Sitecore

Are you a Sitecore developer in the metro Denver area? If so, we have a special event just for you! The Rocky Mountain Sitecore User Group (RMSUG) is returning on April 18th, headed by two of Perficient’s very own Sitecore MVPs. Our Hosts Toby Gutierrez (2015-2018 Sitecore MVP) will be diving into the details and inner […]

While probably due in part to the 20 oz. iced coffee I just consumed, I am digging into the memory banks to form an analogy…  A circa-1995 Hanna-Barbara animated superhero series type of analogy. In this case, we will compare Wonder Twin, Zan, who can transform into any form of water, to the IT department; and we […]

Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) is such a great tool that I now consider it a fundamental part of any Sitecore solution. Among other uses, it excels at reporting and task automation. For example, when a Sitecore content tree balloons to 100,000+ items, writing efficient reports and automating tasks become critical to managing the madness. With that […]

Going above and beyond is mandatory to being an industry leader in end-to-end digital solutions. But sometimes we just can’t resist bragging about our incredible colleagues. After all, they are extraordinarily talented individuals, dedicated to helping our customers and partners. Today we are excited to share that ten of our Sitecore experts have been named Sitecore […]

If you have a Sitecore component that picks up and renders its child items, such as a Hero Slider or a Navigation component, you can enable Inserting, Deleting and Sorting child items in the Experience Editor simply by adding some Experience Editor Buttons on the rendering: Here is how it looks to insert or sort […]

Let’s take a look at the configuration for federated authentication in Sitecore 9. By the way, this is Part 2 of a 3 part series examining the new federated authentication capabilities of Sitecore 9. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here: Part 1: Overview Enabling Federated Authentication Before we can begin implementation, […]

You may be aware that Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 was announced at the NRF 2018: Retail’s Big Show  with much excitement.  This year everyone will be talking about it. A lot has changed from Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 that will make things easier and faster.  If you are upgrading from an older version there are a […]

Sitecore 9.0 introduced a new and very useful feature to easily add federated authentication to the platform. Authentication has been and still is being performed using the ASP.NET Membership functionality for standard Sitecore users, however, Sitecore has implemented the ability to use the new ASP.NET Identity functionality that is based OWIN-middleware. Here’s a stripped-down look […]

This is the key training element in a multi-part series to get you to that golden summit of behavior-based personalization in Sitecore 8.x and 9.0. With this training you should ultimately see a conservative increase of conversions around +19%. While this topic is the “shiny nickel” of the series, please make sure you have followed […]

This session was lead by Simon Jones, Glen McInnis, Bart Plasmeijer, and Jaspar van den Bosch from Valtech. They talked about how they manage 1,000 websites in 100 countries and 50 languages across 15 brands for a popular makeup brand. Here are my notes from the session: Principals for success Reuse, reuse, reuse Build for […]

This session was lead by Brain Beckham and Viktoria Shostak from Brain Jocks. They talked about the typical way code moves from developer to integration to QA testing. They demonstrated how it is possible to end-up with an unstable release branch and proposed an alternative. Here are my notes from the session: What is Functional […]

Authoring content in Sitecore can run the gauntlet from frustrating to fantastic. I previously looked at why you should care about a quality content authoring experience and provided a few tips for how to do that in Sitecore. While a good authoring experience in Sitecore generally involves smart use of the Experience Editor, it is […]