Introduction
Sitecore Customer Experience Management software contains state-of-the-art CMS and marketing functionality that gives you complete control over the great customer experience that you can offer to your customers. It allows you to unify all your activities across multiple channels, from campaigns to visitor activity to performance measurement.
Reference https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform
Sitecore is one of the leading Content Management Systems based on Microsoft Technologies. Below is the Gartner magic Quadrant for Content Management Systems.
Ref http://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/gartner-names-web-content-management-leaders/
All the Sitecore developers have been waiting a very long time to have their websites built on Sitecore XP (Experience Management Platform) to host on Complete Azure’s Platform as a Service offering (though it is possible to host it on Azure Cloud Services even earlier).
With the recent Sitecore Experience Platform 8.2 Update-1, it is now possible to create an App Service web app for hosting a Sitecore instance and take advantage of all the services and benefits that one would get using the App Service web apps as well as PAAS related service offerings.
Prerequisites
- Experience in understanding at least high level Sitecore Architecture and its related components.
- Sitecore License File.
- Azure Subscription
Let’s get started with creating a new App Service web app.
Log into your Azure account and search for Sitecore Web Experience Platform 8.2 in the search box, as shown below.
Click on the link available in the search results, on the "Everything" blade. As shown below, you will be taken to the following "Introduction" blade.
As shown in the above screen capture, click on "Create" to navigate to the following blade.
Sitecore is an Enterprise CMS for which we need to create the following while creating the Sitecore Experience Platform.
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