Advantages of using Adobe Cloud Manager for AEM

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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AEM Cloud, Topology, Nodestore, Datastore App server, Auth. Web Server

 Below given some of the AEM specific combinations available.

AEM products

•     Sites
•     Assets
•     Forms
•     Screens
•     Communities
•     Commerce
•     Mobile
•     LiveFyre
•     Dynamic Media/Scene7
•     Brand Portal

Adobe Experience Cloud solutions

•     Analytics
•     Target
•     Campaign
•     Audience Manager
•     Media Optimizer
•     Primetime
•     Social
•     Mobile Services   

Which Cloud Environment is used?

•     Adobe Managed Services
•     Amazon Web Services
•     Microsoft Azure
•     Rackspace
•     Private cloud
•     Other   

Topology

•     Non-High Availability (1 Author active node, 1 Publish active node)
•     Publish-Farm (2 or more Publish active nodes)
•     Author-Cluster (2 or more Author active nodes)
•     Author-Cold Standby (1 Author standby node)
•     Author-Offload (1 or more Author active worker nodes)   

Nodestore Micro Kernel (MK)

•     SegmentMK with Tar
•     DocumentMK with MongoDB
•     DocumentMK with Oracle
•     DocumentMK with DB2
•     DocumentMK with MySQL
•     DocumentMK with SQLServer   

Datastore configuration

•     Segment
•     File System
•     Amazon S3
•     Azure Blob Storage
•     MongoDB
•     RDBMS   

Application Server

•     Jetty
•     CQSE
•     Oracle WebLogic
•     IBM WebSphere
•     Apache Tomcat
•     Oracle JBoss   

Security Authentication method

•     AEM
•     LDAP
•     SAML
•     Oauth
•     Other   

Web Server technology    

•     Apache
•     Microsoft IIS
•     Oracle iPlanet

AEM 6.4 Features

Our team had a chance to attend partner session of AEM 6.4 and excited to see the new features of AEM 6.4.

We are going to explain all of them in latest blog posts soon.

AEM 6.4 New Features

AEM 6.4 is a powerful digital marketing single platform which takes advantage of cloud, online & physical channel connectivity utilization of machine learning to personalized customer experience. AEM 6.4 is basically a cloud based architecture and shift content management from 'channel driven' to 'journey driven' now.
 
The latest AEM features are given below

1. Features based on cloud integration:
Efficient Omni-channel experience:
The latest tightly integrated Adobe Marketing cloud and Adobe experience cloud helps utilize content and data more closely than before. This helps in a fluid experience across all touchpoints.

Adobe Experience Cloud and Security:
Now the managed service clients have access to cloud manager which accelerates deployments and updates through a dedicated and powerful devops system which also ensures the security across channels.

Intelligent content delivery:
Utilizing the Sensei,  we can design , automate the best experiences to provide a 360 degree view of content which is most sensible to a specific user when ever he requires and in a suitable place.

What s Adobe Sensei?
 Adobe Sensei, is Adobe's Artificial Intelligence and machine learning framework, which automates the delivery of personalized content, empowering marketers to work smarter and faster.

Flexibility of accessing assets from Experience Manager to Creative cloud.
The Marketing cloud - Creative cloud(AMC-ACC) integration helps search, access, modify an asset stored in Experience Manager more quicker from a creative cloud.

3D capabilities:
Experience manager integration with Adobe Dimension CC, 3D assets can be easily convert to marketing assets.

2. Features based on AEM Usability

New Single Page Applications(SPA ) capability in AEM:
Now we can utilize the SPA editor and utilize any latest technology to integrate across multi channels.

Smart Tags and utilization:
Now using smart tags , we can discover relevant images easily & quickly. Utilizing

Dynamic Media Capabilities & Smart Imaging
Now utilizing the intelligent media capabilities, smart imaging understands the situation and compress the images and ensures a faster delivery. Smart crop is based on Adobe Sensei and detects the image which helps to crop the images more efficiently.

Automated Forms conversion:
A smart way of converting forms in other formats like PDF to a more user friendly mobile supported presentation.

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the Adobe Sensei capabilities, we can train the algorithm and in future use this information to automatically add metadata keywords.

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