Sitecore

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Monday saw the kickoff of Sitecore Symposium with the new CEO of Sitecore, Mark Frost. He articulated three goals he had for the company: Innovation: Integrating data, machine learning, commerce, all delivered in the cloud. Quality: Improved processes, but also improved usability and more community input, as well as an acknowledgement that defects need to […]

The first full day of Sitecore Symposium 2017 has wrapped. A whirlwind of a day with the opening keynotes, sessions, booth time, social hours and this is just getting going. My feet hurt, but whatever, this is fun and there has been a lot to talk about. Here’s my… Top 5 #SitecoreSYM Video Log – […]

It’s here! Sitecore Symposium 2017 week in Las Vegas. As a long-time content author/editor-turned Sitecore Digital Strategist MVP, this is a big event of for me each year. This year, not only am I here for the pre-conference, and multi-day conference, but also for the post-conference MVP summit. This amounts to 8 days (including travel […]

Slack is quiet.  “The calm before the Sym” says Mike Reynolds.  I board my flight on Sunday and I am in packing mode.  Cab ordered already.  Safe flight in to everyone. I will be logging my journey to Symposium here. I have been to many Symposiums and Dreamcores over the year but this will be […]

According to the internet: actor, author, painter, musician, comedian, Steve Martin once said, “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” With that insight, I want to share a quick tip that, for you, may live in the same space of obviousness as Mr. Martin’s statement. In Sitecore, for regular users in the Content […]

Marketing to users based on location is not a new concept, but new technologies – especially the rise of the ubiquitous smartphone in the past decade – create potential for hyper-accurate campaigns and personalization. Sitecore embraces personalization, and thanks to a few core technologies, personalizing based on end-user location is easier than ever in Sitecore. […]