There has to be a solid content experience to enable a smooth customer satisfaction over any content management system. The application crash can be very costly for the customers too. 98% of organizations claim 1 hour of downtime costs on average $100K for them.
Let us see the building blocks for enabling smooth engaging digital experiences.
- Rapid Development
- Easily scalable capacity
- Continuous performance monitoring
- Enterprise grade security
Below given the common challenges with AEM On Premise which organization usually face
- Slow time to market
- Too costly to scale
- Performance risks
- Security threats
The advantage AEM Cloud Managed Cloud services.
Below given the list of values of moving AEM to Adobe Managed Cloud Services.
- Dedicated Hosting Environments
- Expert Support
- Go Live Process coaching
- Auto Scaling for peaks
- 24x7 Monitoring & Event Response
- FedRAMP, GLBA,HIPPA,SOC-2,ISO 27001(Security, standards & Law enabled)
- Customization Best Practices
- Updates & Patching
- Change Management
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
Cloud improvements in AEM 6.4 are mainly under Cloud scale & Security:
- Cloud manager: Which facilitates the self service through interface
- Continuous Integration & Continuous delivery
Common release challenges an AEM Project faces usually:
There are cases where we need to push the changes due to business requirements from dev to qa, stage & prod environments. It can be quick manual fixes, or production fixes. Due to this product become unstable which will have impact on business in the areas like, slow time to market for custom fix or new features, User experience issues due to low quality code, lac of control & quality in managing releases.
How do we achieve a better control over the quick & stable deployments
One option could be the cloud manager self service portal newly available in AEM. This helps to
- Setup and configure environments
- Manage roles and permissions
- Monitor application performance and Key process indicators.
The cloud manager helps to build the code, deploy artifacts, once tested release it to production in an efficient and quick way.
The new AEM provides CI/CD Frameworks with
- UI to set up CI-CD Pipeline
- Code inspection based on best practices
- Automated functional & Load Testing
- Security validation
Also the cloud manager enables
various deployment modes like
- Automated deployments for mature pipelines
- Scheduled deployments for flexibility of deploying even business hours
- Manual deployments for maximum control and custom deployments.
Summary:
The
key benefits of cloud manager are given below
- Speed delivery of customizations
- Minimize user disruptions
- Provide more flexibility and control
- Ensure customer KPIS are always achieved
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