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Digital Experience Accelerator in depth

Tridion Developer Summit 2015

Bart Koopman @djbartk

Technical Product Manager, SDL

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Agenda

DXA TDS

What’s new in 1.1 ParticipationWhat, Why

& How The future

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Let’s get started with the why…

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DWT templating is not the best option for dynamic websitesCM-side rendering does not work in an MVC model

January 2008 – Tridion R5.3DWT templating introduced

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releasing a DD4T based implementation model for the future

2014 - SDL embraces web applications

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That covers the why, let’s take a look at the how

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make Tridion easier and faster to deploy on customer implementations

It all started in the mind of a great Product Manager back in 2013

abstraction layer between customer-specific data models and website implementations permitting the usage of common templates

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Release as part of SDL Web 8

I joined the teama month later

Hired expert from the community

Use DD4T

Release Open Source early

Started March 2014

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2013 SP1?.NET only?

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Let’s conclude with the what…

TSI STRITRI DXA

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Digital Experience Acceleratoro Production ready web application○ New template paradigm decouples dynamic

content, presentation and style○ Out-of-the-box adaptive design framework ○ Global ready○ 1st design agency friendly WCM system

Decrease time to “experience” by 20%

Jaime Santos Alcón: I love using DXA, it d

oes truly accelerate my progress

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What’s new in 1.1

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What's new in this release

○ New team○ Fixed issues○ Sync with Java version○ Better module/extensibility

support○ API changes○ Added modules

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API changesRobert Curlette said: “code is better than PPT”

Check the documentation for more details http://docs.sdl.com/sdldxa11

Check out the sources on https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-dotnet

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Participation

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Open Source

○ https://github.com/sdl – master - Stable– develop - Unstable– release/x.y - Release version x.y

○ Submit issues ○ Fork, branch and submit pull

requests on develop

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Your own modules

○ Impress module on http://community.sdl.com (search for “dxa impress”)

○ Create your own & upload toTridion Developer - eXtensions

○ Give feedbackTRex - GitHub

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The future…

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SDL Web strategic roadmap

Aggregate

Accelerate

Automate

2013-2014

2015-2016

2016-2017

Predict and Understand

2017-2018

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DXA Timelines

1.0 1.1SmartTarget

ECL/Media Manag

er

Search 1.2 1.3 2.0

September 2014SDL Tridion Reference

Implementation .NET

August 2015Enhanced

extensibility, working towards vision

September 2015OTB SmartTarget, ECL, Media

Manager, Solr & AWS Cloud Search

October 2015Equal .NET & Java

versions

November 2015SDL Web 8 support

2016First supported

releaseRemains open

source

Planned Projected EnvisionedDelivered

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Separation of the (custom) CD Web Application and the Content Delivery Platform (a.k.a. Web Delivery Platform)

Content Delivery as a Service (CDaaS) architecture - DXA Model Service

• Minimize roundtrips between web app & CD

• Minimize DXA footprint• Maximize the amount of logic that can be

versioned (upgraded/patched)

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DXA will remain Open Source

○ SDL is committed to delivering more open source

○ It’s not just me ;o)

○ Follow Renze & Ben’s presentation for more open source news from SDL

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Hackathon cancelled

○ TDS AfterpartyFriday, Sept 18, 9:00 – 17:00Hoogoorddreef 60, Amsterdam Zuid-Oost

○ Free DXA Workshop– no training but "Pull up a chair and start doing some cool magic

together"

○ Discuss other topics not covered at TDS

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Questions?

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