Finally after 3 years Sitecore Symposium is back in-person in Chicago, today was the second day for 2022 Sitecore Symposium, there were a lot of news, updates, and new products announced, and if you missed it, don't worry I got you covered, Keep reading and you will catch up!

First thing I would like to mention that the keynote sessions, customer showcases and guests sessions are streamed live, so if you missed todays, don't miss tomorrow, go ahead and register, this will also make you helping in donation to Be The Match as Sitecore will donate $1 for every online registrant. Visit the Sitecore Symposium website to register.

Steve Tzikakis, Sitecore CEO Keynote Session

The keynote sessions started by Steve Tzikakis, Sitecore CEO, Steve focused on how content is the king , but only 1% of businesses invest in it. Elsewhere 5% of content is getting 90% of attention, and how If you can win that extra 1% imagine the impact that will have in your business, also how #Sitecore helps the worlds largest brands grow revenue and beat the competition through our modern, composable, SaaS strategy, in addition to the future expectation of Content market to grow by 20% over the next 7 years.

Steve also remind the audience with the 3 commitments that he made last time, with Continuous innovation which was achieved with the full modern cloud products that Sitecore offers, Customer Centric, where the customer is in the center for all development, and Not Compete with Ecosystem but help partners to deliver projects to clients. The result of all of this, are handful of products that they are cloud based, API first in a composable approach in addition to doubling the number of engineers working on these products.

With above in mind, Steve made new commitment for the upcoming future, with Value and innovation, investing in content and marsh together with partner community to unlick the value.

New Products Announcements

Now with the big news, new products are being announced!! Yes, new products, three new products has been announced!

Content Hub One

Sitecore has adapted its robust Content Hub offering for brands looking for entry points into digital experience delivery versus a holistic marketing strategy. The result is Content Hub One a focused, agile headless CMS system that allows brands to launch and manage experiences on digital channels – e.g., web, mobile, smart displays, voice assistants, and marketplaces.

Sitecore Content Search

Adds another piece into what you can choose for your overall solution (lego bricks approach). For example, you might take XM Cloud as your CMS to drive your website content publishing, but then you might use Sitecore Search to do the site search. #SitecoreSYM

Not all builds need advanced searching, so you might be okay with some simpler queries against Experience Edge GraphQL layer, but #Sitecore Search gives you that ability to really go for high quality, full-featured, content search in your solution

Sitecore Connect

Delivering on its promise of composability, Sitecore Connect – via a simple drag and drop UI – will allow brands to seamlessly and easily connect Sitecore products to an existing technology stack. With more than 1,000 connectors expected, Sitecore Connect will offer a low code / no code interface that will allow brands to build their own recipes or use the more than 400K community recipes expected to be offered through the product. Using Connect, brands can simply define a target system, set the flow and publish.

Sitecore CMO Paige O’Neill’s keynote session

On the next, we had Sitecore CMO Paige O’Neill’s keynote session, in which Paige shared exciting statistic about brands, customers, shopping experiences and more, adding screenshots for you to check it out: