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Innovation + Product Development

Complementing SAP with True Order Management Capabilities

Seamless order to fulfillment is the crux of any good experience. A brand’s reputation and longevity, as well customer loyalty and adoption, often hinges on the success of how order management (OM) is rooted in an organization. The interaction with users at their point of need is the tipping point and often dictates success or […]

Kafka Consumer Error Handling, Retry, and Recovery

This blog post is about Kafka’s consumer resiliency when we are working with apache Kafka and spring boot. As a scenario, let’s assume a Kafka consumer, polling the events from a PackageEvents topic. service class (Package service) is responsible for storing the consumed events into a database. Note: Here in the place of the database, […]

Signs a Managed Service Provider Could Be the Right Fit For You

You have been thinking about moving to the cloud. You might have a workload or application that would be better hosted there, or you might have a new solution you’re looking at that is cloud based. You’re not sure if you want to manage your cloud environment in house, or outsource it to a managed […]

Design for customer needs

What Did You Expect? Delivering Experiences that Meet Customer Expectations (Part 2 of 3)

Part 2: Keeping Up with Changing Customer Needs Are you ever unsure of what your customers want? Would knowing what they expect help you drive business outcomes? If this sounds like you, read on as we explore the art and science of expectations in the second installment of this three-part series. In Part 1 I […]

A Process Integration Timeline of Accessibility Testing

All too often, accessibility does not cross the mind of designers or developers until it is too late in the process. Approaching accessibility as a final checkbox in the entire process of a webpage and website development will result in exurbanite defects and adversely affect the final product. Developers and designers must take on the […]

How Power Platform Enables Makers

The following is the second in a series of blogs about how a center of excellence can help you unlock the potential of your people and Power Platform. In our last blog, we examined what Power Platform is and a little bit about the history of the maker movement. In this blog, we will examine […]

AI is Powering its Way to PIM

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the industry’s biggest buzzwords, and many businesses are looking to utilize this technology to provide enhanced digital experiences. AI is programmed intelligent software or hardware that can learn and solve problems and has forecasted growth of 54% this year in the software market worldwide. It continues to […]

Team Joining Concept

Harness the Power of Connecting Marketo Engage and Magento Commerce

Often, customers may come to your site, browse around, and add items to their cart. Rather than purchasing, they may leave the site before completing their purchase. How do you connect back with those prospective customers to bring them through their buying journey to purchase? You need a sophisticated system that can take that buyer’s […]

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To SQL or to NoSQL? That is the question.

There is a lot of confusion and hype out there regarding persistence technologies. It can be difficult to choose the right one. There are many considerations, and each situation requires thoughtful investigation. In this post, we’ll take a 10,000-foot view to help orient you in this landscape. To get the most out of this discussion, […]

NGINX Proxy for CORS

In my latest AEM project, I had a particular challenge with some front-end code, an AJAX call, and CORS.   While running the site on localhost, the search code attempted to make an AJAX call to a search API. The API would not allow my localhost site. This meant that front-end developers had a hard […]

Gears of business

How to Create a Custom Dropdown Field in Sitecore

Sometimes the out of the box dropdown field types in Sitecore do not provide the functionality you need. Maybe you want to pull options from an external data source. Perhaps you want to alter how options appear to the Content Author but store a different value as the raw value. You may even want to […]

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How the Maker Movement Can Benefit Your Business With Power Platform

The following is the first in a series of blogs about how a center of excellence can help you unlock the potential of your people and Power Platform. How Power Platform Can Change How Your Business Operates When businesses think of innovation, they often think of a new product that can generate new business or […]

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