The document outlines ten compelling reasons to migrate from AEM 5 to AEM 6.1, highlighting improvements in user experience, full touch interface integration, enhanced translation module support, and easier maintenance. Other key benefits include improved performance, better marketing suite integration, introduction of a new templating language, simplified responsive design capabilities, better browser support, and enhanced personalization options. Overall, the upgrade presents significant advantages for users and developers alike.

1. 10 reasons to migrate from AEM 5 to AEM 6.1
30-09-2015

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Reason 1: Improved user experience
- Less clicks needed to navigate around.
- Within the Sites section (as well as other places inside AEM), you can now use your
keyboard arrow buttons to navigate through the various site structures, using the
Columns view.
- You can now save a search within AEM for later use, as a quick way to find a specific
piece of content.
- Users are able to open the Page Properties of multiple pages in order for an author to
add the same tag (as one particular example).

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Reason 2: Full touch interface
All features of the Classic UI are now integrated in the Touch UI:
- Tags are now completely integrated within the Touch UI instead of only being in the
Classic UI.
- Now you can use Design Mode right within the Touch UI page that you are on in stead
of switching to the Classic UI first.
- The Workflows system is now more fully integrated within the Touch UI instead of only
being in the Classic UI.

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Full touch interface

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Reason 3: Integration with translate modules
AEM is now more tightly integrated with translation services. It allows you to project
manage your translation work (managing your queue, prioritization, etc.).

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Reason 4: Maintenance made easy
AEM introduced a an operations dashboard, showing you the performance of AEM in a
instant.

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Reason 5: Performance
- AEM 6.1 is able to handle roughly 2x more visitors per second.
- AEM 6.1 stays stable under high load.

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Reason 6: Marketing suite integration
AEM is now more tightly integrated with other Adobe products:
- AEM is now integrated with Adobe Campaign, such that you can take a piece of content
inside AEM (like an email) and use it in Campaign.
- The integration of Adobe Analytics data with the pages of the site gives content
authors a quick view of how well things are tracking.
- Integration of Adobe Test&Target will allow you to create an activity with variations
inside AEM on a per-page basis, just like you would do with Adobe Test&Target.

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Reason 7: Templating language Sightly
AEM introduces a new templating language: Sightly. Sightly allows developers to create
better, cleaner and reusable components. This will lead to faster component development.

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Reason 8: Responsive made easy
- Marketers now have the tools to create responsive sites without a single line of code.
- If you make, for example, a change for desktop, it won’t affect what appears on tablet
or other device types.
- Using the “Layouting Mode,” regular authors can control the width of components on a
per-device basis.

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Reason 9: Better browser support
AEM 6.1 support all recent browsers used in Windows, Mac and Android devices.

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Reason 10: More personalization possibilities
If someone does not buy a product they viewed, you now can capture the abandoned
product and use that information to help put it front and center the next time that they
visit.

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