XM Cloud is known for its enterprise capabilities. But how do you architect and build multisite solutions at scale? There is not one answer to this topic, so get to know the right questions to ask before designing your solution for a future-proof architecture. Find out how we built multisite solutions twice with the SUGCON and MVP sites to explore different aspects.

Building multisite implementations at scale with XM Cloud

December 2024 Virtual Sitecore User Group

Virtual Webinar

As a developer, architect and partner-employee, Jeremy will try to give you the "I'm working on projects now" view of what Sitecore have discussed and announced, plus any interesting corridor conversation that he comes across...

A developer's view of Symposium 2024

Join Kelly and get the best parts of Sitecore's Symposium content directly from the product marketing team, including the onsite announcements, news on Generative AI and what's to come in the next 12 months from Sitecore's product roadmap!

Sitecore Symposium Nashville Takeaways

Having listened to two takes on the announcements, you'll probably have some questions. So we've left some time for discussion and answers.

Any questions?

London Sitecore User Group at Sitecore - November 2024

Sitecore

Kate will explain how to migrate your existing content from classic Sitecore XM/XP to XM Cloud effortlessly leveraging Sitecore`s XM to XM Cloud Migration tool. You will learn about the different options for transferring content, media assets, and user data using either the GUI or CLI, considerations and steps involved.

Migrating your existing content from Sitecore XM/XP to XM Cloud

SCS is now the de facto standard for Content Serialization for both Sitecore XP and XM Cloud. Adam will take you through the steps and tools he used to migrate his XP project from TDS to SCS. An overview will be given of the considerations, options for converting TDS projects to SCS modules and issues & solutions. As well as automating TDS file clean-up, validation and integration of SCS into Github Actions.

How to easily move from TDS to Sitecore Content Serialization

Peter will go through several fundamentals that are a foundation for taking the Content Hub Developer Certification and/or working on a Content Hub project. Basic schema configuration and more complex schema options with their use case and implications for platform users. Alongside many other Content Hub features, their purpose plus how to configure and use them to solve real world requirements.

Content Hub DAM & CMP Fundamentals

Manchester Sitecore User Group - September 2024

Code Computer Love

Introduction and welcome by Nick Towers, Remarkable Group CEO

A high-level look at some of our main learnings and takeaways from working on XM Cloud implementations over the last year or two.

XM Cloud: An Implementor's Perspective

<p>Dan will share critical lessons learned from existing XM Cloud implementations, covering:</pl> <ul>
  <li>An overview of common challenges and solutions encountered in past projects.</li>
  <li>Proven strategies and methodologies to ensure successful XM Cloud deployments though Sitecore’s Best Practices.</li>
</ul>


Critical lessons learned from XM Cloud

Extended Q&A and discussion session - How to plan an XM Cloud implementation?

Sitecore Content Hub is an enterprise product that delivers optimal value when used at scale. Peter will outline some of the features that enable marketers through the content life-cycle. Peter will share his own journey understanding the use case for DAM, CMP, and other Content Operations modules, exhibiting functionality which impressed someone whose Sitecore Developer eyes saw it as a fancy media library.

Content Hub: Features for Marketers

London Sitecore User Group at Sagittarius - August 2024

Sagittarius

In this session, Sitecore MVP Corey Smith covers practical techniques to optimize your Sitecore Headless solution built with Next.js and enhance your development workflow. Corey covers how to make use of features in the Sitecore Next.js starter kit and SDKs to simplify configuration, simplify upgrades, build a better editor experience, optimize code organization, and boost application performance.

Tips and Tricks for Next.js and Sitecore Headless

July 2024 Virtual Sitecore User Group

To facilitate a comprehensive omnichannel content strategy organizations and marketing teams need to become agile in their content production. In this session I will show practical use cases of how agile content workflows streamline and enhance operational efficiencies in the end to end content lifecycle.

Adopting an agile content workflow approach with Content Hub Operations

June 2024 Virtual Sitecore User Group

Having gone through a Sitecore XP upgrade to 10.2 and move to Sitecore Managed Cloud last year, Harald will be sharing how the team overcame some of the technical challenges, share some lessons learned for future upgrades, and talk about how they are implementing a blue/green deployment strategy on Sitecore Managed Cloud.

Sitecore XP Upgrades - Challenges and lessons learned

Alex will take us on a quick round-up of his highlights, new discoveries and lessons learned from this year's SUGCON held in Dublin.

SUGCON 2024 Highlights

Interested in learning about Sitecore's Generative AI Strategy? Surya from the Sitecore product marketing team will be sharing Sitecore's AI strategy along with some exciting partner innovations around GenAI. The session will also cover details on how Sitecore and the partner ecosystem can innovate and go to market together with AI solutions.

Gen AI and future of Enterprise DX Solutions

London Sitecore User Group at EPAM - April 2024

EPAM

Sitecore started talking about Accelerate at the end of last year, but what is it and why do you care as a Sitecore developer? Jeremy will explain what you need to know.

The what and why of Sitecore Accelerate

JSS and SXA have been a large part of the Sitecore platform for some time now. With the release of Sitecore 10.3 and XM Cloud, we now have Headless SXA. Alex will look at what this means, what is included, and show how you can get started with Headless SXA.

From JSS to Headless SXA

CDP and Personalise are the new composable replacements for xDB. They have a new way of thinking about data collection and user experience, so let's investigate!


