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    Jun 19, 2013

    Now Available On-demand: June Web Experience Management Wednesday Webinar— Put the True ‘e’ Back into Your Commerce

    Posted by Kim Morris

    During last week’s Web Experience Management Wednesday webinar, we were excited to showcase how Adobe Experience Manager can help organizations put the ‘e’ back into ‘commerce’.  More specifically, how you can commerce-enable digital experiences to differentiate your brand engagement and drive conversion and loyalty.  We had a good turnout from the community (as always, thank you) and interesting conversation on the topic.

    Our Darin Archer (@DarinArcher), along with guest speakers from partner, Crown Partners (@Crown_Partners), discussed and demonstrated how Experience Manager can drive this next-generation shopping experience by enabling marketers and merchandisers to create and manage a more compelling customer experience.

    If you missed the live webinar, we’ve now got you covered with an on-demand version. Check it out here.

    We’re planning for our next live WEM Wednesday webinar now and will be sure to share more details on the exact timing and topic soon. In the meantime, you can register to join us for next month’s event here.

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    Jun 10, 2013

    AEM CQGems - June 12th: Launches: Concurrent preparation of multiple versions of a website (AEM 5.6)

    Posted by Adobe

    Today, web launches can become major headaches for many organizations.  Coordinating between authors and technologists requires a careful plan to have a successful launch. Whether launching a few pages, a revised site or multiple sites, Adobe Experience Manager 5.6 (AEM) enables organizations to more easily collaborate without impacting the day to day performance of their website(s).

    See for yourself as Gilles Knobloch, Adobe Lead Developer, presents: “Launches: concurrent preparation of multiple versions of a website (AEM 5.6) “ In this session, Gilles will demonstrate how easy it is to utilize AEM to coordinate between authors to prepare for launch. You will learn how the basic mechanisms of this feature have been integrated into AEM for streamlining your launch incentives.

    Join us Wednesday, June 12th at 8:00 a.m. PT!

     

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    Jun 06, 2013

    CQCON 2013: Highlights and Session Details for Adobe CQ Developers – Don’t Miss Out – Register Today!

    Posted by Cedric Huesler
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    CQCON 2013 is just around corner on June 19th and 20th in Basel, Switzerland. There, Adobe CQ developers will gather to share experiences, the best development tools and practices, and to learn about the most demanded deep technical dives. Along with developers, key product experts from Adobe will be there to share their exclusive product insights on Adobe CQ, now part of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

    This event is sure to bring thoughtful discussions and useful tips for ensuring success of AEM development projects.  Among the sessions, you will find a team of Adobe experts presenting. Here are just some of the topics they will cover, and links to more details about their sessions:

    Automated self-testing and health check of live Adobe CQ instances
    Presented by Bertrand Delacretaz, Senior Developer at Adobe and Board of Directors member of the Apache Software Foundation.

    Mobile First Development with AEM made easy
    Presented by Bruce Lefebvre, Computer Scientist at Adobe Ottawa

    Tighten your Security and Privacy – Learn How

    Presented by Lars Krapf, Security Engineer at Adobe

    A Mobile User Interface Love Story

    Presented by Damien Antipa, Software Engineer at Adobe

    Adobe CQ Maven Methods – Mastering Development Workflows that Combine Adobe Experience Manager with Apache Maven and Git

    Presented by Andrew Savory, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at Adobe

    Integration Testing

    Presented by Lydia Balazs, Senior Quality Engineer at Adobe

    Efficient Content Structures and Queries in Adobe CQ

    Presented by Marcel Reutegger, Senior Software Engineer at Adobe

    We look hope to meet many of you there. Register for CQCON today!

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    Jun 05, 2013

    June Web Experience Management Wednesday Webinar: Put the true ‘e’ back into your ‘commerce’

    Posted by Kim Morris

    The quick pace of e-commerce growth is tightly linked to the rapid adoption of web-enabled mobile devices and social media as consumers continue to shift their activities, including shopping, to the online channel. And in doing so, they are demanding great experiences across all digital touchpoints.

