevent them from being displayed again. Imagine […]

I started a new Sitecore Personalize project.  The client nonprod and prod environments were freshly spun up.  All fresh and clean.  No offer templates, no experiences, no decision models.  I created the first experience and proceeded to click the preview button to test my experience.  To my surprise the experience did not render, and the […]

In many places around the world, June is considered Pride Month. We kicked off Pride Month by celebrating the launch of PRISM, Perficient’s newest ERG dedicated to creating safe spaces for understanding, education, and culture focused on respect, recognition, and learning for the LGBT+ community and allies.  PRIDE Month Realness  For our first event, we […]

Sitecore Personalize uses a combination of experiences, decision models and offers to personalize content.  An experience defines a variant.  The variant is used to create the UI for the experience.  The decision model uses programmables and decision tables to select an offer.  The variant reads data from the offer to populate the UI.  By default, […]