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Introduction to AEM by Techzette

Abstract

To begin comprehending AEM, we must first understand what a content management system is.

Content Management System
A content management system (CMS) is computer software that controls how digital information is created and modified.
In simple words it is used to author the content such as text, images, videos and any other types of data on website.

Typically, a CMS comprises two main parts.
1. Content management application (Application used to author and manage the content)
2. Content delivery application (Application that displays the updated content to the users using the website)

Below diagram depicts the main features provided by the CMS platform.

To facilitate this, Adobe developed a platform called Adobe Experience Manager that included features of a CMS (AEM).
Now, lets see what exactly those in details.

Adobe Experience Manager
AEM is a content management system that can be used create websites, mobile applications, forms, and online communities. It offers the highest level of abstraction, enabling non-technical digital marketers to customize the appearance and feel of their websites in accordance with their company’s needs. Additionally, it can manage all of an organization’s digital assets at one place.
The following are the key features included in AEM.

Sites
Sites is the place where authors create the structure of the website
Sites have capability to structure the pages, edit the properties of the pages, edit/delete the content of the pages.
Without this console we don’t have easy way of creating the pages in AEM and managing them
Assets
Assets is a Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool that is an integral part of the AEM
It provides capability to add, update, and delete the assets and authors can also have ability to share the assets with other users.
It also provides a simple way to manage the metadata of the assets which is used in many of the other functionalities of a website. i.e., analytics tracking, searching and tagging them.
Projects
Resources can be combined into a single entity through projects
The types of resources you can associate with a project are referred to in AEM as Tiles
Assets, workflows, and other sorts of information are examples of resources.
Users have capability to create, manage and update the projects using the projects console
Forms
AEM forms provide the capability to create, manage and update the forms
It provides forms which can adapt to user devices and provides feasibility to manage those adaptive forms in a quick and easy way.
It also provides automated forms conversion service which converts the PDF into an adaptive forms.
Headless
AEM also can be accessed as headless CMS, i.e., backend and frontend are now decoupled

“A headless content management system, or headless CMS, is a back-end only content management system (CMS) built from the ground up as a content repository that makes content accessible via an API for display on any device.”

The frontend, which is independently created and maintained, pulls content from the headless backend.

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