What's New in Progress Sitefinity 9.2 Webinar

Sitefinity 9.2
and
DigitalFactory
October 2016

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Anton Hristov
Director, Product Marketing @ Progress
@AntonHristov

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Today’s Agenda and Housekeeping
Agenda
 Release Background
 What’s New in Sitefinity 9.2
 Digital Transformation Trends
 Progress DigitalFactory
 Q&A
Housekeeping
 Your lines are muted
 Recording will be available
 Slides will be shared
 Q&A
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Stakeholders
Developers AdministratorsMarketers

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Release Timeline 2016
 360-Degree Customer View
 Personalization campaigns
 Multilingual support for digital assets
 Multipage forms
 Feather framework (MVC) improvements
 Web Services API (OData) and JavaScript SDK
 Continuous delivery improvements
 Improved integration with Telerik Platform
 Refreshed Admin interface – new theme (beta)
 Bug fixes and various improvements
9.0
Q1, Mar 22
9.2
Q4, Oct 4
9.1
Q2, May 19
 HTML Editor improvements
 Content-driven mobile apps improvements
 Site Sync improvements and fixes
 Feather framework (MVC)– Events widget, fixes
and more
 Touch Points Discovery
 Revision History for Page Templates
 Calendar Widget (ASP.NET MVC)
 Add-ons extensibility framework
 Website Starter Kits
 Continuous delivery improvements
 Website Performance Diagnostics
 Precompilation improvements
Marketers
Developers
andITAdmins
Marketers
Developers
andITAdmins
Developers
andITAdmins
Marketers

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Sitefinity 9.2 Release Themes
Agility ManagementExperience
Optimization
Increasing reuse and
reducing time to market
Making marketers more
productive
Simplifying site
management and DevOps
Marketers Developers Site Admins and Devs
Release drivers
 Popular demand from customers and implementation partners
 Progress DigitalFactory – new cloud-based product offering

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Touchpoints Discovery
 Digital marketers can leverage machine learning to automatically discover important
customer interactions that attribute to conversions.
• Better prioritization of campaigns
• Focus on optimizing experiences that will increase conversions the most
Conversion: Contact Us From Submissions

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Page Template Revision History
 Quickly trace web page updates back to
a specific template change and revert
back to a previous version to resolve
issues.
 Ability to change template widgets from
pages
 Top requested feature

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Calendar Widget
 Easily display events in a calendar view without custom code using ASP.NET MVC technology

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Continuous Delivery
 Making website and content
configuration changes on multiple
environments often results in conflicts
during continuous delivery updates.
 Sitefinity 9.2 streamlines this process
and eliminates potential conflicts by
restricting file-based configuration
changes on certain environments and
storing others in the database, instead
of the file system.

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Website Performance Diagnostics
 Page performance profiling
 Page compilation tracer
 Slow pages detection based on
HTTP requests
 Granular profiling (SQL queries,
HTTP requests, background tasks)
 Recommendations for performance
improvements

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Increasing Reuse and Reducing Time to Market
Easily create starter kits from existing sites and use
them as the basis for new website projects
Site Starter Kits
Precompilation of pages to reduce initial load times
and improve website performance is now two times
faster than before.
Precompilation Improvements
Easily reuse website themes, functionality and
content across website projects
Add-ons Framework

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Sitefinity Add-on Extensibility Framework
 Improves productivity and increases speed to market
 Easy creation of add-on packages that can be installed, upgraded and uninstalled on
multiple Sitefinity instances
 Facilities modular development
• Reusability
• Automatic dependency management
• Follows best practices and guidelines for Sitefinity extensibility

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Sitefinity Add-on Overview
 An add-on is a NuGet package that also
includes Sitefinity-specific data and files
 An add-on may contain:
• DLLs
• Widgets & Templates
• Configurations
• Sitefinity data (Pages, Page Templates,
Dynamic Modules, Content items)
• Other files (js, css, Feather packages)
root
package content
tools
content
lib
data
configuration
net45
netXYZ
Sitefinity binaries
PowerShell scripts (PS1) used during
project creation and deployment
Physical content to be deployed –
pages, images, JavaScript, etc.
Everything required to alter the data store –
content, data, schema, etc.
Additional configuration and/or metadata files
required for Sitefinity installation
Standard NuGet structure
Sitefinity Custom NuGet structure

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Sitefinity Add-Ons Lifecycle
Prepare Create Publish
InstallRun
New add-on
or version
Public or private
repository
(NuGet)
Sitefinity CMS and Visual Studio
Sitefinity Website

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Transform the
customer
experience
Create new
business
models
Drive
operational
efficiency

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Digital Transformation Impact is Dramatic
Gartner Disrupting Digital Business
Ray Wang
“Leading CEOs tell us their digital
revenue will increase by over 86%
by 2020, to account for 41% of
revenue overall.”
“Category leaders drive 70%
more profits and 40 percent
more market share.”

