If you are on or considering upgrading to AEM 6.3+ and not already migrating to the OSGi R6 DS annotations, you need to start! These annotations are the officially supported method of defining OSGi Services, Components and Configurations and should be used on any new AEM development. Getting older codebases upgraded, however can be a […]
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Data: Common Theme from Adobe Summit 2018
It’s been a month and a half since Adobe Summit 2018, but the sessions, keynotes, and conversations with customers are still very much fresh in our minds. Adobe Summit is a great learning conference for digital marketers, with seven tracks and more than 250 sessions this year. Whether you are building campaigns, managing advertising or […]
Adobe Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) Cloud: The Basics
Commerce needs to be experience driven and make every moment shoppable. This is one of five digital trends for 2018 that can drive the future of AEM and more. We are seeing some solid progress. As part of the big initiative, Adobe announced enabling experience-driven commerce, a brand new Adobe Cloud Commerce Integration Framework (CCIF) is […]
Developing Clean and Efficient Lists of Items with HTL
One of the most common patterns in AEM development is the link list. You can find this pattern in typical web elements such as navigations, headers and footers. Usually, this will be a list of links with a title and potentially some additional data such as the target or an icon. The link list is […]
Changes in Search Engine Results Will Force You to Adapt
When a question pops into our minds, we don’t hesitate to pull out our phone and find the answer. Long gone are the days when a heavy dictionary was required to look up the definition of a word. Now you don’t even need to type it out… you can simply ask Siri or Alexa, and […]
Upcoming Webinar: Easy Access to Critical Information: Content Reports in AEM
🕙 It’s almost time! In just under a week, on April 24th, I will be presenting at the next Ask the Community Expert session about AEM Content Reports. I previously covered AEM Content Reports in my post New From Perficient Digital: Content Reports in AEM. This webinar will go deeper and show you […]
A First Time For Everything: Attending the 2018 Adobe Summit
Why on earth is there a statue of the Predator in the middle of this fancy Italian restaurant? This was to be the first of the many instances of culture shock I experienced at this year’s Adobe Summit. Although I have worked in Digital Marketing for over a decade; firstly as a creative director for […]
Unify Content and Commerce to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Twenty years ago, who would have imagined that you could get a quote from a bank or health insurance provider through an app on your phone? Or use a voice-based assistant like Amazon Alexa to order a few household items? The continuous evolution of technology has unified content and commerce, and it goes beyond simply […]
Women in Digital Panelists Share Powerful Advice at Adobe Summit
Our second annual Women in Digital breakfast kicked off Adobe Summit 2018 with a celebration of the achievements of influential women leaders in the digital space. The inspiring event connected peers who are blazing a path toward an equal future where all women feel empowered, inspired, and educated — by each other. “We were excited […]
Adobe Summit 2018 Sneaks: My Top Three
Adobe Summit has a wildly popular session called Sneaks hosted by Steve Hammond, senior director of strategy and innovation for Adobe. At this session, attendees are given the chance to preview some of the research and development work going on behind the scenes with brief overviews or “sneaks.” This year, Sneaks focused on the transformative […]
Highlight of Adobe Summit Day 2: DAM 2.0
In day 2 of Adobe Summit, I saw some great innovations and new features in the AEM Assets platform which together solve the most difficult challenges of Digital Asset Management. Bringing AI to DAM Today’s general session highlighted a new capability which I believe is as much of a revelationary step forward in […]
Using Adobe to Create Fluid Experiences for Mobile Journeys
One the key struggles that most business are struggling with is the creating an experience that is consistent across all channels. In this 2018 Adobe Summit session Haresh Kumar and Nick Whittenburg from Adobe lay the ground work for how Adobe cloud solutions allow your business to achieve a fluid experience across mobile journeys. As […]