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Andreas Kölle

Germany

MVP 2026

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Germany
MVP 2025

Ambassador

Germany
MVP 2024

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Germany

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Timeline

2025

27/Nov

How Sitecore Pathway can dramatically reduce your relaunch project costs

A Blogpost on how companies can safe money by utilizing Sitecore Pathway

2025

19/Nov

Sitecore Symposium 2025: A Transformative Leap into AI-Powered Digital Experiences

Recap and personal impressions of the Symposium 2025

2025

4/Sep

Hosting and organizing Sitecore Usergroup (inperson) meeting

Hosting and organizing the SUGDE (in person) Meeting as a board member of the SUGDE.

2025

3/Sep

Organizing the sponsorship of the Sitecore City Tour Cologne

2025

19/Aug

Bringing Your Sitecore XP Website to China: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices

Expanding your digital presence into China is an exciting step, the market is vast, dynamic, and digitally advanced. But if you run your website on Sitecore XP, you’ll quickly realize that deploying to China is not as straightforward as replicating your Western setup.

This post explores the technical and regulatory realities of running a Sitecore XP-powered website in China, the options available, and what to prefer, avoid, and prepare for.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

13/Aug

Multisite and Multilanguage Strategies in Sitecore: Challenges and Elegant Solutions

Sitecore is predestined for complex multisite and multilanguage setups.

Whether for global corporations or regional brand families, combining multiple websites, languages, and markets presents both technical and organizational challenges. In this article, i explore the typical pitfalls and present proven solutions.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

23/Jun

Migration to Sitecore SaaS: Opportunities, challenges and best practices

Migrating from an on-premise or PaaS-based Sitecore environment to a SaaS solution is a significant step for many companies. The benefits are obvious: automated maintenance, better scalability, lower operating costs and faster innovation cycles. However, the path to the cloud is paved with challenges that need to be carefully planned and mastered. In this article, I would like to describe the typical migration process, discuss the main stumbling blocks and present best practices.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

27/May

Navigating the Sitecore DXP Landscape: A decisioning guide to OnPrem XP vs. SaaS XM Cloud

Choosing between Sitecore XP (OnPremises) and Sitecore XM Cloud (SaaS) is a critical decision for technically savvy organizations aiming to build a future-proof digital experience platform. This guide dives deep into the architectural, developmental, and operational differences to help you make an informed choice tailored to your complex requirements.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

8/May

Hosting Sitecore Usergroup Germany

Hosting and organizing the SUGDE Meeting

2025

10/Apr

Lightning-fast loading times with Sitecore: How to optimize rendering & caching

Loading times not only affect the user experience, but also have a direct impact on conversions, SEO and ultimately sales. Studies show that a delay of just one second can reduce the conversion rate by up to 7%. For companies that use Sitecore as a digital experience platform (DXP), this means: performance optimization is not an option, it is a must.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

8/Apr

🌟 SUGCON 2025 – Highlights from Antwerp 🌟

What an unforgettable experience at #SUGCON2025 in Antwerp! The event kicked off with a powerful keynote from Sitecore CEO Dave O’Flanagan, tracing the company’s journey from CMS to DXP, to Composable DXP, and now to the era of Intelligent DXP. The vision for the future is clear: AI, extensibility, and community driven innovation are leading the way.

2025

3/Apr

Full flexibility: Expand Sitecore Composable DXP as needed

In addition to Sitecore XM Cloud, Sitecore CDP and Sitecore Personalize, Sitecore offers a completely modular, composable product range that you can flexibly add to as needed. This means that you can add exactly the functions that your company currently needs – and scale them up later without any problems.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Discover Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore Content Hub ONE Sitecore Connect Sitecore Stream Sitecore JSS

2025

27/Mar

Results that count: Maximize ROI with Sitecore

Digital investments have to be worthwhile, but many companies struggle to precisely measure and optimize the return on investment (ROI) of their digital platforms. I have already described how these metrics can be collected and how Sitecore supports you in this in the previous article. Now it’s all about how the ROI can be improved, i.e. achieved more quickly. Sitecore offers a powerful, data-driven solution to increase efficiency, maximize customer loyalty and reduce operating costs. By combini...