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Market Reality
Business
Problem
Technology
Challenge
Marketing
Challenge
Business
Impact
• Poor customer experience
• Inconsistent brand presentation
• Can’t meet the speed of the market
• ”Infrastructure” challenges
• Strained resources
• Technology silos
• Can’t meet needs of individual markets
• Suboptimal, inconsistent customer journey
• Costly rework and duplication of effort
• Lost sales and customers
• Poor brand leverage
• Displaced by competitors

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Delivering Optimal Experiences is VERY Complicated
 We’ve been talking personalization for
a long time but…
• Tools are fragmented
• Omni-channel success is illusive
 Even if you manage to tie your
customer-facing systems, it’s legacy
the moment you roll it out…
• Very complicated
• Low velocity

Giving customers the right thing at
the right time…

DigitalFactory is a cloud-based digital
acceleration platform that helps
organizations to engage with
customers in the right way at the right
time, driving better conversions, higher
loyalty and increased revenue.

It does so by optimizing
customer engagement
across all digital channels,
tracking a comprehensive view of the customer journey,
deriving insights that drive actions

Unlike others, we are NOT focused on IT
or Marketing. We are focused on bringing
them TOGETHER.

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Business Challenge
Creating and managing a few websites and mobile apps
is easy. But crafting digital properties at scale with
speed, efficiency, proper governance and security—all
while delivering a consistent, personalized customer
experience, that’s a major challenge.
Progress DigitalFactory addresses these challenges, so
you can focus on delivering business results.

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DigitalFactory Use Cases
 Content Management
 Audience Management
 Experience Personalization
 Experience Optimization
Sites
Management
Enterprise
Mobility
Experience
Management
 Site Management
 Website Creation
 Consumer Apps
 Line of Business Apps
 Mobile Backend Services
 Mobile DevOps

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DigitalFactory Provides Business and IT Value
Centralized
Site/Application
Management: reduce or
eliminate infrastructure
management complexity
Centralized
Site/App
Management
Easy Content
Creation and
Reuse
Industry
Leading
Mobility
Customer
Journey
Optimization
Business
Driven
Automation
Easy Content Creation
and Reuse: content-first
approach, strong focus on
reuse with templates,
marketplaces, etc.
Blended Industry Leading
Mobility: mobility is blended in
the overall experience. Covering
all approaches – from
responsive, to hybrid, to native
(with NativeScript)
Customer Journey
Optimization: “single view of
the customer experience.”
Simplifying fundamental aspects
like tracking, attribution,
personalization,
Security,
Governance,
Compliance
Extensibility,
Delivery,
DevOps
Business Driven
Automation: powerful
rules engine to “take rules
out of the code” and enable
self-service
Security, Governance,
Compliance: Global
governance with local
control
Extensibility, Delivery,
DevOps: Everything
required to easily integrate,
extend, deliver and
manage at a global scale

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Why Choose DigitalFactory?

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DigitalFactory
(cloud-based)
Sitefinity CMS
(on premise)
High-Availability Hosting Environment Yes DIY
Staging and Production Environments Yes DIY
Continuous Delivery Yes DIY
Manage Multiple CMS Instances (Code Bases) Yes DIY
Content Delivery Network (CDN) Yes DIY
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for Sites Yes DIY
Web Application Firewall Yes DIY
DDoS and Network-level Attacks Protection Yes DIY
Automatic Backups Yes DIY
Proactive Health Monitoring and Error Logging Yes DIY
Automatic CMS Upgrades Coming soon DIY
99.95% SLA on Application Level Yes DIY
Marketplace with Private and Public Add-ons Coming soon DIY

Thank You!
Next Steps?
Contact us or get a trial
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