December 2021 Updates for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service

Now Available: App Builder extensibility for Adobe Experience Manager is a new add-on that expands the ways customers can extend Adobe Experience Manager and integrate it with other Adobe and third-party solutions. Customers can even try App Builder before they buy.

Partners in technical roles interested in learning more about App Builder can take the App Builder: Getting Started or App Builder: Build Customer Applications on-demand training.

New! Headless Developer Journey Page on Experience League offers developers one-stop access to all Adobe Experience Manager Headless resources, tutorials, and documentation. Developers who are ready to explore or start delivering content through APIs today can explore the landing page.

Sales Plays are designed to help you position Adobe Experience Cloud technology for sale with a repeatable, standardized, and customer-centric approach. All Sales Plays are grounded in proven sales motions and are foundational to help you create and progress pipeline. Please check out the new Content sales plays on SPP to help you drive sales that include Adobe Experience Manager.

Content for All features help teams create valuable, on-brand customer experiences.

• Experience Manager Assets: Connected Assets—Lifecycle Events connects Experience Manager Sites and Assets deployments, allowing access to assets for remote authoring of experiences. This prerelease feature on Experience Manager as a Cloud Service will be made available for all AEM deployment types.         
• Experience Manager Forms: New Out-of-the-Box Themes helps organizations standardize forms with style. Previously available on AEM Managed Service; these Themes are now available as a prerelease feature on AEM as a Cloud Service.
• Experience Manager Forms: Forms Portal gives organizations a portal for end users to save forms fields securely and retrieve them without loss. Previously available on AEM Managed Service, Forms Portal is now available as a prerelease feature on AEM as a Cloud Service.

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

• Experience Manager Sites: Quick Site creation is now generally available, with features that give brands low- to no-code tools so they can go live in just days. Learn more here.
• Site templates use pre-configured pages, layouts, and themes to deliver a quick start for experience creation.
• Quick site-creation wizard lets business users import existing site templates for content population with no coding requirement.
• Integrated front-end workflow helps developers update and preview style changes locally before deploying them through a separate front-end pipeline.
• Experience Manager Sites: self-service reference demos, available on Cloud Service deployments, can be used to showcase product, test new functionality, and troubleshoot. These demos serve as a best-practice omnichannel reference implementation for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service. Sites, Commerce, and Assets are available now; Screens and Forms are on the way.
• Experience Manager Sites: Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) Enhancements make building commerce experiences faster and easier.
• New Product Recommendation types, including recommendations based on recently viewed items, are now supported within the component library.
• Dedicated myAccount pages for order history, address book pages, and more are now based on shared components for improved time to value.
• WCAG 2.0 compatibility for additional CIF components improves end-user accessibility.

Cloud Foundation features accelerate time to value and reduce total cost of ownership.

• New Cloud Manager UI offers easier, faster self-service configuration of Environment Variables, so users can create configurations themselves and update or delete them as needed. Free-form variables and secrets support unique context-based configurations and protect sensitive information throughout version control. Read more about this enhanced capability.

• Pay-TV giant BT Sport relaunched its website and app on Adobe Experience Manager Sites as a user-led digital experience, resulting in 39% more visits, 19% more page views, 35% faster page loads, more efficient asset management, and faster content launches.

• The AEM Champion Program launches in February 2022; we are requesting customer nominations from internal teams now.
• Nominate a customer as an AEM Champion.

Use these resources to make sure your customers’ have the knowledge and tools they need to keep their companies at the forefront of digital experience management.

• The popular Adobe Experience Manager Sites Basics skill-builder video series is now available on Experience League. The series shows new customers, or those who wish to improve their skills, how to create rich and engaging customer experiences in Adobe Experience Manager