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My notes about MVP Summit, DX, and SUGCON NA events

Last October, I had the privilege of attending the MPV Summit, DX 2023 Minneapolis, and SUGCON NA events. The intent of this blog is to emphasize and summarize important information presented for Sitecore products.

XM Cloud Plus emerges as a new intuitive UX navigation or Cloud Portal that facilitates easy switching between the Composable DXP Products. That is the reason for the slogan “Better Together”.

The idea to disrupt, accelerate, and innovate comes with the idea of taking advantage of the XM Cloud benefits:

  • Reduce site management and infrastructure costs.
  • No hosting effort and responsibility
  • Future upgrade cost avoidance
  • Agility of headless content delivery
  • Freedom of technology
  • Embedded site and page analytics

XM Cloud is constantly releasing, modernizing, and simplifying their capabilities such as the following ones:

  • Site management improvements to ease configuration of the sitemap, supported languages configuration, and SEO.
  • Evolution of the full visual and styling on the page composition builder.
  • XM Forms comes out as a new drag-and-drop feature through a visual form builder. That is a new component through the page visual page builder. Capture the form submission action to trigger custom actions such as delivering the data to one CRM or CDP. The roadmap of this feature will include new functionalities such as multi-page and multi-step forms, conditional logic, pre-population from third-party data sources, form field reporting or analytics, and multilanguage support.

For developers who want to learn and get started quickly with XM Cloud and SXA, there is an XMC Foundation Repository that provides a baseline repository and framework for XM Next.JS applications. Here is the repository https://github.com/sitecorelabs/xmcloud-foundation-head/tree/main

That application includes the setup steps to catch all routes for Sitecore and Next.JS integration. It contains several features:

  • Multisite Add-On
  • Personalize Add-On
  • SXA redirect handling.
  • Experience Edge Sitemap handling

Based on that repository, there is another custom example located at https://github.com/sc-justinlaster/revalidation

For Sitecore CDP and Personalize, there are three new roles: read-only, analytics, and developer.

The tool Engage SDK is located in this repository https://socket.dev/npm/package/@sitecore/engage. This product sends behavioral and transactional data from a web application to Sitecore CDP or Personalize.

For Sitecore Personalize, is important to establish a clear separation of experiences and experiments. To clarify, all web, interactive, and triggered experiences with multiple variants are now considered an experiment. Experience is focused on presenting personalized content to the user.  

Sitecore Personalize includes a new site analytics homepage that has the following capabilities:

  • Visitor count, session count, average session duration, and bounce rate.
  • Interactive heatmap grid for trends on when the website is most visited.
  • Top browsers, operating systems, and countries.

Content Hub leverages IA to improve taxonomies and drive better search results. The idea is to find content faster through similar image suggestions. There are asset recommendations to reuse existing assets that are similar or surface images in their campaign content. Additionally, Content Hub features 3D asset support.

Bellow other resources and documentation links

I hope this blog gives you information about some material and links collected from Sitecore NA events this year.