Sitecore

When Sitecore announced their Cloud Offerings at Sitecore Symposium in October 2022, It crystalized their composable strategy in providing separate product offerings that were each best of breed but could be better together. When you look at Engagement Cloud and Commerce Cloud, with products that have clear capabilities with little cross over, that strategy is […]

Sitecore recently updated their docker images to use ltsc2022. Martin Miles showed us what that means for developers and how to update your container environment to run Sitecore in process isolation mode. In short, process isolation is again a viable option to improve performance of running containers locally. I was hopeful the ltsc2022 images were […]

Amazing how these two play so well together! XM Cloud Components app brings a new revolutionary approach to building your pixel-perfect UI, with a rich toolset that covers almost any needs. With a Datasource feature, it can consume data structures of any complexity and so easily map fields from it to your bespoke front end. […]

Welcome back to this case study on doing a lift and shift from Drupal to Sitecore 10.2 and SXA. In the previous article we setup a theme, a custom grid and a base component. This removed all the extra divs and containers normally injected by SXA. In this article, we’ll use the html from drupal […]

Search is something many feel should work coming out of the box, and it does. But to what extent? In most cases, business users want to extend their search platform to perform more complex tasks such as ranking, type ahead, and tagging. Sitecore leverages Solr out of the box with a base installation for search […]

  This past week was one to celebrate for the Perficient DXP team, as Sitecore awarded us their CDP & Personalize Specialization. Sitecore takes certification seriously and only recognizes partners with a Specialization if they have proven a deep understanding of the products and a track record of success on relevant projects. The CDP & […]

Welcome back to this case study on doing a lift and shift from Drupal to Sitecore 10.2 and SXA. In this article, we’ll show the theme setup, the grid setup and the base sxa component. Theme Since we are using SXA, we used the sxa cli to create our theme and upload into Sitecore. I […]

Drupal to Sitecore SXA One of my recent projects was a full site lift and shift from Drupal to Sitecore 10.2 and SXA. The goal was to make the new frontend Sitecore site look exactly like the old Drupal site. We did fix a few accessibility issues on the existing site as we went, but […]

When Sitecore announced their Cloud Offerings at Sitecore Symposium in October 2022, It crystalized their composable strategy in providing separate product offerings that were each best of breed but could be better together. When you look at Engagement Cloud and Commerce Cloud, with products that have clear capabilities with little cross over, that strategy is […]

For the scenario of independent deployment of your NextJs static site, say in an automated deployment, one missing piece is a way to push the SSG site into Vercel. Here I provided a simple deployment script using the Vercel CLI of the static site in the XM Cloud project. Code: # Set up variables with […]

When it comes to content management, how would you deal with automating it? You’ve probably thought of Data Exchange Framework for setting up content import from external sources on a regular basis, or Sitecore PowerShell Extensions as the universal Swiss Army knife that allows doing everything. Sitecore XM Cloud is a modern SaaS solution and […]

Introduction In the ever-evolving world of technology, it’s essential to continually challenge ourselves and embrace new opportunities. The 2023 Sitecore Hackathon provided the perfect opportunity for our team at Perficient to do just that. Comprised of three members from the United States, Canada, and Serbia, we embarked on a 24-hour journey to create something innovative. […]