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  • Adobe to Offer CDP Technical Practitioner Certification in Real-Time

    CDP (Customer Data Platform) gained popularity for its immaculate predictive and first-party data collection strategy. Created in collaboration with industry giants Deloitte, Merkle, Infosys, and Bounteous, Adobe's Real-Time CDP is a new market leader in customer data platforms. Powered by the Adobe Experience Platform, it helps merchants or technicians assimilate customer behavior trends and warrant faultless data usage. CDP thus becomes a business investment, and the certification helps small businesses thrive better on their customer data for making profits. The certification follows an exam and a lauded digitized badge that could be included in resumes, LinkedIn, websites, and sales pitches to gain momentum. The certification assures expertise in implementing and configuring Real-Time CDP.

  • Adobe Experience Cloud Help Retailers Personalize Customer Engagements

    Adobe announced novel tools that aid merchants in increasing client loyalty, building consumer engagement, and enabling personalization across customer touchpoints. The changes will improve the personalized real-time experience for the purchasers at scale. One such prominent Adobe tool is Adobe Experience Cloud. The tool is powered by the Adobe Experience Platform, the data analysis system, and Adobe Sensei, the machine learning framework, both driven by AI. The scheme mainly aids omnichannel businesses with customer interactions through eCommerce, mobile apps, and physical stores. The Total Economic Impact of Adobe Experience Cloud, Forrester Consulting's study from July 2021, showed a significant impact on figures with a 28% increase in digital customer experiences and 20% growth in customer conversions.

  • 2022 Upgrade Dates Announced for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source

    The latest features for security and functional patches for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source supported release lines are announced for 2022. The feature releases are slated for Jan 18, Apr 26, and Jun 21. The feature updates would be delivered as separate patch releases, including Product Recommendations and Live Search, PWA Studio and Inventory Management (MSI), and Cloud Services and Infrastructure Updates. Feature + patch releases would be on Mar 8 and Aug 9, 2022. Feature + security patch release date is on Oct 11, 2022. Patch releases include performance, high-priority quality, security, and compliance fixes to the core applications. Security patch releases ensure security only updates for the Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source applications. The upgrades will keep websites secure and compliant.

  • Adobe Prepares to Deliver the Next Update of 2.4 With 2.4.3

    Adobe Commerce 2.4.3 packs quite a few upgrades over its predecessors in terms of performance, security, quality, and other variables. The new updates will help merchants prepare their store for the rush of traffic for the upcoming holiday season. Adobe plans to introduce wishlist upgrades, a preconfigured UI toolkit for PWA Studio, upgrade compatibility tool expansion, and a new application performance monitoring dashboard. The new release will feature a number of platform quality fixes, besides resolving several security issues, and introduces enhancements like expansion of ReCAPTCHA security. Merchants can utilize these valuable enhancements to boost the performance of their sales channel, elevate user experience, improve conversions, and increase customer loyalty for their eCommerce business.

  • Adobe Named a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce

    Adobe was recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, for the fifth year in a row. It is a testament to the robust ecosystem, its features, updates, customer support, vision, roadmap, and innovative members. Adobe Commerce is a dominant platform in the mid-market segment and rapidly expanding in the enterprise space as well. Adobe has continually managed to deliver exemplary performance, capabilities, and services for all commerce models including the ability to serve both B2B and B2C, for all business sizes, and that too from a single platform. Today, sales reps, across all Industry Verticals are utilizing Magento's powerful features as a business building and resource tool. Adobe Commerce also supports customer collaboration, omnichannel execution, and cross-channel engagement to support the entire customer lifecycle.

  • Better Security and Updates in Q4 Release of Adobe Commerce

    Magento has released new security updates for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source with its Q4 release of 2.4.3-p1 and 2.3.7-p2. This helps eCommerce merchants harden the security protocols of their Magento store. These security-specific releases have changed the way session IDs are handled. Thus, it prevents unauthorized users from disguising themselves as authorized users and performing actions on their behalf. With the new update, admin access to media gallery folders is restricted. This prevents any indirect deletion of .htaccess files. Plus, the new update helps to prevent any DOS attacks, besides preventing dangerous HTML tags and attributes. Outside of this, Magento improved the Live Search feature, Asynchronous Order Processing,  and made changes to PWA Studio 12.

  • New Feature of Magento 2 YouTube Widget Extension

    Do you have a YouTube channel that has tons of videos but no one is watching them? This could be because your video's thumbnail isn't grabbing their attention and driving people to click on it. The NEW feature in the Magento 2 YouTube Widget Extension will help with this issue! Now, when adding an image for the widget settings, there are three options: Contain (default), Cover or Auto size images based on content available so they always fit perfectly while displaying best possible quality regardless of device screen resolution*. Get more likes from potential customers by optimizing your marketing strategy today - don’t let another opportunity slip away without taking advantage!

  • Update to PHP 7.4 With the New Adobe Commerce Releases

    Why are you still on PHP 7.3? With the end of support coming up in December 2021, it's time to upgrade! The PHP community has been hard at work on the next major release of their web development language, and it's already here in beta! With support for non-blocking I/O operations as well as asynchronous programming features as generators to make your site run faster, there are a ton more reasons than ever before to update. Along with these updates come Adobe Commerce releases that will help merchants ship even faster—it doesn't get much better than this.

  • Magento 2.4.3 Has Arrived

    Magento 2.4.3 has arrived! It is available for use on 10th August, 2021 and brings out enhancements in performance, security and platform improvements. You can now enjoy the latest Magento release that includes Security Improvements: reCAPTCHA coverage has been expanded with built-in rate limiting to ensure a safe shopping experience where bots are blocked from performing malicious activities as spamming or brute force attacks against your store's website as well as preventing unauthorized charges being made using stolen credit card numbers; Core composer dependencies have been upgraded to compatible versions of PHP 8 so you won't miss any new feature updates while improving site speed; The newest release also comes up 33 security enhancements (370 core fixes) which include 370 bug fixes.

  • Get Ready for Your Peak Season With Adobe Commerce 2.4.3

    Get ready for peak season with Adobe Commerce 2.4.3! For many businesses this time of year is the most profitable, but it can also be a huge burden if you're not prepared to handle your business's needs during periods like these - when inventory management and logistics take on even greater importance than usual. We have some quick fixes that will make sure you are maximizing profits while still offering great customer experience by following best practices in preparation for any upcoming holidays or other market-driven events throughout the year:

  • Magento 2.4.3 Release is Round the Corner

    The Magento 2.4.3 version is expected to release on August 10, 2021, with a plethora of features that will enhance the performance and security as well platform improvements for store owners! With more than 370 new fixes in core code, 33 security enhancements, and solutions to 290 GitHub issues amongst many other updates for better user experience; this latest update also has expanded reCAPTCHA coverage which includes built-in rate limiting from fraudsters who are trying to carry out their nefarious deeds before they get caught by webmasters or end up being thwarted while integrating PayPal Pay Later support where you can use it at your convenience without having access troubles using GraphQL coverage.

  • Magento 2.2 is Available for Download

    It's been a long wait, but finally Magento 2.2 is available for download. The newest version of Magento now has support for PHP 7 and the latest versions of JavaScript libraries such as ReactJS and VueJS. Version 2.2 also features a new REST API architecture that will make it easier to create mobile apps or integrate with external systems in the future. This update is important because it allows business owners to take advantage of modern technologies without having to worry about updating their website code themselves.