The Digital Experience Cloud Service is the end-to-end, full-stack digital platform that includes content management, digital marketing, enterprise search and digital commerce in a single cloud service.
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Content management system (CMS)
Be efficient by focusing on the content and your messaging, not the interface. The tools
are there when you need them, but the content is always in focus.
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On-page and in-context content editing
Using the On-Page Edit feature users can edit directly on the page and view updates in real
time as changes are made.
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Drag-and-drop authoring
Media, pages, small content blocks (i.e. banners, maps, teasers, etc.), and products all
share the same drag and drop capabilities making it easy for web editors to work with
and structure content any content in a similar manner.
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Digital asset management
The Episerver Asset Manager provides role based access, file versioning, customizable file
metadata, and more. Content contributors can add metadata to files and using the Asset
Manager. Custom metadata properties can be added of various data types.
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Drag-and-drop form and survey creation
The forms designer is a WYSIWYG tool that enables users to drag fields onto the form and
adjust the layout.
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Editing and preview for any device or channel
The view button can be used to switch between different channels or screens (e.g. desktop,
tablet, phone) to see how your content adapts the layout to, for example, an iPhone or
iPad.
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Personalization for target audiences and segments
Visitor groups in Episerver enables you to target content to specific audiences based on
criteria such as geographic location, visited pages, profile properties, referrer, search
keywords, and more.
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SEO metadata authoring with actionable metrics
Optimize your content based on specific keywords. Get on-page recommendations and increase
your search engine rankings.
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Social channel content distribution
Set up various social channels and configure which editors and marketers can publish to each.
When an article or product should be promoted, can create a social message and target
it to the social channels of your choice.
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Bulk content publishing
Create new content or edit existing content and add to a project, to either publish them
immediately or schedule them for publishing at a specific date. Adding content to a project
means that the content will be associated with the project.
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Campaign management
Create campaigns that connect different systems and span across content, commerce and behavioral
data. Stage and preview content, promotions and discounts that belong to specific campaigns
with a specific goal.
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Multisite management
Multiple sites and sub sites can be easily managed from a single instance of Episerver.
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Content reuse between sites, pages and channels
Powerful content reuse tools facilitate content reuse across multiple sites, separating the
presentation from the data so that the same content can be rendered in various formats
and displayed in various contexts.
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Enterprise search and relevance
The built-in Episerver search engine enables external and internal users to search content
across multiple Episerver sites. Users can perform free text and Boolean searches.
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Analytics
Measure and optimize traffic cross channel in the context of your work. Get analytics insights
when creating content to improve content optimization powered by Google Analytics
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A/B and optimization tools
Quickly set up A/B Tests on multiple variations of a page to see which one generates the
most conversions. Visitors are routed to the different variations while the test is running.
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Language management
Allow editors to work with multiple languages, and instantly see which content has been translated
and which hasn't. Use auto-translate to get started quickly.
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Version comparison
Content versions can be compared side by side including comparing different language versions.
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Version history
Episerver maintains comprehensive version history of all content items including who updated
the item and when.
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User, role and permission management
Administrators can create users, groups, and roles to grant permissions to content items,
pages, types of pages, blocks (smaller widgets of content), media, properties, files,
folders, and language variations.
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Reporting
Dashboards enable editorial and administrative users to personalize and aggregate the tools
most relevant for them to simplify and streamline their day to day tasks.
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.NET and REST API
Standard .NET components and open, well-documented APIs enable easy addition of new functionalities,
both via integration using web services or in-proc APIs.
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Unlimited websites
Unlimited sites included in a single Web App for a single code base. Multiple sites are handled
by the multisite features in Episerver. There are practical and technical limits that
each Web App can use on number of sites in the DXC Service.
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Transactional emails, monthly
Emails triggered automatically from a users interactions with the website such as form submissions,
email confirmation, order confirmation, shipping notifications, abandoned cart, etc.
