What are Icons? Icons are graphical representations of different elements on a website. They make the webpages visually appealing and like any other image, have a stronger connection and retention to the end user’s memory than plain text. When used in moderation and the right way, they can be self-explanatory and reduce the need for […]
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Creating new sites in Optimizely CMS 12
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…” This is the first in a series of articles describing my experiences with migrating client sites from CMS 11 to CMS 12. Many things have changed, added, and improved, but some things I encountered did not always have an easy answer. Optimizely has a […]
Bitbucket CI/CD Pipelines for Optimizely CMS 12
A big reason behind this post is because this topic, even though very relevant, has very little to no context available online so far. There are posts about this being possible and very generic build pipelines for .net core deployments to azure, but none describing how to build Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines for Optimizely CMS 12 […]
John Dymond is an Optimizely MVP
Perficient colleagues within our award-winning Optimizely team bring years of experience and vast knowledge to the practice and our clients. We’re proud to announce that recently two of our colleagues have been named 2023 Optimizely MVPs. Below is a deeper look into John Dymond’s past four years at Perficient and his role as a director […]
3 Takeaways from Optimizely Roadshow Atlanta 2023
One week ago, Optimizely and Perficient worked together to organize a roadshow event in Atlanta. It was an afternoon of good information, discussion, and networking. For those of you who did not get a chance to attend, here is a summary of why these events are so important for the community. More importantly … why […]
Saying “Goodbye” to Google Optimize & “Hello” to Better Experimentation
Google’s announcement of the upcoming retirement of their Optimize A/B testing product took me by surprise. In my mind’s eye I still see experimentation as shiny and exciting technology. I’ll blame this on the finesse of leading software providers, who have adeptly added sophisticated testing and personalization capabilities over the years, right in line with […]
Two Perficient Colleagues Awarded as Optimizely MVPs
We are ecstatic to announce that two Perficient colleagues have been honored as Optimizely Most Valuable Professionals (OMVP). Huge congratulations to David Lewis and John Dymond! David and John are two of only eight total individuals selected as OMVPs in 2023. Perficient now boasts six of the 89 total OMVPs worldwide! Optimizely MVP Program In […]
Optimizely CMS 12 – Unique upgrade challenges
By now, a lot of us have already participated in one or more Optimizely CMS 12 upgrade projects. The others are still evaluating whether they should do it now or wait some more. Regardless of when you do it, there will definitely be some unique upgrade challenges you will come across, as I and many […]
Seven Reasons for Google Optimize Customers to Move to Optimizely Experimentation
If you are a Google Optimize customer, then September 30th is an important date for your organization. Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after this date. Businesses that rely on Google Optimize will have to find a new solution and should start researching alternatives. Optimizely, the leader in experimentation, is the […]
Building a Business Case for Optimizely Version 12
In part 1 of this series, we examined some considerations when looking to upgrade your Content Cloud instance to V12. If you are reading this post, you have likely made up your mind it is something you want to do. The #1 difficulty you will encounter in discussing with your stakeholders is cost. Whether this […]
Considerations of Moving to Optimizely Content Cloud Version 12
Moving to version 12 is for most developers, architects, and key decision makers the largest upgrade undertaking you have had to take in your time on the platform. Optimizely prides itself on continuous releases & the ability to upgrade a solution in an affordable and timely fashion. In this 2-part series we will present the […]
Config-Per-Site in Optimizely Multi-Tenant Environments
Recently, I was given a task at work where we needed a multisite configuration. We all know that multi-environment is as easy as appsettings.<environment_name>.config. What about in multi-tenant environments? You can’t have appsettings.site1.config and appsettings.site2.config on your site! Well, not without a little extra work… Let me introduce AddKeyPerFile; this handy little function you set […]