Creating a smarter, faster digital experience has become a top priority for businesses aiming to attract more customers and enhance their brand reputation. To achieve these goals, companies are actively seeking solutions that meet their evolving needs. Yet, choosing a cost-effective and robust solution is essential for long-term success. For this reason, Sitecore Experience Manager Cloud (XM Cloud) is an ideal solution that offers companies great scalability and various features to drive growth and improve customer engagement.
What is Sitecore XM Cloud?
Sitecore Experience Manager Cloud (or Sitecore XM Cloud) is a fully managed, cloud-native, self-service digital experience platform (DXP) that empowers developers and marketers to efficiently launch engaging omnichannel experiences.
Built on Sitecore's headless CMS, XM Cloud simplifies content management and delivery, enabling businesses to create personalized digital interactions across any channel. This platform eliminates the complexities of infrastructure management, allowing teams to focus on crafting compelling customer journeys.
Sitecore XM Cloud Architecture
Sitecore XM Cloud employs a decoupled content delivery model, which separates the content repository (the "head") from the presentation layer (the "body"). With decoupled architecture, the platform efficiently delivers content across multiple platforms hosted on cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, resulting in faster delivery and reduced latency.
The platform integrates essential Sitecore XM tools, including Content Editor and Experience Editor, with advanced features such as Sitecore Pages and Content Manager to streamline content creation and management. Website content is primarily delivered through Sitecore Edge or other vendors via GraphQL endpoints.
The platform supports a variety of frameworks, including Next.js, ASP.NET Core, Angular, Vue, and React. Developers can manage XM Cloud instances and deploy custom solutions using the platform’s build and deployment services or the intuitive, UI-based Deploy App.
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5 Sitecore XM Cloud features
1. Drag-and-drop simplicity
Sitecore XM Cloud takes the complexity out of digital experience management by offering an intuitive, user-friendly interface. With its drag-and-drop functionality, marketers can easily design and update pages, manage layouts, and organize content without advanced technical skills. This simplified workflow reduces the time required to create engaging digital experiences and allows teams to focus more on strategy and creativity.
2. Built-in personalization
Personalization is a critical driver of customer satisfaction, with 71% of consumers expecting personalized interactions and 76% becoming frustrated when this does not occur. Sitecore XM Cloud addresses this need by offering seamless, out-of-the-box personalization capabilities within XM Cloud Pages. The platform allows marketers to create customized web applications and pages catering to different audience segments, ensuring visitors receive relevant content aligned with their specific expectations.
Embedded personalization includes built-in conditions and analytics for pages and sites, making it easy to define audience groups and target them with tailored content. Moreover, users can easily implement data-driven personalization, optimization, and A/B testing on any web page, campaign, or experience.
3. Lightning-fast performance
In today’s digital landscape, speed is critical. Sitecore XM Cloud is built with modern cloud architecture to deliver exceptional performance, ensuring e-commerce websites operate smoothly under any traffic load. According to research, 45.4% of visitors are less likely to purchase a product if an e-commerce website loads slower than expected. By leveraging cutting-edge cloud technology and SaaS performance, Sitecore XM Cloud can improve Google rankings and boost user satisfaction with faster load times.
4. Great scalability with unlimited sites and languages
Sitecore XM Cloud is designed for scalability - an ideal solution for organizations with a global reach or unlimited websites, apps, and digital experiences, all from a centralized platform. This flexibility ensures businesses can seamlessly maintain consistent messaging and branding across regions while localizing content to cater to specific markets.
5. Real-time insights
In a competitive digital landscape, real-time insights are essential for optimizing performance, and Sitecore XM Cloud delivers robust analytics to help businesses make data-driven decisions. The platform’s live data updates every minute provide a continuous, up-to-date view of trends. Additionally, its intuitive dashboards simplify performance tracking to help marketers easily extract actionable insights without requiring technical expertise.
FPT - Your trusted partner to leverage Sitecore XM Cloud
To enhance e-commerce websites, businesses need a reliable partner to leverage Sitecore’s powerful features. With extensive experience in digital commerce and a strategic partnership with Sitecore, a global leader in digital experience platforms, FPT is perfectly positioned to help businesses unlock digital transformation and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
FPT and Sitecore’s partnership dates back to 2015. As a Sitecore Platinum Partner in Asia-Pacific, FPT has consistently delivered transformative digital solutions across the region. In a collaborative effort, FPT and Sitecore have launched ON.E, an AI-powered e-commerce accelerator, combining Sitecore’s OrderCloud APIs with FPT’s tech expertise to accelerate time-to-market and deliver tailored solutions for global retailers.
Built on Sitecore’s flexible headless architecture, ON.E enables seamless shopping across web, mobile, and in-store channels. FPT enhances this with pre-built, composable components and industry-specific customizations, cutting time-to-market by over 30% and reducing costs by up to 55%.
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