Deploy Cloud-Native HCL Digital Experience — in Minutes — with HCL SoFy

13. Januar 2021 Posted by Jason Cornell

Cloud-native adoption can seem complex and daunting — but it doesn’t have to be. Digital experience platforms that connect and integrate some or all parts of your enterprise require thoughtful planning, organization and testing to successfully make a cloud-native transition. The benefits to adopting a cloud-native approach, however, are huge. From reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO) to speeding up the development process and delivering experiences during peak times without service interruptions, adopting cloud will accelerate business processes, improve system reliability, and preserve the value of your investments. 

With HCL SoFy you can dramatically simplify and accelerate a cloud-native deployment of HCL Digital Experience … it will take about the same amount of time it takes to make a cup of coffee(!).  You can also connect other HCL products and services in just a few clicks — and discover the native synergies within HCL’s family of products — in a cloud-native environment. 

Testing New Possibilities 

Deploying HCL Digital Experience cloud-natively in minutes may sound too good to be true, but HCL SoFy makes it easy. HCL SoFy paves the way for rapid testing and prototyping cycles that enable organizations to speed cloud-native adoption, reduce TCO, auto scale services based on demand, and even accelerate the deployment of your feature pipeline keeping organizations ahead of competitors. 

HCL SoFy enables organizations to quickly assess and test cloud-native strategies to see what best fits adoption plans. It also helps organizations quickly gain the expertise to successfully adopt cloud-native and establish an understanding of what is required to make a transition to a cloud-native environment.  Using HCL Sofy, businesses can gain valuable insights to help plan cloud-native adoption transitions based on hands-on expertise and real-world scenarios. 

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Taking the Guesswork Out 

The move to cloud-native solutions has many benefits but getting started and assessing the differences in implementation (compared to an on-premises installations) has historically stopped many organizations from taking the plunge.

Learning how to transition your HCL Digital Experience platform to a cloud-native deployment using container, Kubernetes and microservices technologies used to be painful, but, now with HCL SoFy, it’s much easier to understand, plan and take the guesswork out of making the cloud-native transition. With HCL SoFy, you can also connect other HCL products — such as HCL Unica and HCL Commerce — to provide a world-class experience to your customers with just a few clicks. 

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HCL is not only committed to providing the latest cloud-native technology, but also to helping organizations successfully transform to being entirely cloud-native. Learn more about how you can take advantage of HCL SoFy’s powerful features with HCL Digital Experience by registering to see it in action in a short webinar and live demo or through scheduling a free personalized workshop where our team can help you get started. 

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The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud and Why it’s a Big Deal

31. Oktober 2020 Posted by Jason Cornell

With more and more enterprise technologies moving to cloud-based deployments it has become increasingly important for organizations to carefully evaluate their current digital experience implementations and formulate a cloud strategy and roadmap to get there to reap the business benefits of cloud for driving transformation, differentiation and ultimately achieving competitive advantage.

While the benefits are getting to cloud are compelling, organizations require flexibility in their cloud journey to minimize the challenges inherent in migrating mission critical workloads to the cloud. Migrating to a public or private cloud can take a lot of time, money and development resources. With HCL Digital Experience’s new hybrid cloud support organizations can exploit the benefits of cloud, maximize the value from their existing on-premise deployment and future proof their digital experience investment. 

New HCL Digital Experience hybrid cloud support enables customers to use their existing on-premise with the game-changing cloud-based content management features — without needing to migrate anything. Magic? No. Revolutionary? Yes. Using Kubernetes, you can now add our new future-leaning cloud features to an on-premises environment without needing to migrate anything to the cloud. 

This new hybrid cloud option brings three major improvements to your on-premises DX environments: 

  1. Content Composer: Create Content in Half the Time  

Deliver content for digital experiences quickly to your audiences. Dramatically improved content-creation tools and a redesigned Content Composer means business users can now model and create new content in half the time with a modern, intuitive drag-and-drop interface. 

