In 2013, two of our big clients started considering Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) for their CMS needs. In the market of integrated mega-CMS we at Liip came under the impression that Open Source solutions were most of the time not considered by potential clients. To continue collaboration with these key clients, and to offer our high-quality services in this specific market, we have decided to invest in the creation of a dedicated project squad .

We were in contact with AEM before, working on a PHP connector for its data-storage layer (Jackrabbit JCR). Also this new line of service complements rather than replaces our existing service offer.

The partnership with Adobe started at the beginning of 2014. It let us explore the product deeper and assess the market opportunity behind it. By february 2015, the “AEM Startup Squad” was launched. This squad is composed of Fabrice, a senior Java developer with an already solid AEM background, four experienced “bizdev”-people and myself. This is our task force dedicated to reach our goals.

We are presently working on a few business opportunities to realize complete AEM projects or to develop interconnected applications to plug on existing AEM systems. For example Richemont group, which has to resolve many interconnection issues between the brands. Some client projects will therefore start soon.

At the same time, we continue building up our know how and get involved in the community by doing an internal project and by participating to learning sessions and meetups. It's really a chance to have some time to grow up our skills without the constraints of client-projects. Thank to this, we are now confident to offer a very good expertise in AEM, with focus on following features :

  • The data storage layer and requests resolutions with JCR and Sling ;
  • Authoring concepts and processes ;
  • Components architecture and development ;
  • AEM Key features such as user management, client-context and workflows ;
  • Continuous Integration process & integration tests.

As new projects are coming very soon, we are still looking for developers to extend the squad and build many awesome project based on AEM at Liip. We are now well launched on our roadmap to have a cross-functional team focused on Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions at Liip.