Jose Neto

Navigating the Agentic AI Shift: Automating the Modern DXP Experience

Exploring how Agentic AI is transforming modern Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) through intelligent automation and orchestration. Discover how Sitecore Agentic Studio enables no-code AI agents, automated workflows, human approvals, and brand governance to simplify operations and improve efficiency in SaaS environments.

Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour : Four Pillars, Four Platforms: Sitecore AI vs. Leading DXPs

Participated as a speaker at the Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour, sharing insights from our SUGCON Europe 2026 presentation alongside Rodrigo Peplau. We discussed Sitecore AI's capabilities, its positioning against other leading DXPs, and practical considerations for enterprise architecture, AI adoption, and modern digital experience strategies. The session provided an opportunity to share knowledge and engage with the Sitecore community.

SUGCON 2026 : Four Pillars, Four Platforms: A Practical Comparison of SitecoreAI and Its Main Competitors

Presented at SUGCON Europe 2026 in London alongside Rodrigo Peplau, sharing a practical comparison of Sitecore AI with leading DXP platforms, including Adobe, Optimizely, and Contentstack. Our session introduced a four-pillar evaluation framework covering Agentic AI, App Studio, Sitecore Connect, and the Marketplace, highlighting Sitecore's capabilities, architectural differences, and competitive positioning in the evolving DXP landscape.

Important Update: Coveo for Sitecore 5.0.1368.1 and Older Versions

Important update for Coveo for Sitecore users running version 5.0.1368.1 or older. Learn why upgrading to version 5.0.1460.0 or newer is necessary to avoid analytics issues, maintain compatibility, and keep your Sitecore integration running smoothly.

Sitecore 10.4 Stress Testing Results Across Environments

Real-world Sitecore 10.4 stress testing across QA, UAT, and Production environments. Comparing concurrent users, server resources, and performance to understand the impact of vertical and horizontal scaling.

Promoting SUG-BR

Promoted our community event “Exploring Sitecore XM Cloud Forms,” helping drive attendance and awareness. Impact: Increased community knowledge and generated meaningful discussion around Sitecore XM Cloud Forms.

Promoting SUG-BR

The purpose of the post is to promote and invite people to a Sitecore Community Virtual Meetup. It highlights the event details (date, speaker, and topic) and explains what participants can expect from the session. In particular, the post emphasizes that the presentation will demonstrate an innovative approach to automating the creation of Sitecore components and templates using AI and the SiteKit CLI, directly from design tools like Figma. It also reassures readers that the process doesn’t requ...

Sitecore 10.4 , Fixing a Sneaky Coveo Error After Restoring a Sitecore Web DB

This article describes how restoring a Sitecore web database can break Coveo integration by reverting outdated WEB_ENCRYPTIONKEYS, causing Sitecore to fail decrypting the API key. Updating the encryption key to the correct environment value fixes the issue instantly and prevents future search failures.

Fixing the Sitecore xConnect Purging Error: “An error has occurred, and the task is not registered”

This article explains why the xConnect Purging Tool in Sitecore 10.4 fails with “task is not registered,” pinpointing certificate misconfigurations as the root cause. It outlines how correcting permissions, removing duplicates, and fixing misplaced certificates resolves the issue and restores proper xDB purging.

Sitecore User Group Brazil Online Event

Co-organizer of Sitecore User Group Brazil SUG-BR [2025-07-30] Scaling Content Operations with Sitecore Content Hub - By Petar Mitev Impact: 15+ participants, the community had the opportunity to speak with a Content Hub specialist

Promoting SUG-BR

Post about our event on SUG-BR “Sitecore Tips of the Day” virtual session with six-time MVP Carlos Rodriguez is this Friday, June 27, 2–3 PM EST.

