Varun Shringarpure

Encouraged Fellow Sitecore Community members to submit their Sitecore MVP application

I believe one of the responsibilities of an existing Sitecore MVP is to motivate fellow Sitecore community members towards being active and engaging with the other community members and also inspire them to submit the Sitecore MVP Application at the end of the year. In the past, I have also seen people being active during the year but getting cold feet when the application is around the corner. I made an effort to connect with the teammates, whom I knew were working hard and helping the Sitecore...

Sitecore TECH Talks Podcast - S2 - E13 - Looking at Sitecore from the angle of QA - Jignesh Patel

We have had various people from the Development domain, both Front-end as primary as well as Backend as primary skill, and they have shared their insights with us around their experiences and how they work with the various products of Sitecore. This is the first podcast, where we have someone, whose primary skill is QA - and has been working on Sitecore for a very long time. He has also helped a lot of members from his team, to step up and get started on Sitecore. Its interesting to hear the tho...

Sitecore TECH Talks - S2 - E11 - Embracing Composable Sitecore: From XP to XM Cloud & OrderCloud - Shail Bhatt

In this episode, Shail and I started with looking at how the developer experience has evolved—from the days of Sitecore MVC, where backend developers held most of the control, to the headless era powered by the JSS SDK, where both roles truly collaborate. Now, with the move into SaaS and composable commerce via XM Cloud and OrderCloud, we explore how things change once again. We’ll walk through how architectures shift, how the frontend role expands, and why this evolution matters for modern web ...

Sitecore TECH Talks - S2 - E9 - The Sitecore Shift: From MVC to JSS to Content SDK - Nidhi Paneri

In this episode, we look at how the developer experience has evolved—from the days of Sitecore MVC, where backend developers held most of the control (and front-end folks sometimes felt left out), to the Headless era powered by the Sitecore JSS SDK, where both roles truly collaborate. Now, with the launch of the all-new Sitecore Content SDK for XM Cloud, we explore how it changes the game once again. We’ll walk through how the Content SDK differs from the JSS SDK and why it’s a big step forward ...

Sitecore TECH Talks Podcast - S2 E7 - Building Middleware Solutions for Sitecore XM Cloud - Meenakshi Gour

In this podcast we discussed on how to work and implement backend logic and processes on Sitecore XM cloud. Sitecore XM Cloud as we know, is a SaaS product and the backend code cannot and should not be implemented as we used to do in usual Monolithic solutions of Sitecore like XP and XM. Instead, we need to write separate solutions like Azure Functions or Web APIs and perform the processing in Sitecore XM Cloud using GraphQL Mutation queries. This podcast helped in showing a direction in how to ...

Sitecore TECH Talks - S2 - E5 - Sitecore Stream 101 - The Absolute Basics - Daivagna Nanavati

Daivagna and I discuss the core concepts of AI in general and Sitecore Stream - from basics to Brand Aware AI and what’s ahead. This episode covers what it is, why it matters, and how it fits into the Sitecore ecosystem.

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Sitecore TECH Talks Podcast - S2 E3 - GraphQL Deep Dive: Mastering CRUD in Sitecore XM Cloud

Explore the power of GraphQL in Sitecore XM Cloud as we break down real-world CRUD operations. Whether you're building dynamic components, handling mutations, or querying content efficiently, this podcast simplifies it all for developers and architects. Tune in for expert tips, use cases, and best practices!

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CS0629557 - Feature Request - XM Cloud

Validation Rules Not working in Page Builder I set up the validation rule on the template field that restricts minimum and maximum of 9 words can be entered in the field. The vaidation was working fine in the Content Editor but it didn't worked on the page builder. Regex: ^(\w+[\s]*){1,9}$ I raised the ticket to Sitecore team with case number as CS0629557 and Sitecore team registered this as a feature request under reference number PGS-5097.

Sitecore TECH Talks Podcast - S2 E1 - What's new with Sitecore Content Hub - Girish Jain

Sitecore Content Hub is a Saas Product, and Sitecore keeps adding new features to the product on regular basis. This Podcast, is to discuss Sitecore Content Hub DAM, the usage of AI and how are things made easy for the Customers. DAM means assets and making sure it is searchable, we need good tagging and metadata. OOTB capabilities are good, but these are a lot of features and improvements added. Additionally, to make the product useful for the customers, it is important for implementation partn...

