The mobile TV platform seemed to have it all. Why did it lose everything? Last week mobile TV platform Quibi announced plans to shut down operations, just seven months after a promising debut. In its brief run, Quibi burned through $1.7 billion of investor goodwill, flubbed a turn on the Super Bowl ad stage and […]
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Exploring the Sling Feature Model: Part 3 – Custom Aggregates
In the first post of the Exploring the Sling Feature Model series, I discussed the process of converting the Sling CMS app from the Sling Provisioning Model to the Sling Feature Model. So how does this apply to your custom applications? To illustrate, let’s convert my personal site, danklco.com, which is currently managed via Sling […]
Survive and Thrive During the 2020 Holiday Shopping Season: 3 Digital Commerce Trends to Act On Now
It’s hard to believe that the 2020 holiday shopping season is almost upon us, and it’s likely to be unlike any other holiday season we’ve seen to date. It goes without saying that this year will be different in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, and you already know the impact the pandemic has had […]
Adding a Color Picker to the AEM Content Fragment Model Editor
Recently, one of our clients looked to add a custom field in the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Content Fragment Model Editor. If you’re wondering what AEM Content Fragments are, check out Dan Klco’s post, as he does a great job explaining. Content Fragment Models are built with elements from various out-of-the-box data types, including single-line […]
Successful Leadership Techniques for Nearshore Agile Teams
Throughout our experience with software development outsourcing, we’ve discovered that nearshore agile teams can perform incredibly well when dispersed, but with one major caveat: they need a competent leader who understands the challenges of managing a virtual workforce. Whether it’s handled in the office or remotely, nearshore agile software development depends on effective collaboration, communication, […]
5 Consumerism Tips for Healthcare
Consumerism has reached critical mass in healthcare. Consumers expect technology to work intuitively, regardless of its underlying complexity. And in healthcare – an industry that tends to segment consumers into patient or member experience silos – consumers increasingly expect a seamless, holistic, digital health journey. Today, entire industries such as healthcare, banking, insurance, and business-to-business […]
Make Your Adobe Managed Services Migration a Success
With companies looking to reduce costs and increase agility, many are looking to move their CMS to the cloud. Adobe offers two cloud solutions for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Adobe Managed Services (AMS) and AEM Cloud Service. For existing on-premises customers, AMS is a lighter lift as it is closer to on-premise architectures. Is AMS […]
Product Detail Pages Are Dead. Product Experience Pages Are Here to Stay.
It’s funny how changing one term in a phrase can make us think so differently about something. On a recent panel discussion with Digital Commerce 360, I spoke about this exact paradigm change as it relates to the world of commerce. Product detail pages (PDP) have long been something that we in the commerce space […]
Exploring the Sling Feature Model: Part 1
In my previous post about AEM as a Cloud Service, How AEM Scales, I discussed the new Sling Feature Model which is a key part of how Adobe scales their new AEM as a Cloud Service solution using Kubernetes. The goal of the Feature Model is to create a better way to provision Sling instances […]
Pulling Private Dependencies with Cloud Manager
For customer’s using Adobe Managed Services, Cloud Manager has become the de facto system for deploying code to their Adobe Experience Manager environments. Among Cloud Manager’s many deficiencies is the inability to fetch artifacts from private remote repositories. The good news is there’s a workaround for internet-facing artifact repositories. Unfortunately, non-internet facing artifact repositories are […]
Download / Watch the RepoInit Detroit Adobe Experience Meetup
Did you miss my webinar with the Detroit Adobe Experience Meetup on Sling RepoInit? Sling RepoInit is a newer technology which enables projects to set up permissions, configurations and content via OSGi configurations in a purpose-built grammar. Check out the presentation deck and recording to see how RepoInit could be useful on your project. Watch […]
Upcoming Webinar – Sling RepoInit
Curious about using Sling RepoInit? Want to learn more in depth about how Sling RepoInit can enable your AEM DevOps team to manage the initial repository state in code? I’ll be leading a virtual discussion on Sling RepoInit with the Detroit AEM Meetup on Thursday July 9th from 6:00 – 6:50 PM EST. This talk […]