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

20/Mar

Make the ROI clear and measurable with Sitecore

Many companies invest significant budgets in digital platforms, but the question of the concrete return on investment (ROI) often remains unanswered. Fragmented data sources, unclear metrics and isolated systems make it difficult to measure success. As a comprehensive Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Sitecore offers powerful analysis and optimization tools to make the ROI clearly and precisely visible.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

18/Mar

Creating and Hosting the SUGDE LinkedIn Channel

Created the SUGDE (Sitecore Usergroup Deutschland, Germany) LinkedIn Channel to spread events, contributing new announcements and put the community together.

2025

13/Mar

Managing complexity: How Sitecore relieves the burden on teams

Digital experiences are becoming increasingly complex and with them the challenges for marketing and IT teams. Fragmented systems, slow development processes and high maintenance costs are everyday hurdles. As a cloud-native, headless-first solution, Sitecore XM Cloud offers the flexibility and efficiency needed to overcome these problems. With automated workflows, AI-supported personalization and a modern DevOps architecture, Sitecore relieves your team of long-term workloads.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

6/Mar

Reduce costs, increase efficiency: How to successfully implement Sitecore

The implementation of a powerful digital experience platform (DXP) such as Sitecore can represent a significant investment. But if it is planned and implemented correctly, not only can costs be reduced in the long term, but operational efficiency can also be significantly increased. In this article, you will learn which technical strategies and best practices ensure that your Sitecore implementation remains efficient, scalable and cost effective right from the start.

2025

27/Feb

How to implement e-commerce solutions cost-effectively with Sitecore

Efficiency is key in e-commerce. Time consuming implementations and excessive costs can significantly reduce the ROI of a platform. With Sitecore, you get a solution that is specifically designed to implement e-commerce initiatives efficiently, both technically and financially.

2025

20/Feb

The competition never sleeps: How Sitecore keeps you ahead

In the digital era, competition is tougher than ever. Customers expect seamless experiences, relevant content and personalized interactions, in real time. Companies that fail to meet these expectations will quickly lose market share to more agile and better positioned competitors. But how can you ensure that your company not only keeps pace, but is always one step ahead?

With the Sitecore Experience Platform (XP), you can secure your lead. It gives you the tools you need to understand custome...

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

13/Feb

Why Sitecore should be your central source for all data

In a world where data is the backbone of successful businesses, it is crucial to have a central and reliable source for all relevant information. Especially in marketing and e-commerce, consistent and accurate data is the key to more efficient processes, informed decisions and outstanding customer experiences. Sitecore offers exactly this solution: a platform that seamlessly integrates data from different sources and acts as a “single source of truth”.

In this article, i will show you why a c...

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Connect

2025

6/Feb

Unifying data with Sitecore CDP: The solution to fragmented customer views

In an increasingly data-driven business world, one thing is clear: the key to success lies in having a comprehensive understanding of your customers. But in many companies, customer data is spread across numerous systems, from CRM and e-commerce platforms to marketing automation tools. This fragmentation makes it difficult to gain a unified and holistic view of the customer. The result? A lack of personalization, missed opportunities and untapped potential.

With the Sitecore Customer Data Pla...

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2025

30/Jan

Correct implemented: How Sitecore prevents loss of revenue

In today’s digital economy, inefficient implementation of technologies can have serious consequences, not only for customer satisfaction, but also for sales. Slow loading times, lack of personalization or inconsistent customer journeys are common reasons why potential buyers bounce. But with a well-thought-out implementation of Sitecore, you can overcome precisely these challenges and prevent sales losses.

2025

23/Jan

Designing flexible customer journeys with Sitecore

In today's digital world, customers expect more than just high quality products or services, they demand seamless, personalized and flexible experiences along their entire customer journey. As a company, you are faced with the challenge of not only meeting these expectations, but exceeding them. This is exactly where Sitecore offers the right tools to design customer journeys dynamically, effectively and flexibly.

2025

16/Jan

Sitecore: Flexibility and customization made easy

In a digital landscape that is constantly evolving, flexibility is the key to success. Whether you want to react to changing market conditions, open up new channels or implement specific requirements of your company, with Sitecore you have a platform that adapts to your needs instead of limiting you.

