John Dymond

One week ago, Optimizely and Perficient worked together to organize a roadshow event in Atlanta.  It was an afternoon of good information, discussion, and networking.  For those of you who did not get a chance to attend, here is a summary of why these events are so important for the community.  More importantly … why […]

In part 1 of this series, we examined some considerations when looking to upgrade your Content Cloud instance to V12.  If you are reading this post, you have likely made up your mind it is something you want to do.  The #1 difficulty you will encounter in discussing with your stakeholders is cost.  Whether this […]

Moving to version 12 is for most developers, architects, and key decision makers the largest upgrade undertaking you have had to take in your time on the platform.  Optimizely prides itself on continuous releases & the ability to upgrade a solution in an affordable and timely fashion.  In this 2-part series we will present the […]

This is a question that I am often asked and having seen many successful Optimizely portals, I can absolutely say the answer is yes.  I’ve been amazed by what clients have been able to achieve with portals built on the platform.  In this article, I would like to discuss a few topics that could potentially […]

When Episerver acquired Insite late last year, it rounded out the digital experience platform with a robust B2B commerce offering. As a partner of both Episerver and Insite, Perficient is positioned as an Episerver Gold Partner. Before the acquisition, Perficient was a leader and tenured Insite partner. Because of this and our 24 certified Insite […]

Episerver Ascend concluded a week ago and if you did not attend this year you should strongly consider attending in 2020.  There are so many opportunities to learn something new at this conference.  Whether it is implementation tricks from labs, features that other companies and industries are putting to work with the product, or even […]

The Episerver Find API is a powerful tool that offers capabilities above and beyond standard search providers.  One of the areas that it excels is its flexibility in implementing facets.  In particular, we are going to take a look at how you can use Find to index commerce dictionaries so that facet management can be […]

Catalog modeling and organization within a commerce site can vary widely depending on the type of products you are selling.  The way that customers will search for your products can present situations in which traditional product/variant modeling alone will not be able to be achieved.  Custom indexing can bridge the gap in these cases to […]