This year’s Sitecore Symposium, the annual conference for the global professional Sitecore community, has provided the usual mixture of strategic announcements, product updates, case studies and informational sessions.Sitecore has been on quite a journey over the past two years, completing four acquisitions, systematically making the platform available on a SaaS basis to support a composable DXP, increasing its marketing activities and making several senior appointments. Change with Sitecore is a constant so we weren’t surprised that ...

Over the summer Sitecore released Sitecore XM Cloud, a SaaS-version of the core Sitecore Experience Manager offering which had previously only been available on a PaaS basis. This represents a significant milestone in Sitecore’s recent journey to fully support a headless publishing model and a composable architecture, with the platform now making available its centre piece on a SaaS basis. It also includes some new features such as a revamped editing experience.In this post we’re going to do a bit of a deeper dive into Sitecore XM Cloud, ...

Many marketing teams are choosing to use Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) to support the delivery of excellent experiences for customers including websites, microsites, e-commerce and apps. A DXP goes beyond just being a Content Management System (CMS) by adding digital marketing capabilities such as personalisation, optimisation and customer profiling. By having everything in one integrated solution, it’s easier to deliver strong websites that you can continue to improve and optimise.One CMS we often work with is Umbraco. It’s an ...

One of the themes at this year’s Codegarden, the annual conference from Umbraco, was the “composable” digital experience platform (DXP) – a concept that’s getting more and more attention in the customer experience space. What is a composable DXP? A DXP is a solution that delivers a range of capabilities and marketing features beyond just a core content management solution (CMS). A composable DXP is specifically a “best-of-breed” DXP made up of a number of various solutions from different third-party vendors rather than the ...

What’s in the new Umbraco 10 release?At 3Chillies, we use  Umbraco as the content management system (CMS) behind many of the websites and digital products we deliver for our clients. Umbraco is open-source and highly flexible, but allows you to build complex and immersive digital experiences while being easy for admins and publishers to use. There’s also a wide and loyal developer community that helps to power and improve Umbraco. This means it is a great platform to keep costs relatively low while creating high-quality, sustainable ...

We’ve all been on projects which perhaps didn’t go as smoothly as they could have done. And invariably when it comes to the project review meeting where we try and diagnose how things could have gone better, most of the problems turn out to have originated from the same thing: poor communication.Occasional misunderstandings and strained working relationships are part and parcel of digital projects when everyone is under pressure, but are always caused by an initial failure to communicate clearly. Even missed deadlines and last-minute bugs ...

Google Optimize and the related Optimize 360 service offer opportunities to optimise and improve your website through A/B and multivariate testing. However, Google has announced that these services are closing down on 30 September 2023, meaning that web teams will have to find an alternative solution to optimise their website. In this article we’re going to look at some of the optimisation options that are available for those who need to make the switch, but also for those who are looking to start optimising their website.What is Google ...