    Please join us for our next Web Experience Management Wednesday webinar, June 12th at 10:00 a.m. PT, where we’ll discuss how Adobe Experience Manager puts the true ‘e’ back into ‘commerce’ — experience-driven commerce. Learn how you can commerce-enable your digital experiences to differentiate your brand and drive conversion and loyalty.  Our Adobe commerce guru, Darin Archer (@darinarcher), and guest speaker, Mark Bartlett from Crown Partners (@Crown_Partners), will show you how Adobe Experience Manager can drive your next-generation shopping experiences. You’ll learn how marketers and merchandisers can create more compelling customer experiences by optimizing the entire engagement process from the initial customer touchpoint to checkout.

    For more info and to register, check out the details here. We look forward to seeing you online next week. 

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    May 29, 2013

    Now available on-demand: May 22nd WEM Wednesday Webinar—Get the Most Out of Your Digital Assets

    Posted by Kim Morris

    During last week’s Web Experience Management Wednesday webinar, we had an exciting discussion about digital asset management (DAM), focusing on the ability to manage and extend your most precious assets to deliver personalized dynamic media, including video, across all of your digital channels. We had a good turnout from the community (thanks to all) and great conversation on the topic.

    Our experts, Elliot Sedegah (@esedegah) and Priscilla Lawrence (@PriscillaJL), demonstrated how Adobe Experience Manager DAM capabilities, combined with integration of dynamic media capabilities (formerly Adobe Scene7™) and Adobe Creative Cloud™, can help you to simplify the planning, production and distribution of your digital assets. If you missed the live webinar, we’ve now got you covered with an on-demand version. Check it out here.

    Also, planning is underway for our next WEM Wednesday webinar which will focus on “Commerce” – putting the ‘e’ (for ‘experience’) back into ‘eCommerce’. We will look at how Experience Manager can help drive your next-generation shopping experience by allowing marketers and merchandisers to create and deliver more compelling customer experiences. Register here for this live webinar taking place on June 12th.  We’ll see you there!

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    May 27, 2013

    Tighten your Security and Privacy Learn How at CQCON 2013

    Posted by Lars Krapf

    Security and privacy are key requirements for any web application today.

    Sites have to undergo thorough penetration tests before their "go- live", our customers have security consultants join in during the RFP processes while news of major hacks hit the mainstream media regularly.

    In my talk at CQCON 2013 I will focus on two major security topics to help you build secure sites and applications on top of Granite and Adobe CQ, now part of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

    The Sling method loginAdministrative() and related functionality have been a source of code-based vulnerabilities and subtle bugs throughout AEM. This talk will give an analysis of the problem and provide strategies on how to avoid administrative sessions in your own AEM projects.

    Further we will have a look at cross-site scripting (XSS) - a notorious problem in all web applications, and especially in content management systems. What are the risks and challenges in the AEM context? How can we detect vulnerabilities and, more importantly, how can we prevent them?

    Hope to catch up with you at CQCON 2013

     

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    May 24, 2013

    CQCON 2013: A mobile user interface love story

    Posted by Damien Antipa

    Once upon a time... CQ teamed up with Sencha's ExtJS to provide customers with good looking, feature rich web interfaces that felt much like desktop apps. But some paths lead to new roads. Adobe CQ (now part of Adobe Experience Manager)  has found a new love in the shiny new world of tablets and smart phones.

    Join me at CQCON 2013 in Basel and I'll' introduce you to CQ's new love. I’ll explore the advantages that you will have in your future work environment and explain why Sencha ExtJS is still an important part of Adobe CQ. I’ll do a deep dive into the new touch optimized user experience interface, highlight its benefits and give you insight about the new opportunities coming. Our story will not end here, I will also give you a peek into future developments with RESTful touch friendly web applications with responsive layout and fast Javascript magic on top.

