The Sitecore Water Cooler: Recent Episodes
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For years, ‘water cooler talk’ has been a natural way for people in the workplace to come together and connect on common interest topics in what would otherwise be a formal environment; it boosts morale, improves culture and gets the creative juices flowing! Some of the best workplace ideas and conversations happen through face-to-face conversations around the ‘water cooler,’ so just as the name implies, The Sitecore Water cooler Podcast is a casual conversation between colleagues and peers centered around all things Sitecore. This podcast is an outlet for various Sitecore experts within the Sitecore community to have a meaningful discussion around the latest with Sitecore products, every day topics, challenges and successes associated with this top-of-line digital experience platform. Each podcast episode will range in topic, but will be geared towards quick-hitting initiatives that affect how business is done today. Whether you’re a new Sitecore user, a Sitecore MVP, or just someone who wants to learn more about Sitecore technology and capabilities, then meet us at the watercooler! The Sitecore Watercooler Podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios; subscribe today for exciting new episodes!
Discover the potent collaboration between Sitecore and Netlify in this Sitecore Water Cooler episode. Dive into real-world use cases with host Jonathan Price and special guests from Netlify Conrad McDougall and Jonathan Cipriano, as they unveil the transformative potential of this partnership. Unleash the power of technical excellence and composable architecture for your web development projects. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Conrad McDougall: LinkedIn
Jonathan Cipriano: LinkedIn
Resources: Netlify // Enterprise Sitecore Development
Discover the power of composable architecture with Uniform, a leading platform in the field. Explore how their notional component library and flexible compositions empower developers and marketers to create dynamic frontend experiences with Uniform's scalable and extensible solutions. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Alex Shyba: LinkedIn
Resources: Uniform.dev // "What Legacy?" Livestream // Uniform + Vercel Webinar // Uniform YouTube Channel
Discover Nordson Corporation's journey to streamlined search through its website redesign. Join guest host Maggie Burke and special guests from the Nordson Corporation, Scott Wilburn and Jerry Berndobler, along with Senior Sitecore Business Analyst, Casey Stanutz, from Americaneagle.com. Learn about their decision to implement an enhanced search tool, the selection of Coveo for Sitecore, and the exciting features that enhance user experience. Also, gain insights into their roadmap for future website design and development! Join us for this episode of the “Sitecore Water Cooler” podcast as we explore Nordson Corporation's transformation. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Maggie Burke: LinkedIn
Jerry Berndobler: LinkedIn
Scott Wilburn: LinkedIn
Casey Stanutz: LinkedIn
In this episode, our host, Jon Price, is at the roundtable with our Sitecore experts and one of our Sitecore MVPs to talk about their experience at Sitecore Symposium 2022. Ahmed Okour, Maggie Burke, and Naim Al share their highlights, takeaways, challenges, and announcements they experienced during this year's convention. David O. Flanagan and many others laid out a great vision for Sitecore in the marketplace, including where Sitecore can serve its existing and future customers. Sitecore has bought into the vision of composable and SaaS and has broken out its tech stack into three distinct clouds for content, commerce and engagement. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Maggie Burke: LinkedIn
Naim Al: LinkedIn
Ahmed Okour: LinkedIn
In this episode, our host, Jon Price, talks with Simon Langevin, Senior Director of Product Management at Coveo. They discuss the new updates and integrations within search, product listings, and keywords to help consumers find specific products and recommendations with the help of product vectors. Coveo partners with the leading technology vendors and system integrators globally. Coveo for Sitecore integration is the only relevant solution that fully integrates with Sitecore. Leveraging Sitecore APIs, Coveo for Sitecore blends its unified, AI-powered search capabilities into the Sitecore experience. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Simon Langevin: LinkedIn
In this episode, host John Price talks with Sitecore Architect and multi-year MVP, James Gregory, and Americaneagle.com's Senior Project Manager, Maggie Burke, about how to prepare for a composable project and building the right team around that project for when development happens. The focus lately by analysts, software companies, and current and prospective customers has been very technology focused. However, equally or more important is the business focus on how to actually construct a team that processes around a composable ecosystem for implementing and maintaining the platform. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
James Gregory: LinkedIn
Maggie Burke: LinkedIn
