Have you heard of Adobe AEM and Helix?
Adobe AEM + Google Docs + Word + Excel?
It’s a new way to publish content on Adobe AEM.
Today is a quicktake on project Helix.
What is it and should you use it?
If you use Adobe AEM to manage content, you must hear this.
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Transcript:
There's a new feature of Adobe experience manager it's called helix. And it seems to be a faster way to publish content on AEM.
Have you heard of project Helix before? It seems that folks at Adobe have been working on this project for a feature of AEM that would allow authors to publish content super fast by using Google docs, Google sheets, or Microsoft office docs. So the idea is you would connect AEM instance with Microsoft office or Google docs. You would then through some level of structure, content type, what you would want on the page, like a title, a heading, maybe structure, content, like a table.
And through that integration AEM would then ingest that content and dynamically render it in HTML as a webpage. Now I can see a lot of interesting use cases for this, especially if you have a micro-site or knowledge-based site with a ton of content and the easiest way to maintain that is with a library of docs, that makes a lot of sense. In terms of a broader scale. I don't know how this will be leveraged by a lot of existing customers that have very complex pages.
With a lot of different components and configurations of those templates that need to be rendered for whatever experience it may be.
However, in my opinion, this is an excellent step in the right direction, which is improving the authoring experience for AEM. Which at times can be a little frustrating.
So this will be very interesting to see how this evolves. Now, if you're interested in to learn more about this, I'll put a link in the comments to the project helix website. Maybe you can talk to adobe and become a beta tester of this either way let me know how it goes and as this matures i'll follow up with more details.