Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

Sitecore 9 introduces a relatively fundamental change in the core platform that will affect a lot of installations across the developer world: Lucene is (almost) out of the picture. Sitecore has always supported multiple search indexing providers, namely Lucene and Solr (shoutout to Coveo for all they do as well). Lucene has always been the […]

Sitecore 9 is out we are all excited to jump in and start using the latest and greatest. So let’s jump in and setup for an XP0 Sitecore installation on our local development machine! George Chang, another Perficient Sitecore MVP, put out a great blog post on How to install Sitecore 9 with the Sitecore Install Framework […]

The big news coming out of Sitecore Symposium last week is the release of Sitecore Experience Cloud 9.0. With the release of version 9, Sitecore has brought more and more pieces of its platform into an inevitably microservices-oriented future. The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s no .exe installer anymore – this has regularly […]

The video below highlights the resulting experience from using the Sitecore Experience Cloud rather than all the features, but it’s a good way to think about it. For all you geeks in the crowd, pay attention to the link URL and look at the SC_camp id. Sitecore is following their own best practices on this […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services provides a wide range of cool tools. They are all available via API. Sitecore continues to evolve. It’s no longer just a content management system. It’s evolving into a content learning system. The Sitecore Symposium 2017 presenter took an image and uploaded it and had it analyzed. It understood that it was […]

Mayo Clinic stood up two separate websites on Sitecore Commerce. Ravi Nadimpally, a solutions architect at Mayo Clinic, participated in the presentation. Commerce and a hospital you say? It has to do with health newsletters and other books and services. It’s a relatively small site but it plays into Mayo Clinic’s superb brand and the ongoing […]

Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai strives to deliver its guest an endless array of bucket-list experiences with a huge amount of rooms, more than 20 restaurants, and other resort options. Of course, they need a platform to match and to provide a personalized omnichannel experience. Hershna Langworth, Director, Online Marketing, Christopher Pascoe, Manager, Online Marketing, and Ravini […]

The first full day of Sitecore Symposium 2017 has wrapped. A whirlwind of a day with the opening keynotes, sessions, booth time, social hours and this is just getting going. My feet hurt, but whatever, this is fun and there has been a lot to talk about. Here’s my… Top 5 #SitecoreSYM Video Log – […]

Kirsten Newbold-Knipp, Research Director, Gartner, started out her session at Sitecore Symposium 2017 highlighting both good and bad customer experiences. The following are my notes: Key question: Who did you tell the last time you had a bad customer experience? The answer is probably, a lot. Statistic: 81% of marketing leaders expect to compete almost completely […]

Meena Verma, Global Digital Marketing Manager at Alpha Assembly Solutions, gave a presentation on localization with Digital Marketing. She takes an approach of meeting your customers’ needs. The following are my notes from the session: Your translation strategy should include: Internationalization: ensure source content is ready for multiple languages Localization: cultural adaptation of a target language […]

A Sitecore Symposium 2017 speaker today addressed the journey to customer experience success. The following are my notes: The presentation started by imagining a day in 2027: Wake up early Coffee is ready and at the right temperature Looks at his family status His daughter has an increased temperature. Made changes to calendar Food algorithm […]

Today’s Guest Keynote at the 2017 Sitecore Symposium featured Kenneth Cukier, author of Big Data. The following are my notes from the session: Question: Is AI overhyped, underhyped, or don’t know? Over: about 6% Under: about 7% Don’t know: Not enough to add up to 100% Story: Nascar racing has a couple key questions. One […]