Innovation + Product Development

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named the most developer-friendly platform. — Accenture, 2018 The newest report from Accenture, which surveyed over 750 US-based developers to determine which platforms are best serving their needs, named Amazon Web Services the most developer-friendly platform. The full report, outlines the challenges and benefits developers face with 15 different platforms, including […]

When working on a software development project with limited resources, there is always the constant pull to meet a schedule and ship features. Since no developer is perfect, that also means bugs may slip into the code from time to time. If the schedule is crunched or unrealistic, the likelihood of consumer-facing bugs increases dramatically. […]

We recently built a website that meets the minimum viable product for a customer in under 24 working hours. An Enterprise Accelerator is the key, the secret sauce.  This particular accelerator is built upon SCORE, but these principles can be applied to any CMS accelerator platform.

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 […]

New year, new resolution. This should apply to both person and business. 2017 was disruptive yet progressive for tech and digital marketing in many ways. We witnessed surge of AI and machine learning, emerging technologies like voice, facial recognition, virtual reality, augmented reality were built into many hit products/applications, holiday season had record breaking online […]

Using stories to drive decision making, growth, and impact from data “Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” -Jean Luc Godard The same is true of data; the complexity of data demands interpretation in an anecdotal form in order for the insights to hold meaning. According to Gartner, the objective of data storytelling […]

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 […]

Is it possible to predict the year ahead for DevOps? Predicting the future – especially trends in the technology market – is a tough thing to do right, even for the most experienced of analysts. For every guess or prediction that turns out accurate, there are likely one or two comparable guesses that fall short […]

1. Goals for testing upgrades As SharePoint gets stronger and stronger, SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016 have more new features and abilities. Enterprise can provide more functionality to business users with less customization and at a lower cost. According to the upgrading solutions, QA strategy needs to ensure that sites are upgraded seamlessly at first, […]

MySQL has been a very popular DBMS and was chosen for many application systems since it is open source and easy to use. In NoSQL, MongoDB is becoming popular and is being applied in application development and the big data analytics field. In one of my colleague’s blog posts, he discusses that we built an […]

Custom Launchpad buttons and Experience Editor Ribbon Buttons save time for content authors and improve their experience especially when editing long and complex pages. Launchpad buttons allow them to focus only on those page types they are allowed to create or edit. Ribbon buttons and dialogues give them options to edit fields without going back to launchpad.

One of the most highly anticipated sessions at Adobe Summit 2018 is AEM Rockstar. In 2017, the inaugural contest and session drew a packed ballroom, with each of the five finalists presenting their favorite Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) tip or trick. The best part? The “Shark Tank” element, as the winner is chosen right then and […]