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70 % aller digitalen Transformationen scheitern. Dabei mussten sich Unternehmen schon immer an neue Umweltbedingungen anpassen und Veränderungsprozesse sind für die meisten Organisationen alltäglich. Was ist dann nur das Problem mit digitalen Transformationen? Und was können Sie besser machen? 11 wertvolle Tipps für eine erfolgreiche Digitale Transformation.
Read moreIn this Blogpost, we will talk about the xState JavaScript library for managing state in any Frontend Framework.
Read moreWith Vue.js 3 -Composition API your component can have multiple reusable LifeCycle hooks, which can be reused in your app. Read full article to read more about Dynamic LifeCycle injections
Read morePlus-shaped people are key to becoming an agile company, because they bridge the gap between strategic and operational agility. Learn about the concept of plus-shaped people.
Read moreLast year I had the opportunity to start working with Chef (and I'm not referring to the cooking area) and in this post I would like to share my experience with this tool to you.
Read more Some months ago I've attended the Vue.js Workshop held by Chris Fritz. In this workshop, he showed us a Vue.js component wrapping technique which is called transparent wrapper component
With this technique, you can give to native components like input, selects and other inputs superpowers. We will go over every part of this pattern and understand how it's done.
Der fünfte Blog Post aus meiner Reihe für Content Editoren über Sprachen und Versionierung
Read moreThis is the fifth post in a blog series for Sitecore content authors, covering languages & versioning
Read moreHow to pass Sitecore Certification Exam: simple study tips
Read moreDieser Artikel behandelt einen JavaScript Service Worker, der unabhändig vom JavaScript Hauptthread im Browser arbeiten kann. Mit dieser modernen Technologie können Webseiten oder Webapps offline verfügbar gemacht werden. Wir werden einen Service Worker aufsetzen und alle benötigten Ressourcen für einen offline Zugang im Cache ablegen. Unsere Demo Seite sollte danach auch offline verfügbar sein.
Read moreAfter Sitecore instances are running for a few years, templates tend to get cluttered with fields that have no meaning for content authors, like optional, legacy, or purely technical fields. In this post, I present a practical approach to hide all fields that are irrelevant to the content authors.
Read moreShort description on what CSP is and how we can secure our application today!
Read moreA quick run through the the Sitecore Symposium 2018 in Orlando
Read moreDer vierte Blog Post aus meiner Reihe für Content Editoren, dieses Mal geht es um das Publishen
Read moreThis is the fourth post in a blog series for Sitecore content authors, covering publishing
Read moreA lot is happening with Augmented Reality on the web. This blog post is about our experiments using the latest awesome capabilities of Augmented, Virtual, Mixed and other named Realities on the web.
Read moreExtextera hat 7 Fragen an Stefan Malär, Managing Partner von oddEVEN gestellt. Hier finden sie die Antworten.
Read moreSitecore 9 introduces some major concept changes and drastically changes the installation process. In this post I will give an overview of the new installation process and hightlight some new features.
Read moreWanting to convert your Sitecore website to a single-page app with minimal changes to your architecture? This blog should help you get started.
Read moreTogether with Swiss Re we presented the PULSE portal project at the Sitecore Digital Destiny Tour in Zürich. This article will give you a summary of the presentation and some impressions of the day.
Read moreYou will learn in this article why agile delivery needs to be complemented by agile discovery.
Read moreWe have been experimenting with different VR headsets and technologies to find out what is possible today in AR and VR, especially on the web. In this post, we share our experience.
Read moreGet an overview of the basic tools and techniques involved in troubleshooting production issues with .NET-based applications.
Read moreThis is the third post in a blog series for Sitecore content authors. It covers the navigate ribbon.
Read moreDies ist der dritte Blog Post aus einer Reihe für Content Editoren. Er beschreibt den Navigate Ribbon.
Read moreThis is the second post in a blog series for Sitecore content authors. It covers the home ribbon, deleting items and sorting.
Read moreDies ist der zweite Blog Post aus einer Reihe für Content Editoren. Er beschreibt den Home Ribbon, Löschen und Sortieren von Items.
Read moreSponsored by oddEVEN, Matthias Eigenmann will be sailing around the world for 11 months – for the thrill and against plastic pollution. Matthias will join the clipper race, starting in Liverpool, on August 20th 2017 and finishing on July 28th 2018.
Read moreI’ve recently been playing around with the Docker SQL Express image to figure out how I can use it in my Sitecore development and testing. Installation was a breeze, and once I got it playing nicely with my local Sitecore website, provisioning Sitecore DBs was a walk in the park.
