Versions
Sitecore 6.x
Sitecore 6.5 and 6.6 were important versions in the platform’s release history with notable improvements and updates made to the Digital Marketing System (DMS) and Page Editor views.
Key Features & Updates
Sitecore 7.x
Sitecore 7.2 and 7.5 include massive updates made to content, analytics and experience scalability. Sitecore 7.5 introduces the Profile and xDB (Experience Database or Analytics Collection Database), which makes the jump over from SQL Server to MongoDB.
Key Features & Updates
Sitecore 8 introduces even more features including a completely revamped user interface, new experience profiles, powerful analytics, and an array of advancements in content management.
Key Features & Updates
Sitecore 6.5 and 6.6 were important versions in the platform’s release history with notable improvements and updates made to the Digital Marketing System (DMS) and Page Editor views.
Key Features & Updates
- Marketing and engagement automation
- Measurable value and efficiency
- Real-time personalization
- Dashboards & reports
- Classified origin visits
- Content Experience Platform
- Device Simulator
- Page Preview service
- Native MVC support
- Page Editor & Rich Text Editor
- Support for SQL Server database Mirroring
- NET Search Engine
- Executive Insight Dashboard
Sitecore 7.x
Sitecore 7.2 and 7.5 include massive updates made to content, analytics and experience scalability. Sitecore 7.5 introduces the Profile and xDB (Experience Database or Analytics Collection Database), which makes the jump over from SQL Server to MongoDB.
Key Features & Updates
- Content scalability improvements
- Buckets
- Publication efficiency improvements
- Data Sources Improvements
- Content Tagging/Faceting
- Search Screens
- Analytics Collection Database (named Experience Database or xDB)
- Scalable analytics data architecture (MongoDB)
- Contact Entities (Experience profiles) – allows tracking users across devices/visits
- Customer Engagement Platform -> Sitecore Experience Platform or Sitecore XP
- Digital Marketing System (DMS) -> Experience Marketing
- Email Campaign Manager (ECM) -> Email Experience Manager
- Engagement Analytics -> Experience Analytics
- Adaptive Print Studio -> Print Experience Manager
- Engagement Automation -> Experience Automation
Sitecore 8 introduces even more features including a completely revamped user interface, new experience profiles, powerful analytics, and an array of advancements in content management.
Key Features & Updates
- Experience Profile – a single view of your customers providing data about their entire customer experience and interaction with your site
- New Experience Explorer – allows you to navigate your site with a set of predefined conditions to simulate and test the user’s experience
- Shared/Final layouts – versioned layouts allows you to share components across layouts to further target different segments
- Improved Faceted Search in Media Library
- xDB – Experience Database now built on MongoDB for improved analytics
- Content Tags by profile cards
- Launch pad view – replaces the desktop view with Sitecore “apps”
- New login screen “Single Track Login” – replaces multi track login in previous versions
- Federated Experience Manager – a Javascript controlled snippet of code that can be used with third party sites and applications to track and pull data back in to Sitecore
- List Manager and Segmentation lists – allows segmentation of audiences using demographics pulled from the Experience Profile
- Experience Analytics – improved analytics and insight around the customer experience
- Path Analyzer – allows you to view the path a user takes while navigating your site
- Simple & Advanced testing – one click testing and optimization for every component
- List Manager – completely rebuilt to work with the Email Experience Manager (ECM)
- Revamped user interface
- Marketing Center -> Marketing Control Panel
- Page Editor -> Experience Editor
- Social Connect -> Social Experience Manager