In this episode, our host, John Price, is joined by Vice President of Enterprise SaaS Sales at Sitecore, Corrie Sahli, and Americaneagle.com's Sitecore Program Director Maggie Burke, to talk about Sitecore Symposium 2022. Corrie Sahli gives us a sneak peak of what to expect at this year's conference, what guest speakers are going to be worth the watch, a brand new suite of products that are heading towards the future of Sitecore, and new announcements with XM Cloud and more! This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Maggie Burke: LinkedIn
Corrie Sahli: LinkedIn
In this episode, Jon Price spoke with Sitecore's System Architect, Andy Cohen, and Americaneagle.com's Sitecore Architect, Naim Al. They go into Sitecore XM Cloud and Sitecore CDP, and also discuss the new age of building a Sitecore solution and a guide to how existing Sitecore clients can become composable. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // YouTube
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Naim Al: LinkedIn // Twitter
Andy Cohen: LinkedIn // Twitter
In this episode, Jon Price talks with CEO and Founder of PutItForward, Mark Cowan, to discuss how technologies can help automate the insights and integrations between siloed systems and data. PutItForward creates the ability for people and organizations to simply get control of their data story and realize its full potential. The core is the Data Automation Network, a configuration driven approach to integrate, manage the platform, orchestrate and see around corners. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Mark Cowan: LinkedIn
For many years, Coveo has been a leading search and insights engine for platforms such as Sitecore. Lately, Coveo has expanded its footprint and capabilities in use cases including a case resolution for self-service portals, integrating with chatbot providers, and helping ecommerce customers drive more sales. In this episode, our host, Jon Price, spoke to Coveo Account Executive Anthony Dumas and Coveo Sales Engineer Paul Sheridan to learn more about what Coveo has been up to this last year and what's in store for the future. They discuss Coveo's recent acquisition of Qubit, the company going public, future focuses regarding features and capabilities, key differentiators compared to competitors, and so much more. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Anthony Dumas: LinkedIn // Twitter
Paul Sheridan: LinkedIn // Twitter
One of the pivotal pieces of success for a software company today is the community which dedicates itself to the success of implementations and advancement. It is tough to argue against the fact that Sitecore's community is second to none with the individuals who are invested in it day in and day out. Sitecore recognizes these special individuals who dedicate themselves towards improving the Sitecore product and sharing their knowledge and passion within the community. In this episode, our host, Jon Price, is joined by Sitecore's Tamas Varga who leads the Sitecore MVP Program. They discuss why the number of MVPs awarded has dropped, why the program is important to Sitecore's success, how to become active in the community, and the introduction of the Sitecore Mentor Program. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Tamas Varga: LinkedIn // Twitter
Seasonally fitting with the Valentine's season, we are focusing on loyal customers of Sitecore who have been on the platform for over 5 years and have progressively enhanced their original implementation including Sitecore upgrades. In this episode, we're diving into a very recognizable association that prides themselves on portraying and creating content centered around all things quality — ASQ. Our host, Jon Price, spoke with ASQ's Web Application Manager and Scrum Master, Ama Wanniarachchi. ASQ started their journey over 5 years ago and have migrated their flagship website along with 50,000 unique pieces for product and informational content over to Sitecore. In this episode we talk about why ASQ chose Sitecore, the new features of Sitecore that excite ASQ the most, and more! ASQ is committed to providing enhanced expertise, professional networks, tools, and solutions to help members advance their products, services, and industries. They provide professional training, certifications, and knowledge to members globally. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Ama Wanniarachchi: LinkedIn
Today, organizations are in the continuous pursuit of the ever-elusive 360-degree view of their customers and prospects. The reason why organizations struggle with this is because they have numerous systems that hold different types of data – and it is always a challenge to marry these different data sources. However, once organizations can marry customer data from numerous data sources, new doors will open for things like explicit personalization and marketing automation. A good majority of Sitecore customers are also Salesforce CRM and Salesforce Marketing Cloud users. The opportunity to have these systems connected has never been more advantageous, and the way to marry Sitecore and Salesforce has never been more streamlined. Sitecore offers a Salesforce connector to accelerate these data connections. In this episode, we're going to dive into how a specific Sitecore customer, Renown Health, was able to utilize a Salesforce and Sitecore connector to better reach their constituents. To discuss the site, our host, Jon Price, spoke with Americaneagle.com's Senior Project Manager Maggie Burke and Sitecore Architect Alex Lentz. Both Burke and Lentz worked on the project and share a great deal of knowledge and expertise on the topic. For more information, check out: A Harmonious Communication: Using Sitecore Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud to Maximize Your Marketing Initiatives. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Maggie Burke: LinkedIn
