Tag: Sitecore
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Initial Thoughts on Sitecore XM Cloud A/B/n Testing
Originally appeared on 2025-02-26 at getfishtank.com: https://www.getfishtank.com/insights/what-is-sitecore-xm-cloud-a-b-n-testing Introduced in November of 2024, the A/B/n Testing feature in XM Cloud is still fairly new compared to other features in the platform. I wanted to know how the user experience was for configuring these in XM Cloud and what options would be…
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Back in the MVP Circle – Sitecore Strategy MVP 2025!
Today Sitecore announced the class of Sitecore MVPs for 2025 and I was truly excited to return to the Sitecore MVP group once again! I am joining the elite group of 40 Sitecore Strategy MVPs around the world, of which only 4 are in Canada (and one of those is…
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SUG Chennai: Paths Forward on Sitecore
XM headless or XM Cloud? Sites running on Sitecore XP were once ahead of the game, but now there’s a better option. With newer headless implementations and XM Cloud, marketers can create smarter campaigns, developers can deploy faster with integrated DevOps, and businesses can reap the benefits of unlimited flexibility.A…
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Choose your Next.js host (Part 7): XM Cloud Feature Support
Wondering which hosting provider to use for your Sitecore XM Cloud project? Sitecore XM Cloud features require you to use a Next.js hosting provider that provides certain features like Middleware and API routes. Which Next.js hosts actually have the features you need for XM Cloud? Join Jason St-Cyr from Fishtank…
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Elephant in the Room: Are Enterprise CMS Too Expensive for Today’s Economy?
After seeing some more folks on LinkedIn talking about being let go, I started thinking about the business of trying to sell Enterprise CMS in a market where folks aren’t sure if they can afford their groceries. I decided to quickly jot down a few thoughts on a Friday and…
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Choose your Next.js host (Part 6): Next.js Feature Support
Wondering which hosting provider to use for your Sitecore XM Cloud project? Which Next.js hosts actually have the features you need working? Join Jason St-Cyr from Fishtank as he does a quick review of the Next.js feature support highs and lows for Vercel, Netlify, AWS Amplify, Azure App Services, Azure…
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SUG Jaipur: Paths Forward on Sitecore
XM headless or XM Cloud? Sites running on Sitecore XP were once ahead of the game, but now there’s a better option. With newer headless implementations and XM Cloud, marketers can create smarter campaigns, developers can deploy faster with integrated DevOps, and businesses can reap the benefits of unlimited flexibility.A…
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Choose your Next.js host (Part 5): Convenience Layers
Wondering which hosting provider to use for your Sitecore XM Cloud project? How easy do you want it to be for your team to manage their dev flow and Next.js hosting environments? When you are first looking at Sitecore XM Cloud, you may want to think about how convenient it…
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Choose your Next.js host (Part 4): Region Availability
Wondering which hosting provider to use for your Sitecore XM Cloud project? Join Jason St-Cyr from Fishtank as he takes a quick look at how multiple vendors stack up on regional availability. Do you want convenience? Or maximum control? Or maybe you just want to have the most data centers…
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Choose your Next.js host (Part 3): Support & SLAs
Wondering which hosting provider to use for your Sitecore XM Cloud project? Join Jason St-Cyr from Fishtank as he takes a quick look at how multiple vendors stack up on Support & SLAs. Who has ISO, SOC2, or PCI compliance? Who has the best support response times? Does everybody have…
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Choose your Next.js host (Part 2): Security and Compliance
Wondering which hosting provider to use for your Sitecore XM Cloud project? Join Jason St-Cyr from Fishtank as he takes a quick look at how multiple vendors stack up on Security and Compliance. Who has ISO, SOC2, or PCI compliance? Who doesn’t have HIPAA compliance? Follow along as each video…
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Choose your Next.js host (Part 1): Which one for XM Cloud?
Wondering which hosting provider to use for your Sitecore XM Cloud project? Join Jason St-Cyr from Fishtank as he kicks off a series tackling the Next.js hosting dilemma that’s probably giving your team headaches right now. Sure, Sitecore has partnerships with Netlify and Vercel, but what if you’re already committed…
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Sitecore Symposium 2024 – Product Roadmap highlights
Originally appeared on 2024-10-25 at getfishtank.com: https://www.getfishtank.com/insights/sitecore-symposium-2024-product-roadmap-highlights The Product Vision on Display The Day 3 closing keynotes for Sitecore Symposium 2024 featured a push for improv training, kindness, sustainable commerce, and a lot of demos! As somebody who has always been focused on the product and loves finding out where…
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Is Sitecore really holding back Optimizely with the announcement of Sitecore Stream?
I made the claim earlier this week that Sitecore’s move with Stream would allow them to hold a lead. For a while, it feels like Sitecore has been trying to be disruptive, including disrupting themselves, racing to get to “where the puck is going to be” as the saying goes…
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Sitecore Symposium 2024 Day Two – HIPAA and the new MVP Red Jacket!
