August 2021 Updates for Adobe Experience Manager

Please find technical and sales resources below regarding the August 2021 Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release. These updates are currently available to all your Experience Manager as a Cloud Service customers. Updates include capabilities that reduce the effort to integrate and extend Experience Manager and provide greater insights into service availability and performance. Learn more in the release notes*.

Content for All

Content for All features helps teams create valuable on-brand customer experiences:

Experience Manager Assets Essentials integration with Workfront gives new Workfront users a seamless connection to lightweight digital asset management, empowering more marketing and creative teams to deliver rich, personalized customer experiences at scale.
- Experience Manager: Adobe Workfront + AEM Assets Integration Webinar*: Recording | Slides
- Customer Pitch Deck: Adobe Experience Manager Assets Essentials Overview *
- XD Demo: Workfront + Experience Manager Assets Essentials
Experience Manager Assets: search enhancement helps users find content more efficiently by sorting search results.
Experience Manager Forms: workflow data externalization helps our customers handle Forms data more securely, with APIs to store the data being processed in a data store of their choice. This allows our customers to process approved sensitive personal data in Forms workflows.
Experience Manager Forms: enhanced Adobe Sign Integration now supports additional roles within signature workflows aside from Signer. Adobe Sign recipients may be assigned review roles such as Approver or Delegator directly within AEM Forms UI, enabling more streamlined end-to-end workflows.

Omnichannel Delivery

Omnichannel Delivery features help brands engage with customers quickly at any touchpoint with flexible, API-first experiences:

Experience Manager Screens: Cloud Service can now be added to AEM Sites/Assets on Managed Services so organizations can reuse content from any channel for digital signage while taking advantage of Cloud Service benefits.
Experience Manager Screens: experience prototype video thumbnail support decreases time to market when creating prototypes of planned digital signage, for better in-venue customer experiences.
Experience Manager Screens: playback monitoring alerts ensure uninterrupted content display.
Experience Manager Content & Commerce: enhancements to the Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) make building commerce experiences faster and easier, with:
New Category Picker UI improves customers’ experience finding product categories and delivers better support for complex product catalogs.
Enhancements to CIF Core Components now deliver accessibility and WCAG compliance out of the box, with no need for custom development.

Experience Intelligence

Experience Intelligence features help teams drive engagement and conversion with insights across the customer journey:

Experience Manager Forms: Analytics Integration for using Launch (CS) allows customers to derive better user insights and understand how forms are filled in, offering opportunities to raise form conversion rates.
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Reporting measures uptime for authoring and production environments, for insight into system performance. Learn more here.

Experience Manager Tutorials

Make sure your developers have the knowledge and tools they need to keep their customers at the forefront of digital experience management.

Adobe Asset Link 3.0 extension for Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise extends the capability to search, browse, sort, preview, upload, check out, modify, check-in, and view metadata of Experience Manager assets within Creative Cloud applications.
Assets Essentials describes folder structure and basic move, copy, and rename operations. New videos show how to use, create content, and collaborate on Assets.
Cloud Manager Pipeline Overview and Tour Guide provides an overview of the Cloud Manager Pipeline capabilities in Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.

Events

Adobe Developers Live: Join Adobe Experience Cloud product teams as they showcase the latest customer experience management technology advances and developer tools. Adobe Experience Manager will have more than 20 sessions. This includes mainstage events with Jean-Michel Pittet showcasing content velocity with headless content delivery, and Loni Stark with Michael Marth, covering Adobe’s cloud-native developer framework which includes novel capabilities to integrate with and extend Experience Manager.
Event dates are October 4-5, and will include an APAC-specific track
Partners and their customers can register here
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