Hi, welcome to my Sitecore 7.5 highlights.
This blog post is intended for those of you who would like a high level overview of Sitecore 7.5, need a reminder or have not had the time to investigate this release. At the bottom of this post is a list of useful resources related to Sitecore 7.5.
Highlights
- Sitecore 7.5 = Sitecore 7.2 + xDB.
- xDB (Experience Database) is the new name for the Analytics database.
- New Contact entity allows tracking an individual across devices, visits and cookies.
- Requires some sort of mechanism of identifying the user( login, form submission, checkout etc)
- New scalable analytics data architecture
- Session DB (private and shared) (inProc, Sql or Mongo)
- Collection DB i.e. xDB (Mongo)
- Reporting DB (SQL)
- Experience profile (xFile) i.e the contact
- xDB Cloud
- Sitecores cloud hosting offering for xDB
- Pricing based on numbers of stored contacts.
- Mongo DB
- Data stored in documents not tables
- Collections of documents rather than tables with rows.
- Scales horizontally not vertically
- Data stored in BSON binary Json
- Upgrade key points
- Analytics API has many small changes
- Migration of data from Analytics DB to xDB i.e. SQL to Mongo
- Review of hosting structure to suit xDB.
- Other name changes:
- Customer Engagement Platform = Sitecore Experience Platform (Sitecore XP)
- Digital Marketing System (DMS) = Experience Marketing
- Email Campaign Manger = Email Experience Manager
- Engagement Analytics = Experience Analytics
- Adaptive Print Studio = Print Experience Manger
- Engagement Automation = Experience Automation
Sitecore 7.5 Resources