2025

9/Jan

Reduce costs with AI and Sitecore: Rethinking efficiency – practical use cases

Using artificial intelligence (AI) in conjunction with Sitecore offers numerous opportunities to reduce costs in various business areas. Here are the most important approaches and how they can ease the burden on your budget:

2024

19/Dec

Budget under control: How Sitecore helps you keep costs under control

Efficient cost management is one of the key challenges for companies investing in their digital transformation. From implementing new technologies to managing platforms and tools - costs can quickly get out of control if scalability, efficiency and optimization are not taken into account right from the start. This is where Sitecore comes in. The platform not only offers comprehensive functionality, but also concrete approaches to relieve the burden on your budget in the long term.

2024

5/Dec

Hosting and organizing the Sitecore Usergroup meeting (in person) and be a speaker

Hosting and organizing the Sitecore Usergroup meeting (in person) as a board member of the SUGDE and Speaking at the event (doing a wrap up of the Sitecore Symposium Nashville)

2024

15/Nov

Sitecore ensures speed: More conversions through optimized loading times

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

7/Nov

How Sitecore ensures the highest level of data protection and GDPR compliance

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Discover Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Content Hub ONE

2024

4/Nov

Grow without limits with Sitecore: Focus on scalability

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Discover Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Content Hub ONE Sitecore Connect

2024

31/Oct

Why Sitecore is the scalable solution for growing companies

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

28/Oct

More independence: Why Sitecore does not create dependencies

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

24/Oct

Why Sitecore’s ease of use drives your business

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Connect

2024

21/Oct

Reducing complexity: How to create a user-friendly environment with Sitecore

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Content Hub ONE Sitecore Connect

2024

17/Oct

Maximum control: How Sitecore makes your platform manageable

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Connect

2024

14/Oct

Redesigning customer experiences: How Sitecore increases satisfaction

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

10/Oct

How the Sitecore Experience Platform improves your data quality

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

7/Oct

How to prepare employees for a platform like Sitecore

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Discover Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

30/Sep

Realtime personalization with Sitecore: The future of e-commerce

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud

2024

26/Sep

Use Sitecore AI to achieve high levels of personalization in real time

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

23/Sep

Data security at Sitecore: How to protect your customer data

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

19/Sep

Everything in one place: How Sitecore ensures seamless tool integration

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Connect

2024

16/Sep

How Sitecore effortlessly integrates your existing systems

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Connect

2024

9/Sep

AI in e-commerce: opportunities, quick wins and challenges

Usecases of AI in ecommerce. Quick wind through the use of AI. Challenges of implementing AI in e-commerce

Sitecore OrderCloud

2024

9/Sep

Published a review for Sitecore Content Hub on G2

I have written a detailed review for Sitecore DXP on g2.com

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

3/Sep

Pulished a review for Sitecore Digital Experience Platform on G2

I have written a detailed review for Sitecore DXP on g2.com

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

2/Sep

Optimizing web shops and the importance of KPIs in e-commerce

Why is optimizing your webshop important? Important KPIs in e-commerce and their importance. Challanges of optimizing webshops.

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud

2024

26/Aug

Accessibility in e-commerce: Why it is important and how you can overcome the challenges

An article about accessibility and why is it important? About legal requirements, challanges while implementing accessibility, the complexity, costs and ressources and many other aspects. In details the article has an eye on accesibility in e-commerce and how it can be implemented.

Sitecore OrderCloud

2024

21/Aug

Composable Commerce: The Future of E-Commerce

What is composable commerce and why is it important. What are the challanges of composable commerce and what is Sitecore Ordercloud and why is it a leading system in composable commerce.

Sitecore OrderCloud

2024

8/Aug

E-commerce: A transformation in trade and marketing

A Blogarticle about the trends and importance of ecommerce in the process of digitalization.

Sitecore OrderCloud

2024

22/Jul

What is - Sitecore OrderCloud

The range of available e-commerce solutions is almost endless, from small to large, from standard to highly customizable, from monolithic to composable. In this article I will explain what Sitecore OrderCloud is, what sets this shop solution apart from others and whether it might be the right choice for you.

