The Episerver platform

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

  B2B Commerce

• Dynamic cart and checkout
• Guest users and quote capabilities
• Product taxonomy management
• Create multiple sites from a single instance
• Workflows  and reordering 

 Search & Navigation

• Powerful search and navigation

 Personalization

• Tracking and profile data analytics
• Product and content recommendations
• Triggered messages
• Personalized search results

 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.

Related topics

• Episerver products and features
• Installing Episerver
• Episerver system requirements
• Episerver developer guides
• Episerver User Guide

Last updated: Jan 23, 2020