Area: Episerver Platform

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The Episerver platform

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This section provides an introduction to the Episerver Customer-Centric Digital Experience Platform (DXP) with included products and features, and how to get started developing. With Episerver you can create truly customer-centric experiences, using best-in-class CMS, robust ecommerce, and advanced personalization and marketing automation features.

Overview

Episerver is based on a secure platform with a modular product suite, and multiple APIs and extensions offering flexible customization and integration possibilities.

The Episerver Customer-Centric Digital Experience Platform is and end-to-end, full-stack digital platform service package that includes content management, digital marketing, enterprise search and digital commerce in a single cloud service. The service ensures high availability and performance, with configuration and maintenance of required components included.

Feature highlights

Content

Advanced content authoring and multi-publishing
Globalization and multi-language management
A/B testing and content optimization
Multi-step web forms capabilities
Search optimization options

Commerce

Catalogs and order management
Discounts and promotions management
Markets and multi-site support
Customer service support

Search & Navigation

Powerful search and navigation

Personalization

Marketing automation

Omnichannel campaign management
Marketing automation connectors

Integration and extension APIs

User-generated content support
Multiple integration and extension options
"Headless" content delivery support

Cloud services

Flexible cloud deployment options

User interface

See the Episerver User Guide for user interface and examples of how to work with features as an end-user.

Getting started

Installation

Check the system requirements before installing. Easy installation and service onboarding, a set of sample templates and Visual Studio extensions, help you get your development projects quickly up and running. With Episerver's continuous releases, updates are available on a weekly basis, so you can keep projects up-to-date, with a shorter time-to-market for customer solutions.

Developer guides and APIs

See the Getting started sections and the developer guides to learn how to get started developing with Episerver. See Episerver APIs and libraries for information about available libraries, for example C#, Javascript and REST APIs.

Sample and demo sites

When you install an Episerver site through Visual Studio, you have the option to install a CMS sample site to explore Episerver. You can also install a Commerce sample site, to explore an example implementation of a Commerce solution.

Episerver Foundation is a reference architecture and an example of a platform solution with multiple Episerver products. You can use Foundation for demo purposes, or as a starting point to quickly get up and running with your Episerver solution.