Key caveats while configuring SolrCloud With Sitecore
Recently I was presented with an opportunity to implement SolrCloud with an XP1 distributed setup with Sitecore 9 Update 2. SolrCloud brings in fault tolerance and high availability for applications...
View ArticleRestrict access to create component datasources in Sitecore’s Experience Editor
One of the many great features of Sitecore is the ability to give access to edit the content of your...
View ArticleSitecore Developer Efficiency – Helix Project Deployment in Local
Being a developer it’s always good to find out efficiencies and automations for repetitive and tedious tasks. A sitecore developer while working on a Helix principle-based solution would have...
View ArticleA creative’s wishlist for Sitecore Symposium
First things first: I’m not a developer. As such, I have a limited perspective as to how this year’s tech-oriented sessions played out. But as a marketing creative, I came to Symposium for insights,...
View ArticleChecking the healthcare industry’s pulse: How to win with connected experiences
Pre-COVID, healthcare organizations were already shifting to a digital-first experience to meet patient needs and outpace their competition. While the HLS industry has a reputation for slow technology...
View ArticleHow can Sitecore data help you build better Salesforce Marketing Cloud Journeys?
What if you could automatically trigger an email to customers with the top products they viewed on your website? What if your website could recognize each individual visitor and optimize its content...
View ArticleHorizontal Digital achieves global Sitecore Platinum Partner status with MEA...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — [12 August 2020]— Horizontal Digital is proud to announce that it has been awarded Global Sitecore Platinum Implementation Partner. This status recognises the company’s...
View ArticleHorizontal Digital opens Jaipur office to expand Salesforce footprint in India
Horizontal Digital, an experience-forward marketing and technology consultancy, opened the doors of its ninth office today in Jaipur — the Salesforce Capital of India — to leverage the state of...
View ArticleHow do Sitecore + Salesforce deliver connected experiences?
Ever been on an awkward first date? Stilted conversations, uncomfortable silences, forced laughter — the whole nine yards. As hard as you might try to connect, there’s just no spark. You cap things off...
View ArticleThe Horizontal combination of Salesforce & Sitecore, at Salesforce Live:...
The modern marketing department in MEA has to combine a large stack of technology to orchestrate the customer Experiences they want to. The integration of content management, with CRM, marketing...
View ArticleSitecore Glass Mapper Regenerate Code not working for Color (or custom) Field
If we are using Glass Mapper ORM to convert the Sitecore template to modal properties, some of the custom fields (like color field) downloaded from Sitecore market place or custom field types are not...
View ArticleA/B Testing + Sitecore Personalization Hack
As more clients look to use personalization and A/B and Multivariate testing, we are finding that marketers are getting more mature in what they want to test. We recently received a question from a...
View ArticleSalesforce and Sitecore: A match made in CX heaven
As the world’s savviest digital marketers descend on downtown Chicago for the annual Salesforce “Connections” conference this week, Salesforce will roll out more details about a budding partnership...
View ArticleData source lock and workflow notifications for Sitecore authors
The Sitecore Experience Editor and Content Editor are great tools to make the content editing and creation process streamlined for Sitecore users. It tells you, for a given page on your site, who has...
View ArticleCreating new content items from Experience Editor
I’ve seen this topic addressed in a few places, but I had difficulty finding a solid answer. Let’s say you’ve got a rendering on your page, and that rendering has a data source with a field like a...
View ArticleSetting up a local Experience Profile in Sitecore 9
The Sitecore Experience Profile is a useful tool for viewing the contacts that have visited your app and the paths they followed during their visit. Therefore it’s important for developers to have the...
View ArticleIntegrate WeChat with Sitecore and Create Contact Profile of WeChat User
Recently, we did research on how can we integrate WeChat – Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app – with Sitecore for one of our clients. Firstly, a quick overview of...
View ArticleTop Five Reasons to Attend Sitecore Symposium 2018
Sitecore Symposium is a once in a year opportunity for you to get your arms around the evolution of the Sitecore Experience platform. If you are a Sitecore customer or considering Sitecore for your...
