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Sitecore Customers Share Their Implementation Tips
When food, venue and hospitality company Delaware North Companies decided its former CMS was at the end of its lifecycle, it put out an request for proposal (RFP) seeking a replacement. Its needs were specific: it had a series of 60 plus websites at multiple locations around the U.S.
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The Curious Tale of Sitecore Analytics Adoption
During her time as CEO of Seattle-based marketing technology agency Beyond Vigilant, Kristine Stebbins noted a curious trend among her clients, namely that scant few of their Sitecore platform clients were actually using the built-in Sitecore analytics functionality.
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Taming Sitecore's Configuration Chaos
Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. —Walter Sobchak (in The Big Lebowski) LAS VEGAS — One of the most frustrating aspects of managing Sitecore is dealing with its long and chaotic configuration process.
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With a Focus on Machine Learning, Sitecore Debuts New Product Roadmap
Sitecore kicked off its four-day Symposium in Las Vegas on Monday, with an extensive keynote outlining the company’s roadmap and its newest creations — namely Sitecore Experience Cloud and an updated version of Sitecore Experience Platform and Sitecore Experience Management, its web content management system.
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Sitecore CEO on Cloud Re-Architecture, 'Fanatical' Customer Focus
Sitecore CEO Mark Frost said the company will continue to invest in cloud deployments that "radically simplify infrastructure" and headless environments that decouple content from its presentation.
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Sitecore Appoints Mark Frost CEO to 'Drive Next Phase of Growth'
Sitecore has appointed longtime technology executive Mark Frost as its new CEO. Frost replaces Michael Seifert, who founded the company in 2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark as a web content management provider primarily serving the Danish market. Seifert led Sitecore over the next 15 years to become a near-1,000-employee experience management
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Sitecore Consultancy Brings Virtual Reality to Web Content Management
The founders of a Sitecore consultancy have created an app that will allow Sitecore web content management users to deliver virtual-reality experiences. Nabil Orfali and Dennis Augustine, who co-founded Toronto-based TechGuilds, have debuted Peek VR for the Sitecore Experience Management Platform (Sitecore XP). The Sitecore consultants told CMSWire this brings
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Lithium Finds Brands Still Stink at Social, More News
Nearly all brands are stuck in old “broadcast” modes of social media practices and rely too much on push tactics rather than listening and engaging. This was one of the findings out of San Francisco-based Lithium Technologies State of Social Engagement report, released this week.
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Improving Ecommerce Experiences with Customer Context
Ecommerce sites — be they business sided or consumer — currently do a great job providing product information and keeping track of stock keeping units (SKU). What they aren't doing a great job of is putting all of that information within the context of an actual buyer.
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Email Volume Climbs, Kentico Single CMS Product, More News
The reports of the death of email are apparently exaggerated. Email volume rose 14 percent in the last quarter of 2016 year-over-year, according to Experian, a Dublin-based global information services group.
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Salesforce Acquires UX Agency, Super Bowl Social Wins, More News
Salesforce closed on its acquisition of Sequence, a San Francisco-based user experience design agency. It comes a few weeks after Quip, the workforce productivity company Salesforce acquired for $750 million in August, made an acquisition of its own: Quip bought Unity&Variety to enhance its creative and visual elements.
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Adobe, Acquia, Episerver Lead New Forrester WCM Wave
Forrester gave top ratings to Adobe, Acquia and Episerver in a just released Wave that emphasizes the cloud and headless deployments, as well as integrations with best-of-breed products. The heavy weighting on headless, modularization, APIs and micro-services strategy pushed Acquia and Episerver into the leaderboard for the first time, where
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Sitecore Unlocks Content, Commerce Disconnect in Latest Release
Digital experience provider Sitecore today released a new version of the ecommerce platform it acquired more than three years ago from commerceserver.net. It includes updates in order management capabilities, support for digital products and goods and a developer experience based on Microsoft's ASP.NET core framework.
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2016 Was a Very Good Year ... For WCM and DX Platforms
Say what you want about 2016, the year many people would like to forget for oh so many reasons. But on a bright note, it was another busy year in the world of web content management (WCM) and related digital experience (DX) platforms.
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