What's new in Sitecore 8?
Jan 21, 2015
When you first login to the new Sitecore 8, you’ll definitely notice a change (a new login page, to start). Sitecore 8 has some major differences from previous versions – like naming, UI, features and more.
Here are a few naming changes you’ll notice:
- Page Editor is now “Experience Editor”
- Marketing Center is now “Marketing Control Panel”
- ECM is now “Email Experience Manager”
Experience Features
- New UX & UI that provides a slick experience
- New Dashboard providing a centralized place of all features of the experience platform - grouped into sections for Marketers, Editors, and Developers
- Availability of additional features from Experience Editor Ribbon
Developer Features
- New SPEAK based UI which has been extended with more components - giving a consistent experience
- Extended Reporting API to extract Data in Experience Analytics
- Versioned Layouts allowing for different presentations on different versions of different languages
- Mongo Database as Collection Database for collecting huge amounts of visitor behavioral data and a new reporting database for consolidation and reporting on the collected data
Marketing Features
- Experience Database collects all online and offline interactions to provide for managing customer experience in real time
- New “Experience Explorer” mode lets marketers test marketing automation and simulate visitor experience
- New reports in Experience Analytics prove valuable insights into your marketing campaigns
- Integrated Social Connected module i lets you connect to Facebook, LinkedIn, G+, & Twitter
- Path Analyzer feature analyzes the site visitor's behavior in the site
- Federated Experience Manager that can provide tracking on external sites
- New reports in picking winners of A/B tests and optimization efforts
- New performance reports on not only tests, but also on individual testers giving insight into the optimization efforts of each individual
These features would give your organization a way to understand your visitor behavior and optimize your efforts of reaching to them without any custom code. From what we've seen so far, Sitecore 8 is an exciting new release that your editors, developers and marketers will love!
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