What are the criteria for choosing between SiteEdit and the Experience Manager

Question

With Trimion 2011 SP1, you have the choice between implementing SiteEdit 2009 SP3 and the later "UI Update for the Tridion 2011 SP1 SDL" (also known as the Account Manager). What criteria are important to choose and why?

For example:

• Simplicity / cost of implementation
• Infrastructure
• Licensing costs
• Future support
• Enhanced functionality

Answer 1

SiteEdit 2009 SP3 and Experience Manager are currently supported. But it is clear that further work of the SDL is aimed at further expanding Manager Manager, and not SiteEdit 2009.

In simple scenarios, SiteEdit 2009 might be a little easier to implement because Experience Manager has a greater impact on the content delivery system because of the prerequisites for its session preview mechanism. However, when I install the experience manager without previewing the session, I find that I don’t need more time than setting up SiteEdit 2009, the product I installed much more often.

But the experience manager should usually cause fewer integration issues due to the fact that it does not use a server-side proxy. Many more complex authentication scenarios should simply work with an experience manager, where they have proven difficult with SiteEdit 2009.

I think the above covers paragraphs 1 through 4 of your question. I will leave number 5 to another, although I already mentioned Session Preview as one of the great new features in the experience manager.

Answer 2

My thoughts (I'm still calling the UI for a new product):

• The user interface will only work on 2011 Sp1 Hr1
• SiteEdit is quite old, UI is a later product ... why did you decide to install something that is not the latest software?

At your time:

• 2009 installation cost will be a waste when you should install the UI soon after :)
• The user interface no longer has a proxy server; it is part of the CM machine. website development is much easier 3/4. The concept is not about the cost of a license, I would suggest that SE2009 is not supported by SDL, so I would ask SDL.
• The user interface is really wonderful, I'm not going to write an essay about new materials, but I think that the item on your list that is not there should be:

"What do end users think of all systems?"

This is an editing tool, infrastructure, implementation of technical details, and I am sure that you can get around (if necessary) if you insert a tool that will be used by users and you have a choice if it should not be who they are with agree, works best?

Answer 3

I will add my 2 cents to the costs. In most of my implementations, installing and testing SiteEdit 2009 usually took less than half a day on Wednesday. Make sure you apply all the hot fixes from SDL Tridion World to make it work with the latest browsers.

The new user interface may additionally use something called Session Preview (to ensure quick publishing), which uses several content delivery technologies, such as OData. If you are not already using them in your implementation, then they are likely to be a significant investment in the infrastructure / design of the applications so that they are designed / installed / working / tested (I heard cases when it took more than a month), which will make Management experience significantly more costly to implement in the short term. If you don’t use the Session Preview feature (as Frank already said), the lead times / costs are the same, but you won’t be able to use the new features to quickly publish a new product.

As for functionality - both environments look and differ from each other. The work manager is clearly oriented in the direction of product promotion and provides a multi-layer interface. Therefore, if your client is not familiar with SDL Tridion, I would suggest using it, however, if they are a long-term SDL Tridion client who has experience with SiteEdit 1.3 or 2009, and you do not plan to use some of the new features in the short term I’m tempted to stay with SE 2009 and go to the experience manager when they upgrade to SDL Tridion 2013.