Customer Experience + Design

Recently, we were investigating a CPU performance spike issue with an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) publish server. After some research, we came across logs that indicated indexing had caused the CPU spike. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a content management system or an application to serve content to the user’s request. AEM includes more powerful functionality, […]

What happened? One of the best assists for a CMS is now unavailable for Umbraco, and just before we got the GridEditor, so now everything is more complicated! There is an answer, pick up all those dreams of pretty grids and components and take a look at factories. Factories take the place of GlassMapper and […]

Financial services organizations such as banks, insurance organizations, and credit card issuers, are creating mobile applications that are not just focused on the products or services they’re selling. Instead, they’re using mobile as a way to get in front of customers and non-customers alike. At the end of the day, their belief, and rightly so, is that […]

The season of spring symbolizes renewal through spirit and business. In between cleaning out their homes and enjoying the fresh air, many are also reflecting upon how their goals are doing through the first quarter of the year. One area business leaders are looking at this year is how to improve their customer experiences. With […]

Perficient Digital recently won two Best of Industry awards at the Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) for our innovative digital experiences on behalf of Carhartt and The Henry Ford history museum. We were honored in the Best Fashion or Beauty Website category for designing and developing the Carhartt Fall 2016 Lookbook microsite. We developed the microsite for reporters, to make […]

A report published by Ipsos MORI, a market research company, and VocaLink, a global payments partner to financial institutions and governments, indicates that European millennials are struggling to adopt mobile payment technology. While more than half of the approximately 4,000 millennials from Germany, Italy, the U.K., and the Netherlands who took part in the study […]

On a recent project, we had some issues around go-live where production content was being overwritten, deleted or changed. We needed to figure out what was causing these issues quickly, as this was affecting author productivity and could potentially cause content issues if the wrong content went live. At the time, we used queries in […]

Looking to rebuild indexes in Adobe Experience Manager? Need to boost query performance? Apart from optimized code, indexing plays a very important role in an application running smoothly. If you have more queries, you need to index your nodes in order to quickly get a response. In a recent project, I found a problem related […]

Why the Guide? The Adobe documentation is a great reference for SAML2 setup. However, it lacks background information and certain implementation details and tips that can be critical to implementing SAML2 on AEM 6.x. Hopefully this guide will help! https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/administer/security/saml-2-0-authenticationhandler.html What is SAML2? Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) is a version of the […]

The way you reach out to your consumers has changed considerably over the past few years to include online channels like social media, email lists, and customer portals. How you have told your brand story over these channels is indicative of your brand’s success as well. According to Gallup, two out of every three purchasing […]

At last month’s Adobe Summit, Adobe officially unveiled and introduced the next generation of Adobe Experience Manager, AEM 6.3. There are a lot new and exciting things that the community is looking forward to in this new version. And this year, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to join the Adobe AEM Beta Program […]

When a workflow executes in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), it stores workflow runtime information in the JCR repository under the instance node. This feature is useful when auditing is required on each step of the workflow status. The downside of this feature is the growth of the repository size, as a large repository can eventually inhibit performance and cause disk […]