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Joshua Hover

Josh began his career as a full-stack .NET developer with a strong focus on front-end development. Over the past decade, he has specialized in Sitecore and enterprise CMS platforms, leading large-scale engagements to successful outcomes. As a 4x Sitecore MVP (2022-2025), he is dedicated to driving innovation and supporting the community. Beyond technical expertise, Josh has a proven track record of building and scaling teams, growing business units, and driving operational efficiencies to enhance digital experience solutions. Today, he oversees the DXP MSO team and Acquia practice, ensuring seamless client engagements while fostering team growth and strategic initiatives. In his spare time, Josh hosts the Sitecore podcast, Fireside.

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Sitecore XM Cloud: The SaaS Advantage and What It Means for Your Digital Roadmap

The digital experience landscape is evolving rapidly, and businesses face growing pressure to deliver personalized, scalable, and seamless customer experiences while minimizing complexity. Traditional on-prem and PaaS-based CMS solutions often come with heavy infrastructure demands, maintenance, and upgrade cycles. Sitecore XM Cloud addresses these areas with a fully cloud-native, SaaS-based approach, eliminating the need to […]

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Creating a Detailed Content Audit & Mapping Strategy for your Next Site Build

The mark of a successful website is more than just a collection of pagee. It’s a structured ecosystem where every piece of content serves a purpose, or it should. When building a new site or migrating to a new platform, content mapping is a critical step that determines how information is organized, accessed, and optimized […]

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Perficient Honored as a 2024 Acquia Partner Award Winner

Perficient is thrilled to announce its recognition as a winner in the 2024 Acquia Partner Awards for DXP Champion of the Year. This esteemed accolade highlights Perficient’s commitment to delivering superior customer outcomes, driving innovation, and achieving outstanding revenue performance within the Acquia partner ecosystem. Acquia, a leader in open digital experience software, honored 22 […]

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Making Sitecore Fly. Your Guide to Performance Optimization

One of the biggest things I come across with new and existing clients is a slow website and it impacts engagement, search rankings, and overall business performance. Whether running Sitecore XP or leveraging XM Cloud, optimizing performance is critical to delivering seamless digital experiences. While many assume slow load times stem from back-end inefficiencies, the […]

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Sitecore Content Migration Considerations

Migrating to a new platform—whether upgrading from an older version or moving to Sitecore XM Cloud—is an great time to modernize your digital experience. Beneath the surface, a major challenge presents itself that some do not consider or put enough though into, content migration. Many organizations assume that migrating content is as simple as scripting […]

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How Managers Can Spot and Prevent Burnout Before It Starts

In today’s fast-paced work environment, it’s easy to fall into the trap of pushing for results. But as leaders, we need to adopt a different mindset—one that views work as a marathon, not a sprint. While sprints can bring immediate wins, they’re unsustainable in the long run, often leading to team burnout. It’s our responsibility […]

Get the most out of your sitecore investment

Maximizing Engagement and ROI with Sitecore Stream

In today’s digital age, customers expect personalization. However, creating truly engaging, dynamic experiences is still a challenge for many brands. Sitecore Stream, is a game-changing platform that enables real-time content delivery, helping companies connect with their audiences on a deeper level and drive tangible business results. Lean how Sitecore Stream transforms personalization, optimizes the customer […]

Choosing A Sitecore Partner

Choosing the Right Sitecore Partner

There have been a lot of changes in the Sitecore space and navigating them alone can become daunting. Evaluating your current investment and understanding what is available are areas that a partner can help support. You will hear many buzzwords that are trending in the industry such as headless, composable, and cloud. It can take […]

Sitecore Search

An Overview to Sitecore’s Search Solution

Search is something many feel should work coming out of the box, and it does. But to what extent? In most cases, business users want to extend their search platform to perform more complex tasks such as ranking, type ahead, and tagging. Sitecore leverages Solr out of the box with a base installation for search […]