Digital Experience

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 […]

Original post: October 09, 2017 On Jan. 30, iconic leaders of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan announced that they intend to create an independent health care system for their American employees. The announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon have given authority and credence to the concept of revolutionizing healthcare set off a […]

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, […]

In today’s world, it seems almost unimaginable to unplug from technology. Most of us rely on our phones and devices to wake us up, provide news updates, communicate with friends or colleges, binge watch the most recent season of our favorite show, and even shop for groceries. During last week’s #AdobeChat, we discussed customer experience […]

Last week a new version of ACS AEM Commons, 3.14.0 dropped. This latest release included a new feature for creating configurable reports. These reports allow semi-technical users and administrators to create and execute custom reports and export the results as a Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file.   Why do you need Content Reports?   Content reports allow […]

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 […]

The Sling Content Loader allows for creating OSGi bundles which contain content loaded into the Sling Repository. This works well for static content but doesn’t work so well for dynamic content. This includes when using modern Front End development tools to compile and minify Sass / JS, especially when integrating with the Maven build process. Among the challenges are:   Invoking the […]

Microsoft and Adobe announced their partnership last fall, and as a leading partner to both, we’ve been hard at work understanding how this alliance will benefit our customers. Rolling out key platform combinations in phases, Adobe and Microsoft are calling their alignment “the perfect partnership for even better experiences,” noting that Adobe Experience Manager running […]

  Implementing Experience Management solutions for global organizations involves particular challenges. The complexity of maintenance and cost of translating a large content repository increases several-fold when it must be reproduced across multiple regions and languages.   Most organizations take one of two approaches to supporting multi-lingual content.   Translate Everything Decentralized Translations   To understand what’s […]

  When you think of Einstein, what comes to mind? Perhaps the German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity or possibly a chain retailer of moderately priced coffee and bagels? If you use Salesforce, the term “Einstein” means a totally different thing: artificial intelligence (AI) for CRM. Einstein has made AI a reality […]

IBM Watson Content Hub (WCH) is a cloud-based content management system (CMS) which allows you to manage and publish full website experiences or deliver headless content to your web and mobile experiences. In November, I published 5 reasons you should use Watson Content Hub.  As promised, here are 5 more reasons you should use Watson […]