AEM as a Cloud Service 2024.3.0 release update

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A brand new editor, generative AI, API access and a whole lot more coming at you. I’m Mark and I’m happy to walk you through this new release. Over the next few minutes, I’ll share the latest innovation from Adobe Experience Manager. Let’s break it down by these three pillars. Delivering high impact experiences. Empowering more people to create content for all. Leveraging artificial intelligence to be actionable. All while we streamline and speed up the development process. Let me start by sharing some of the innovation that helps you deliver high impact experiences. Okay, so this is a big feature. AM authoring now combined with edge delivery services. This release adds content author flexibility to now use AM authoring options, including WYSIWYG editing to create and manage across published content with the performance benefits of edge delivery services. New AM sites can be built with a typical front end skill set and no code is required to deploy into AM via deployment pipelines. Existing AM sites can transition to edge delivery by first moving front end to edge delivery, but keeping authoring on page editor. Edge delivery service also comes to AM forms, allowing you to use tools such as Microsoft Excel to go and build forms quickly and deploy them, getting the best performance out of the services. This really speeds up the ability to create forms and deploy them. Next is content by all for all, empowering everyone to create content at scale. Content authors will love the new capability unlocked by the universal editor, which is the new visual editor for AM sites as a cloud service. This supports both structured and unstructured content in a consistent manner, allowing you to manage content from content fragments as well as AM pages and components. This unlocks a number of use cases. As I mentioned before, for edge delivery services, we’re now unlocking the authoring within the AM environment, allowing you to visually edit the content for a page and be able to publish that out to edge delivery services. In addition, unlocking new use cases where I can visually edit content that may be hosted outside of experience manager as well. A good example of this is headless implementations where my content could be configured as content fragments, yet I can still have that visual flexibility that content authors love. Now let me talk about some of the capability added around actionable intelligence. To keep up with the demand for personalized content, content creators need to create more content than ever before and experiment with variations. AM sites now has a new capability to leverage generative AI. We call it content variations. By instantly producing high performing copy and image variations by a simple segment in a simple UI, no prompt engineering experience is required. Content creators can now simply enter values into pre-configured templates to produce performant results fast, while also providing flexibility for customization and the creation of new templates. Finally, variations can be combined with AM’s experimentation capability to test and optimize content and improve the customer experience. For the developer audience, we have some exciting enhancements to make it easier to keep building amazing experiences. Extended API support is now available for content fragments and models. Full create, read, update and delete support via well-documented APIs allows developers with little knowledge of AM to automate the management and integration of content fragments. Each API call now provides code samples for various languages and frameworks to make it easier for you to get started. Finally, let’s look at one key enhancement made to the foundation layer of AM as a cloud service. New advanced networking self-service configuration options for cloud manager. Taking the three most popular networking requests from our customers, we have the dedicated egress IP addresses, the flexible port egress configuration and VPN setup. These features used to be service requests, that is something configured for you by Adobe personnel via back and forth and support tickets. Now it’s all self-service in cloud manager. I’m sure you’ll agree that this release has a lot of exciting features and there’s a lot more that you can read through in the release notes, but I just want to call out a few more before we wrap up today. First, the ability to compare content fragment versions. Multi-site management features support for experience fragments and update to the content importer as well as the sidekick extension capabilities being enhanced. So that’s it for this release. If you haven’t found the release notes yet, here is the URL where you can go and access them. And of course, we’d love to see you engage with us on the AM community as part of Adobe Experience League. I’m Mark Schultz for the Adobe Experience Manager team, and it’s been great to share these exciting enhancements with you.