Read moreInnovation happens in people’s minds – to enable it, they have to learn how to let go. Read about how to learn that and apply it in your organization.
Read moreInnovation entsteht in den Köpfen der Menschen und damit das möglich ist, muss man loslassen können. Erfahren Sie wie man das lernen und in Organisationen einsetzen kann.
Read moreThis is the first post in a blog series for content authors. It covers application options, the quick action bar, and content tab controls.
Read moreDies ist der erste Blog Post aus einer Reihe für Content Editoren. Er deckt Anwendungsoptionen, die Quick Action Bar und Contentreiteroptionen ab.
Read moreDie MarTech ist, international gesehen, die grösste und wichtigste Veranstaltung zu den Themen Marketing Technology Management, Methodik und Lösungen. oddEVEN war natürlich vor Ort und berichtet im folgenden Beitrag über die Highlights aus San Francisco.
Read moreStatt immer nur in neue Marketing Technology zu investieren sollte dringend mehr Fokus darauf gelegt werden diese aus sinnvoll und gewinnbringend zu verwenden. Dieser Artikel beschreibt was die Voraussetzung für eine erfolgreiche Verwendung ist, was es dazu für Mitarbeiter braucht und wie das Marketing agiler gemacht werden kann, damit man sich kontinuierlich verbessert.
Read more In diesem Beitrag werden wir folgende Punkte anschauen:
- Was ist ein CSS Framework?
- Unterschiedliche Projektphasen mit einem Framework
- Erweiterung eines Frameworks mit einer CSS Methodology
Die MarTech San Francisco 2017 begann heute mit einer Preisverleihung und der Eröffnung der Ausstellungshalle im Hilton am Union Square in San Francisco.
Read moreDie MarTech ist, international gesehen, vermutlich die grösste und wichtigste Veranstaltung zu den Themen Marketing Technology Management, Methodik und Lösungen. oddEVEN ist natürlich vor Ort und berichtet im oddEVEN Blog über das Geschehen in San Francisco.
Read moreSitecore ist ein verbreitetes Customer Experience Management System. Wie man es sicher und hochverfügbar betreibt, zeigt Hosting Experte Markus Häfeli vom Zürcher Hoster aspectra in diesem Blog Beitrag.
Read moreCustomer Experience Management (häufig abgekürzt als CEM oder CXM) ist als Begriff kompliziert und als Buzz-Word verunglimpft, was wir persönlich sehr schade finden, da er durchaus seine Berechtigung hat.
Read moreEverybody is trying to keep up with the latest technology trends and gadgets, but the key factor is the people. Technology is only a means to connect to your customers and enable employees. We will talk about the why, what and how you need to focus more on people instead of technology.
Read moreIt is an exciting time to be a Sitecore developer these days now that Habitat and Helix are out to fill in what we all felt was missing from Sitecore all those years: patterns and standards.
Read morePeople not technology are the key factor for a successful digitalization. Everybody talks about the world becoming more and more digital. Companies therefore need to become more agile and customer centric, which can be enable by new technology, but the key factor to be successful are still the people.
Read moreThe Sitecore Helix design principles exist for more than a year now and have caused quite some excitement in the Sitecore developer community. Here is a brief introduction of the principles, in case you are still missing out on it.
Read moreGion Kunz from oddEVEN talked at the VOXXED DAYS 2017 in Zurich about using SystemJS in web projects. He demonstrated how to start using the ES Module loader standard today and drastically reduce tooling complexity. Due to its universal nature, it is possible to utilize it as a tool to create optimized resources or run it directly in the browser. This should make SystemJS the first choice for many applications.
Read moreDigitale Disruption ist allgegenwärtig. Dennoch sind zahlreiche etablierte Unternehmen gar nicht oder schlecht vorbereitet. Dieser Artikel beschreibt welche 4 Fähigkeiten essentiell sind, um sich vor den Gefahren digitaler Disruption zu schützen und die sich eröffnenden Möglichkeiten zu nutzen.
Read moreIn this article you will learn more about what digital disruption actually means and what not.
Read moreIn this article I would like to think about a meaningful definition for the word "Digital". A word, we use so often in very different contexts, but most of the times I would say we don't really know what we talk about - especially when we start to combine it with other words.
Read moreWenn die Navigationselemente von dem Nutzer der Webseite nicht schnell gefunden werden, ist der Nutzer nach ein paar Sekunden wieder weg. Für den Erfolg einer Webseite oder einer Applikation ist eine klare Nutzerführung ausschlaggebend. Wir werden uns nur mit der Problematik des Navigations-Patterns befassen und eine Lösung für die Verbesserung erarbeiten.