View ArticleWhere to Find Us at Sitecore Symposium 2018
Sitecore Symposium 2018 is approaching! Here is where to find HI at this year’s events. Booth #301 in the Partner Pavilion (Dolphin, Floor 5). We’re giving away Beats Wireless Headphones two times per...
View ArticleSitecore Experience Editor – Multisite Implementation Site Resolving
We ran into an issue with Sitecore Experience Editor with one of our multisite implementations. Any page that belonged to a site when selected from Content Editor and trying to open in Experience...
View ArticleCreating a hidden field for Sitecore Forms
Sitecore Forms is a versatile tool included with Sitecore 9. Its intuitive controls make it simple for content authors to create their own forms and include them in a page by using the Mvc Form...
View ArticleAdd custom widget to Sitecore’s Launchpad
Periodically, we get requests to add a component or widget to Sitecore’s Launchpad. It’s usually exposing information from a third-party system or providing quick access to data that may be buried...
View ArticleHow do you capture the magic of the moment?
Picture this scenario. You’re on the couch, watching an episode of “The Office,” when you receive an email on your phone about an upcoming energy bill. You click the email’s link to view your bill on...
View ArticleSitecore 101: What every marketer needs to know about Sitecore
What every marketer needs to know about Sitecore – a leading Content Management System (CMS) that fuels data-driven marketing. Marketers are increasingly behaving like scientists by using data to...
View ArticleThree game changers from Sitecore Symposium 2020
Watching the opening addresses of this year’s virtual event, I thought there were three game-changing developments that point to the future of Sitecore. I also covered them in this video recorded on...
View ArticleDefining the End-to-End (E2E) business process
Simply put there are two types of people out there, those who are advocates of a process and those who are not, just like marmite. Admittedly in the early days of my career having been brought up in...
View ArticleLearning from others mistakes
What I have learned in my short time in the middle east is that the pace of life is quick, this of course has an affect on the way decisions are made in business too. RFPs come in with short notice,...
View Article3 things you need for a campaign to succeed
I repeatedly hear comments like: my campaigns are too complex, they’re too reactive or I cannot report on them effectively. However first of all, I am starting to feel the word ‘campaigns’ is a little...
View Article4 keys to digital ROI in the financial services industry
When it comes to engaging audiences via digital screens, the financial services sector has historically lagged behind other broad industry verticals. Why? Perhaps more so than any other industry,...
View ArticleHow Sitecore’s Automation Tools Can Make Personalisation Easier
Personalisation is hard. But as American educator, author and politician, Hamilton Holt once said, “Nothing worthwhile comes easily”. Most companies today are aware of the value behind understanding...
View ArticleHe’s Home: Award winning Sitecore Platinum Partner welcomes back Sitecore...
Horizontal Digital is thrilled to welcome back Sitecore specialist Nilesh Thakkar. With over 14 years of experience, Nilesh began his career with Horizontal in 2014 in India and then decided to bring...
View ArticleSpotlight on Carly Plewa: The Power of the Sitecore & Salesforce Relationship
Today, customers expect a personalized experience across every interaction with a brand. With the rapid advancement of digital customer engagement joint with a pandemic-driven charge to digital, it’s...
View ArticleHorizontal Digital Announces it is Exclusive Platinum Sponsor for Sitecore’s...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 3rd March 2022 –Horizontal Digital, the leading–experience–forward consultancy, is pleased to announce it is sponsoring several stops on the upcoming Sitecore Symposium...
View ArticleComposable DXP comes to Jordan with the Sitecore User Group Middle East & Africa
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 23rd June 2022 – Horizontal Digital is pleased to announce it is sponsoring the next Sitecore User Group Middle East and Africa (SUGMEA), themed “Accelerating Digital...
View ArticleA view from the top: Sitecore’s Lee Miles on AI, composable and the future of CX
Sitecore’s Chief Customer Success Officer on why customer-centric brands need to rethink their marketing technology strategy to be able to adapt to rapidly evolving trends like AI and social commerce....
View ArticleHow Sitecore is riding the martech wave
A Sitecore leader on the seismic shift in tech procurement, the trend of personalization beyond sales, and the compounding power of small CX wins. The “Marketing Technology Landscape,” a slide that has...
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