Last updated on 30th September, 2017 by George Taylor

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a content management platform which is the main part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud.

The following pages will describe the architecture of AEM and how it is used for projects i have worked on including how an AEM based web application can be built.

While the latest version of AEM is 6.3, This article is currently for version 6.2. Functionally there are not a lot of changes in the versions that will affect most developers.

"Adobe Marketing Cloud gives you the most complete set of integrated digital marketing solutions available. It provides everything you need to organise, access, and personalise your marketing content. It gives you deep insights into what’s working with your customers and the ability to consistently deliver the best experiences to every customer across every channel."

While AEM (Experience Manager) is only a small part of the adobe marketing cloud, it is the only part that these pages will discuss.

One thing to note about the following pages is that they are an introduction to AEM and how to build applications, and far from being an intensive instruction on how to build AEM applications

This article does not go into AEM maintenance or the low level structure of supporting an AEM instance