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As modern consumers, we have long been used to living in a world where online purchases are part of our everyday life. We order everything online – from books and toiletries – to gifts and groceries. As Amazon gobbles up companies like Whole Foods, even traditional brick and mortar stores are experiencing a fundamental sea change that promes to merge physical and digital shopping into a single experience.

When we talk to our customers, we hear an increasing need to create, compose, and preview digital experiences based on content sourced from different repositories and systems. For example, editors need an easy way to work with all available content sources, such as product catalogues, videos, text, and images.

For three days the halls were full of happy faces. Around 8.000 customers and partner plus 2.000 Salesforce employees shared many smiles. They might have been inspired by the huge banners featuring smiling client executives from Adidas, Ticketmaster and others everywhere. Anyway, the place was very much alive and full of a winning attitude.

In early 2018, Digital Clarity Group undertook a major research program aimed at understanding how organizations approach their digital experience platforms (DXPs) – those collections of technologies that they use to create, orchestrate, and manage the digital experience (DX) delivered to customers, prospects, employees, and other stakeholders. We published the findings in a new report entitled Digital Experience Platforms: Buyer Trends, Preferences, and Strategies, available from DCG and from CoreMedia, a sponsor of the research.

Now that it's been few days since Adobe's acquisition of Magento, I wanted to share some thoughts.

The annual convention calendar for retailers was once a wild and wooly landscape full of shows both big and small – most with the word “Shop” in their title.

Many of those shows still exist, but few can rival the two leading players: the (awkwardly named) stalwart, the National Retail Federation's (NRF) Big Show, and the hip upstart, Shoptalk.

Let me tell you the story of a security bug.

To harden our CMS against XXE attacks, we were implementing the procedures proposed by OWASP. This worked nicely for the deployed software but we ran into one case in which the XXE prevention simply did not seem to work when running a test. Fearing that the approach was somehow broken despite the reputable source, we did a root causes analysis. We found that the transformer factory was correctly configured to avoid inline DTDs and when creating a SAX parser internally it would also pass plausible security features to the parser. However, the parser did not understand the relevant security features, because it implemented an older JAXP version, in which other features had to be used for avoiding XXE attacks. The transformer factory on the other hand, expected a modern SAX parser to be generated, unaware that a JAXP plugin jar might replace the parser, but not the transformer factory implementation.

Now that the EU’s new digital privacy laws have launched and with the ongoing scandal at Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica revelations, it seems like a great time to get up to speed on the latest news in the world of digital privacy and data protection.

Is the beginning of widespread Artificial Intelligence (AI) finally here? Seemingly every day brings some big announcement, from breakthrough findings in ALS research generated by AI data mining to AI-powered phone calls that sound convincingly human (Google’s Duplex).

It’s all about the experienceMost savvy brands and retailers recognize that great content is at the core of every great online experience. That’s true today and it will remain true in the future. But building and delivering consistent, compelling experiences to consumers across multiple channels and devices is more complicated than ever.