Why upgrade to Sitecore 9?

With Sitecore 9, personalisation and machine learning provide a great return on digital investment for your business

Sitecore 9 is here. It’s more powerful, more integrated and smarter.

Some of the new features for Sitecore 9 include: data centralisation, backwards compatibility and the simplifying of processes for marketers and non-Sitecore developers. With this in mind, it’s clear that Sitecore want to make the platform as easy-to-use, accessible and scalable as possible as it grows and develops further.

Capture more customer data with Sitecore 9’s new web forms

Web Forms for Marketers has helped hundreds of organisations’ marketing teams drive conversions. In Sitecore 9, a new forms feature replaced Web Forms for Marketers, simplifying and speeding up the process.

Featuring a drag-and-drop layout, the new forms function makes it extremely easy for marketers to quickly create, replicate and publish new web forms. All forms are reusable and reskinnable, meaning you’ll spend less time building forms and more time collecting valuable customer data.

Sitecore’s new forms feature also allows more complex multi-step forms, which can sit across more than one page. These can be used for:

1. Surveys 
2. Questionnaires 
3. Membership sign up forms

Marketing tip: Get more data from your audience using web forms, this data can form the basis of you next successful campaign.

The good news for Web Forms for Marketers loyalists - the existing feature isn’t going anywhere. WFFM will be fully supported in Sitecore 9, allowing you to upgrade and still keep your existing forms fully functional.

Cut project time by migrating content from legacy versions of Sitecore 

Sitecore 9 offers easy migration of content from legacy versions of Sitecore. This allows you to move projects forward quicker and spend less time on repetitive tasks.

With your content migrated and taken care of, you can work smarter, not harder. You’ll have more time and budget to deliver business-specific value to your clients.

Is my legacy Sitecore version supported? Sitecore 9 supports content migration from versions 6.6, 7.2, 7.5, and 8.0. Those using version 8.1 and 8.2 can simply upgrade to 9 in what Sitecore is calling their easiest upgrade process yet.

Non-Sitecore developers can get started on Sitecore projects quickly

Thanks to some very smart features in Sitecore 9, front end developers now no longer have to be Sitecore experts to build in Sitecore. if this sounds strange, then we’ll explain why.

Using their new Sitecore JavaScript Services, Sitecore have integrated some JavaScript elements within their platform. This now allows developers with minimal previous Sitecore experience to work on Sitecore projects.