Sitecore OrderCloud

2024

15/Jul

What is – Sitecore CDP – Part 3 (Customer intelligence)

Sitecore CDP

2024

8/Jul

What is – Sitecore CDP – Part 2 Advanced segmentation

An article about the capabilities of the advanced segmentation features of Sitecore CDP

Sitecore CDP

2024

3/Jul

What is – Sitecore CDP – Part 1 (Introduction)

An introduction to Sitecore CDP

Sitecore CDP

2024

25/Jun

What is - Sitecore Personalize - Part 4 (omnichannel testing)

This article is about the challenges of omnichannel personalization and how they can be solved with Sitecore Personalize

Sitecore Personalize

2024

21/Jun

What is – Sitecore Personalize – Part 3 (decisioning)

A Blogpost about decisioning and why it is so important, especially for Personalization tools and about Sitecore Persoanlize in detail.

Sitecore Personalize

2024

6/Jun

CDP vs. Google Analytics

A presentation about CDP vs. Google Analytics: In order to be customer-centric, it is absolutely essential to understand customers. In addition, there are legal requirements that make it increasingly difficult to better understand customers through their data. In this track I would like to compare the use cases of CDP with those of (e.g. Google) Analytics and clarify when which tool can and should be used, where there is overlap and how a first-party data-only strategy can be successfully imple...

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2024

29/May

What is – Sitecore Personalize – Part 2 (Omnichannel Personalization)

A Blogpost about the Omnichannel personalization capabilities of Sitecore Personalize

Sitecore Personalize

2024

23/May

What is – Sitecore Personalize – Part 1 (Introduction)

A Blogpost about the basics of Sitecore Personalize

Sitecore Personalize

2024

8/May

Publishing a video on youtube with an recap of the SUGCON Europe 2024

Publishing a video on youtube with an recap of the SUGCON Europe 2024 with a summary of all attended tracks and their key takeaways and learnings

2024

25/Apr

SUGDE Special Lunch - SUGCON Europe 2024 recap

A presentation of all the tracks and their key takeaways i have attended at the SUGCON Europe 2024, together with my colleague Dirk Schäfauer.

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Connect

2024

9/Mar

Customer centricity thinking and acting

Why and how to be customer centric, explained together with Thomas Obermeyer (Sitecore Value Engineer) in a Youtube Video

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Send

2024

22/Feb

CDP (Customer Data Platform) vs. Analytics – what to choose?

A Blogpost about the differentiation of Analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics) and Sitecore CDP. What is overlapping, what features do they share, what usw for which usecase.

Sitecore CDP

2024

15/Feb

What is – Sitecore Search – Part 5 (Developer experience)

A Blogpoost about the developer experience of the product Sitecore Search

Sitecore Search

2024

8/Feb

What is – Sitecore Search – Part 4 (Analytics)

A Blogpost about the Analytics capabilities of Sitecore Search

Sitecore Search

2024

6/Feb

Jetzt oder nie: Kundenzentriert denken denken & handeln

A public Webinar about customer centrizity thinking and acting. This webinar targets business usesers, decisionmakers and marketeers and getting awareness to be more customer centric with the usage of Sitecore CDP, Personalize and Send

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Send

2024

1/Feb

What is – Sitecore Search – Part 3 (Business controls)

Part 3 of the Series is about the Business controls of Sitecore Search

Sitecore Search

2024

25/Jan

What is – Sitecore Search – Part 2 (content discovery)

A Blogpost about the content discovery capabilities of Sitecore Search

Sitecore Search

2024

18/Jan

What is – Sitecore Search – Part 1 (general overview)

A general overview about Sitecore Search

Sitecore Search

2024

12/Jan

US Cloud Act vs. GDPR

An Blogpost about GDPR and the US Cloud Act, what to have in mind and what to take care about

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore OrderCloud Sitecore Discover Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

11/Jan

What is – Sitecore Content Hub – Part 3 (curate and use)

Part 3 of the blog series about Sitecore Content Hub

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

4/Jan

What is – Sitecore Content Hub – Part 2 (search and find)

A Blogpost about the search and find capabilities of Sitecore Content Hub, Part 2 of the DAM series

Sitecore Content Hub

2023

28/Dec

What is – Sitecore Content Hub – Part 1 (general overview)

A Blogpost that gives a rough overview to Sitecore Content Hub related to the blogpost before about digital asset management in general

Sitecore Content Hub

2023

22/Dec

What is – Digital Asset Management (DAM) – Part 1

A Blog post about the basics of Digital Asset Management

Sitecore Content Hub