{"id":3250,"date":"2019-06-11T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2025-02-24T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:05:07","slug":"why-is-it-worth-for-business-organizations-to-upgrade-to-sitecore-9-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-is-it-worth-for-business-organizations-to-upgrade-to-sitecore-9-development","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It Worth for Business Organizations to Upgrade to Sitecore 9 Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-is-it-worth-for-business-organizations-to-upgrade-to-sitecore-9-development\/#The_Business_Benefits_of_Using_Sitecore_Development\" title=\"The Business Benefits of Using Sitecore Development:\">The Business Benefits of Using Sitecore Development:<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-is-it-worth-for-business-organizations-to-upgrade-to-sitecore-9-development\/#The_Cloud_Strategy\" title=\"The Cloud Strategy:\">The Cloud Strategy:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-is-it-worth-for-business-organizations-to-upgrade-to-sitecore-9-development\/#The_Sitecore_Ecommerce_Strategy\" title=\"The Sitecore Ecommerce Strategy:\">The Sitecore Ecommerce Strategy:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-is-it-worth-for-business-organizations-to-upgrade-to-sitecore-9-development\/#The_Data_Strategy\" title=\"The Data Strategy:\">The Data Strategy:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sitecore has gained much publicity with the latest version 9 which has come up with significant advancements in marketing, automation, data and customer experience management. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is because of its highly rich features that organizations are taking decisions to upgrade to the latest version. but the question is why should you upgrade to Sitecore 9?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Let\u2019s discuss this in more details here in this blog:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Business_Benefits_of_Using_Sitecore_Development\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>The Business Benefits of Using Sitecore Development:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Upgrading to Sitecore will improve the user journeys and personalization and this can hasten the process of achieving business and digital goals.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Complete integration of email marketing, CRM and forms can easily deliver a fully automated marketing program.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Marketing departments can now get actionable insights from real time data and also take essential steps to stay ahead of the market competition.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Integration fluidity between any third party technologies and Sitecore helps to streamline data exchanges and also stops systems in silos.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Upgrading to Sitecore 9 has great benefits for the organizations and they should rethink several strategies according to the industry they serve:<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Cloud_Strategy\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #008080;\"><strong>The Cloud Strategy:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sitecore cloud on Azure offers great efficiency and adds to your ability to scale and deploy the infrastructure on demand while decreasing the on premise costs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With <a href=\"\/sitecore-development\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sitecore development<\/span><\/a>, you can now go with the on premise and IaaS models either in Azure or any other data centers, but the PaaS deployment may prove to be a game changer for various enterprises. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This was also available for version 8.2, but a wider adoption is expected as part of upgrades to the latest version 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"\/blog\/revolutionize-sitecore-development-by-using-the-power-of-docker\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Revolutionize Sitecore Development by Using the Power of Docker<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Sitecore_Ecommerce_Strategy\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #008080;\"><strong>The Sitecore Ecommerce Strategy: <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sitecore ecommerce for version 9 has its advantage as a one connected platform.\u00a0 It has the ability to track, measure, tag and optimize the entire end to end journey and this a strong value proposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There are many organizations that struggle to separate the platforms that serve in different ways to the customer journey. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This makes it difficult to build an accurate picture of the customer behavior and also any opportunity for improvements.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Sitecore commerce was an evolution of Microsoft Commerce Server and it has been re-architected to take complete advantage of micro service architecture.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So, if you are looking to streamline your ecommerce operations, then the end to end experience served by the one platform is worth considering.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Data_Strategy\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #008080;\"><strong>The Data Strategy:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you want to re-align alone a more centralized data strategy, then Sitecore has come up with tools and connectivity that are needed to contribute to highly valuable data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With Sitecore 7 and 8 versions, we were introduced to the xDB, which is a flexible and powerful database that helps to collect behavior across the customer journey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;With Sitecore 9 version, we have been introduced to xConnect, a web API based services that make it easy to pull and push xDB data to all the channels and other external business systems in a structured way.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sitecore also offers a better built in support for GDPR legislation and the Sitecore 9 version offers mechanisms that makes it easy for the teams to comply.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; 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