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We are ecstatic to announce that two Perficient colleagues have been honored as Optimizely Most Valuable Professionals (OMVP). Huge congratulations to David Lewis and John Dymond! David and John are two of only eight total individuals selected as OMVPs in 2023. Perficient now boasts six of the 89 total OMVPs worldwide! Optimizely MVP Program In […]

In today’s saturated world of marketing data, the customer remains at the centre of what marketers do. Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) often face higher expectations from their management and customers regarding personalizing marketing data for optimizing the marketing dollar. Fact Check! According to a Forbes Insights and Epsilon survey, 81% of marketers said they face […]

By now, a lot of us have already participated in one or more Optimizely CMS 12 upgrade projects. The others are still evaluating whether they should do it now or wait some more. Regardless of when you do it, there will definitely be some unique upgrade challenges you will come across, as I and many […]

If you are a Google Optimize customer, then September 30th is an important date for your organization. Google  Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after this date. Businesses that rely on Google Optimize will have to find a new solution and should start researching alternatives. Optimizely, the leader in experimentation, is the […]

If you’re reading this, you’ve come across a need that nearly all Opti developers encounter in their careers; You need to correctly display a vector image format (SVGs and the like). The <IMG> tag just isn’t going to cut it anymore. Posts like this are a right-of-passage for Opti bloggers. “So,” you think, “if there […]

In part 1 of this series, we examined some considerations when looking to upgrade your Content Cloud instance to V12.  If you are reading this post, you have likely made up your mind it is something you want to do.  The #1 difficulty you will encounter in discussing with your stakeholders is cost.  Whether this […]

A new year means new projects and marketing strategies, but how do you want to improve your key systems in 2023? We’ve put together this overview to help every Optimizely CMS/DXP user think about the precious aspects.   Released in November 2021, .NET 6 marks the latest update in the .NET Core product line. .NET 5 […]

Moving to version 12 is for most developers, architects, and key decision makers the largest upgrade undertaking you have had to take in your time on the platform.  Optimizely prides itself on continuous releases & the ability to upgrade a solution in an affordable and timely fashion.  In this 2-part series we will present the […]

Recently, I was given a task at work where we needed a multisite configuration. We all know that multi-environment is as easy as appsettings.<environment_name>.config. What about in multi-tenant environments? You can’t have appsettings.site1.config and appsettings.site2.config on your site! Well, not without a little extra work… Let me introduce AddKeyPerFile; this handy little function you set […]

What is Spire? Spire is a brand-new CMS as well as an entirely new reference site. The basic concepts remain the same pages are built using CMS widgets, widgets are shown on the pages, and the CMS/JavaScript Framework uses APIs to obtain data but the technology is different from our preferred classic CMS. The primary […]

Have you ever found yourself in the following situations: When you pushed your Extension changes in the Sandbox branch and wondering whether your build was deployed on Sandbox, Whether TeamCity picked up the right change-sets from the last build you pushed on the Sandbox branch, What happens when multiple team members pushed extension DLLs in […]

We had a project come in for a new Optimizely CMS 12 site, which required SSO integration with Okta. I didn’t have experience setting up SSO with CMS 12, so I started reading documentation, blogs, and forum posts. Most of what I found was for earlier versions of the CMS and not directly applicable anymore. […]