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When provisioning a new AEM 6.0-6.2 environment, one of the first things you should configure is a TarMK compaction process. This process will remove deleted content from the underlying data store and compress the size of the AEM repository on the disk. This is especially important in the lower environments up front as they will […]

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be presenting at Adobe Summit during the AEM Rockstars session. This session will feature five AEM Rockstars presenting the top-voted tips, tricks and strategies from this year. I will be presenting on using Sling Models to integrate Adobe Experience Manager and the Adobe Marketing Cloud. This talk will […]

Many times, I have felt it would be good if I could have a bird’s eye view of all the components available in my project, along with details about how and where they are used. Fortunately, AEM has provided us with out-of-the-box (OOTB) components under /libs/cq/reporting/components and corresponding templates under /libs/cq/reporting/templates. We can customize/extend the OOTB […]

Rich Text Editor (RTE) is one of the most common and widely used widgets in a component in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Although Adobe provides out of the box (OOTB) RTE functionality, most projects I’ve been on require custom development or configurations. Hence, knowing more about RTE should help you better design a rich text […]

In my earlier post, User Admin Console (Classic UI) & Crashing Browsers, I discussed how business analysts and administrators can make use of queries to debug user and group-related issues in AEM. In relation to that topic, I noticed we have a business requirement to add users to AEM, but we do not have a requirement to remove users […]

In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to enable custom drag and drop interactions in AEM Author mode. In my specific use case, I wanted to give authors the ability to drag assets and drop them into dialog field. Upon dropping, the asset path should be copied into the field. This article assumes basic […]

The Adobe platform has so much to offer. From campaign and experience management, to digital marketing and an awesome mobile experience, there are few things not to love about the platform. When we think of the benefits that Adobe brings, we (and our clients) very often think of our target customers and the benefits we […]

We talk a lot about Built to Run around here at Perficient. We put an enormous focus on making sure we build our AEM implementations so that marketing departments can run most efficiently. You obviously can’t do that without content. Creating content from scratch is an option, but starting from scratch for really large enterprises, who […]

Project Reactor is a tag management solution that empowers any developer to build, maintain, and update their own integrations into the Adobe platform. This capability gives marketers an app-store-like experience to quickly deploy web technologies, and integrate data to power compelling consumer experiences. At present, Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) is a top enterprise-level activation solution. It […]

Companies of all shapes and sizes (and industries) strive to provide a better, more consistent, customer experience. Generally speaking, some industries are ahead of others. While there are certainly outliers, many financial services companies said they’ve yet to reach “maturity” in their approach to customer experience. Couple this with the fact that, according to Edelman’s […]

It is common for organizations to consolidate on a single Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, and Microsoft Azure’s strong play in creating hybrid Windows cloud environments makes it a logical choice for many IT departments. Based on Hyper-V, Microsoft’s long-proven native virtualization platform, the Azure platform offerings have grown considerably over the last few […]

In today’s retail, banking, government, education, automotive, insurance, defense and software industries, reaching the consumer and users has gone beyond regionalization and localization of the language of the website. Business and IT managers are under tremendous pressure to deliver content specific to the user without losing the brand value or conversion rate, and while continuing […]