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Generative AI

AI Overview for Sitecore Module

This Sitecore Module allows you to add a 'google' style AI Overview component to search pages. Returning a GenAI response…

dean.obrien DeanApril 30, 2025November 29, 2025
Language Assistant for Sitecore
Generative AI

AI Language Assistant for Sitecore

This module allows you to ask an AI Assistant to review the content of your web pages and suggest changes,…

dean.obrien DeanOctober 16, 2024November 29, 2025
Wireframe
Layout Service

Custom Layout Service for Sitecore

This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the idea of creating a headless application, without…

dean.obrien DeanJune 10, 2024November 27, 2024
Global
Analytics

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…

dean.obrien DeanSeptember 14, 2023November 27, 2024
Application Insights for Sitcore Module
Analytics

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…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 21, 2022October 15, 2025
page recommender
Cortex

Sitecore Page Recommender

This series of blogs will look at the steps I took to create a page recommendation engine for Sitecore. The…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 7, 2022November 27, 2024
sitecore
MVP

MVP Application 2026

These are the contributons that I would like to be considered as part of my application to become a Sitecore…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 29, 2025November 29, 2025
Ai in sitecore
Uncategorized

10 Real World examples of Using AI in Sitecore XP (Part two).

This is the second part of a blog post, where we demonstrate 10 real world examples. Showing how we have…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 27, 2025November 27, 2025
Ai in sitecore
Uncategorized

10 Real World examples of Using AI in Sitecore XP (Part one).

When people talk about AI, there is often alot of theory about how it might be used, but not as…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 27, 2025November 27, 2025
Ai summary
Analytics

Application Insights Module: AI + DevOps Integration Added

The application Insights module just got an upgrade! It can now integrate seamlessly with your Azure DevOps repository. Ask AI…

dean.obrien DeanOctober 15, 2025October 15, 2025
Dynamics 2
DEF

Overview: Sitecore Forms to Dynamics

If you wish to send data from Sitecore Forms directly to Dynamics, then you might consider using the Sitecore Connectâ„¢…

dean.obrien DeanMay 20, 2025October 30, 2025
Dynamics 2
DEF

Sync Data From Sitecore To Dynamics

In order to send data to Microsoft Dynamics, you can use the Sitecore Connect for Dynamics Connector (which sits on…

dean.obrien DeanMay 17, 2025October 30, 2025
Dynamics 2
DEF

Issues syncing contacts from Dynamics To XConnect

When working on a project that aimed to sync contacts back and forth between Sitecore and Dynamics, we came across…

dean.obrien DeanMay 10, 2025October 30, 2025
sitecore
Dynamics

Submit Data to xDB (before sending to Dynamics)

If you are looking to send Form Data from Sitecore to Dynamics, one option you might consider is to first…

dean.obrien DeanMay 8, 2025October 30, 2025
Dynamics 2
DEF

Build a Custom Dropdown List to display data from Dynamics

Add a new Field Type (in System Settings) The first step in creating a custom dropdown is registering a new…

dean.obrien DeanMay 7, 2025October 30, 2025
Dynamics 2
DEF

Retrieve Dynamics Optionset and Entity Reference data for use in Sitecore Forms

This article is going to look at how to create a custom dropdown lists, that have been populated with data…

dean.obrien DeanMay 7, 2025October 30, 2025
Chatbot
Generative AI

How to call a genAI model using your own data.

In this blog post, we will look at how to setup the resources required to programatically call a GenAI model…

dean.obrien DeanApril 9, 2025April 9, 2025
960x0
Generative AI

A conversation with AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for quite some time, everyone is familiar with the likes of ChatGPT and its…

dean.obrien DeanFebruary 6, 2025October 6, 2025
sitecore
MVP

MVP Application 2025

These are the contributons that I would like to be considered as part of my application to become a Sitecore…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 28, 2024November 28, 2024
Using AI with Sitecore
Analytics

Using AI with Sitecore: Webinar

This recording captures a presentation I delivered to our IT department, where I explored various ways AI can enhance the…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 26, 2024November 26, 2024
sitecore
NuGet

Sitecore 10.3.2 NUGET Packages unavailable

I came back from holiday at the end of August to the news that the latest update had been release…

dean.obrien DeanAugust 27, 2024November 27, 2024
monitoring
SOLR

Setting Up a Service Monitor

We recently had cause to create a simple service to monitor another service, then send the status of the monitored…

dean.obrien DeanJuly 30, 2024November 27, 2024

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