Product release roundup: fall ’21 edition

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1. © 2021 Contentful
   Building the leading content platform for digital business
   Contentful Product
   Release Roundup
   Fall ‘21
   

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   Today’s speakers
   Paul Biggs
   Product
   Marketing
   Jamie Bolland
   Product
   Marketing
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   Housekeeping
   ● Keeping you up to date on our latest product releases,
   with commentary and highlights from our Changelog
   ● This time we are also going to do a quick recap of our
   Fast Forward conference
   ● Please fill out the feedback survey at the end of the
   video — we’d like to improve with each edition
   ● Keep an eye on your inbox — we will follow up with the
   recording so you can easily rewatch the video.
   ● Any questions? Write to us at team@contentfulmail.com
   

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   Fast Forward 2021:
   Our platform
   (r)evolution
   

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   headless and APIs ≠ platform
   What truly makes a platform?
   Tools to build on top of it and a modular approach — to everything
   2019 2020 2021
   Kicked off
   Product to Platform
   strategy
   Launched
   App Framework
   Launched
   Contentful Apps
   

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   Unlock ALL the builders
   

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   IT’S TIME
   TO BUILD
   As many as half of
   Netflix’s designers
   are working on
   building software
   for its employees
   and partners
   — Fast Company
   

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   App examples across a spectrum
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   Build beyond apps
   

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    Recent
    releases
    Some of the highlights
    

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    Key benefits provided to our customers
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    Content platform focus areas
    Best for
    builders
    Most flexible
    platform
    Digital
    at scale
    SPEED FLEXIBILITY EXTENSIBILITY SCALABILITY RELIABILITY
    

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    ● Comments API & webhooks*
    ● Tasks app & webhooks*
    ● Environment governance*
    ● Default values
    ● Webhooks for Releases,
    Scheduled Actions & Bulk
    Actions
    ● AVIF image format*
    ● App hosting*
    ● App sharing & App icons*
    ● CMA Adaptor*
    ● Apps in the Marketplace and
    developer community*
    * We’ll touch on these releases today — the others you can browse at your convenience
    Quick recap: recent release highlights
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    Best for
    builders
    Most flexible
    platform
    Digital
    at scale
    

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    DX at scale:
    Tasks app & webhooks
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    ● Assign tasks to teams, add a due
    date, and manage tasks in
    Compose + Launch apps
    ● Improve content workflows at
    scale by utilizing a shared service
    model to improve team response
    times on tasks and allowing users
    to easily prioritize their tasks
    ● Programmatically share tasks to
    Slack or MS teams
    *new
    

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    DX at scale:
    Comments API & webhooks
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    ● Programmatically manage
    comments to improve teams’
    communication so they can
    deliver content at scale faster
    than ever.
    ● Automatically shared across
    where your team works, eg
    Slack, Teams or Jira.
    ● Work more flexibly by using
    comments in your apps
    

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    Best for builders:
    AVIF image conversion
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    ● Reduce page loading times to
    improve your pages’ bounce rate and
    SEO rankings and by reducing image
    size on your pages
    ● Images API can now deliver AVIF
    images to browsers that support the
    format (Chrome, Firefox and
    Android), giving your pages high
    resolution images with much smaller
    file sizes
    ● The conversion is entirely on the API
    level, so your editors don’t need to
    change their workflows
    ● Available now for all customers
    *new
    

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    Most flexible platform:
    App sharing
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    ● Share apps outside the marketplace
    with the click of a button, either within
    the community or with your clients
    ● The marketplace is very visible and
    can bring expectations of support.
    Now with a single link you can let
    friends or clients install your app and
    ensure that they have the latest
    version.
    ● This could allow agencies to create a
    portfolio of apps that are only shared
    with clients, or simply share the love in
    the Contentful community
    *new
    

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    Most flexible platform:
    App icons
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    ● Simplify working with lots of
    customs apps in your spaces
    ● When every custom app had the
    same jigsaw icon, it was easy to
    mix them up. Now, it’s much
    easier to find the app you’re
    looking for.
    ● Developers can add a little bit of
    personality and branding to their
    apps
    ● 128px x 128px in png or jpg
    format
    *new
    

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    Most flexible platform:
    App hosting
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    ● Host apps without the need for
    an external service
    ● Upload through the interface or
    CLI
    ● Easily rollback your app to an
    older version if there are any
    issues
    ● Released June 23rd, learn more
    in our blog post about how to
    use app hosting
    

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    Most flexible platform:
    CMA adaptor
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    ● Allows apps to access the full
    CMA.js client
    ● Makes it easier to build new apps
    quickly with our APIs, by giving
    them the same behaviour in the
    APP SDK as they have normally
    ● All new CMA endpoints will be
    immediately available in the App
    SDK
    

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    Extending roles and permissions
    across environments to build
    more robust developer workflows
    DX at scale:
    Environments
    governance
    

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    Web app API
    

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    Roles can be configured to include access
    to master environment and a list of specified
    environments and aliases
    Roles have working policies and permissions
    in environments they can access
    Users no longer see all environments in the
    space, just what’s relevant to them
    Environments governance
    Planned release: December 7th
    Availability: Enterprise P1X spaces and above
    Key benefits:
    ● Security + compliance - granular control over
    access to specific environments and aliases
    ● Flexibility - reuse existing roles to define access to
    specific environments and aliases.
    Example use cases:
    ● Safely share staging and QA environments with
    other teams (i.e. QA, PMs, Editors) to test and
    approve changes
    ● Protect the master environment from being
    accessed and modified by all developers
    ● Admins can set up and test new roles and
    permissions before assigning users to these roles
    ● Hide confidential projects from the rest of org
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    Most flexible platform:
    New marketplace apps, community apps, and
    partner offerings
    Orchestration
    Conscia Unify
    Uniform Mesh
    Stackbit Multisite
    *new
    Media
    api.video (video)
    imigx (DAM)
    IntelligenceBank (DAM)
    Commerce
    Emporix
    Slatwall
    BigCommerce (soon)
    Testing &
    Optimization
    VWO
    

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    Other recent releases
    We won’t cover these today, but want
    to make sure they are on your radar
    

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    Best for builders:
    Default values
    ● New entries can start
    with a predefined value,
    so editors can work
    faster
    ● Fill fields that very rarely
    change, or reduce
    validation errors by
    setting a default value
    for required fields.
    ● Supported fields:
    boolean, plain text, list,
    number, date
    

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    ● One webhook to rule them all:
    replace multiple webhooks on
    major publication events with a
    single webhook for each action
    ● Simplifying webhooks makes it
    easier to programmatically
    respond to and monitor your
    releases and bulk actions
    Best for builders:
    Webhooks for
    Releases, Scheduled Actions & Bulk Actions
    

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    See the Changelog for a list of all updates
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    Visit our Changelog to see every one of
    our releases big and small, or visit the
    Product tag of our blog for more
    detailed write-ups.
    You can also subscribe to Changelog
    updates (or use an app like Mailbrew to
    get RSS feeds emailed to your inbox).
    

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    Join us in
    Product discovery
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    Call for customers:
    research panel
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    Join the Contentful research panel to take part
    in our internal product development and
    research projects.
    Our Product team invite customers and
    partners to take part in new research initiatives
    that are relevant to their experiences. It could
    be a short survey or a one-on-one interview.
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    feedback survey:
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    https://ctfl.io/fall-roundup-survey
    

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    Thank you!
    

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