Alex Lentz: LinkedIn
Continuing from the conversation in the last episode about Sitecore OrderCloud, our host, Jon Price, spoke with longtime Sitecore Architect and multi-year MVP, James Gregory, to discuss everything about Sitecore CDP (Customer Data Platform) and Sitecore Personalize. CDPs collect data on customer behavior with your product of service. CDPs can tell you each step that a customer has taken since engaging with your company from the channel they found you on to how they behave with it within your product. This aggregate of data within a CDP can then be used to personalize on any channel. The CDP stores a 360 view so marketers can personalize the next step in whatever channel they may be in. Tune in to learn more about Sitecore's CDP product! This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
James Gregory: LinkedIn // Twitter
Built as a cloud-based, API-first, headless ecommerce platform, Sitecore OrderCloud offers nearly limitless customizations and endless freedom for growth. Sitecore now has multiple commerce options available where OrderCloud is looking toward the future. In this episode, our host, Jon Price, spoke with longtime Sitecore Architect and multi-year MVP James Gregory to discuss everything OrderCloud: what it is, its history, and its application, and more. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
James Gregory: LinkedIn // Twitter
Every year, Sitecore honors the top contributors in the community by naming them MVPs. Thousands of applicants apply through the channel of the Sitecore MVP Website. In this episode, our host, Jon Price, spoke with Americaneagle.com team members who help build the Sitecore websites and help streamline the application process. Our guests include Americaneagle.com’s Senior Sitecore Developer Naim Al, Joshua Hover, Director of Sitecore Project Management Operations, and Sitecore Solutions Architect Ahmed Okour. Combined, these three experts have more than 30 years of experience in Sitecore. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Joshua Hover: LinkedIn // Twitter
Naim Al: LinkedIn // Twitter
Ahmed Okour: LinkedIn // Twitter
Sitecore Hackathon is a free online community organized by community members and supported by Sitecore. Once a year, developers and business users from around the world get together to compete for 24 hours straight to build a new feature or function for the Sitecore platform. The modules and components built are then reviewed by community members and Sitecore employees and a winner is selected. To discuss the Sitecore Hackathon, our host, Jon Price, spoke with Senior Sitecore Developer Naim Al and Joshua Hover, Director of Sitecore Project Management Operations at Americaneagle.com. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Joshua Hover: LinkedIn // Twitter
Naim Al: LinkedIn // Twitter
For the last few years, the content management and digital experience platform scene has changed drastically. For example, Gartner recently introduced the concept of “composable.” Along with the topic of composable, in this episode, our host Jon Price spoke with longtime Sitecore Architect and multi-year MVP James Gregory to discuss Sitecore and what headless really means. The topic of headless has been a hot development trend lately and fits directly into the concept of composable. Sitecore originated as, and is still technically, a headless CMS. Up until recently though, Sitecore hasn't marketed itself as a headless platform. This episode covers numerous options, including Sitecore headless services (previously known as JSS), Sitecore Experience Edge, and content as a service. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen them! Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
James Gregory: LinkedIn // Twitter
Sitecore's MVP submissions for 2022 are right around the corner. In this episode, our host, Jon Price, spoke with longtime Sitecore Architect and multi-year MVP, Mohammed Syam, to discuss all about becoming ad being a Sitecore MVP. The two cover what it takes to become a MVP, retain the MVP title, and what value MVPs provide for Sitecore customers. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Mohammed Syam: LinkedIn // Twitter
The day after Symposium wrapped, our longtime Sitecore Architects and multi-year MVPs Jon Price, Mohammed Syam, Ahmed Okour, and James Gregory, broke down the topics and announcements presented at the conference including cutting edge features, how the SC community is impacted, our favorite sessions, next steps, and more! This episode discusses all things Sitecore and how you can get the most out of your DXP platform investment! This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Watch this roundtable right here. Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Ahmed Okour: LinkedIn // Twitter
Mohammed Syam: LinkedIn // Twitter
James Gregory: LinkedIn
