This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the idea of creating a headless application, without…
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Search Analytics for Sitecore XM/XP
This module allows you to track searches made within your Sitecore website. In addition, it registers the order in which…
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Application Insights for Sitecore Module
I would like to introduce the Application Insights for Sitecore Module! Some of the key benefits of this module are…
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Sitecore Page Recommender
This series of blogs will look at the steps I took to create a page recommendation engine for Sitecore. The…
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Connect NextJs Application to Sitecore Identity Server
This is the fifth article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
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NextJs Application to replicate the MVC equivalent.
This is the fourth article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
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Advanced NextJs To Consume Layout Service
This is the third article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
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NextJs App to Consume Layout Service
This is the second article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
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Barriers to XM Cloud
The sitecore landscape has been changing for a number of years, with a significant switch towards ‘composable’ architecture, and ultimately…
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Application Insights Module: Alerting Added
The Application Insights for Sitecore Module now comes with Alerting built in. The module periodically queries the Azure Monitor Application…
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Application Insights Module: Switch to Entra Auth
In February 2024, Microsoft Azure retired the ‘Classic Application Insights’ and forced people to migrate to ‘Workplace-based’ resources. In reality…
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MVP Application 2024
These are the contributons that I would like to be considered as part of my application to become a Sitecore…
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Search Analytics: Webinar
This is a recording of a presentation I gave to our Marketing department. The focus of the talk was to…
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Search Analytics: Creating the Sitecore Module
In this post, we will look at how we surface data into a useful format and create a search report.…
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Search Analytics: Capturing the data
This is the first in a series of posts that will take a look under the hood of how the…
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How to Install Search Analytics For Sitecore
Go to https://github.com/deanobrien/search-analytics-for-sitecore and download the relevant ZIP file for your version of Sitecore (i.e. Sitecore 9 Compatible – Search Analytics for Sitecore…
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A Day with Sitecore Search
We recently purchased Sitecore Search and today was my first chance to have a look at the product in detail…
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Device Detection service failing to initialise
We recently experienced an issue after an upgrade from 10.1 to 10.3, whereby our Device Detection service was failing to…
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Personalisation Demo Site
This post will look at a simple site that showcases some basic personalisation within sitecore, built using C# MVC and…
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Moving from DXP To XM Cloud
As discussed at SUGCON this year, there seems to be a real buzz in the sitecore community, about the move…