Read moreEine fragmentierte Marketing Technology Landschaft hat einen direkten negativen Einfluss auf die Geschäftsziele eines Unternehmens. In diesem Artikel stellen wir die 3 wichtigsten Schritte zur Harmonisierung derer vor: Vorbereiten, Zusammenstellen, Betreiben.
Read moreA Sitecore config patch that is environment-server-specific will definitely require different versions, therefore, config transformation is necessary to avoid manual modification. Though, by default, transformation is only supported for the Web.config file there are many tools available that will help you achieve this. However, most of them require that your config transforms do not go beyond the limits of your configurations.
Read moreIm diesem Beitrag fassen wir die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse der zweiten MarTech Europe zusammen, welche Anfang November in London stattfand. Die Konferenz bestand aus einer Mischung von Praxisbeispielen und Expertenbeiträgen alle rund um das Thema Marketing Technology. Insgesamt lag der Fokus dieses Jahr auf Agilität, Betrieb und Skalierung von Marketing Technologien.
Read moreThe Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) offers a completely new approach of creating websites with Sitecore. This article gives you an impression of what to expect and introduces this new technology.
Read moreComponents have become a core asset of most modern frameworks like React or Angular. Even the web standard is evolving into a component based direction with the Web Components proposals. What’s behind this movement in user interface development?
Read moreWe demonstrate an easy setup that allows anyone to send commands to your Internet of Things (IoT) device and get feedback. Our device of choice is Particle's Internet Button and we use an Android phone as SMS gateway. IFTTT's simple if-this-then-that recipes connect the Internet Button and the gateway phone.
Read moreWie erklären sie ihrem Management ihre Customer Experience und wie visualisieren sie diese? Hier stellen wir das Customer Journey Mapping vor, ein revolutionäres Werkzeug um ihre Kunden und ihr Unternehmen kennen zu lernen.
Read moreTracking events triggered on your site is obviously of vital importance to measure your visitors' behaviour and level of engagement. Sitecore does a good job of tracking events associated to a page that are triggered upon page visit - but in reality, we are more concerned about tracking client-side events especially since almost everything happens on the client-side these days due to the emergence of JavaScript frameworks like Angular and Ember.
Read moreBuilding client-side web apps is the new trend, which means a lot of XHR requests to the back-end. Luckily, Sitecore provides a highly configurable Item Web API to help you with querying items from the client-side. But if you want results that are bound to your models and end-points not containing your query, then you will resort to querying items against the context database using ASP.Net Web API... only that... it doesn't work out of the box.
Read moreThere's no denying that Web Forms is dying and MVC has taken its place... at least in my opinion. The Sitecore guys know it, and it's evident that there has been a major shift to the latter. If you're starting out as a Sitecore developer chances are you're gonna start with MVC. But what if you've already started with Web Forms and want to do the transition without giving up your precious sublayouts just yet?
Read moreMocking Sitecore has been a tough nut to crack since Sitecore lacks the necessary interfaces that common mocking frameworks need, which really screws up automated testing for a lot of us. For that we turn to isolation frameworks like TypeMock and Justmock which unfortunately come with a huge price tag.
Read more With Visual Studio's publish functionality you can conveniently preview how your web project behaves and looks like on your local IIS web server. With that said, I believe publishing makes sense only if you've done significant changes since, depending on how big your project is, it may take some time to sync your deployable project files with the web site root folder, and deploying new DLLs and config files will definitely restart your website and flush your caches.
But what if you just did a tiny update and just wanted to sync the changed file(s)?
In this article I’m going to share my observations and hopefully convince you to put an end to our beloved “rem” unit, that finally made it into our tools without fall backs (given IE8 dying slowly), but became totally useless in favour of the more popular CSS reference pixel.
Read moreBEM is not about writing class selectors with two underscores and namespace prefixes. BEM is much more than this. It’s a set of very basic rules in a simple but powerful methodology. It’s a way to approach state driven visual design and it’s a powerful communication tool.
Read moreIn this article I would like to show you a few examples how ECMAScript 5.1 changed the way I write code and how I learned to prefer, readable, maintainable and functional code over the lame old-school procedural (but sometimes more performant) code.
Read moreLet’s talk about Angular.js and how to build a nice intelligent product suggestion for our digital product.
Read moreI was playing around a bit with Object.observe which was promoted by many as the new holy grail of client-side MVC frameworks and I’ve found a few pitfalls that I’d like to point out here.
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