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Welcome to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers. This series is geared towards developers that are new to Sitecore, but have some experience with content management tools, .NET Programming (C# and .NET MVC), Visual Studio, and IIS. This series focuses on Sitecore MVC (which is not exactly the same as .NET MVC) and Sitecore version 8.X. Part […]

Like all of my peers here at Perficient, I have an MSDN Subscription that comes with a sweet monthly credit for a Microsoft Azure Subscription. By default, your Azure Subscription will have a spending cap, so that if you use up your credit you don’t have to spend any dough just because you forgot to […]

During Ignite 2017, several Microsoft representatives made comments that a features and capabilities roadmap for Microsoft Teams would be released in October. Holding true to this promise, Microsoft released the roadmap last week in this blog post in the Microsoft Tech Community. The roadmap lists what is available today and what is coming for three […]

A few weeks ago during Sitecore Symposium, our team had the opportunity to become certified on Sitecore 9, which had not yet been publicly released. This meant that by the time of the announcement, over 180 certified professionals (including six from Perficient) were ready to help. This is one of those releases that pushes Sitecore […]

Sitecore Symposium 2017 has come and gone. I’ve been able to get caught up on work and review my notes. So it’s time to share. First of all, I want to thank and commend the Mirage for being such a great host. The staff was all very friendly and helpful. The conference area is spacious […]

Sitecore 9 introduces a relatively fundamental change in the core platform that will affect a lot of installations across the developer world: Lucene is (almost) out of the picture. Sitecore has always supported multiple search indexing providers, namely Lucene and Solr (shoutout to Coveo for all they do as well). Lucene has always been the […]

Is your customer service technology finding new ways to delight or annoy your customers? Obviously you implement new technologies to engage and better serve your customers so that they remain loyal to you. However, the disintegrated nature by which many enterprises implement new digital touchpoints tends to irritate their customers more often than not. Inevitably, […]

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Sitecore 9 is out we are all excited to jump in and start using the latest and greatest. So let’s jump in and setup for an XP0 Sitecore installation on our local development machine! George Chang, another Perficient Sitecore MVP, put out a great blog post on How to install Sitecore 9 with the Sitecore Install Framework […]

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The big news coming out of Sitecore Symposium last week is the release of Sitecore Experience Cloud 9.0. With the release of version 9, Sitecore has brought more and more pieces of its platform into an inevitably microservices-oriented future. The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s no .exe installer anymore – this has regularly […]

The video below highlights the resulting experience from using the Sitecore Experience Cloud rather than all the features, but it’s a good way to think about it. For all you geeks in the crowd, pay attention to the link URL and look at the SC_camp id. Sitecore is following their own best practices on this […]