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10,000 | 100,000 | 250,000 | |
Additional transactional emails
Pre-pay for additional Transactional Emails. Overages for additional Transactional Emails
that were not pre-paid will incur higher cost.
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Episerver Find enterprise search
The built-in Episerver search engine enables external and internal users to search content
across multiple Episerver sites. Users can perform free text and Boolean searches.
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Additional languages
Add additional languages for advanced language processing. See the Supported Languages section
on Episerver World for additional details.
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10 | 10 | 33 | |
Maximum number of languages
Maximum number of languages, including optional languages.
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Find Connections
Crawling of web and RSS sources, such as legacy web sites or internal systems that allow
crawling.
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Find Developer Index
Episerver Find license for development. Common usage is for developers to work on their local
machine leveraging Find index in the cloud.
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1 | 1 | 1 | |
Omnichannel campaign management | ||||
Episerver Campaign
Baseline package for Campaign - varying amounts of email depending on the package plus live analytics, mobile fusion, visual link, and deep analytics.
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Option | Option | Option | |
Episerver Campaign Additional Emails
Additional Emails per year over and above the base amount.
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Option | Option | Option | |
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DXH connectors
Connectors for leading third-party marketing and productivity applications and services to
help maximize efficiency and minimize cost.
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Episerver UGC powered by Stackla Group
Episerver UGC Group is a cloud-based solution for marketers to collect, curate, and present user generated content from multiple social media feeds. Group package includes 5 administrative logins, up to 20 aggregation terms, up to 10 filters, and 150k of data storage.
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Option | Option | Option | |
Episerver UGC powered by Stackla Enterprise
Episerver UGC Enterprise includes all the functionalities of UGC Group, plus rights management (by registration or response), geo-tagging, webhooks, and REST API. Enterprise package Includes 10 administrative logins, up to 60 aggregation terms, up to 20 filters, and 150k of data storage.
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Episerver UGC powered by Stackla Upgrade
Upgrade from UGC Group to UGC Enterprise, pro-rated for term of annual contract
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Option | Option | Option | |
Episerver Social
Episerver Social is a cloud-based platform of extensible services for modeling and managing
community-generated content. Comments and ratings combine to help deliver user reviews,
which can be associated with resources such as content and products.
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Option | Option | Option | |
Episerver Social: page views
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Included in the 2.4M | Included in the 12M | Included in the 60M | |
LivePerson
LivePerson is a live chat capability integrated into websites. LiveEngage is a hosted service
provided by LivePerson and can be integrated into licensed or DXC Service implementations
through tags on the pages of the site.
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Option | Option | Option |
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Application & services availability, SLA
The Digital Experience Cloud Service Level Agreement (SLA) regulates the service level received
by the customer in respect to its websites based on Episerver Software Platforms, hardware
infrastructure, network infrastructure, operating systems and baseline technologies needed
to operate the customer website.
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99.7% | 99.9% | 99.9% | |
Additional 0.2% SLA
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Option | N/A | N/A | |
Elastic autoscale
The Digital Experience Cloud Service will adapt and automatically scale to handle increases
or decreases in traffic and site load.
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Domain name hosting
Hosting of the customers domains.
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Web application firewall
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) sits in front of web applications to filter out malicious
traffic at the application layer.
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Content delivery network, CDN
Content Delivery Network (CDN) allows placements of assets such as images and video, and
even whole web pages, at the very edge of the network closet to customers to ensure top
performance. It also adds security layers protecting your application from online threats
before it is even reached.
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Content delivery network (China)
Customers with a presence in China may wish to extend their CDN capabilities with this additional
offer to ensure visitors within China have the best experience.
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Option | Option | Option | |
Vulnerability management
Patching of the Web App is handled by Microsoft. This does not include patching of the Episerver
software since this is handled by the partner or customer developers.
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Web vulnerability scanning
Active and passive security tests against login forms, error messages, database backups,
and other common areas of security holes. Includes OWASP. Customer receives a report.
