As most of you know sitecore 8 or sitecore XP ( experience
platform ) has been released lately with so many new feature, enhancements and
modifications, In this blog I will try to give you an overview on some of
sitecore XP updates.
NEW UI
The first thing that you will notice when you install a new
instance of sitecore 8 that it has a new UI starting from the login screen in
addition to the new launch pad as an alternative to their Desktop mode for an
improved user experience for administrators.
When talking about the new UI sitecore updates for sitecore
8 we have to mention SPEAK framework " Sitecore Process Enablement and
Acceleration Kit" which used instead of sheer UI for building the UI.
SPEAK is the new framework technology that sitecore start to
use it partially in sitecore 7 and later in sitecore 8 it replace the
XAML/Sheer UI, An important thing that should be mention about SPEAK is the
HTML5 and JavaScript the build the SPEAK framework.
Naming Changes
Second thing to talk about is that when you browsing
sitecore 8 you will notice that there are some naming changes like Page Editor
become "Experience Editor", Email Campaign Manager become "Email Experience Manager"
and Marketing Center become "Marketing Control Panel.
Experience Database
Third thing to talk about is the Experience Database which
is built as MongoDB to collect all online and offline interactions allowing huge amount of data.
Path Analyzer
Fourth thing to talk about is the path analyzer that Analyzes
actions and behavior for visitors in the site.
Experience Explorer
Fifth thing to talk about is the experience explorer to simulate the user experience to full understand what the customer sees when navigating the site and test the marketing automation.
Federated Experience Manager
Sixth thing to talk about is the FXM which is available in previous releases of sitecore as a separate installation but now it is already included in sitecore 8 which is used to test and track the external and non-sitecore sites into DMS. Yes sitecore can control external sites by just adding few JavaScript lines to the external a site.
In summary sitecore 8 comes with many great features I tried
to give you a quick introduction to these features by sure there are a lot more
and more maybe in the future I dive deep
into the mentioned above or talk about other new features.
Additional Reading
Keywords
sitecore,
sitecore 8, sitecore features, sitecore XP
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