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When Adobe announced the acquisition of Livefyre this week, I thought about how this move plays into the Experience Era touted by Adobe during Summit 2016. If you’re not 100% familiar with Livefyre, here’s a quick overview – this social media content platform allows companies to search and gather user generated content from Twitter, Instagram […]

In a span of six months, Perficient raised the bar as an Adobe Business Partner by earning the distinction of Adobe Experience Manager Specialized Partner for the Americas. This recognition places Perficient among the most skilled and credentialed global partners for Adobe. “The Adobe Experience Manager Specialization helps Perficient not only to differentiate itself in […]

Chad Johnson’s recent observations on Google’s Cloud Vision API led us to start thinking of ways the image recognition software could be utilized within Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).  Automatic asset tagging immediately sprang to mind.  This solution reduces the burden on the end user in manually identifying and tagging the assets with relevant metadata.  Google’s […]

In the application server world, clustering is typically implemented to promote redundancy and scalability, subsequently with a goal toward high availability—that is maintaining uptime on customer facing sites or services. It’s a common assumption that these same concepts apply when it comes to clustering on Adobe Experience Manager 6.x. Right? Not so fast. If you […]

As I woke up this morning and turned on the coffee maker, the buttons would not work. Trying the light switch, and the lights would not turn on. Sometime during the night my power went out. I realized this was the day to write about disaster recovery for Adobe Experience Manager, but in my case […]

  The Adobe Deploying and Maintaining AEM documents are an invaluable reference for the new or experienced systems administrator installing and configuring Adobe Experience Manager on premise. Despite the wealth of references, I all too often see installations that were not well thought through and result in maintenance headaches that would have been easy to […]

While listening to Brad Rencher speak at Adobe Summit 2016, something he said stuck with me. “Marketers are no longer in the business of selling products – we are selling experiences.” The proliferation of technology, such as smartphones and the Internet of Things, make it possible to engage with customers on a one-to-one basis. However, […]

With the coming release of AEM 6.2, Adobe has released a number of very interesting updates to AEM’s translation feature. These features improve the user experience for AEM’s Translation functionality, making it easier to translate and manage localized content. I recently attended a webinar on the new translation features coming as a part of the […]

Adobe Summit 2016 was an unforgettable experience. The leading industry event for marketing and business transformation attracted a record-breaking 10,000 attendees in Las Vegas. Our team was on the ground at Summit, learning about the latest innovations from Adobe and how marketers need to lead the transformation of creating an experience-led business. Michael Porter, managing […]

Make no mistake—this week’s announcement of an Adobe/Demandware partnership is a pretty big deal for online retailers. In the words of Demandware VP Tom Griffin: By integrating best-in-class rich content authoring and creation with best-in-class enterprise commerce, we can provide a single, unified solution for all consumer touchpoints. At the same time, retailers can optimize […]

Summit Sneaks is one of the most highly-anticipated sessions of the conference. Dan Klco, Senior Solutions Architect and our SME on the street in Vegas, picks the top three technologies featured and describes how they will improve the lives of consumers and marketers. Ad Wearout – prevent consumers from hitting “unsubscribe” X Attribution – track conversions […]

What do Mattel, Abby Wambach, Cirque Du Soleil, and George Clooney have in common? I’ll wait for you to Google it… Did you come up with the answer? According to John Mellor, Adobe’s VP of Strategy and Business Development, they all are boldly creative in a world driven by data. This is what’s required to make […]