CRN’s annual Women of the Channel program honors some of the most influential women leaders within the channel. We’re proud to have five Perficient colleagues recognized in the 2022 CRN Women of the Channel list, and we’re highlighting their individual accomplishments in a special blog series. We previously celebrated Liza Sisler, Liz Stuart, and Lynn […]
Optimizely Page Publish Options – Do’s and Dont’s
Page Publish is the most basic feature of a CMS. This is what makes our content visible to the world. Episerver CMS (now known as Optimizely Content Cloud) too has the feature and some more flexibility built around it to aid our content authors. There’s the usual page publish, where you hit a button and […]
Optimizely Search : How to search for all expired assets
First of all, I want to mention that EPiServer Find (now known as Optimizely Search and Navigation) is a great tool to search for content on an Optimizely site, whether its CMS or Commerce. It comes with a range of options to customize and with filtering and boosting ability to get the best results. Often […]
Driving Success with Optimizely DXP and Perficient
Discover the New Optimizely and What it Means for Your Business In the past few years, we have seen many mergers and acquisitions in the marketing technology space. With the advance in content management systems (CMS), e-commerce software, and marketing optimization tools, we’ve seen many tools come together under one brand. This is seen across […]
Putting Innovation to Work: How Experimentation Can Test Your Design Performance
Like homes and offices, websites and mobile apps need a fresh coat of paint to keep up with industry trends. Full website and mobile app redesigns are risky. Optimization is always a better approach than a complete rip and replace. That is why experimentation is so important. It allows you to try and learn what […]
Perficient’s Alex Harris Honored as Optimizely MVP
Perficient is thrilled to announce our very own Alex Harris, Conversion Optimization Director, as the newest Optimizely MVP. In 2022, Harris is one of 13 individuals worldwide selected as an OMVP, and one of only seven awarded as a Strategy OMVP. Each year, Optimizely awards a select group of individuals the honor of being an […]
How to Set Up Optimizely Spire on a Developer Environment
Optimizely B2B Commerce has recently introduced Spire CMS to achieve user experience (UX) and performance benefit for its content management system (CMS). Spire makes use of React/Redux technologies, which results in a faster page load time than the Classic CMS. The existing CMS, which is based on an older version of AngularJS, will now be […]
How to Monitor Performance Using Application Insights
Monitoring your website performance is a key factor to ensure your application performs as expected. There are a lot of application performance monitoring (APM) tools available in the market that can be used to monitor the performance of the application, such as NewRelic, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics, and others. In this post, I’ll talk more about […]
Optimizely: Spire Style Guide Changes with setPreStyleGuideTheme and setPostStyleGuideTheme Methods
In Spire, we have two main methods for changing the style of global elements. We refer to this as the Style Guide, which covers the style of HTML elements such as headings, paragraphs, input tags and so on. For front-end components, we use the Mobius library, which is a configurable and extendable React Styles component. […]
AMN Healthcare and Perficient Win 2021 Optimizer Award
The ever-changing nature of the pandemic reinforces the importance of digital experiences across every industry. According to a recent article from McKinsey & Company regarding Covid-19’s effect on consumer thinking about healthcare, “consumers increasingly prefer digital channels across all healthcare-related activities.” This created a unique opportunity for healthcare companies to enhance and broaden their platform. AMN […]
ContentReference Rendering in Optimizely With TemplateTags
I recently wrote an article about Rendering ContentReference Properties in Optimizely. That article explored a basic approach to rendering a ContentReference based on the type of the referenced ContentData. One drawback to that approach is the need for a new DisplayTemplate for each type used for a ContentReference. Thankfully, there is another approach that works […]
Optimizely DXP Deployment API – Updates for .NET 5.0 and EpiCloud 1.0.0
Yesterday (December 8th 2021), Optimizely sneakily released their very first major update for the EpiCloud Powershell Module; Version 1.0.0. This is great timing, as I was also about to release an update that would provide a fix for Azure.Storage (no longer relevant – ill explain why further in this post), as well as provide updates […]