What are the Advantages of using Adobe AEM?

  

What is AEM?

AEM is a content management system tool for building, managing and deploying websites, assets. forms and related services. AEM is a java web application and is based on technologies such as open service gateway that is OSGI, Apache Sling, and Java Content Repository JCR. The latest version which is available in the market is AEM 6.5 which was released in 2019. Its old name was CQ5.

The main advantage of AEM is it simplifies the management and delivery of website content. AEM makes it easier for professionals to manage all of their marketing content analysis and then deliver them to the right person at the right time.

Through that marketers can quickly configure the website and deliver it for the end users without extensive technical knowledge.

AEM Technology Stack:

AEM runs on a Java Virtual machine. It is built on different open source technologies and standards like OSGI Framework, REST framework, JCR Repository, Servlet Engine. Granite platform is the key role player in AEM.

AEM Implementation Core Concepts:

AEM 6 is based on Apache Jackrabbit Oak, the advantages here are better support for big repositories so more data can be accumulated, high availability, better performance, and it supports many child nodes and access control levels.

Once you login into AEM 6.5, we have Files, collections, shared links, templates, catalogs, and Jobs. The file section helps to traverse to files and do various operations on an Asset.

What are AEM packages?

There are two types of Packages one is Package Manager and another one is Package share. Let us understand the difference

Package Manager is something which we use to manage the packages in your local AEM instance. Package Share is a centralized server that shares both publicly available packages and those private to your company.  Public packages can contain hotfixes, new functionality, documentation, etc.

AEM Features:

• There are two kinds of templates Editable and static, Editable templates allow the content authors to change the page layout. AEM components are used to hold format and to enter the content made available on your web pages.
•  The author uses the components along with templates to create the website pages by adding the required content. So the content is enabled through these components. As I already told templates are the structures, then the structure is built with these components and enables the required content.
• AEM workflows allow you to automate the series of steps that are performed on pages like Assets. So those scenarios can be built through the workflows.
• MSM- Multisite Manager, this provides flexibility to empower organizations to create a size for different countries, markets and regions, languages, You can organize multiple sites that may be country-specific, region-specific, or language-specific. The MSM capability will allow you to manage those sites easily.