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    May 22, 2013

    Best Practice Mobile First & Responsive Design Session at CQCON 2013

    Posted by Bruce Lefebvre

    It's a romantic idea: a website capable of detecting the exact device it's being rendered upon and bringing forth a page perfectly tailored to its environment and network characteristics. Every pixel (or em) of available viewport real estate is accounted for. Staples of the individual device user interfaces - such as leatherbound skeuomorphism on the iFamily or clean, grid based UI on Windows - are included to give your page that native feel. Device features including touch gestures and geolocation are included for those device groups which support it. Each piece of hardware your client wishes to support is accounted for. 

    However, the device manufacturers have other agendas. They want to make them smaller, then larger, up the pixel density, and make them wearable. TVs can now browse the Internet. Game consoles, too. New web enabled devices are entering the market faster than ever and their users expect your website to be usable. How can you keep up?

    Enter responsive web design. In 2010, Ethan Marcotte wrote an article on A List Apart [0] that would launch RWD into the spotlight. In this article he outlined what it meant to be responsive and detailed the "three technical ingredients" necessary for RWD:

    • fluid grids
    • flexible images
    • media queries

    With the momentum behind RWD picking up steam, we at Adobe began fielding questions on the best practices for implementing a mobile first site with Adobe CQ, now part of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). 

    I hope that you will join me @CQCON 2013 where I will present patterns for responsive design in Adobe Experience Manager and explain how to provide a media-rich HTML5 experience that is performant on low bandwidth connections. AEM's Geometrixx Media reference application, delivered in full source code with the product, demonstrates these techniques. I'll dive into how we used mobile first design principles, adaptive images and progressive enhancement to create it, and discuss the pitfalls that we encountered along the way.

    [0] http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design

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    May 21, 2013

    Adobe Experience Manager and Liberty Global

    Posted by Adobe

    The world’s largest international cable operator clearly understands that the quality and depth of digital experiences directly affects customer satisfaction. That’s why Liberty Global uses Adobe Marketing Cloud.

    The company’s old websites provided access to basic services and information. Unfortunately, the content management system Liberty Global built in-house couldn’t adequately support increasing customer service demands or the need to generate new business opportunities online.

    To create and deliver dynamic digital content across devices, Liberty Global chose Adobe Experience Manager. Its web content management and digital asset management capabilities helped Liberty Global build once and use everywhere. The company’s first new website using Adobe solutions was created in Germany and took six months to build—new experiences could be built even faster.

    “By reusing the components and templates in Adobe Experience Manager, we built websites containing more than a thousand pages for our Swiss operation in only eight weeks,” says Morgan Evans, Director Online at Liberty Global.

    Adobe Experience Manager integrates smoothly with other Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions, including Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target. Adobe solutions provide solid analytics across channels that help Liberty Global continuously measure, analyze, and optimize performance across its websites.

    “For the company, the returns from optimization have been strong. For example, optimizing call-to-action buttons on the product page produced a 23% increase in clicks,” says Evans. “By using Adobe Marketing Cloud to optimize our websites, we are able to more readily take advantage of opportunities and trends we see in the marketplace in order to improve customer engagement.”

    Learn more about Liberty Global and how it’s using Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions to enhance customer experiences by clicking here. http://adobe.ly/YHZlDA

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    May 20, 2013

    CQCON 2013 Integration Testing

    Posted by Lydia Balazs

    I hope you will join me at CQCON 2013 where I will cover the Integration Testing Framework used in Granite and Adobe CQ (now part of Adobe Experience Manager). In this session I will give an overview on how JUnit integration tests can be set up for any application based on Sling/Granite/CQ. Adobes Integration Testing Framework is based on the Sling Testing tools which supports client/server interactions over HTTP and scriptable server-side tests.

    I'm looking forward to CQCON 2013 in Basel and hope to meet many of the developers out there.

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