Sitecore Symposium 2021 is right around the corner. In this episode, our host, Jon Price, spoke with Sitecore's Senior Director of Product Marketing David Schweer to preview Sitecore Symposium 2021 and share some additional insights in regard to the platform's strategic direction. Sitecore Symposium 2021 will take place October 5 – 7, 2021. Thousands of marketers, developers, Sitecore customers, experts, and solution and technology partners from around the world will come together to hear compelling, real-world customer success stories and learn best practices from businesses and organizations. They’ll learn about new products and updates on current solutions, and get a sneak peek into Sitecore’s product roadmap. With expert speakers, innovative thought leaders, and representatives from a range of global brands and industries, Sitecore Symposium 2021 will create connections, spark ideas, and offer actionable insights. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
David Schweer: LinkedIn // Twitter
The world has simply gone to the way of more touchless and faceless interactions, which greatly influences how companies need to adapt their digital web properties and strategies for helping their customer prospects and employees. Enter platforms like Sitecore, Salesforce, and others that have capabilities for content, personalization, and AB testing. However, they all have similar gaps in their stack, which is search, machine learning, and chat bots. With these digital changes occurring, more functions are needed to be accessed digitally. In this episode, our host, Jon Price, spoke with Coveo's Digital Account Executive, JC Dumont, to talk Coveo, a leader in this arena on the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Coveo is a fantastic solution to address the gaps of digital experience platforms in organization's technology stack. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. For more information, check out this article by Coveo: How Search is Enabling Self-Service, Ecommerce, and Enterprise Stitching Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter // Instagram
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
JC Dumont: LinkedIn
Through competition in the marketplace and with the acceleration of the digital world, Sitecore started purchasing SaaS products to help enhance its product offering. These offerings will help accelerate Sitecore's move to a cloud first and SaaS-based product. But will Sitecore continue to set themselves apart and remain as an extremely flexible and scalable framework? Our host, Jon Price, spoke with Sitecore's Senior Territory Sales Executive, Brian Plante, to discuss what these new purchases mean to the platform and how to get the most out of your Sitecore investment. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Brian Plante: LinkedIn // Twitter
Similar to the Commerce space, the content, product and assets technology space is very crowded with numerous options. What does Sitecore Content Hub consist of and what tools can it replace? Our host, Jon Price, spoke with longtime Sitecore Architects and multi-year MVP, Mohammed Syam, as well as Josh Hover, a well-seasoned Sitecore Developer and Program Manager, to cover the landscape of content, digital asset, and product information management. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Mohammed Syam: LinkedIn // Twitter
Josh Hover: LinkedIn // Twitter
Sitecore has been very busy lately making strategic acquisitions of products such as 451, Boxever, and Moosend. Along with this, there are several ecommerce platforms out there. What are the differences between 451 and Sitecore Commerce? And why would you choose one over the other? To answer these questions, Jonathan spoke with longtime Sitecore Architects and multi-year MVPs, Ahmed Okour and James Gregory, as well as Josh Hover, a well seasoned Sitecore Developer and Program Manager. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Ahmed Okour: LinkedIn // Twitter
Josh Hover: LinkedIn // Twitter
James Gregory: LinkedIn
Technology and software changes by the day. If your website is currently on an older version of the Sitecore platform and you are at crossroads on what to do, you have numerous options, you aren't stuck. Jonathan Price, Sitecore Practice Director and 3x Sitecore MVP, sits down with Bill Rourke, Senior Account Executive and Sitecore expert at Americaneagle.com, to discuss the decision making process to upgrade or rebuild solutions for existing Sitecore clients. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Connect with:
The Sitecore Water Cooler: Website // Twitter
Jon Price: LinkedIn // Twitter
Bill Rourke: LinkedIn
For years, ‘water cooler talk’ has been a natural way for people in the workplace to come together and connect on common interest topics in what would otherwise be a formal environment; it boosts moral, improves culture and gets the creative juices flowing! Some of the best workplace ideas and conversations happen through face-to-face conversations around the ‘water cooler,’ so just as the name implies, The Sitecore Water cooler Podcast is a casual conversation between colleagues and peers centered around all things Sitecore. This podcast is an outlet for various Sitecore experts within the Sitecore community to have a meaningful discussion around the latest with Sitecore products, every day topics, challenges and successes associated with this top-of-line digital experience platform. Each podcast episode will range in topic, but will be geared towards quick-hitting initiatives that affect how business is done today. Whether you’re a new Sitecore user, a Sitecore MVP, or just someone who wants to learn more about Sitecore technology and capabilities, then meet us at the watercooler! The Sitecore Watercooler Podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios; subscribe today for exciting new episodes!