Adobe Experience Manager
AEM Development Services - Enterprise Publishing That Authors Actually Use
AEM development services cover Adobe Experience Manager implementation, migration, and ongoing engineering: component and template development, AEM as a Cloud Service builds, Edge Delivery Services, multi-site and multi-language architecture, and integration with Adobe Analytics, Target, and commerce platforms.
What We Build
AEM is what large organizations buy when they need to publish across dozens of sites, languages, and brands with real governance. It's also a platform that punishes shortcuts: get the content architecture or the component model wrong and you'll feel it in every authoring session for the next five years. Our position after years of AEM work is blunt: AEM projects fail on authoring experience far more often than on code. A technically flawless implementation that authors avoid is a failed implementation, whatever the invoice says.
AEM as a Cloud Service Implementations
Modern pipelines, Core Components, and a build that fits Adobe's release cadence rather than fighting it.
Component and Template Development
A governed component library with editable templates, so marketing composes pages instead of raising tickets.
Migrations
From AEM 6.x to Cloud Service, or from WordPress, Sitecore, Drupal, or bespoke CMSs, with content mapping, redirect strategy, and SEO preservation as first-class deliverables.
Multi-Site and Localization Architecture (MSM)
Brand and language rollout that scales without cloning chaos.
Edge Delivery Services
For teams prioritizing Core Web Vitals and document-based authoring.
Integrations
Adobe Analytics, Target, Assets/DAM, CDP, plus commerce, CRM, and search platforms.
Headless and Hybrid AEM
Content Fragments and GraphQL feeding apps and front ends.
How We Protect Your Investment
Author-first design
We prototype the authoring experience with your content team before finalizing the component model. Ten hours of that work saves years of workarounds.
Migration with SEO discipline
URL mapping, redirect chains, structured data, and metadata are planned before content moves. Replatforms lose traffic when redirects are treated as a launch-week task.
Performance budgets
Client-side libraries, image handling, and caching strategy governed against Core Web Vitals targets, not tuned after the fact.
Inherited an AEM platform nobody enjoys using?
We'll review your codebase, authoring experience, and performance, and tell you what's worth fixing versus rebuilding.
The AEM Decisions That Cost the Most to Reverse
Four choices, made in the first weeks, determine how much AEM costs you for the next five years:
Content architecture
How pages, fragments, and assets are organized and inherited. Get this wrong and every localization rollout fights the structure.
Component granularity
Too coarse and authors can't compose what they need; too fine and they face a wall of options and rebuild the same layout inconsistently across fifty pages. The sweet spot is discovered by watching authors work, not by reasoning about it.
Template governance
Which decisions belong to developers and which to authors. Locking everything down produces a ticket queue; opening everything up produces brand drift within a quarter.
Integration boundaries
What AEM owns versus what it consumes. AEM implementations sprawl when teams build functionality inside it that belonged in a service alongside it.
AEM Rescue Engagements
A significant share of our AEM work is inherited platforms rather than new builds. The symptoms are consistent: authors avoiding the CMS and requesting pages via tickets, deployments that require heroics, performance that degrades with every release, and an upgrade nobody dares attempt.
Assess - code quality, custom-versus-Core-Component ratio, upgrade blockers, performance profile, and an honest read on the authoring experience
Triage - fix what's actively costing money, usually performance and deployment reliability
Reduce custom code - replacing bespoke components with Core Components wherever behavior allows, because every line of custom code is a future upgrade cost
Rebuild the authoring layer - editable templates and a governed component library, often the change authors notice most
Plan the upgrade path - to Cloud Service, with the blockers now removed
We will tell you when a platform is beyond economic repair. It happens, and hearing it early is cheaper than discovering it during an upgrade attempt.
Governance for Multi-Brand, Multi-Market AEM
Where AEM genuinely earns its license cost is governed scale - and governance is a design problem, not a policy document. We define the inheritance model (what the global team controls versus what markets can override), the translation workflow, the approval chain, and the component permissions per role. Without those decisions made explicitly, multi-site AEM devolves into disconnected clones that share a logo and nothing else.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most commonly through custom code that could have been Core Components, content architecture reworked mid-project, and authoring requirements discovered after the component model was built. All three are avoidable with author-first design and a strict bias toward standard components.
Yes - rescue engagements are a large share of our AEM work. We start with a code, performance, and authoring assessment, triage what's actively costing money, then reduce custom code and rebuild the authoring layer before attempting any upgrade.
A focused single-site AEM as a Cloud Service build typically takes three to six months; multi-brand, multi-language programs run longer and are best delivered in phases with the first site live early.
Yes. Migrations begin with a code and content assessment - custom code compatibility, asset volume, integration inventory - followed by phased content and code migration with parallel running and a redirect plan.
Edge Delivery Services is Adobe's high-performance delivery approach with document-based authoring, designed for excellent Core Web Vitals. It suits content-led sites with fast publishing needs; complex application-like experiences often still fit the traditional model better.
Sometimes, and we'll say so. AEM earns its cost with multi-site, multi-language, governance-heavy publishing. If you run one site with a small team, WordPress or a headless CMS usually delivers more value per dollar.