2. Hot DAM! A New (Free) Cloud-Native Digital Asset Manager Included 

A new cloud-native digital asset management system (DAM) lets you add and organize media quickly and seamlessly. You can now manage your content from creation to execution with ease. And, unlike some other digital experience platforms in the market, this DAM is included at no addition charge.   

3. Experience API: Adaptable, Open APIs: 

A new open API-compliant set of headless REST services enables developers to deliver experiences using modern front-end JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue etc.). This provides greater agility in blending content, data, and applications.

Upgrading now means that your DX is faster and easier than ever — making your business-critical digital experience more valuable than ever before. Join us at our upcoming annual conference, DX Inspire, to learn more.  

Learn more: https://hclsw.co/dx-inspire-2020

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Actionable insights now part of HCL Digital Experience. From data to experience in an instant

20. Oktober 2020 Posted by Jason Cornell

HCL DX is a proven platform – purpose built and trusted by enterprises worldwide – for the demanding needs of an organization’s business-critical digital experiences. These are more than content sites. Providing a secure personalized experience means integrating content, data, applications and processes from a variety of systems into a singular experience. Doing and delivering all this can be complex – that’s where HCL DX helps. 

Part of the complexity comes from understanding who is on your digital property, what they are doing there, and how you can make the experience better, faster and more personalized with the data you have.  This fall, we are adding seamless integration to powerful new analytics capabilities to our trusted HCL DX platform to help our customers deliver targeted experiences to all of their audiences and can lead to improving conversion rates by 85%.

HCL Unica Discover

HCL Unica Discover is a digital experience analytics platform that empowers Marketers to capture, replay and visualize the individual online user experience.  Now you can easily analyze and optimize your HCL Digital Experience customer journeys with the following capabilities from Unica Discover:

  • Struggle Resolution: Detect and address user struggle in real time with session replays
  • Behavior Insights: Improve user experiences through capturing and analyzing behavioral data
  • Business Impact Analytics: Gain better visibility into business impact and opportunities for improvement.

This also provides a more complete and actionable view of the customer journey across all your digital channels.  This helps to ensure a consistent experience, every time, driving better conversion rates, customer satisfaction, and customer retention. 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics (GA) is a web analytics service that helps marketers track, report and analyze in-depth detail about website visitors.  HCL DX has streamlined the configuration setup with GA to save time and development resources.  Now Marketers have the insight they need to make better decisions, and share the right content, to the right audience improving the customer experience.

All the insights, none of the complications

With streamlined access to these insights within HCL DX, our clients will have the information they need to be able to act quickly and create optimized experiences for their audiences. These new analytics capabilities, coupled with the intuitive content creation tools released this summer, will dramatically improve time to market. Better insights. Rich tools. Amazing results.

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Sometimes life moves pretty fast…. Can you keep up?

23. September 2019 Posted by Jason Cornell

Keeping up with technology to today is no easy feat.  Your refrigerator can see when you are low on milk, place the order, and schedule a delivery time.  Your car can drive you to wherever you need to go, and (even better) parallel park for you.  And your watch can remind you to drink more water and get up and move around. 

Technology for creating digital experiences is no different: It moves fast, too. The latest front-end JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue, Bootstrap, among others) continue to evolve, each claiming to do things faster, better, and easier.  In order to deliver compelling experiences on any platform efficiently, modern digital experience platforms must take advantage of a common framework of communication and development to allow you to pick the best tools based on a specific need. 

HCL DX 9.5 provides a new OpenAPI-compliant set of REST services, which allows developers to deliver personalized, rich experiences on any digital touch point leveraging any front-end framework they choose.  This means developers productivity can soar, as they can now use OpenAPI to discover and explore different API functions and GraphOL to minimize the number of REST service calls required and reduce network traffic by minimizing data payloads. Front-end developers need a great experience too! 

With DX 9.5, the delivery of consistent, branded experiences across all digital touch points using any front-end framework has become that much easier Now you can not only keep up with your customers expectations, you can exceed them with HCL DX 9.5!

To learn more about HCL DX 9.5, check out our website on September 30th, 2019!

 

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