Participated in Sitecore Hackathon 2025

A team of 3 - Jatin Prajapati, Chirag Khanna and I participated in Sitecore Hackathon this year as well, just like all the previous years. We worked on extending Sitecore Content Hub CLI - to automate the migration of assets from one tenant to another tenant and email template creation along with parameters to populate email template fields, inside Sitecore Content Hub. This video explains what all we did and how the CLI extension works. We had a lot of fun, because of lot of members joined the ...

In Depth Sitecore CDP Training along with Hands on

As a part of the Sitecore CDP training, we took the following topics:

1. Introduction to Sitecore CDP
2. Basic terminologies in Sitecore CDP
3. Key Features and Capabilities
4. How to Ingest CDP Beacon to any website
5. Data Ingestion in CDP using Rest API
6. Understanding Batch Import
7. Segmentation on CDP
8. How to leverage Audience Export in CDP

The training content was created by me and Chirag Khanna, and the training sessions were taken by 4 members, which were 4 recorded video...

Sitecore Community Engagement over LinkedIn and Sitecore Community Slack

During the course of this year, I have been very active in the Sitecore Community, connected with a number of Sitecore Community members, reposted and shared content with other LinkedIn members via various Hashtags, to reach to majority of the audience. The overall idea was to make sure I can spread the word as much as possible about Sitecore and its products. I have been very active in the Sitecore Community slack, where I have also helped out community members either in the slack groups or in ...

Encouraged Fellow Sitecore Community members to submit their Sitecore MVP application

I believe one of the responsibilities of an existing Sitecore MVP is to motivate fellow Sitecore community members towards being active and engaging with the other community members and also inspire them to submit the Sitecore MVP Application at the end of the year. In the past, I have also seen people being active during the year but getting cold feet when the application is around the corner. Hence, this post was to encourage them and tell them, and as a reminder that hey, its ok if you don'...

Hosted a Podcast with Devanshi and Meenakshi on APIs and their Usage in Sitecore XM Cloud

In this episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, I had a conversation with Devanshi and Meenakshi, for Sitecore XM Cloud. As we know, with Sitecore XM Cloud, we have a number of APIs to take care of various functions and automating things for a Sitecore Partner. Whether we say the Apps API, to work with Sites, or Deploy API to work with Projects, and environments, or Content and Management APIs, to work with the Items and Admin level tasks, each endpoints are available to help us out in building Middlewa...

Hosted Girish Jain's Podcast on Achieving Brand Consistency with Sitecore Content Hub

In this episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, I had a conversation with Girish Jain, an expert on Sitecore Content Hub. If you are a marketer, well, you are aware of Brand Consistency as well as its importance. Although, as a technologist, you might or might not know it. In this episode, Girish Jain talks about what is Brand Consistency, and why it is important to have it in today's digital world. Many a times customers are bombarded with information, and when they are on multiple touchpoints with you...

Hosting Meenakshi Gour's Podcast on Building Components the XM Cloud way

In this episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, I had a conversation with Meenakshi Gour, around Sitecore XM Cloud and building Components in it. Meenakshi Gour, who has been working on XM Cloud for more than 1 year now, shares insights for any Sitecore developer can leverage XM Cloud's headless architecture, adopting efficient, scalable methods for building dynamic components using Layout Service and Graph QL. There are a lot of tips and tricks included in this session. If you're looking to get started...

Hosting Chirag Khanna's Podcast on How to Personalize with Sitecore Personalize

In this episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, I had a conversation with Chirag Khanna around the Fundamentals of Sitecore Personalize. Let's understand how can we leverage Sitecore Personalize of the Composable Suite, to the best, not just for the Web Channel, but also for Mobile. The podcast includes discussions and quick tips around the real world use cases, which can be thought about easily and used effectively. The idea is to provide maximum return on investment, to any business who buys Sitecore ...

