I’ve been working with Next.Js for a quite a while and have been watching its development with interest all this time. Last week I was happy attended Next.js Conf in San Francisco. Perficient was proud to sponsor the event, allowing us to showcase our Sitecore Practice alongside my colleague David Lewis from the Optimizely Practice. […]
Sitecore Symposium 2024: Day One Recap
Welcome to my recap of day one at Sitecore Symposium 2024! There was no shortage of inspiring sessions, key takeaways, and exciting announcements from day one. Opening Keynote The opening keynote by Sitecore executives was an excellent kickoff to Symposium, reinforcing their commitment to being a trusted partner. They emphasized their focus on core strengths […]
Kicking Off Sitecore Symposium 2024 as an MVP
Sitecore Symposium 2024 is Underway! A conference like Sitecore Symposium is a great way to make a mini vacation out of your work travels. I arrived on Sunday and explored the city of Nashville. Did you know that Nashville is home to a full-scale replica of the Parthenon? It was built in 1897 as part […]
Three Tips for Adding a Headless Site in XM Cloud
Intro 📖 In this post, I’ll cover three tips developers should consider when deploying a new headless site to XM Cloud. Having recently added a new headless site to an existing solution, I ran into a few issues. I hope to save others from similar headaches in the future (mostly myself 😉). If you’ve added […]
Perficient Wins 2024 Sitecore Practice Excellence Award
Perficient is proud to announce that we have been recognized as Sitecore’s 2024 Practice Excellence Award Global Winner. This award recognizes Perficient for being a solution partner who is successful in building a business around their Sitecore practice, highlighting our power to adapt and grow. “We are honored to receive the Sitecore Practice Excellence Award, […]
XM Cloud content migration: connecting external database
Historically when performing content migration with Sitecore we used to deal with database backups. In a modern SaaS world, we do not have the luxury of neither managing cloud database backups, nor the corresponding UI for doing this. Therefore, we must find an alternative approach. Technical Challenge Let’s assume we have a legacy Sitecore website, […]
Maximize Your Sitecore Symposium Experience With Perficient
Nashville here we come! Sitecore Symposium is just around the corner and it promises to be one of the most impactful events of the year. Whether you’re a Symposium pro or a first-timer, this conference offers unparalleled opportunities to learn, connect, and grow. Here’s everything you need to know about Sitecore Symposium 2024 and what […]
Content Hub: Data Model Simplified
Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other. […]
.NET Core Renderings for XM Cloud finally gets some love
That is not a secret – Sitecore always used to prioritize Next.Js framework as the first-class citizen for XM Cloud. All the best and finest features tend to find their way to a given framework in the first place. However, recently, there has been much activity around the .NET Core Rendering Framework which makes a […]
Sitecore CDP: Understanding Identity Resolution
Sitecore CDP tracks user behavior by linking browsing session, events, and orders to a guest profile. By default, guests are marked as “visitors” meaning we do not know who they are. A guest can become a “customer” meaning we know who they are. In order to identify a guest, we must send an “IDENTITY” event. […]
Sitecore Personalize: Close Event Logic
Sitecore Personalize has several out of the box components that notify the user such as popup takeover, corner popup, sidebar, and alert bar. These components all feature a close icon that will hide the component from the screen. But there is no logic out of the box to prevent them from being displayed again. Imagine […]
Sitecore Personalize: Initialization Error
I started a new Sitecore Personalize project. The client nonprod and prod environments were freshly spun up. All fresh and clean. No offer templates, no experiences, no decision models. I created the first experience and proceeded to click the preview button to test my experience. To my surprise the experience did not render, and the […]