CDP / Personalize demystified

Manchester Sitecore User Group at UNRVLD - March 2024

UNRVLD

With the announcement of XM Cloud Plus, Sitecore Search becomes even more interesting. In this session Sean will outline some of the challenges around adoption of Sitecore Search and highlight the approach for building a UI frontend for Sitecore Search results.

Storybook enables access to working examples of widget templates for Sitecore Search

Introduction to Sitecore Search JS SDK for React

Repository for Sitecore Developer Portal built with Next.js, Typescript, Chakra UI and Sitecore Blok

Sitecore Discover - how to start a conversation with your prospect (need to Sign in with a Learning@Sitecore account)

Implementation Tips and Tricks for Sitecore Search - Nick Papadogoulas Sitecore Senior Technical Product Manager - Search

Sitecore Content Search: Building a frontend for Sitecore Search results

A hands-on demo on how you can integrate Content Hub with your existing video delivery platforms for your end users. Julius will cover use of Action scripts, APIs, Web SDK, C# Azure Func app and more.

Streaming Seamlessly: Integrating Content Hub with your existing video streaming platform

JSS App Initializer docs (Getting started in Sitecore 10.3)

XM Cloud Foundation Head on GitHub (Getting started in XM Cloud)

London Sitecore User Group at Sagittarius - November 2023

An overview of how XM Cloud Components can use most other platforms as a datasource for components, even another CMS. It will also briefly review the overall landscape of Hybrid vs Pure Headless CMS offerings, FaaS, DXO, DXC, integration tools like Sitecore Connect, and hosting composition options such as Gatsby Plugins.

XM Cloud Components Using Another CMS as a Datasource

Adam will lead a discussion on whether SaaS and Headless is the ultimate solution for all clients, or if certain challenges and limitations could be prohibitive for some businesses. Please bring your own viewpoints and experiences to the discussion.

Debate Session - Is SaaS and Headless right for everyone?

Dominic will talk about his recent Client Case - BDR Thermea. A 9 month project to deliver a content rich suite of digital experiences with Sitecore XM Cloud at its core. He will cover the connection with Design tokens, Architecture used and how this was ultimately built for the client and its diverse content teams.

Increased Content Productivity with XM Cloud

Manchester Sitecore User Group at Code - September 2023

Sitecore Personalise delivers advanced digital experimentation at scale. In this session we will explore what it takes to progress your testing maturity, from building a culture of experimentation through to applying full-stack interactive experiments across the customer experience.

Becoming a Sitecore Scientist – How Personalise can scale your programme of digital experimentation

Sitecore Content Hub is a fantastic product that is extremely versatile for customers. However customers, partners and developers only think of this as DAM. It's so much more than this and Tim is going to give you a deep dive on all of the areas that make up Content Hub. Building upon this to talk through future possibilities and a demo of what could be possible.

The versatility of Sitecore Content Hub

This session will look into the Customer Engagement Console (CEC) of Sitecore Search using a real example; will briefly show how to setup Web Crawlers, Extractors, use of the API Explorer and Event Monitor, to understand the search result and monitor the experience of end users on a page.

A brief technical look into the magic of Sitecore Content Search

London Sitecore User Group at Explore - May 2023

Explore Group

There's a lot of talk about using Docker for Sitecore development (some of it Jeremy's previous user-group talks!), but what does it mean to take a container-based solution to production? What do you need to think about, and how is it different to a PaaS or IaaS deployment? This talk will give you a beginner's introduction to this topic, and help you understand what you need to think about for your projects.

What’s this Kubernetes business then?

Matt will take us through Content Hub One, including setting up content types, the 2 clients (.NET Core & Next) and more. A great oportunity to learn more about one of Sitecore's newest offerings.

Content Hub One - a deep dive

In this presentation you will learn how to setup an experience in the Sitecore CDP & Personalize and run it on a website. This includes building your targeted audience in real-time, flexible options for content editing and a few practical examples

Sitecore CDP & Personalize – targeting the real-time audience in experiences

Newcastle Sitecore User Group at EPAM - April 2023

Sumith will talk through the new Engagement Cloud JS SDK for React Apps. The talk will include a showcase demo of functionality, along with details of how the community can contribute.

Unwrapping the new Engagement Cloud JS SDK

James will guide us through some of the Dos and Don'ts for approaching Content Hub projects; a few lessons learned from projects Avanade have been involved in; and some advice for teams planning Content Hub projects at large organizations.

Lessons Learned and Experience Gained Implementing Content Hub at Scale

Sarah will inform us how Sitecore Connect can be used to import data from an external database or CRM to Sitecore CDP, including the setup of recipes and data mapping.

Leverage Sitecore Connect for Sitecore CDP

London Sitecore User Group at Avanade - February 2023

Avanade

Sitecore OrderCloud and Commerce specialised partner based in London

Assurex

Sitecore Platinum partner based in Edinburgh, London and Newcastle.

Sitecore Platinum partner based in Manchester.

Code Computerlove

Sitecore Gold multinational partner with offices in London, Dublin, Leeds + Manchester.

Dept

Technology Recruitment Specialists in Sitecore and more.

Sitecore Platinum partner based in Ashford, London and Leeds.

Sitecore Technical Partner offering end-to-end search solutions with Managed Solr infrastructure.

SearchStax

The reason we're all here - the creators of the software we're talking about.

Sitecore Platinum partner based in London, Manchester and Cardiff.

Sitecore Platinum partner based in London and Bristol.

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