IBM Digital Experience 2014: Opening Session with Doug Geiger

Doug Geiger is IBM’s VP for Development for Digital Experience.  He talks about the new features available in IBM Digital Experience 8.5:

• New Authoring toolbar to make content creation easier
• BrightCove integration to publish steaming video to the BrightCove distribution network
• Multi-channel delivery with IBM Worklight – everything is multi-channel out of the box
• Portlet development now is easier by allowing non-java developers to create rich portlets using:
  • Digital Data Connector – allowing data feeds to be displayed in HTML and  Javascript using Web Content Managemnet
  • Script Portlets are available through Web Content Management too
  • There is a Digital Experience Developer site for downloads, samples, etc at developer.ibm.com/digexp
• Flexible options for deployment on cloud – IBM PureApplication System is available for on premise clouds and IBM PureApplication Service is available on IBM Softlayer for public clouds. You can also move your application from Softlayer to on-premise or the other way around.

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Doug also talked about how IBM is moving to a continuous delivery model for Digital Experience.  They are planning to distribute updates and new features in individual components.  Doug said that v8.5 might be the last full upgrade you have to do.  I doubt that will be the case, but the idea drew applause from the attendees.

IBM is offering a Customer Upgrade Accelerator using a private cloud on Softlayer to help customers move to v8.5 as quickly as possible.