November 2021 Updates for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service

The enhanced connector for Workfront and Experience Manager is now available. The connector strengthens the integration between Adobe Workfront and Adobe Experience Manager Assets, so organizations can accelerate the creation and delivery of personalized content at scale.

The connector offers auto-generation of linked Experience Manager folders to Workfront objects, mapping of Workfront metadata to Experience Manager objects, and bi-directional metadata updates. It supports AEM Assets Cloud Service, Managed Services, and on-premises deployments, and is available free of charge. Implementation must be performed by Adobe Consulting Services or a qualified Adobe partner.

• Customer-facing resources
• Adobe Blog
• Adobe.com Page
• Customer Webinar
• Experience League Tutorial Videos

• Documentation
• Workfront + AEM Assets On-Prem/Managed Services
• Workfront + AEM Assets Cloud Service

• Webinar Replay
• Experience Manager: Integrating AEM Assets with Adobe Workfront (December 1, 2021)

• Minimize risk of data loss on AEM as a Cloud Service: Offsite Backup/Restore protects all content stored and managed by AEM, with three-month backups in a geographic region outside that of the operating instance.
• Easily track migration readiness: Cloud Acceleration Manager lets users upload multiple BPA reports in the same project, and monitor progress using an easy-to-read, interactive Trendline report. See how it works.

• Cut AEM Cloud Service pipeline cycles from 45+ minutes to 10: Accelerated Front-End Pipelines let developers define and execute dedicated front-end-only code pipelines, including JavaScript and CSS, in parallel if needed.
• Accelerate AEM Cloud Service Code Quality Pipelines: The build step towards reducing pipeline duration has been accomplished. Future releases will increase efficiencies in the deployment step. Preview what's on the way.
• Monitor AEM Cloud Service health and performance: A custom New Relic APM monitoring suite gives IT and developer users access to key metrics from infrastructure- and application-level monitoring.
• New Cloud Manager APIs: Edit Pipeline, Program Creation, and Environment Creation APIs extend Cloud Service developer capabilities.
• Easily track deployed code in Cloud Manager. Git Commit ID—a unique new identifier generated by Git—simplifies tracking of commit details, comparison of commits, and visibility of commit changes. Learn more for both Cloud Service and Managed Services environments.
• Delight users with a more intuitive Cloud Manager experience: A new Pipelines page shows any pipeline’s execution status, with details on hover-over. A new Activity page provides an audit trail with a view of the pipeline and details of code execution status.

The AEM 6.5 Quarterly Feature Pack release is now available from Software Distribution. Highlights include:

• Adobe Experience Manager Sites
• Auto-generated sitemaps based on the SEO index package support sitemaps, alternate URLs, robot meta tags, and more, in Core Components.
• New multifield support for the multiline text data type.
  
• Visibility of asynchronous background jobs, to keep them from triggering multiple asynchronous operations on same paths.

• Adobe Experience Manager Assets
• Display of the number of assets in a folder - more than 1000 shows as "1000+".
• Accessibility enhancements  for Assets and Dynamic Media
• Dynamic Media now supports general settings configuration and setup publication

Find more information and links to documentation in What's new in AEM 6.5 Service Pack 11, on Experience League.

Build pipeline and engage customers and prospects with these real-world customer stories:

• Marriott uses Adobe Experience Manager, Audience Manager, Target, and Campaign integrations to drive dynamic content in emails and improve testing, to put it on track to earn and save over $1 billion.
• Coles is consolidating its brand websites to move customer connections online and understand the full customer journey, and has already seen 52% more visits and 55% more page views.
• CIBC improved banking customer engagement using Adobe technologies for 1.5x better mobile engagement, 2x web page conversions, and 65% lower cost per acquisition.
• Dick’s Sporting Goods uses AEM as a Cloud Service with the Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform to publish personalized content faster to all channels.
• Tile Shop uses AEM Assets and Creative Cloud smart tags to improve asset management and team collaboration, and deliver more engaging customer experiences.

Partners interested in AEM’s Headless capabilities for Omnichannel delivery should watch the most recent Experience Makers webinar recording, showcasing how Adobe Experience Manager can power content for iOS apps, single-page apps, and JS frameworks. Invite your customers to see how they can define headless endpoints in multiple ways to deliver content as JSON, AEM Graph QL APIs, and Content Services, to make rich experiences available at every touchpoint.