Talking to a typical
customer about the
road to composable
Gert Gullentops

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1. The road to composable
• The scene
• The customer
2. The example
3. Conclusion
4. Talk some more 
Agenda
1. A

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If you use any information or ideas that you learn during
this session in your business and loose projects, entire
customers, your job or your goldfish -
I am not responsible.
Disclaimer

A road to composable

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• Many sessions/resources available
• Peter & Jason @ Sugcon 2022
• Akshay & Kamruz @ Symposium 2022
• …
• Path To Composable track @ Sugcon 2023
• Focus on architecture
A road to composable

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• Fast lane • Don’t know
Customers ∞ Composable
• Too big to change

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Don’t scare
your
customer

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• Sitecore XP
• 10+ years
• 10.2 (several upgrades)
• Multisite – multilingual
• Preview site
• Integrations with external
api’s
• SXA
• Forms
• EXM
The customer

The approach

General guidelines

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General guidelines

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General guidelines

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• Gather the right people
• IT
• Business
• Decision makers
• In person
General guidelines

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Don’t scare
your
customer

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Composable
is not scary

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• Don’t scare your customer
• No stress
• Be confident
• Avoid “rebuild”
• Make them curious
• Positive vibes
• Be honest
• At their pace
General guidelines

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• Prepare an architecture
• Find parts to (re)move
• Check cost & user experience
• Roadmap
• One (agile) step at a time
• Product selection = later
• Procurement
General guidelines

Our roadmap

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• Replace Sitecore Forms
 Composable alternative
• Better experience
• Cost
• License
• Transfer
• Too many dependencies
Our roadmap

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• Replace EXM
• This allows us to remove xDB
• Lower costs
• Composable mail solution
• Better experience
• Feature mapping – CMS integration
• Sitecore Send or … ?
Our roadmap – 2 - Mail

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• Replace SXA Search
• Composable search solution
• Cost
• License
• Implementation
• Better experience
• Sitecore Search or … ?
Our roadmap – 3 - Search
Where is the hidden tiger?

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• Move (in)dependent code
• API’s (react apps)
• Scheduled tasks
• Decouple from CMS
• Azure Functions ?
Our roadmap – 4 - Code

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• Replace CMS
• Composable headless alternative
• XM Cloud ?
• Content Hub One ?
• …
• Requires a new FE layer
• Detect re-usable pieces
• react apps
Our roadmap – 5 - CMS

Conclusion

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Make a roadmap

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Define steps & benefits

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Talk to the right people

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Be honest - about all the steps

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Don’t scare your customer

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It is a POSITIVE story

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Thank you!
Gert Gullentops
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