Endeca Experience Manager Upgrade

March 6, 2014

Folks at Thanks Media offers a helping hand with their post, “How to Migrate to Endeca Experience Manager / Key Upgrade Factors.” Writer Maracel Munoz introduces his advice for those looking to upgrade from PageBuilder:

“I’ll be straight, the upgrade from Page Builder to Experience Manager isn’t the kind of migration you can just install a software patch, run a few tests in the development and staging environments, and roll it out to production in a day or two. It’s going to require some significant changes and the level of effort isn’t trivial, but the functionality and productivity enhancements will make it well worth the effort.

“Experience Manager is full of great features that will benefit your business processes and help you provide an even better customer experience which I’ll talk about in another post, the focus of this article is to provide an overview on a few things you should be aware of before you dive into the upgrade documentation and start your migration.”

Yes, there are several reasons to allow a generous amount of time for this project. For example, the new code base means the creation of new custom cartridges and templates. Also, component communication paths have been changed, and rule groups must be reorganized. It was point number four, though, that really caught our attention: there’s no automated way to migrate content—you’ll have to move content from the old environment to the new one manually. Munoz frames this factor positively by pointing out that it is “a great opportunity to clean house and improve the integrity of your data.” That’s one way to look at it. See the article for more if you see this upgrade in your future.

The basic documentation for Endeca Experience Manager can be found here [pdf]. Founded in 1999 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Endeca was acquired by Oracle in 2011. Endeca has long been at the forefront of faceted search technology, particularly for large e-commerce and online library systems.

Cynthia Murrell, March 06, 2014

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