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Ingesting Data from Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) for Search & Discovery by Algolia

Abstract

Businesses spend a lot of time and resources developing content that can support the sale of a product, promote their brand and thought leadership, educate their users, or answer frequently asked questions. It is essential that they can organize their content to provide the most relevant information to a given persona. While this can end up being a manual process for marketers and digital publishers, smarter search and discovery platforms like Algolia can make this easier and drive stronger engagement.

Algolia is an API-first solution that easily integrates with both monolithic and headless platforms, including Adobe’s popular CMS, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). As we’ve seen more and more Adobe customers use Algolia on top of AEM to manage and surface their content, we wanted to discuss the three ways they connect these two systems: through APIs, partner-built integrations, and the Algolia Crawler.

Adobe Experience Manager holds all of the pages, assets, and content that are managed across digital channels. Moreover, other content may be stored in external systems, such as Zendesk or an eCommerce system such as Adobe Commerce. By indexing all of it to Algolia, customers can easily create a unified search experience, thus allowing their customers to search different types of content through one search bar. This may be all the brand sites for a mega-CPG brand, the media content for a streaming service, or the products, manuals, and FAQs for an equipment company. In all these cases, it is important to aggregate and surface all of the content that comes from AEM and other platforms, into one experience. Additionally, all of the content gets surfaced in a highly performant way, with results updating in milliseconds on each keystroke.

Pentair is a great example of a B2C / B2B company that uses Algolia to tie together their AEM content and Adobe Commerce products. They have built a beautiful, unified search and discovery experience for their users to interact with.

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How do we connect AEM with Algolia?
Option 1: Java API Client
As a direct way to index your data, Algolia provides a Java API. The Java API client is an open source, production-ready API wrapper that abstracts from the complexity of directly interfacing with the Algolia Search API. It handles, for example, the network retry strategy, record batching, and reindexing. Because AEM is an OSGi platform that requires a uber JAR as a dependency, we provide algoliasearch-apache-uber which is compatible with those platforms.

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