Traditional Sitecore implementations have always been a
“custom build” proposition. And with each custom build often comes a different
approach and methodology. How can organizations overcome the cost, time and
stress involved with a fully custom build?
Once regarded as a “small site” tool, SXA has evolved into
an enterprise-class framework.
Organizations can embark on projects large and
small, secure in the knowledge that best practices are already baked into the
solution.
When leveraged to its fullest, SXA allows organizations to
redefine the process for building and maintaining sites, in a way that shortens
timelines, reduces reliance on development, and promotes team collaboration.
Projects are accelerated by utilizing a toolbox of pre-built components, and by
embracing a compressed project cadence that promotes collaboration and brings
the work of many teams into a more parallel arrangement.
Your New Development Process
With SXA, Sitecore itself becomes central to solution
development as well as content development, bringing together the visual and UX
designers, content creators, back-end and front-end developers.
Serving as the wireframing tool, SXA allows content creators
to develop content and construct pages in a wireframe mode, as designers and
front-end developers style the site in parallel. These “themes” are applied
iteratively to content being created in flight.
Improved Time-To-Value
With development and content being developed in parallel,
project timelines are shortened. Unexpected conflicts are uncovered as design
meets real world content, allowing adjustments to be made sooner, with a less
regressive remediation cycle.
In a multi-site environment, content and presentation can be
shared across sites, streamlining development as additional sites are added.
Lower TCO
Much of the classic development cost for a typical site can
be avoided, by leveraging the impressive set of components that ship with SXA.
Many tasks once relegated to developers and requiring code deployments are now
accomplished in the Sitecore UI and simply published.
Page editors have more control over the styling and
composition of common presentation components, freeing developers to focus on
domain-specific custom features.
SXA’s framework, with strong separation of presentation from
design, promotes multi-site development with heavy re-use of components,
further lowering development cost.
Reduced Organizational Stress
SXA allows organizations to start with a strong foundation,
using a fully supported and tested framework that makes the entire process more
reliable and reduces rework. Solution structure is consistent across sites,
making development more predictable and allowing developers to switch between
projects with less ramp-up time.
Developers are relieved from mundane tasks, allowing them to
focus on more interesting challenges, while content creators are freed from
reliance on development to achieve commonplace requirements. Having fewer code
deployments reduces friction and removes barriers to content publishing.
Upgrades become more approachable, because less coding means
fewer regression issues to remediate.
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