Delivering The Sitecore Experience

Achieving the  Run phase means that you have arrived when it comes to your digital marketing goals and capabilities. Before you continue with the Run phase, if you haven't already read Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3 part series, I highly recommend reading the Crawl and Walk phases first. As this the last phase of experience marketing maturity, sky is the limit to what you can do with Sitecore's experience marketing features. Let's see what more we can do within our four categories of experience marketing tasks: Content Profiling Content Personalization Contact Profiling Analytics The Run Phase One thing you will start to notice as we get into the Run phase is that you start to blur the lines between the 4 categories mentioned above. Each category will start to get intertwined with another. Let's see how occurs in this phase: Content Profiling - Run Phase By now you should have a good grasp of audience segmentation and having arrived at well define...

Going through the recently published Sitecore StackExchange site, I came across a question regarding modifying the date format of visits in Experience Profile since it shows the dd.mm.yyyy format by default. In case you don't know what I am talking about, here is what it looks like: It's not just that one view, the default date format seems to apply to other views as well: My obvious thought here was that there has to be a config setting somewhere that controls this date format. Here is my process of elimination: Eliminated Experience Profile configs since it did not contain any date related settings Looked at showconfig.aspx and found some index fields that contained date formats but eliminated since the default format was yyyy/mm/dd Eliminated the Reporting Database since the data formats were different Looked at the service calls made by Experience Explorer to fetch view data and found this: "InteractionStartDateTime":"2016-10-20T15:34:20.44...