Sitecore Experience Manager Cloud (XM Cloud) is a new-generation, self-serviced, SaaS CMS designed especially for developers and marketers.

It efficiently launches engaging omnichannel digital customer experiences which are deployed through the Cloud using Sitecore’s headless architecture.

The Experience Manager Cloud includes all the latest versions of Experience Manager, the Pages editor, Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA), Headless Services, the Sitecore Next.js SDK (and other Heads), and Experience Edge.

With these new features paving the path for easy development, Sitecore has now transitioned its core CMS solution to a modern cloud architecture that enables better personalized digital experiences while making site maintenance much simpler compared to its predecessors.

How does Sitecore XM Cloud make Site Maintenance easy?

1. A new visual authoring experience

XM Cloud offers marketers a slick and intuitive way to author and curate customer experiences using ‘Drag’, ‘Drop’, and ‘Publish’ for developing engaging and high-impact content.

2. Personalization made simple

With the introduction of real-time data and analytics, XM Cloud’s integrated personalization helps optimize digital consumer experiences by crafting relevant content that caters to a wide range of target audiences.

3. Analytics to understand audience behavior

The embedded site and page analytics dashboard in XM Cloud can generate real-time insights on how your site and personalized page variants are performing about your specific target audiences.

4. Lights-on operations

The cloud-based architecture of Sitecore’s SaaS CMS inevitably allows you to reduce the number of resources and costs associated with the day-to-day management and maintenance of your system.

5. Reduced hosting costs

Sitecore XM Cloud has done away with the need to continue hosting your Sitecore environment. Since this particular CMS exists entirely in the cloud, you can now simply stick to the monthly hosting costs in Sitecore Managed Cloud.

6. Improved performance and flexible scaling

The cloud architecture combined with the composable nature of Sitecore’s XM Cloud not only helps improve performance attributes including the loading speed of website pages but also does so at the desired scale depending on the nature and requirements of the business.

It is also built and aligned with the JAMStack philosophy while simultaneously incorporating frameworks such as Next.js which support performance-driven sites.

7. Reduce time on redundant tasks

Because XM Cloud is a SaaS solution, Sitecore takes care of hosting, monitoring, and maintenance so you can streamline your focus on creating and developing new functionalities and integrating other composable solutions.

8. Sitecore Pages

Sitecore Pages is a new product offering as part of the cloud-based SaaS architecture of XM Cloud that enables improved visual content editing.

With Sitecore Pages, you can now manage all your media assets from a single place and distribute various types of content across different channels.

9. Sitecore Content Explorer

Sitecore Content Explorer allows you to edit content fields in the editor view. It facilitates working with content items from all your different websites, creating new items, and even accessing content that may not be available in Pages.

10. Sitecore Components

It is also known as Frontend as a Service (FaaS), a reusable component editor, which allows you to select and manage data sources for components.

In Conclusion

Sitecore XM Cloud is designed to address concerns around providing powerful and stable digital consumer experiences globally.

As per a report by Mckinsey Digital, development teams across the globe have been known to improve their productivity by almost 30% as well as increase business revenues by 20%, simply with the introduction of a cloud-based operating and innovation model.

With Sitecore’s transition from an on-premise CMS solution to a cloud-based, SaaS CMS, organizations will no longer need to worry about uptime, support, or maintenance.

A SaaS CMS such as Sitecore XM Cloud reduces the need for extensive software infrastructure and the teams needed to manage and maintain the same.

With lower costs of server maintenance, server patching, and staffing, Sitecore XM cloud can enhance your digital experience by reducing your time to market and increasing possibilities of innovation through newer means of content adaption with lower costs.

Get in Touch for a transition to XM Cloud from XP or any other Sitecore-related query. Our team of experts is ready to help.