Hosted Girish Jain's Podcast on Getting Creative with Content Hub

When you hear the words Content Hub, you think of two things - DAM as in Digital Asset Management where versioning of your media can be maintained and shared over platforms. Well yes, these two are the features, but its much more than that. In this episode with Girish Jain, who has worked on Content Hub as a Platform Specialist for more than 2 Years, explains how to be creative and utilize Content Hub in various ways to be more efficient for a Business.

Hosted a Roundtable on Experiences of a few Attendees and Speakers of Sitecore SUGCON India 2024

In this episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, I had a conversation with Shail Bhatt, Krushna Patel, Priyanka Gulia, Ajay Gour, Girish Jain and Purvi Sanghani. This year, at Sitecore SUGCON India 2024, 60+ people from Horizontal Digital travelled to Bengaluru, where the event happened, from various offices of Horizontal. This shows the commitment that Horizontal has towards Sitecore. Here are the experiences of some of those teammates, most of them attending and presenting at the stage for the first ti...

Hosted Akshay Barve's Podcast on What you need to know about Sitecore XM Cloud Forms

In this episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, I had a conversation with Akshay Barve, and we delved into the world of XM Cloud Forms and the details around it. During our discussion, we broke down what XM Cloud Forms are, explored their key features, traced their development journey, and their significance in today's digital landscape. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or a professional seeking to enhance your data collection methods, this episode will provide valuable insights into how XM Cloud Forms ...

Hosted a Conversation with Sahil and Shilpa on One Size Doesn't Fit All for Digital Transformation? Go Sitecore Composable!

When we talk about the journey of Digital Transformation for any business, its a rather tough decision and there are multiple parameters involved. In this discussion with Sahil Singla and Shilpa Darshini, we looked at how Sitecore has made life easier by going Composable for its Product Suite.

Hosting a Candid Conversation with the Sitecore Interns at Horizontal

This episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, was very special for me personally. So generally, have a Host and a Speaker, we have a topic, and we have a discussion. But, for this one, we had 12 Young, Energetic, Talented, Vibrant and Enthusiastic people, fresh out of College, stepping into their professional life, sharing their background and experiences of the Internship and their thought process and Love for Sitecore. It was so fascinating, to listen to all of them, coming in from different background...

Participated in Horizontal Hackathon 2024

In Horizontal we had different events for sharing innovative ideas and implementing it one of it is Horizontal Hackathon. With the composable products it is very important to know the integration and features product is providing. This year I participated in the Hackathon 3.0 at our organization and this 24 hours of journey was full of learning , bonding with team and exchanging thoughts. We implemented a working model with search and AI integration. However the Repo access and space was alloca...

Participated in Sitecore Hackathon 2024

This year, I participated in a Sitecore Hackathon Devanshi Kakade and Tushar Panchal. Our topic was 'Exploring the Media Migration Marvel: A Sitecore Hackathon Chronicle,' is part of Best Module for XM/XP or XM Cloud category. We worked on building a Module to migrate Media items from Sitecore to Content Hub.

Currently, there is no direct module available to Migrate the Media from Sitecore to Content Hub. You have to download the media, and upload those media items into Content Hub Manually....

Roundtable celebrating 9 year completion of Sitecore UserGroup India

Title: Unlocking Sitecore Composable: Live Q&A with Sitecore MVPs We - Kiran Patil, Brijesh Patel, Khushboo Sorthiya, Nilesh Thakkar, Alok Kadudeshmukh and I - the original co-founders and the current team who maintains it, had an interactive session on Sitecore Composable. During this time, we noticed a number of community members struggling to understand the use cases of Sitecore Composable, what to do, How to do and more importantly, what not to do. The overall idea about this session, was...

Hosted Devanshi Kakade's Podcast on Exploring Sitecore Upgrades from a Developer Standpoint

In this episode of Sitecore TECH Talks, I had a conversation with Devanshi Kakade around Sitecore Upgrades. Technically, there two types of Sitecore Upgrades, One is an "In place Upgrade" and the second one is "Migration upgrade". There are some ground rules we need to follow in each case. Both In-Place and Migration have its own Pros and Cons, and it is different case by case. I tried asking questions to bring out those pointers for the Sitecore community and get more clarity and insights for t...

