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Latest articles
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Warning signs you might need a new CMS
The first part of a new series on choosing the right CMS system has published on the sitecore.com site! This first article delves into some of the reasons you might be thinking you need a new CMS, and some other situations where you might be okay to just incrementally improve on what you already have. Read more
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Getting started with Sitecore Marketing Automation
With the latest Sitecore 9 release, a completely new Marketing Automation tool is available for users to quickly plan and extend their automation activities with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Also, a new fully-scalable engine architecture is now available so that you can make sure to process new activities as quickly as you need to. I Read more
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Evangelist Year One – a Retrospective
Just over one year ago, I wrote about a big change in my career as I joined the Sitecore Technical Marketing team to work as the North American Technical Evangelist. Over the last 12 months, a lot has happened, and in typical agile fashion I’m looking back at what has been happening, what worked well, and Read more
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Sitecore 9 xDB Sharding
Have you ever wondered what is going on with those new Shard databases in Sitecore 9? This is the new xDB! The new Shard Manager stores data based on the contact ID. A contact ID is a GUID identifier that is unique for each contact. It looks something like this: B9814105-1F45-E611-82E6-34E6D7117DCB The xDB scales out Read more
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New Microsoft Planner Due Date Notifications
A short while ago I wrote about our team’s initial adoption of Microsoft Planner. At the time, we were having issues with the due dates feature because there seemed to be no way to view our schedule. A few months later, we ran into another issue with due dates. The complaint? Users were not being Read more
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Scaling Sitecore 9.0 XP Services
The blog here has been a little quiet lately as I have started moving to creating content on the corporate site. I wanted to share something I worked on and has been posted on the Community blogs. Here you go: Scaling Sitecore xConnect and XP Services architecture In the linked blog you’ll get a brief overview Read more
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