Congratulations to Klaus! As somebody who has looked up to Klaus Petersen and his involvement in the Sitecore community for over a decade, I have to start off with the amazing recognition done for Klaus at this year’s Symposium. Kathie Johnson presented Klaus with the inaugural Sitecore MVP Red Jacket…
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Sitecore Symposium 2024 Day One – Sitecore Stream gets launched
GenAI kicks off the Nashville Symposium While I couldn’t be in Nashville for the big Symposium event this year, Sitecore did offer a virtual live stream for online attendees like me to hear the latest and greatest announcements about what Sitecore is doing to solve the problems of marketing teams…
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Tips for Sitecore Symposium 2024
In just one week the #SitecoreSYM party opens its doors in Nashville and the Fishtank team is fired up to welcome folks with some special surprises for attendees! Make sure to go say hi to Dan, Derek, Theresa, Jeff, David, and Carson who will be repping the team! For some…
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Webinar: Why a migration from Sitecore XP to XM Cloud makes sense for 2025
Looking to make the move from Sitecore XP to XM Cloud? Discover the advantages of a cloud-based infrastructure and gain strategies for simplifying the migration process to XM Cloud and Netlify in 2025. Join Jason St-Cyr from Fishtank Consulting and Varun Nehra from Netlify to In this webinar, you’ll learn:
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How to Choose a Next.js Hosting Provider for Sitecore XM Cloud
This article originally appeared on Fishtank’s blog on 2024-09-20 What Do You Need to Consider? You’ve just decided on moving to Sitecore’s new XM Cloud product and now you have to figure out how to host your Next.js application that is going to be connecting to your XM Cloud instance.…
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Optimizely vs Sitecore: a SaaS show-down by Dylan Young
Optimizely recently launched their SaaS CMS and Dylan Young over at Valtech did a deep-dive comparison that was really great. I had started just adding some comments for social and then realized this was getting WAY too long. 🤣 I won’t ruin the ending, but this article by Dylan Young…
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Why Pay Extra for Sitecore?
This article originally appeared on https://www.getfishtank.com/blog/why-pay-extra-for-sitecore Facing the Sticker Shock of Enterprise Pricing There can be a sticker shock when a customer starts seeing how much the licensing for Sitecore is going to cost. One of the things that Sitecore often gets pressured on by analysts is a lack of…
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Press Release: Sitecore Veteran Jason St-Cyr Joins Fishtank Consulting as VP of Engagement
It was a unique day for me to be featured in a press release by my new employer. I know I posted earlier this week about the career change, but I also wanted to share the official press release that went out yesterday! Via PRNewswire: Sitecore Veteran Jason St-Cyr Joins…
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Diving into the tank – Embracing a New Chapter as VP of Engagement at Fishtank
About a month ago, I honestly thought my time in the Sitecore community had come to a close. I was almost certain that my next step would be in helping another product team with their outreach to technical audiences, building on the years of experience leading Sitecore’s Technical Evangelism and…
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A new adventure awaits
I want to start with a heartfelt thank you to all of the community members both inside and outside Sitecore who have been on this journey with me. It was just over 7 years ago that I left the Sitecore partner agency life and joined Sitecore with the goal of…
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SUGCON Europe 2024 – Day Two
Day two of SUGCON did not disappoint with so many breakouts that there is no way to cover all of them! A few sessions had some nice photos from them so I’ve tried to collect these together here along with notes from what I could tell was being shared. You…
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SUGCON Europe 2024 – Day One
Once again I had to enjoy a SUGCON from the comforts of home, but thanks to a few folks sharing photos I got to feel a little bit of the excitement of the event. I’ve gathered together some photos and notes from the community during Day One of SUGCON in…
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Converting a Unicorn project to Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS)
Today I want to cover an important piece when migrating to XM Cloud: transitioning Unicorn serialization formats to the new Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS) format. In this article, I’ll walk you through some of the reasons for the switch, but mostly focus on the tools and process for migrating your…
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Converting a TDS project to Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS)
Today I want to dive into an important piece when migrating to XM Cloud: transitioning from a traditional TDS (Team Development for Sitecore) project to the new Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS) format. In this article, I’ll walk you through some of the reasons for the switch, but mostly focus on…
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Deploy Unicorn serialization to XM Cloud using IAR – A proof of concept
Sitecore has been pretty clear that the only supported option for deploying items to XM Cloud was using Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS) format. But people love using Unicorn and there were enough clues lying around that Unicorn might work? But I couldn’t be sure. To make my life as a…
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Sitecore XM Cloud and Vercel Deployment Protection
Recently, Vercel made Deployment Protection the default for all new projects in Vercel. This is great news! This means that all your deployments will automatically be able to be secured with authentication, passwords, or trusted IPs. However, your Sitecore XM Cloud build might not be set up yet to work…
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – Classic XP with Simple Personalization
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) solution that has been built as a classic Sitecore MVC implementation with simple personalization implemented. The scenario breakdown: Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and XP scenarios and…
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Remove your AddThis component by May 31, 2023
Oracle has announced that they will be turning off the AddThis service on May 31, 2023 which is going to impact a lot of websites around the web that have been using this for the easy social sharing icons that it provided. How does this affect you? From a Sitecore…
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SUGCON Europe 2023 – Highlights shared by the community
On March 23rd, the Sitecore community kicked off SUGCON Europe in Malaga, Spain! I can’t be there this year, so I’m living vicariously through all the community folks who are being so kind as to post things online for those of us at home! I started off trying to capture…
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XP Marketing Automation
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) solution that has implemented marketing automation, including email marketing. The scenario breakdown: Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and XP scenarios and how you can gradually migrate your Sitecore…
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Who should I put on my project team?
