Tuesday, 17 October 2017

What’s new in Sitecore 9

As you already know Sitecore announced the release of Sitecore 9 at the current Sitecore Symposium in Las Vegas, In this blog post I will give you a quick overview on the new features that came with Sitecore 9, in future posts will dive deep into each one of these new features.


1.     XConnect: It is a layer that exist between xDB and any device, which make it possible to access and query xDB data through an existing API.
2.     SC Headless capabilities which is a JS services that will allow users to acquire data.
3.     Personalized experience engine for commerce
4.     Enhancing xDB,  Now we can use SQL Server 2016, SQL Azure or MongoDB.
5.     Sitecore Forms Which is a new MVC forms that will replace the existing WFFM Module, Sitecore 9 will still support WFFM but in future releases it will not, This new forms is integrated within Sitecore not a separate installation.
6.     Express migration tool will support the upgrade from any Sitecore version to Sitecore 9, in addition it will support the migration of WFFM data into the new Sitecore Forms, in addition to xDB migration options.
7.     Marketing Automation – Omni-channel automation with updated engagement plans in a modern UI that is designed to work at scale with specific support for Personalization, Email, and Commerce scenarios.
8.     Dynamic placeholders now will be delivered out of the box with Sitecore
9.     Sitecore forms integration with Email Experience Manager.
10. Sitecore installation framework (SIF) which is the new way of setting up Sitecore installation, you can say bye to the old exe installation now everything will be run through SIF using power shell scripts, different packages are provided depending on the server role you want to setup.


You can download Sitecore 9 through the following link:

Also you can find more information about the new features and enhancements to Sitecore 9 through the following link:
https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Sitecore%20Experience%20Platform/90/Sitecore%20Experience%20Platform%2090%20Initial%20Release/Release%20Notes

Hope the above gave you a quick idea about the new things you will get in Sitecore 9! So don't wait and dow

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