Musings on the Human Condition

  AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS) is Adobe's software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), which provides clients with a CMS platform (Sites), Digital Asset Management (DAM, or simply Assets), and Forms. It was released a few years ago with several upsides and a few downsides. In the intervening years, Adobe has continued to build on the pros while the cons continue to dwindle. Some fairly large companies have been enticed with licensing discounts and package deals to embrace CS and migrate their AEM instances to it. We have helped a few of our clients with this journey and some are now live on CS. This post briefly describes the key steps involved in such a migration. Assess Current State The migration from on-premise (data center) or cloud-hosted to CS is not a lift-and-shift. Significant refactoring is required in order to make your AEM implementation ready for CS. Additionally, it's a great opportunity to modernize and clear off technical debt.  ...

This year's Summit was as good as ever! As usual, there were hundreds of sessions covering every imaginable topic. However, there were a few themes that were new this year and deserve special mention. Generative AI Adobe's implementation of GenAI comes in the form of their Firefly toolkit (currently in beta) that takes in a textual description of an image and generates artificial images that match the provided description. For example, you could ask Firefly to create a "flat design logo for a towing company featuring a tow truck using grey and orange and primary colors". And Firefly will produce several images to choose from and tweak. You can customize things like the aspect ratio, content type (photo, graphic, or art), styles, color and tone, lighting, and composition to create truly custom and unique content. Additionally, Firefly can also generate text effects.  Features under development include vector recoloring, text to brush (create custom Photoshop brushes)...