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Option | Option | Option | |
DDoS mitigation
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are common and complex, and traditional on-premise
solutions cannot handle these. Episerver DXC Service offers advanced protection at the
network edge through its CDN provider including UDP and ICMP protocols...
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Backup
Episerver performs regular backups of the application and database.
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Database retention
Episerver performs regular backups of the application and database. Episerver saves backup
copies for thirty-five (35) days after which Episerver does not take responsibility for
the backup information (retention 35 days).
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35 days | 35 days | 35 days | |
Application monitoring
APM including code level transaction and associated performance monitoring.
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Synthetic monitoring
Availability check for the application.
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Transactional monitoring
Transactional monitoring helps ensure your website is working as expected by providing automatic
validation of the individual transactions, or scenario steps, that occur in the website
visitors flow.
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Option | Option | Option | |
SSL/TLS encryption
TLS/SSL is commonly used for encrypted integration and communication with other services
over HTTP (HTTPS).
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SSL certificate
The service includes a shared TLS/SSL certificate provided by Episerver that will be valid
for multiple domains in a multi-site configuration. This means that all domains will
be TLS/SSL secured by default. Episerver manages renewals of the shared certificate.
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Additional SSL certificate
The included one (1) SSL Certificate is typically sufficent. For customers wishing to have
additional SSL Certifications they are Option at an additional cost.
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Option | Option | Option | |
Virtual private network (VPN)
One VPN connection is included.
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IPv6
While Azure did not support IPv6 at the time of authoring this content the CDN leveraged
in the services does and translates/communicates in IPv4 down to the web application.
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HTTP/2
This is a major rewrite of the HTTP protocol to support advancements in web technologies
and best support modern websites.
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Websockets
WebSockets is a communication protocol for web browsers and servers.
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Automatic Failover
An Episerver application that can automatically failover to another instance of the same application. An Episerver Application Environment for failover is one (1) Microsoft Azure™ web app, access to one (1) Azure SQL database, one (1) Azure Blob Storage. Application Environments for Commerce packages include one (1) additional Microsoft Azure™ web app and access to one (1) additional Azure SQL database. This also includes one (1) Azure Traffic Manager for handling the redirect if the primary site fails.
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Production
This is the live environment. In Production, website users will perform authoring of content,
using for example the Episerver content publishing flow or projects, and website visitors
can access public content.
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Preproduction
Episerver uses this environment to test production deployment, and verify performance and
operational functionality. Customers may also use for UAT, load testing, or approved
penetration testing.
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Integration
Partners and customer deploy the full solution, as daily builds or continuous releases. Here
customers can validate initial integrations with external systems, perform functional
testing, and add initial content in the case of a first-time deployment.
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Additional deployment environments
If there are multiple development streams running in parallel, it is sometimes convenient
to have a number of additional deployment environments.
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Page views, yearly
Included amount as a part of the base package.
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2.4M | 12M | 60M |
Additional page views
Additional available at an extra cost.
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Managed service
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24/7 support
Support is the process of identifying and responding to incidents reported to Episerver by
email, or phone. Support is limited to Developer Support, relating to the programmatic
use and operation of the Episerver platform.
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Availability management
"Availability" means availability of the Customer Web Site(s) based on the Episerver Software
Platform(s) and the ability to serve web content and commerce.
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24/7 | 24/7 | 24/7 | |
Incident management
“Incident” means any event which is not part of the standard operation of the Service and
which causes or may reasonably be expected to cause, an interruption to, or a reduction
in the quality of, the Service.
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24/7 | 24/7 | 24/7 | |
Problem management
A "Problem" is a reoccurring issue within the Service. Problem Management is research and
root cause analysis to permanently resolve the Problem.
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24/7 | 24/7 | 24/7 | |
Software maintenance
Maintenance is the access to the latest software updates released by Episerver for products
that have been licensed either through a partner or directly from Episerver.
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