Technical

Event driven architecture is creating lot of buzz in the market for all obvious good reasons. If you are building complex business processing applications where the process flows triggers based on an event performed by an action – Event driven style would be a fit. Elasticity , Scalability , Evolutionary and fault tolerance characteristics would […]

Need some C# help inside your SXA rendering variant? You’ve come to the right place. This blog post will explain how you can employ the use of a C# helper class in your rendering variant. You should only use this sparingly. If you find yourself overusing C# here, you should consider implementing your component as […]

As this year winds down to its conclusion, we start to look ahead. We are compelled to perform retrospectives and see how they measure up to our keys to success. Thinking of this, I am reminded of a keynote speech that I had heard when I was being recognized for achieving the rank of Eagle […]

Here is your data & analytics blueprint Clear vision and measurable outcome Establish Sponsor buy in and level set expectations Crisp delivery based on agile with timely deliverables called out Open communication and cadence Establish a RACI! Now comes the actual delivery and build Data be the center and focus of everything (anyone else tells […]

Starting a new language version in Sitecore doesn’t have to be painful. Sitecore Powershell Extensions can enable your team to copy and manipulate languages in bulk with ease. It’s a favorite of every content team I’ve had.

Every organization manages data internally that provides support in running the operations and provides enriched content to an external audience such as buyers or distributors. To manage the organizational data effectively, it is recommended to conduct data analysis to assess the current state, make informed decisions to streamline that data and help its growth. Data […]

Welcome to my Mini-Series! In my Mini-Series, I take you from beginning to end in creating a simple workflow from scratch. Use this Mini-Series to help empower your business with workflow! Implementing Workflow in Sitecore: A Mini-Series Part 1 – Overview Implementing Workflow in Sitecore: A Mini-Series Part 2 – Workflow States Implementing Workflow in […]

The benefits of implementing workflow in Sitecore does not come without its cons. As with any business process, the more stop gates you add to getting your content live makes the work more cumbersome. In our Simple Workflow, you have to lock and edit to create a “Draft” item. After saving your changes, you then […]

Health checks are an important part of containerized application deployments in Red Hat OpenShift. In OpenShift 4.5, Red Hat added startup probes as a third option besides readiness and liveness probes. Also, it brought the configuration of these checks back to the web interface, making it easier for developers. In this article, I’ll describe the […]

To prevent performance issues for content authors in the Content Editor, Sitecore recommends keeping no more than 10 versions of items. In this blog post of my mini-series, I will go over how to perform an automated cleanup of old, outdated item versions while retaining them in the Archive for historical record. Old versions found […]

A great benefit of implementing workflow in Sitecore is the ability to have multiple versions of your content automatically. Content authors will not have to manually configure new versions on their own. Workflow will do this for us behind the scenes. With versioning enabled, we will be able to… Revert a page and its content […]

Earlier this year, Perficient became a Google Cloud Premier Partner and was named a Google Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences Expertise Partner in recognition of our demonstrated technical proficiency, expertise, and customer impact with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We have expanded upon our success with GCP in the healthcare and life sciences markets, and are […]