Sitecore Product updates for Sitecore XM Cloud, OrderCloud, Discover and Search from Minneapolis DX Summit, MVP Summit, SUGCON during Oct 2nd-6th. Sitecore named a leader in Personalization and B2B Commerce & Marketplace Gartner quadrants. Sitecore integrating AI (Gen AI) into every product and announced strategic partnership with Microsoft for multi-tenant E-commerce platform on Azure marketplace.

1. Sitecore Minneapolis Week
Oct 2nd-6th

2. Highlights
• Integrating AI (Gen AI) into every product
• Strategic partnership with Microsoft
• Sitecore Accelerate Program for customer success.
Assessing needs, building business case, planning
implementation, long term roadmap.
• Sitecore leader in Personalization and B2B
Commerce & Marketplace Gartner quadrants

3. Sitecore XM Cloud Product Updates
• XM Cloud+ announced as a product bundle to replace XP
• XM Cloud, Search, Personalize, CDP, Connect (new Sitecore DXP)
• XM Cloud Forms announced
• Based on Moosend
• Missing features Multi-page/multi-step, conditional logic, 3rd party datasource, field level analytics, Multi-lingual support.
• Sitecore will start offering Site Templates for faster time to market. Partners will be allowed to share project
templates on a marketplace.
• Sitecore Experience Studio announced for site management (SEO, Sitemap, page level datasources)
• Instant-on integration of Search & Order Cloud with XM Cloud.
• No engineering required
• Drag-drop components
• Catalog integration
• Unified tracking and component level personalization at Edge
• Content Interaction Analytics. Experience analytics and component level interactions
• Faster developer setup with sample code, documentation, developer tools
• Sitecore to provide hosting for headless applications similar to Vercel and Netlify. Deployment support added to
both

4. Sitecore Search Product Updates
• Search and Discover are two SKUs. Search for content customers, Discover (includes Search entities) for Commerce
customers.
• Search Starter Kits & SDKs. UI Components Storybook, JS SDK. JS SDK via Sitecore NPM, CLI package no available.
• Search Certification program coming soon. Discover documentation now available.
• Custom attribute configuration in Discover without needing Sitecore support.
• New features
• ChatGPT Q&A support. Turn it on or off.
• Geo Spatial Search (zip code, city, radius). Requires lat-long data.
• Shop Similar (with product level UI pop-up) (starter kit)
• Frequently bought together (starter kit)
• OOTB Category tree for facets, category highlight
• OOTB Crawlers (API, Web, Feed, File)
• Discover 2.0
• Semantic search
• Faster and more scalable
• Match highlighting sentence, keyphrase
• Ability to copy configuration
• OOTB crawlers (Web, API, Feed)
• Segments and segment analytics
• Suggestion blocks (A/B testing suggestion blocks)
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5. Sitecore OrderCloud Product Updates
• OrderCloud now added to Sitecore Portal
• OrderCloud now available on MS Azure marketplace as the only headless commerce platform.
• ReactAdmin launched as for OrderCloud administration starter kit. New Biz Tools application coming soon.
• Use Case Branches to add functionality
• Enhanced promotion configuration
• Buyer front-end is not a priority
• Integration with Discover for auto indexing catalog and product search and merchandising
• Prototype for integration with Content Hub One and XM Cloud
• OrderCloud integration with Send and Discovery
• Product and Order Sync coming soon
• Native integration between OrderCloud and Discover coming soon (product visibility, availability, pricing,
search, recommendations)
• Number of new features in OrderCloud including Product Bundles,
• Other features coming soon to Order Cloud: GenAI Shopper Co-Pilot and Marketplace Commissions
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