Every now and then, somebody has asked me “what should my team look like”? Is there a formula for how you can structure a technical team to be ready for a Sitecore implementation project and then the maintenance afterwards? I’m sorry to say: there is no such formula. Every single…
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XP Global Brand scenario
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) “Global Brand” solution, with many sites and deep personalization usage, over to Sitecore XM Cloud and Sitecore Personalize. The scenario breakdown: Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and…
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XM Jamstack scenario
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore XM “Jamstack” solution over to XM Cloud. Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and XP scenarios and how you can gradually migrate your Sitecore platform solution over to a composable DXP…
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An exciting day for me as the Developer Portal launched!
My team has been working on this one for a while, so I was really proud of the work done here to build a great experience for developers. It’s just the first version, but there is a lot we can do to make it easier and better for developers to…
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Sitecore software downloads are faster and ungated!
Today on the Tech Marketing blog, I announced that Sitecore has made a big change to dev.sitecore.net. The downloads are now hosted via CDN, making it available globally at much faster download speeds than was previously possible. Along with this change? NO MORE ACCESS RESTRICTIONS! You don’t have to login,…
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Sitecore 10 benefits for Content Strategists and Digital Marketers
Everything brands need to deliver and evolve experiences in a fully integrated solution. Adapt quickly based on contextual insights through Horizon and deploy data-informed updates or new experience elements faster than ever before. If you want a quick overview of the whole release, check out Sitecore 10 Highlights article. In…
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Sitecore 10 benefits for Developers, DevOps and IT
Deliver more rapidly to accelerate digital experience success with new features — from container infrastructure orchestration to integrated data and marketing functionality. If you want a quick overview of the whole release, check out Sitecore 10 highlights article. In the following article, we’re going to drill down into the changes…
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Sitecore 10 highlights
With the release of Sitecore 10 there are enhancements and innovations that help create efficiencies for both Marketing and IT teams – providing tools that help teams launch and evolve unique experiences that drive successful engagements. “With Sitecore 10.0, the focus has been on new innovations for usability, accelerated time…
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Sitecore and SameSite=Lax cookies
The SameSite cookie changes that seem to be breaking all those integrations on your web pages are intended to better protect against CSRF attacks. But does this impact the cookies that Sitecore generates? YES IT DOES! Read more on the Technical Marketing blog…
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Should we host Sitecore on IaaS or PaaS? (Jan 2020)
This started as a question on the community forums, and my answer got so long I decided to capture it here as well. In general, when you are choosing an infrastructure model the first question you need to ask is what your team is comfortable having responsibility over, and what…
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xConnect – Delete inactive Contacts from xDB
Starting with the Sitecore 9.2 release, the xConnect API added new API functions to delete information from the xDB. This allows you to make sure your data is cleaner, more relevant, and not costing you unnecessary data storage fees. Want to read more? Full blog on the Sitecore community site!…
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Sitecore Symposium 2019 – So you think you can DevOps?
This year at Sitecore Symposium we launched a new DevOps track, with two rooms of sessions delivering what you need for day-to-day tactical solutions, but also bigger-picture, strategic guidance. Do you want to know how to deploy your code with Azure DevOps? We got you covered. Or maybe you are…
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xConnect Upgrade to 9.2 – Where did the web request handlers go?
Recently, I needed to update my xConnect Tutorial from 9.0 to 9.2 so I could start looking at the new data purge API (more on that another day). I figured it should be an easy enough upgrade, my tutorial wasn’t doing anything complicated. Just some basic Create Contact or Register Interaction stuff. So, I…
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Are you ready for the MongoDB 3.4 EOL?
If you are running Sitecore version 8.2.x, you are running MongoDB 3.4. Unfortunately, that also means you are impacted by the announcement by MongoDB that version 3.4 will reach end-of-life in January 2020. You have some options on how you want to fix this and it sort of depends on…
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Preparing your CMS infrastructure for traffic spikes
We’re living in the days of “going viral.” Consumers move faster than ever, and businesses need to be ready to respond to sudden demand the moment it arrives—or risk losing out to competitors. The right endorsement from the right person can generate global exposure and cause unprecedented numbers of people…
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Mitigating CMS implementation risk
Prior to joining Sitecore as a Technical Evangelist, I worked as a consultant on many projects implementing Sitecore in various types of scenarios. The implementation is where things can really start to heat up! The stakes are high. More than that, implementation projects can also be long, costly, and susceptible to error,…
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