Experience and PPT of the Speaking Engagement at SUG Columbus

Chirag Khanna and I presented on the topic Implementing Sitecore Smart Hub CDP in XM Sitecore Headless App at Sitecore UserGroup Columbus. This was an Advanced session with Use case Demos of using Sitecore CDP and Personalize. This Blogpost was about the Experience and the PPT that we created for the presentation.

Presented Advanced CDP and Personalize Session at SUG Columbus

This was second part of the Two Part presentation on Sitecore CDP and Personalize. It was a Comprehensive Demo Session! Our Demo was on implementing Sitecore Smart Hub CDP in a Next JS App deployed on Vercel and connected to Sitecore XM connected with ngrok. We had various use cases around utilizing Sitecore CDP Audience Sync, Offers, Geolocation and Sitecore Personalize - Web and Fullstack Experiences, Decision models and Decision Tables, etc. Webinar Link: https://kommunity.com/sitecore-user-...

Mulyankan 2.0 - Cross-Skilling Event at Horizontal

I was a part of a team that organized both the Cross-Skilling Events in this Year - one in April and one in October. We called the Event Mulyankan 2.0 It was organized over the weekend of 28th and 29th of October. The second one had 79 participants, across different offices of Horizontal India. Other Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/varunvns_sitecore-next-typescript-activity-7125019888556916737-TtW4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Hosted Akshay Barve's Podcast

Sitecore TECH Talks - Effective Personalization Strategies with Sitecore XM Cloud - Akshay Barve Hosted the Podcast, worked with Akshay to create the content and asked the right questions to make the podast helpful for the community.

Experience and PPT of Webinar Sitecore Smart Hub CDP from the Lens of a Beginner

Chirag Khanna and I presented on the topic Sitecore Smart Hub CDP from the Lens of a Beginner at Sitecore UserGroup Columbus. We want to sincerely thank Maulik Darji and Himadri Chakrabarti, for organizing the online event and giving us the platform to present. The session was about Basics of Sitecore CDP and Personalize

Presented at SUGColumbus - Sitecore Smart Hub CDP from the Lens of a Beginner

This was the first part of a Two Part presentation on Sitecore CDP and Personalize. We looked at the Basics of Sitecore CDP and Personalize, The Terminologies that we needed to know, before we plunged into the second Advanced level session, which was presented in November! Link: https://kommunity.com/sitecore-user-group-columbus/events/sitecore-smart-hub-cdp-from-the-lens-of-a-beginner-a22ff4e7

Experience PPT and Feedback on Connected Experiences using Sitecore XM and Sitecore Smart Hub CDP

Chirag Khanna and Varun Shringarpure presented this topic at Sitecore SUGCON India 2023. This blog is talking about the experience and the feedback.

Amazing Day One of Sitecore SUGCON India 2023

Details and Insights into Day one of Sitecore SUGCON India 2023. Here are the notes about the various sessions that I attended during the day.

Presented to internal team on Sitecore CLI

Sitecore Training - Sitecore CLI - Tushar Panchal and Varun Shringarpure Covered the basics of Sitecore CLI, Sitecore Content Serialization, Module creation etc. along with Hands-on Exercises for the team.

Experience and PPT - Presentation on Basics of Sitecore Placeholders

As a part of a Cross-Training activity at Horizontal, I presented on a topic of Sitecore Placeholders. I thought of sharing the presentation with Sitecore Community, so that it could help anyone who is starting off on Sitecore, as it is a part of basics. Also, for all those who already know Sitecore, this could prove to be a refresher.

Sitecore XM Cloud Bootcamp - Attendee and Helping Hand

At Horizontal, a one week Bootcamp Bootcamp was organized for Learning and doing Hands-on on Sitecore XM Cloud. The workshop was led by Kiran Patil and Daivagna Nanavati. I was helping them out wherever required. Some of my Social Sharing Posts during the Bootcamp: Bootcamp Kick-off - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/varunvns_connectedexperiences-sitecore-sitecoredx-activity-7063722707393126400-O6vI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Day 1 - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/varunvns_and-i...