Piers Matthews

MarTech Spotlight 3 Melbourne

Hosted the, cross-industry event featuring real-world stories and practical insights: • Real-world customer panels sharing successes, challenges, and lessons learned • Cutting-edge insights from local experts and MarTech thought leaders • Ample networking with peers across business, tech, and marketing • This event will also provided our learnings from Sitecore Symposium 2025, giving our Australian community the opportunity to reflect on what's next for Sitecore.

Symposium 2025 - Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Streamline Sitecore XP Deployments

Shared how Beckman Coulter Life Sciences transformed the way they operate Sitecore XP by removing long-standing infrastructure bottlenecks and adopting a fully automated deployment and operations model. The session demonstrated how the organisation achieved a 75 percent reduction in downtime, doubled their monthly feature release cadence, and significantly improved reliability by partnering with Dataweavers.

We explored the shift from manual, high-risk processes to a predictable and agile dig...

Key Considerations When Selecting a Headless CMS Platform

This article outlines the essential factors organisations should evaluate when selecting a headless CMS platform. It highlights criteria such as security posture, scalability, API performance, content delivery flexibility, operational overhead, and vendor support. The article emphasises the importance of aligning platform capabilities with business need, especially for enterprises requiring compliance, multi-channel delivery, and long-term maintainability. It helps decision-makers choose a platf...

SUGCON ANZ 2025

Delivered the main-room session, which explored the key considerations for running Sitecore effectively in an enterprise context using Azure, Sitecore, and the surrounding ecosystem of technologies required for mature platform operations. The session provided a clear view of what large organisations must account for when operating Sitecore at scale, including environment design, automation, security, performance, and governance.

It covered the full spectrum of architectures that enterprises a...

The hybrid approach to Headless CMS architecture: Transitioning to XM Cloud without disrupting your enterprise

This article explains how enterprises can migrate to a headless CMS with Sitecore XM Cloud using a phased hybrid approach that maintains business continuity while improving agility and performance. It outlines how teams can transition gradually, moving sections of a site over time and using proxy based routing to direct traffic between legacy and headless environments. The article discusses how to establish core components first, such as the headless CMS, rendering host and supporting services, ...

Headless CMS Platforms and Composability: Is It the Right Fit for Your Business Now

A deeper dive into the headless adoption area. This article explains that while headless CMS offers speed, flexibility, and modern digital capabilities, it requires strategic planning, technical maturity, and a clear business case to avoid complexity, cost, and operational pitfalls.

Headless CMS Solutions: Is Headless Right for your Digital Experience?

This article helps organisations decide whether a headless CMS is the right fit for their digital experience strategy. It explains the benefits of headless such as faster delivery, greater flexibility, multichannel reach and improved scalability, while highlighting trade offs. It guides readers toward a balanced, business aligned decision and recommends phased or hybrid adoption to reduce risk. The article is aimed at digital leaders, architects and teams evaluating modern CMS approaches.

Key Decisions to Make Before Upgrading Sitecore DXP

This article outlines the critical decisions organisations must make when planning a Sitecore DXP upgrade. It guides readers through assessing current platform state, choosing between monolithic XP/XM vs modular or headless architecture, deciding on hosting and infrastructure (on-premise, PaaS, cloud), and evaluating change management and operational readiness. The article emphasises aligning upgrade strategy with business goals, future scalability, maintainability, and compliance needs. It help...

How to Upgrade Your Sitecore XP or XM Codebase: A Step-by-Step Guide

This article provides a comprehensive, enterprise-grade roadmap for upgrading a Sitecore XP/XM codebase. It walks through critical steps including .NET and Sitecore version alignment, package and hotfix management, config updates, deprecated API replacement, logging and security hardening, content synchronization, and validation workflows. It highlights the importance of careful planning, automated processes, rollback readiness, and thorough testing to ensure performance, stability and complianc...