{"id":5179,"date":"2022-06-06T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lng-consultancy.com\/staging\/5474\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2023-02-06T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T11:03:00","slug":"why-upgrade-to-sitecore-10-some-interesting-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lng-consultancy.com\/staging\/5474\/why-upgrade-to-sitecore-10-some-interesting-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Why upgrade to Sitecore 10 – Some interesting features"},"content":{"rendered":"

Streamlining Development Processes (Command Line Interface (CLI) for Serialization)<\/span><\/h2>\n

Over recent releases, Sitecore has really taken notice of developer needs and provided support to the various tools they already use.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sitecore 10 introduces the Command Line Interface (CLI), which opens new capabilities in terms of interacting with Sitecore instances. CLI provides a simplified headless approach for serialization, bringing together the best features of its antecedents, TDS and Unicorn.
\nNow, you can publish and serialize content items from the command line and synchronize all changes automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n

Value-Adds for the Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA)<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) is a framework that comes with a set of components to help you build out your entire site. Companies investing in SXA will welcome features in 10.1 which really add value. In the new release, you can set themes at the component level and establish a template for a series of pages with branching. This latter feature will allow companies to use a template to deliver compelling microsites at short notice. Other improvements include the ability to utilize the Horizon editor on SXA sites, and use HTML to render assets that are not hosted on Sitecore onto a page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Content Management in Sitecore<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Sitecore 10 has good news!!!<\/strong>\u00a0The pain of pasting in MS Word content is no longer with the Sitecore 10 upgrade. Content management in Sitecore through its Rich Text Editor is smarter and automatically cleans-up your cut and paste job to leave you with clean, unencumbered content!<\/span><\/p>\n

Core Headless Experience with ASP.NET Core<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sitecore already supports on the open-source framework ASP.NET Core in some features, such as the publishing service, Sitecore Identity Server, or Sitecore Commerce, but most components depend on the .NET Framework. In Sitecore 10 release, the platform has extended the usage of ASP.NET Core by developing a JSS-based SDK for headless services.<\/span><\/p>\n

ASP.NET Core is a robust framework that provides powerful and fast performance. Sitecore supports the latest version, .NET Core 3.1.<\/span><\/p>\n

A headless development approach with .NET Core technology ensures flexibility, omnichannel experience and time-efficiency.
\nBusinesses can get cloud-based cross-platform applications for Windows, macOS and Linux, so they\u2019ll spend less time and money on the adoption.<\/span><\/p>\n

Support Docker deployment<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Using Docker technology, developers can \u2018box\u2019 software in containers, making it easier to create\/start new instances.\u00a0 Docker and Kubernetes technology runs the software containers.\u00a0 This helps developers to easily run vast quantities of Sitecore copies, to run Sitecore production instances and to efficiently test load balancing. There are three deployment options available: Self-managed cloud deployment, Managed cloud deployment and On premises deployment.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Rules for Marketing Automation<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Marketing Automation tool has redefined rules, which has improved its usability. Moreover, it\u2019s also added new rules focusing on customer birthdays.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marketing teams can create marketing scenarios around your contacts\u2019 birthdays, e.g. send greetings and offer discounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were also enhancements for more efficient interaction with xConnect.<\/span><\/p>\n

MongoDB is no longer there<\/span><\/h2>\n

MongoDB providers for session and collection are removed in Sitecore 10.1. We need to migrate data to SQL using XDB Migration tool from Mongo DB.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/span><\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s a few thoughts for those considering the upgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n

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