What AEM Upgrades to Prioritise in 2025?

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What AEM Upgrades to Prioritise in 2025?

by @daniel-strmecki

Introduction

As the digital landscape evolves, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) project owners need to prioritize strategic investments to stay ahead. With Adobe offering new capabilities and evolving best practices, clients need to decide where to spend their allocated development budgets. On large, complex, enterprise projects, not everything can be achieved at once and migrations require proper planning and execution time. Therefore, teams should prioritize features that bring the most business value but also ensure a technically stable and future-proof solution. In this article, we’ll explore key upgrade areas where AEM teams should focus their time in 2025.

Summary

We break down the most critical AEM upgrades to focus on in 2025, based on real-world AEM client needs:

• Cloud Migration – Should you move to AEM as a Cloud Service?
• Java Upgrade – Why does upgrading Java and front-end frameworks matter?
• Refactoring & Performance – How to optimize AEM for scalability and maintainability?
• New Content Fragment Editor & Universal Editor – How to future-proof and enhance the authoring experience?
• SEO & Page Speed Optimization – How to improve search rankings and mobile performance?
• Migration to EDS or Next.js – How to modernize and decouple front-end to achieve top performance?

Full Article

Read the full article on https://meticulous.digital/blog/f/what-aem-upgrades-to-prioritise-in-2025 to find out more.

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