Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

I would like to share some findings from my investigation into the replacement of TDS with alternative open source tools such as Gulp and Unicorn. Gulp is a toolkit that will help you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow, including build operations. Gulp is a pure JavaScript module for NodeJS. JavaScript is […]

  You better believe that patient engagement & empowerment, patient 360 and connected health will be making the Sands Expo and Convention center buzz next week as the annual HIMSS conference kicks off. Connected health engages patients outside the walls of the traditional medical setting, which for the average patient is 99% of the time. […]

Sitecore offers HTML caching for your components right out of the box with several different caching options to boost your site’s performance. You can set different caching settings at the rendering-level such as enabling/disabling caching, caching per user, caching per data, etc. However, the caching duration for renderings is set at the site level and is […]

Perficient is excited to announce that both Stephen Tynes, Sitecore Practice Director at Perficient, and Jon Upchurch, Sitecore Practice Architect at Perficient, have been named a “Most Valuable Professional (MVP)” by Sitecore, the global leader in experience management software. Tynes and Upchurch were two of only 177 people worldwide to be named a Sitecore Technology […]

How healthcare can use the leading customer experience platform to deliver the ideal patient experience. If you are in the healthcare business – data, and how it is utilized, is likely something you face weekly. For that matter, you may have even read some of our own Healthcare Industry Trends. Healthcare is rich with patient data, […]

While Sitecore continues to extend Content Editor functionality to the Experience Editor, Content Editor remains the interface of choice for developers and power users. Its performance can significantly impact the productivity of any development team. With the fairly simple adjustments I outline here, you can optimize Sitecore Content Editor performance and usability. Tweaking the Tree […]

Website performance is incredibly important for most companies. This is especially true in situations where a website might be accessed by a huge number of customers within a short period of time (think Black Friday or a utility company with a widespread outage). While performance can mean different things to different people (time to first […]

Perficient helped Greyhound undergo a complete digital transformation, moving the company into the digital age with a new website, mobile apps, and a best in class e-commerce experience that has transformed the way Greyhound has done business for the last 100 years. This project has been nominated for a Sitecore North American People’s Choice Award. […]

The Content Editor in Sitecore contains the ability to type a placeholder name when adding a component to presentation details. But was the correct name ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column’? To see the list of available placeholders, we have to close the add window, navigate the content tree to find the placeholders, then go back […]

Some may go for the 12 days of Christmas this time of year. Personally, I prefer the 12 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your Legacy CMS to Sitecore. Here are just five of the issues organizations deal with in regards to a legacy Content Management System (CMS) system. Your CMS cannot keep up with increasing […]

In my previous post we talked about the major purpose for which the branch templates were originally invented: create different kinds of hierarchies in one click. We covered one of the cases: page hierarchy. Now let’s have a look at another case. Renderings Hierarchy (Case II) Another type of the hierarchy that is often created […]

The Sitecore User Group Conference 2015 was a great event organized by the community for the community. In addition to everything I learn, Sitecore events also give me a chance to catch up with colleagues (present – former – future), vendors and friends, and I always leave with renewed vigor and focus. Below are a couple of quick takeaways […]