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Zen Garden The first-ever Sitecore development accelerator Adam Najmanowicz Cognifide adam@cognifide.com Sitecore User Group Conference 2015 1

Who’s that guy? • Obsessed with efficiency. • Head of Product Engineering @cognifide • Just won’t shut up about PowerShell! • … don’t get him started or you won’t hear the end of it … • …no really… it’s not a joke, it’s a life -hack! • Sitecore MVP Sitecore User Group Conference 2015 2

Meanwhile our clients want to… Challenges facing digital businesses Video Companies find it hard to Lack of governance and Sitecore developer resource deliver websites rapidly and process frameworks to CRM Video Social needs to be highly skilled Mobile cheaply across the spectrum manage cross division and and thus expensive Zen Garden coupled with new Mobile of demand multi-disciplinary teams Retargeting development practices, allows you E-Commerce SEO Email to resolve the challenges delivering Mktg Email on your client’s demand. Mktg Mobile Social Websites are custom built – Seemingly simple change Re-use of code is very low management, maintenance requests take a long time to increasing cost and delivery and Sitecore upgrade deliver due to bespoke Ad timeframes Mobile become difficult nature of applications Networks DMP Mobile The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Introducing Zen Garden The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Introducing Zen Garden The first Sitecore accelerator allowing digital businesses to deploy and maintain multiple sites quickly and cost effectively . The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Zen Garden benefits Drag & Drop page building within the Sitecore Page Editor  Create sites with the ease of WordPress ™.  Use themes to enforce brand consistency.  Assemble sites using responsive & reusable components.  Centralize and govern change across digital landscape.  Enables different work streams to run in parallel.  Accelerate the site production process. The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Digital Agility: Tiers of Change Type of Change Zen Garden Normally Content BAU BAU BAU Layouts, User Experience Code Release Component Design Code Release BAU Code Release Platform Code Release The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Based on a powerful grid system! The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Parallel Production Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel time to market Linear Site Production User Experience Capture and define the user experience Visual Design Create the visual design to satisfy the user experience Parallel Front End Development Site Develop theme/style/layouts to implement visual design Co-Production Back End Development Reuse, configure and/or build site components Content Entry Add content and assets. The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

What do we need? A recruitment site! Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

What do we need? A recruitment site! Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

When do we need it? REALLY REALLY FAST! Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Enough talk! The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200

Thank you Sitecore User Group Conference 2015 14