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AEM.

AEM migrations, components, and delivery.

From AEM 6.5 and on-premises migrations to AEMaaCS, through components, AEM Assets, Dynamic Media, workflows, accessibility, and Edge Delivery Services.

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Enterprise platforms
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Enterprise
Scope
AEM modernization and delivery
ModernizeAEMaaCS migrationCode + content + cloud
BuildComponents + workflowsAuthoring + governance
DeliverAEM Sites or EDSDelivery architecture
Dynamic Media / Dispatcher / AccessibilityIllustrative delivery model

The platform brief

AEM programs span code, content, and operations.

AEM work touches content modeling, component architecture, cloud migration, AEM Assets, Dynamic Media, authoring workflows, accessibility, frontend delivery, and the operating realities of large organizations.

Enterprise CMS programs need to support authors, platform teams, marketing workflows, and release governance at the same time. Component decisions affect maintenance and releases long after launch.

Specific AEM offerings

Capability across the AEM lifecycle.

Support can begin with one constrained component problem or extend across a full modernization program. The common thread is a delivery model that authors, engineers, platform teams, and program owners can operate together.

AEM 6.5 and on-premises to AEMaaCS

Migration planning and implementation across code, content, integrations, Dispatcher configuration, and the operating changes that come with cloud service.

  • Readiness assessment
  • Code + content migration
  • Cloud Manager
  • Dispatcher + CDN

Core Components and custom components

Authorable component systems built around the right balance of Adobe Core Components, proxy patterns, and purpose-built behavior.

  • Core Component adoption
  • Custom HTL + Sling Models
  • Editable templates
  • Author dialogs

AEM Assets and DAM

Asset architecture and operations that keep large libraries searchable, governed, and usable across sites and delivery channels.

  • AEM Assets
  • Metadata + taxonomy
  • Asset workflows
  • Permissions + governance

Dynamic Media and asset delivery

Responsive asset transformation and delivery for web, mobile, campaigns, and other channels.

  • Dynamic Media
  • Image + video profiles
  • Presets + smart crops
  • Publishing workflows

Edge Delivery Services

Performance-first delivery evaluated as its own architectural path—or as a deliberate coexistence strategy alongside AEM Sites.

  • EDS implementation
  • AEM Sites coexistence
  • Performance engineering
  • Composable delivery

Program delivery and accessibility

Technical leadership that connects roadmap, release planning, author experience, accessibility, quality, and cross-team execution.

  • Technical program delivery
  • Release planning
  • WCAG-aware implementation
  • Quality + governance

Component architecture

Define how each component is authored, rendered, and released.

Core Components provide a durable starting point; proxy components, purpose-built HTL and Sling Models, and carefully constrained author dialogs extend the system only where the experience requires it.

  • Core Component proxy
  • HTL + Sling Model
  • Author dialog
  • Accessible states
  • Release ownership

Authorable

The component explains itself through useful labels, constraints, and predictable defaults.

Composable

It can participate in a page system without creating one-off layout or content rules.

Operable

Failure states, caching, dependencies, and release responsibility remain understandable.

Author controls

Eyebrow
Headline
Body
Action
Rendered experience

Authorable content, predictable rendering.

Flexible enough for authors. Predictable enough for the platform.

Component contract / Shared responsibilityIllustrative authoring model

Migration discipline

Plan the move from on-premises AEM to AEMaaCS.

An AEM 6.5 or on-premises migration to AEMaaCS is more than content transfer. Custom code, integrations, workflows, Dispatcher configuration, authoring behavior, and release operations must move through one visible sequence.

  1. Inventory

    Understand AEM versions, templates, components, content, integrations, workflows, and ownership.

  2. Classify

    Separate what should be preserved, consolidated, redesigned, or retired.

  3. Map

    Define the AEMaaCS destination, component contracts, Dispatcher changes, and migration rules.

  4. Move

    Move code and content in controlled slices with dependencies and exceptions visible.

  5. Validate

    Check authoring, content fidelity, Dynamic Media, accessibility, and delivery behavior.

  6. Release

    Coordinate Cloud Manager releases, cutover, monitoring, ownership, and the next safe change.

Delivery architecture

Choose the delivery architecture.

AEMaaCS and Edge Delivery Services can support different needs. The decision should follow the content model, authoring workflow, performance requirements, and operating constraints.

AEM Sites on AEMaaCS

For programs centered on AEM authoring, Core Components, established workflows, and cloud-managed delivery.

Edge Delivery Services

For performance-first experiences that benefit from a separate authoring and delivery model.

The outcome

A platform that is easier to publish, change, and trust.

  • Cloud migration paths shaped around code, content, Dispatcher, and release constraints
  • Core Component and custom component systems aligned with authoring operations
  • Delivery choices that account for accessibility, performance, and long-term ownership

The platform needs usable author controls, predictable components, and clear release ownership.

Technology & practices

  • Java
  • AEM as a Cloud Service
  • AEM 6.5
  • Apache Sling
  • OSGi
  • HTL
  • Core Components
  • AEM Assets
  • Dynamic Media
  • Edge Delivery Services
  • Cloud Manager
  • Dispatcher
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CI/CD