Delivering The Sitecore Experience

Traditional commerce has a buyer and a seller and can achieve linear growth. Growing digital business at scale requires a new business model and rapidly bringing new capabilities, products, and services to the market by partnering with 3rd party sellers. In the post-COVID era, online marketplaces will scale business with new partnerships, improved CX, lower costs, and improved efficiency. Making the case for Enterprise digital marketplaces (the what, why & how)  What is a digital marketplace: A marketplace is an e-commerce site where customers can choose from many products offered by multiple sellers. The key here is the emergence of the role of an Operator that is distinguished from a Seller. The focus areas for an Operator are: Seller onboarding & management Product listing Rules & processes Fund collection & distribution Order management & payment processing Fulfillment & logistics Financial services & management Reporting & analysis Value-ad...

When running Habitat Home build using build.ps1, the Sync-Unicorn task fails with the following message: Error: ERROR: Configuration(s) requested were not defined. (System.ArgumentException)<div class="stacktrace">at Unicorn.ControlPanel.Pipelines.UnicornControlPanelRequest.SyncVerb.ResolveConfigurations() <br />   at Unicorn.ControlPanel.Pipelines.UnicornControlPanelRequest.SyncVerb.Process(IProgressStatus progress, ILogger additionalLogger) <br />   at Unicorn.ControlPanel.Pipelines.UnicornControlPanelRequest.SyncVerb.<>c__DisplayClass3_0.<CreateResponse>b__0(IProgressStatus progress) <br />   at Unicorn.ControlPanel.Responses.WebConsoleResponse.ProcessInternal(IProgressStatus progress) <br />   at Kamsar.WebConsole.TextWebConsole.Render(Action`1 processAction) <br />   at Unicorn.ControlPanel.Responses.WebC...

When executing  .\build.ps1 or .\build.ps1 -Target "Post-Deploy" commands to deploy Habitat Home build, the PS script fails with the error message; "GetResponse" with "0" argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden." ======================================== Sync-Unicorn ======================================== Sync Unicorn items from url: https://sitecore93sc.dev.local//unicorn.aspx Executing: &"C:/Code/HabitatHome/scripts/Unicorn/Sync.ps1" -secret 749CABBC85EAD20CE55E2C6066F1BE375D2115696C8A8B24DB6ED1FD60613086 -url https://sitecore93sc.dev.local//unicorn.aspx Sync-Unicorn: Executing Sync... An error occurred when executing task 'Sync-Unicorn'. Error: One or more errors occurred.         Exception calling "GetResponse" with "0" argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden." The key to solving the issue lies in the following lines of code in Unicorn.p...

It started in April 2016 with EU's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), then came China's Cybersecurity Law (CSL) in Nov 2016, also known as China Internet Security Law, then add China's Data Protection Regulation (CDPR) to that and now California's Consumer Production Law (CCPA) went into effect in January 2020. With ever increasing data privacy regulations across the globe going into effect, we are seeing an increase in demand for compliance from large and small, private and public enterprises alike. Although achieving full data privacy compliance for each of the regulations may be a tall order, there is a silver lining here. All of the data privacy regulations seem to have evolved from GDPR and hence you see a lot of similarities across them The means that there is a common denominator to achieving some level of compliance across all the regulations and that is what I will attempt to cover in this post. If you deployed a leading Digital Experience Platfor...

Whether you are looking to leverage the headless CMS capabilities of Sitecore XP or simply looking to federate content and presentation via Sitecore's APIs, Sitecore Omni has exactly what you are looking for. Peeling the layers behind Sitecore Omni, here is everything you can get from Sitecore XP. For the purpose of this post, I will focus on the API layer of Sitecore. Sitecore provides the following APIs: Sitecore Services Client API Sitecore GraphQL API  Sitecore Layout Services API Sitecore Services Client API Uses ASP.NET Web API as foundation for a RESTful API. Provide ItemService (Sitecore content items) and EntityService (custom business objects). Allows execution of Sitecore Search. Pros Available OOTB in older and newer versions of Sitecore XP. Provides read-only access to content item as JSON OData. No server-side code needed. Provide RESTful API for CRUD operations on items and executing Sitecore Search queries. Supports authentication ...

While working on a project last year, we were looking at various options for our Microservices hosting strategy. My colleague came across this decision workflow from Microsoft for their Azure hosting service options and I thought of sharing it here. This decision workflow can help in the following scenarios (and others): Hosting options for new build vs migration Overall cloud migration strategy Web & API hosting options IaaS vs PaaS vs serverless Microservices deployment and scaling strategy Feel free to comment on ways in which this may have helped you.