This business session will weigh the benefits and challenges of upgrading to AEM 6.2. See how your peers managed and got the most out of the product by minimizing the risk associated with major upgrades.

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aem 6.2 - what is in it for you?
thanesh sadachcharan
director, architecture, 3|share
08/30/2016

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● why upgrading is important
● aem release practices
● demonstrations & value factors in 6.2 features
● considerations before an upgrade
● q & a
overview

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reductions
• support costs & training costs
• business risks
• integration costs
• software maintenance & development
improvements & increases
• revenue & profit
• information quality & reporting
• productivity & processes
• innovation
upgrading is important (don’t be in the news)

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● major release every year around the time after adobe summit (GA april/may)
● service packs or minor releases are released throughout the year
● feature packs (FP) or hot fixes (HF) released based on request and priority (might cost)
● current latest release : aem 6.2 (major)
● release date: april 21, 2016
● documentation : https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2.html
aem release practices

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● 21 iterations of quality control
● 972 enhancements, fixed and new features
● 6.1 feature packs, service packs and hotfixes included
● no more
○ client context replaced by context hub
○ teaser is now target
○ mvt component removed!
○ cq Statistics (most used feature ;) )
● major updates - hold on!
aem 6.2 - what’s new?

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user interface
demo

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user interface
ability to have different viewpoints such as columns, lists, cards etc. cleaner backend user
Interface with coral ui

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omni search
demo

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omni search
amazing! can get to content and pretty much anything else so much faster ( less clicks),
reduces effort to create content (a marketer’s objective)

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content fragments
demo

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content fragments
ability to create text content such as disclaimers extremely fast without having to develop
any templates or components. Also reusable on any channel - allows contributors to focus on
different aspects such as content creation/copy writing vs design/experience

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asset insights
demo

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asset insights
leverage the analytics information to find out how assets are being leveraged - if anything at
least you can maintain a decent size repository

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smart tags
demo

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smart tags
associate tags easily to assets - more times than not sometimes it helps with search filtering
as well as it reduces redundant tagging exercises

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template editor
demo

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template editor
reduced development time! allows non technical members to create new experiences
without being tied to a release cycle

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areas & targeting
demo

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areas & targeting
act local, think global!

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aem mobile
demo

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aem mobile
create, manage and publish assets, content, content fragments for users and segments on
your mobile app as well as manage all your mobile applications from a single platform! reduce
investment costs by utilizing existing development teams instead of hiring silo developers for
different operating system.

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● consider when you want to do an upgrade
● evaluate business and technical assessment on the benefits and drawbacks of upgrading to a
particular version
● set up expectations for project time lines in case the upgrade is not a simple dot upgrade
● work with a vendor who has executed aem 6+ upgrades and has good experience with
infrastructure issues
● consider some time for user training and adaptability if migrating from aem 5x
what should you consider before an upgrade?

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q & a

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thank you!