This document summarizes new features in Adobe CQ 5.5, including improved integration with Creative Suite for rich media management, enhancements to the authoring and developer experiences, and support for mobile applications and e-commerce. It highlights capabilities like editing rich media directly in Creative Suite and leveraging the cloud for asset transformations and delivery. The document also lists next steps like downloading a free CRX developer edition.

1. CMS Tools For Developers, etc.
Owen Harris, PMP | Senior WEM Consultant, Adobe Consulting Services JAPAC
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2. Adobe CQ 5.5
“Enterprise Open Source”
Content Apache Felix
Management Apache Sling
System Apache Tomcat > CQSE
Apache Webserver
Java SE 1.6.0
“Everything is Content” OSGi
Content created by User RESTful Web API Architecture
Developers add functionality > CQ5 WEM + CRX JCR
Create once, reuse everywhere CRXDE/Eclipse + SVN + Maven
Multi-channel publication
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3. Personalized, Measurable Experiences Cross Channel
OPTIMIZATION
CONTENT
DATA

4. Adobe CQ5.5: Areas of Innovation
§ Creative professionals workflow with Creative Suite 6
§ Personalized engagement and experience optimization
§ Content for (mobile) applications
§ e-Commerce integration framework, pre-built Hybris integration
§ Author and User experience enhancement
§ IT agility
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5. Seamlessly integrate rich media management with CS5.x
Value: Harness the power of Adobe Creative Suite and Creative Cloud
to speed campaign execution for cross-channel digital experiences.
§ Rich media editing and management from within Creative Suite (via Adobe Drive &
Adobe Creative Cloud)
§ Leverage the cloud for scalable, on-demand rich media transformations
§ Management and dynamic delivery of rich media assets, including video, powered by
Adobe Scene7
§ XMP metadata editing with round-trip support for CS5.x+
§ InDesign files content and asset extraction for multi-channel repurposing
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6. Author & Developer Experience Enhancement
Value: Shorter implementation, faster iterations, overall agility
§ Authors
§ Editing: Undo/redo changes made on page step-by-step while editing the page
§ Forms: Make fields conditional based on values of other fields
§ Campaigns: Improved teaser management and calendar view visualize on/off times
§ Developers
§ Flexible mobile device group mapping
§ Syncing between repository and file system with “Vault Sync”
§ Widget UI toolkit updated to ExtJS 3.4, based on jQuery Mobile
§ IT
§ “Cloud Manager” to remote deploy and control instances in Amazon EC2
§ Monitoring and automation using JMX (Java Management Extensions)
§ Provide single WAR deployment for Application Server Containers
§ IPv6 compliance
§ Support for Java 7
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7. Work with Rich Media Assets in Creative Suite
WebDAV or Network Share
Adobe CQ
HTTP
Digital Asset
Management
Adobe Drive
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8. Next Steps
Download free CRX developer edition:
http://www.day.com/day/en/products/crx.html
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