Imagine if retailers want to create tailored content — with images, summaries, descriptions, sizes, pricing, and technical specifications. Creating such content takes time, and further breaking it into segments for any device may require more manual processes for each channel. With fluid experiences, it will be much easier to create this kind of customized content […]
Posts Tagged ‘AEM’
Good Change Management is Key for New AEM Content Authors
For people who write, edit, update or otherwise create and maintain web content, moving to a new enterprise CMS can be a pretty exciting process. I’ve never met a content author or publisher who didn’t want at least a little something more from their authoring interface. Typical questions and comments include: “Can we make it […]
Proving Adobe Marketing Cloud on Microsoft Azure
At Perficient, we have extremely solid partnerships with both Microsoft and Adobe so– as previously noted in this space— we were keenly interested when this partnership was announced at Microsoft Ignite last fall. Of course, simply sitting on the sidelines and observing something like this was not in our DNA. We’re a team of doers. […]
Year in Review: Your Favorite Adobe Blog Posts of 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on all the insights shared on the new Adobe partner blog. Let’s recap the most-read posts for the year: 10 | Protecting Your Adobe Analytics Implementation from Start to End Review the list of tools that can make your life easier when auditing your Adobe […]
What’s Next for Adobe and Microsoft?
The dust seems to have settled on this fall’s announcement of Adobe and Microsoft’s new partnership, and conventional wisdom says a lot of work remains to be done for these software titans to realize the promise of their new relationship. That means I’ve witnessed a number of experienced observers of either company yawning, taking a […]
Updating Page Titles with AEM LiveCopy
In my previous post about AEM LiveCopy, I showed how this powerful tool could be used to manage multiple variant-based sites such as dealer or branch sites. Recently, I found another trick which can help make LiveCopy even more powerful and easy to use. Why Isn’t My Title Updating?? By default, AEM excludes certain properties from […]
Cardinal Health Receives Marketing IMPACT Award for New Website
Through its Healthcare Marketing IMPACT awards, Modern Healthcare and its sister publication Advertising Age have been celebrating the healthcare industry’s best advertising, marketing, promotional and communications campaigns across all media platforms. Perficient client Cardinal Health was recently awarded the Silver Award for Website Campaign of the Year for Supplier/Vendor/Pharma. Optimizing the Online Experience Cardinal Health […]
Node, Grunt and Sass…A Plugin Primer
Recently, my colleague Shannon Sumner, a senior technical consultant with our Adobe practice, wrote a quick tutorial on how to use Grunt and Grunt plugins to compile Sass into CSS, minify the CSS, add CSS source maps, merge JavaScript files, minify the JS, and add JavaScript source maps. These terms can send any marketer over […]
Using Front-end Technologies like Node, Grunt, and Sass with AEM
In this article, I am going to show you how to use Grunt and Grunt plugins to compile Sass into CSS, minify CSS, add CSS source maps, merge JavaScript files, minify the JS, and add JavaScript source maps. We will be using Bower to add vendor JavaScript libraries to our project. Before I show you […]
Start AEM Automatically Using SystemD
With the release of RedHat and CentOS 7.x, the previously used method, init.d, for starting AEM as a service will no longer function. Out with the old SysV, in with system.d! This has a long history that I won’t get into here, but for your reference here is a great article which articulates why the previous […]
My Initial Impressions of Google’s Cloud Vision API
When Google released the Cloud Vision API last month I started to think of the interesting ways that artificially intelligent image recognition could be used. One idea that jumped to mind was enhancing the ability to search for marketing images and stock photography in a digital asset management system. As much as companies encourage individuals to tag and annotate […]
Managing Multiple AEM Instances
One of the challenges I’ve had over the last few years is how to easily manage multiple AEM instances concurrently. Over the last few years, I’ve often had to have several different AEM instances running during the course of the day, whether it be different versions, client codebases or for just for standing up a […]