Employee Intranet Using Adobe Experience Manager

The Human Resources organization at a telecommunications provider needed to consolidate all its employee-facing sites into a common platform and experience. It was a large initiative with high exposure because every organization in the company was represented.

Fortunately our client has a very strong brand that was impeccably documented in its design system. All organizations agreed to use the established styles and designs.

The tech stack was centered around Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). The disparate sites throughout the organization lived on several platforms, including Big Tin Can, Sharepoint and a legacy AEM instance. The new AEM instance would be a cloud version, whereas the legacy AEM instance was on-premises.

The component library was actively used in the on-prem instance, however, our technical assessment concluded it was not possible to migrate the components and client libraries to the new cloud instance. (I don’t buy this but that’s what I was told.) Ultimately we rebuilt every component in the new cloud instance.

Additionally the client wanted to map micro-applications from various HR systems to the new employee portal. These would all be contained within an AEM component, but would be wired via API to the data or application layer that ultimately integrated with its respective HR platform.

The Glean platform was used as a plugin/iframe for site search, however Adobe’s lookup functions were also part of the specifications.

• Wrote a detailed functional design document for every component in the legacy platform.
• Authored detailed functional specifications for customizing AEM core components to meet the design requirements.
• Data-mapped content from the other CMS platforms to a logical home in the AEM components.
• Wireframed and annotated HR microapps to define and describe access rules by employee type, API calls by journey step and display logic. These were handed off to the design team and to technical architects for final build.
• Vibe-coded dozens of components and pages to assist offshore front-end developers using a prompt engineering approach.