may 17, 2024

Adobe Experience Manager April Product Update

The next Adobe Experience Manager update is planned for May 30th. Share the Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release overview page on Experience League, with short videos explaining features in current and previous releases.

Highlights

Adobe Experience Manager Product Updates

Share the Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release overview page on Experience League, with short videos explaining features in current and previous releases.

Experience Manager Sites

  • Generate Variations supports creation of on-brand, audience-specific content at scale and experiemental measurement of its impact using Edge Delivery Services using Generative AI
  • Edge Delivery Services now supports all AEM authoring sources (i.e. Page Editor, Content Fragment Editor), providing out-of-the-box performance and a simplified developer experience 
  • Structured Content Management APIs programmatically interact with Content Fragments and Content Fragment models and perform CruD operations on them
  • Extension Manager supports creation and publication of extensions to customize the AEM experience for you and your team
  • Universal Editor supports real-time editing within a visual preview, across architecture (for example, server or client side), framework (React or Angular), or content type
  • Customers can now build ecommerce experiences with native support for Adobe Commerce storefronts on Edge Delivery Services

Experience Manager Forms

  • Edge Delivery Services for Forms expands authoring flexibility for all forms use cases using AEM based authoring and access to backend services
  • Workfront Fusion Connector OOTB connector for current Workfront customers streamlines business processing following form submission 
  • Forms Versioning Support: Forms Versioning allows easier tracking and auditing of changes made to forms. Authors can now apply a version and a label after updating a form and can compare versions and revert to previous versions

Experience Manager Assets

  • Content Hub as a Composable Service (Early Adopter) democratizes assets to improve access and sharing of content across the organization
  • OOTB Video Preview Rendition now covers all supported video types by default with no requirement to configure or manage a processing profile. Learn more

Cloud Foundation

  • Real-User Traffic Monitoring (RUM) offers privacy-first traffic monitoring in real time, to improve Core Web Vitals
  • Cloud Service auto-updates maintain software on a weekly cadence without pausing deployments, minimizing downtime and accelerating time to market

Adobe Experience Manager 6.5.20.0 is now publicly available via Software Distribution. The release notes and a list of all updates are available here.  

Customer-Facing Resources

Customer Stories

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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey used AEM Sites and AEM Assets to increase the number of employees who can publish digital content by 650%.

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Pfizer

Pfizer uses AEM Sites and AEM Assets as part of its integrated content supply chain, reducing the pharmaceutical giant’s time-to-market, risk, and operational costs.

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Signify

Signify uses AEM Sites and AEM Assets to achieve 50% faster page load speeds, 55% higher net merchandized value, and 20% higher average order value.

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Sunstar

Sunstar uses AEM Sites to run 25 websites in 13 languages, with its communications department delivering 80% of content and local teams and agencies tailoring the remaining 20% to its markets.

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IBM

IBM uses AEM Assets in its content supply chain, so teams can plan, create, and activate on-brand content seamlessly, reducing time-to-market by 60%.

Customer-Facing Collateral

  • The AEM Sites testing and optimization page now allows users to generate content variations using generative AI and drive continuous optimization
  • The AEM Sites site performance page has been updated with feature-level content so visitors can understand how it affects page-load speeds and performance scores

Events

Experience League

Get the full list of upcoming Experience Manager events—Ask the Experts, Champion Office Hours, AEM Gems, and Adobe Expert demonstrations—or review recordings of previous events.

New Experience Manager Tutorials on Experience League

AEM Assets

    

Learn how AEM Assets can be used to achieve your organization's business goals.

Receive notification of changes to watched assets, folders, or collections in AEM Assets.

Adobe Cloud Manager

    

Learn how to add a custom domain name to the AEM as a Cloud Service web site.

AEM Forms

    

Build a simple form to query form submissions.

Learn to setup and submit an Adaptive Form to a Workfront Fusion Scenario.

Learn the features and capabilities of AEM Forms Edge Delivery Services and Adaptive Forms block.

Learn to use Adaptive Forms block to add a form to an Edge Delivery Site.

AEM Headless

    

See how CORS allows non-AEM web properties to make browser-based client-side calls to AEM GraphQL APIs.   

Learn to build a headless form for Forms as a Cloud Service.

AEM Sites

    

AEM developers learn how Edge Delivery Services delivers AEM sites and achieves Lighthouse scores of 100.

Learn how this dynamic tool optimizes text & images for any experience, seamlessly integrating creativity & efficiency.

Learn how to use OAuth Server-to-server credentials to generate access tokens for App Builder actions.