Sitecore User Group Brazil Online Event

Co-organizer of this community event, SESSION – Sitecore Tips of the Day (45 min) – Carlos Rodriguez Carlos will walk through up to five practical topics from his Tips of the Day series, all focused on improving content management practices in Sitecore. Topics include:

Enabling Item Fallback

Choosing Datasource vs. Placeholder correctly

Avoiding common pitfalls with Link Fields

Recovering content from the Web database

Next-Gen Search: How AI Is Changing Our Interfaces

Thought leadership , The article traces the shift from traditional keyword-based search to AI driven semantic search and RAG, showing how tools like Coveo and LLMs deliver faster, smarter, context-aware answers. It highlights how combining Sitecore content with AI transforms websites into intelligent, chat-based experiences that outperform conventional search.

Sitecore Support Ticket

CS0590665

The xDB environment experienced instability due to SQL connection pool exhaustion and heavy fragmentation in xDB Collection databases, causing timeouts and snapshot isolation conflicts in xConnect and impacting website stability.

Initially, the website became unstable because xConnect could not obtain SQL connections (Timeout expired… max pool size was reached) while xDB was heavily used by the application. Log analysis also revealed snapshot isolation update conflicts on xdb_col...

Will AI take Sitecore Jobs?

Thought leadership article exploring how AI/LLMs may impact the Sitecore profession and how DXP maturity may evolve (Intelligent , Smart , Autonomous).

Sitecore Support Ticket

CS0568845 During the Sitecore 9.3 → 10.4 upgrade, I identified that the existing 9.3 production license did not include the EXM (Email Experience Manager) or Experience Analytics modules. When applied to the 10.4 environment, these features were missing from the dashboard. A temporary 10.4 license provided by Sitecore enabled the modules correctly, confirming that the limitation was tied to the old license.

Sitecore Support reviewed the situation and verified that the 10.4 license contains t...

Post to our code on Hackathon 2025

Open-Source Contribution – Sitecore Flow: Brand-Aware Assistant Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t2V36GUc2I

Our Team developed Sitecore Flow - Brand Aware Assistant, an AI-powered module designed to help marketers maintain brand consistency across all content created within Sitecore. This tool integrates advanced AI models into the Sitecore platform to evaluate content quality, detect brand deviations, and improve editorial efficiency.

Purpose & Value: The module enables mark...

Sitecore User Group Brazil Online Event

Community Event Co-Organizer : SUGBR (Sitecore User Group Brazil)

As a co-organizer of the Sitecore User Group Brazil meetup, I helped plan, coordinate, and deliver a community event focused on XM Cloud and modern Sitecore development practices. The event included announcements, a collaborative code review (“Justice League”), and a deep-dive session on XM Cloud Overview and Component Creation presented by Nikita Vashisht and Shreyansh Nahata.

Sitecore 10.4 Search operation not supported with xConnect collection-only configuration

Walkthrough of resolving the “Search operation not supported with xConnect collection-only” error when upgrading to Sitecore 10.4; includes config steps on CD servers.

First user group in Czechia (CZ)

This session was not recorded, but my name is included in the list of presenters for the event. Being the first SUG CZ event and given its proximity to my location, I took the opportunity to step up and contribute. The presentation was condensed to fit the 30-minute slot allocated. The slides are available for download.

SUGHYD Virtual Meet on 9th September, 2024

This presentation demonstrates how to leverage Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and integrate this concept into Sitecore. Additionally, we will explore current technologies that can bring valuable AI tools to real-world scenarios.

SUG-BR February

CO-Host on SUG-BR Event

There are three videos from this event, and the final minutes are particularly engaging, featuring questions directed at the presenters.

Video [2] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg4ASebm9hA&list=PLiIDLKfmzW5iQHsCIAT8hKdQlUS1GdWWF&index=2

Video [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iHzJRqo3c&list=PLiIDLKfmzW5iQHsCIAT8hKdQlUS1GdWWF&index=3

SUGCON In America

Presentation - October 5th at 4:15 PM “Unleashing the full potential of #XMCloud personalization with Sitecore #Personalize“ The link is not yet available