Brown Bag –Reasons to upgrade to

Kentico 9Ilesh Mistry

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Key features

Continuous IntegrationWebsite development is now up to 30% faster

Serialises ALL most objects into XML

Serialised objects are very small in size so shouldn’t increase the file size massively

It should pave the way for easy local database setup, which is something not done with Kentico before

It is not recommended to be used on the Production environment

Setup seems fairly straightforward

Content Staging in conjunction with Kentico CI

Integrated Campaign ManagementKentico have revamped the Campaign Management section

Optimize Your Campaigns for Better Results

The time to execute cross-channel online digital marketing campaigns is greatly reduced

Allows you to develop campaign assets, launch campaigns, and analyse results from one location, helping optimize your campaigns for better results

You can now build custom campaign funnels to help you analyse exactly the steps that are important for your business

Web Farm SupportScaling Environments Optimized for the Cloud

Being able to handle additional traffic to your website

Auto-scaling keeps multiple instances of your Kentico website in sync within the environment

Self-healing Capabilities - the built-in Web Farm Support will detect the problem, stop processing any synchronization requests for the instance, and notify the system administrator of the issue

ASP.NET MVC SupportIncreased Productivity with Semantic Content Editing

Provides you with a more semantic approach to content editing, without the distraction of page settings – create content once and use it in various locations on the live site

With a cleaner architectural layout, you increase your content editing productivity and speed of website delivery dramatically

Doesn’t work with Kentico EMS and Ecommerce, but there can be some work arounds/additional work

Big plans to improve this for Kentico 10!

ModularizationIncreased Productivity with Semantic Content Editing

You can create modules to serve specific needs that can be packaged automatically, stored, and reused in subsequent projects

Reduce your development costs by creating customized modules with all the elements you need for current and future projects

The Modularization feature in Kentico is fully compatible with Kentico’s Page Types, meaning you can edit a page type and include it in the module. After this, every time the package is exported, it will contain the module data and the specified page types, this wasn’t the case in previous versions

Minor details

Kentico 9 – minor detailsFixed various bugs that were there in Version 8 and the admin area looks the same.

Remember Kentico only support 2 versions back, so if there are any problems, then Kentico would not likely to help. Get your clients to Upgrade!

Have a look at the Release Notes

The minimum required version of Microsoft .NET Framework is now 4.5

Performance - Improved performance for:- Loading of page data by listing and menu web parts.- Displaying of data on multilingual sites that use the Combine with default culture setting. - Other page-related operations.

Security - The system now uses security tokens to protect pages against Cross site request forgery attacks.

No longer support for some of the web parts and widgets are no longer supported in Kentico version 9Remember to think about this when upgrading your sites to Kentico 9 e.g. Document Library – it will still work, but no support!

Other cool features

Kentico 9 – other featuresDefault Transformations are no longer generated when Page Types or Custom Tables are created

Form Builder status messages

How to videos in documentation

Groups can be defined to organise tasks in Staging

Web Part, Widgets and Form Controls 'Usage' tab

Bulk File Import no longer available

API Examples now moved out of Admin area

IP-based contact/visitor tracking is gone

Root template category

Quick demo on other features

Kentico 9 – demo featuresThere are lots of things to show and the interface is similar to Version 8

Demo featuresHelpful tips panel

Pin modules

Content Only Page Types can’t revert back

Only 1 Page alias allowed in the view

Hands on Kentico 9

Kentico 9 – hands onVarious places to get your hands on Version 9

Hosted Trial – 7 days

Trial Version – 14 days

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