DXP and CMS
Sitecore XP 10.5 shipped August 5, 2026. Reading the release notes closely, it is a maintenance release, and that is useful information for planning.
Zero-click search is now the default and machines outnumber humans on the open web. Your website still matters, but its job changed from destination to source material.
Another quarter, another Sitecore restructure. Rumors are swirling, but if you are on Sitecore XP and feeling stuck, speculation is not a strategy. Here are your three honest paths forward.
AEM 6.5 support windows close in 2026 and 2027, and two of your three paths forward are rebuilds. An engineering playbook for what migrates, what gets rebuilt, and how to sequence the move.
Stuck on Sitecore XP with an aging license and failing VMs? For content-driven sites, the migration to Sanity takes days, not quarters. Here is the technical path, with code.
The 2026 platform market is loud and opaque. A plain-English guide to choosing between a simple content CMS like Sanity or WordPress and a full DXP like AEM, Optimizely, or SitecoreAI.
Adobe Experience Manager carries an enterprise tax most organizations no longer need to pay. A composable SaaS stack can match the capability for far less. Here is how to evaluate the move.
AEM runs into the millions over three years. Sanity is $15 a seat. We line them up box for box and walk through what enterprise DXP money actually buys.
A Fortune 100 industrial manufacturer asked a question at the end of a two-month DXP evaluation that I couldn't immediately answer. Here is what it means.
We moved a brochureware client off Sitecore XP 10.3 to Sanity and Cloudflare in 12 weeks, and saved nearly $500K a year. Most of it from a partner retainer that wasn't earning its keep.
Sitecore XP 10.5 was scheduled for early 2025. As of May 2026, it has not shipped. The pattern of what has and hasn't happened since tells a more honest story than the press releases.
Most client engagements start with three words: we need a website. Here is how we translate that into a stack the client can actually use.
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