Adobe Experience Manager
AEM Sites development and implementation services
Our senior team covers architecture, component development, integrations, author training, and ongoing improvements on AEM as a Cloud Service, plus support and migration for teams still on AEM 6.5. The same team stays with your solution after launch. If you’re planning a migration, rebuilding your component library, or adding headless delivery, we’ll help you find the right approach and deliver it.
Working with Northern as your AEM Sites partner
Senior-led from start to finish
Built for the people who publish
Phased delivery built around your roadmap
What is Adobe Experience Manager Sites?
Adobe Experience Manager Sites is Adobe's enterprise content management system for building and running websites. It supports headless, headful, or hybrid delivery, so the same content can feed a website, an app, or another channel. Teams can author pages in a visual editor or, with Edge Delivery Services, in Microsoft SharePoint (using Word in the browser) or Google Docs, and AEM Sites connects with Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Real-Time CDP, and Adobe Journey Optimizer.
Our AEM development services
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AEM Sites implementation and architecture
New sites and rebuilds on AEM as a Cloud Service, plus migrations from AEM 6.5 and AEM 6.5 LTS, with the delivery model (headless, headful, or hybrid) chosen around where your content needs to go.
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Edge Delivery Services and the Universal Editor
We build websites on Edge Delivery Services, so authors can work in the Universal Editor or write pages in Microsoft SharePoint (using Word in the browser) or Google Docs. Edge Delivery Services is built differently from a traditional AEM site, so if you already run AEM, we’ll show you which features and custom code would carry over before you commit. Five of our developers have completed Adobe's Edge Delivery Services developer course.
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Components and design systems
Reusable components built on or extending AEM Core Components and tied to your design system, so authors can assemble new pages from parts that already exist. Editable templates, content policies, and the Style System let one component library carry each brand’s look, and Multi Site Manager (MSM) keeps shared content in sync across multi-brand, multi-lingual, or multi-regional sites.
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Personalization with Adobe Target and Adobe Experience Platform
We connect AEM to Adobe Target and Adobe Real-Time CDP on Adobe Experience Platform, so Experience Fragments and Content Fragments can be served as personalized offers to audiences based on behavior and unified profiles.
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Performance, SEO, and accessibility
Core Web Vitals improvements through CDN and Dispatcher caching, technical SEO, and accessibility built to WCAG 2.1 AA, which meets AODA requirements.
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AEM support and developers for your team
After launch, we handle service packs and upgrades on AEM 6.5, release validation and Cloud Manager pipeline management on AEM as a Cloud Service, and ongoing improvements, with people who already know your build. Our senior AEM developers and architects can also join your team and take direction from your leads, for a set number of hours each week or month.
AEM Sites client stories
How an AEM Sites engagement runs
Assess
We review your current site, content model, integrations, and authoring setup. For AEM 6.5 sites, that includes Adobe’s Best Practices Analyzer and Cloud Acceleration Manager. Then we agree on goals and how you’ll measure them.
Plan
You get a phased roadmap with scope and timing for each release, starting with what your team can launch and run first.
Build and launch
Our team builds and tests each release, and trains your authors before it goes live.
Measure and improve
After launch, we check results against the goals set within the assessment and use what we learn to plan the next release.
Still on AEM 6.5?
Support for AEM 6.5 on Adobe Managed Services ended August 31, 2026. According to Adobe Experience League, core support for on-premises AEM 6.5 ends February 28, 2027, and extended support, limited to critical fixes, ends February 28, 2028. The path forward is AEM as a Cloud Service. AEM 6.5 LTS extends your runway but doesn’t change the platform, so we recommend it only when AEM as a Cloud Service isn’t an option, for example for government organizations that require a certification AEM as a Cloud Service doesn’t yet hold. Our AEM as a Cloud Service migration services page covers how we handle that move.
Speak with an AEM Sites expert
Fill out the form and an AEM Sites expert will follow up to talk through where your site stands. No preparation required. The conversation covers
“Our goal is to make leaving AEM 6.5 uneventful. We assess what you have, flag what won’t carry over, and plan the move so your team isn’t rebuilding twice.”
Common questions about AEM development services
AEM development services cover planning, building, and supporting websites on Adobe Experience Manager Sites. The work usually covers consulting, architecture, website development, integrations with other Adobe products, author training, and ongoing support. Northern is an Adobe Gold Solution Partner, and our senior team leads and delivers this work from start to finish.
For AEM 6.5 on Adobe Managed Services, Adobe’s support ended August 31, 2026. For on-premises AEM 6.5, core support runs until February 28, 2027, and extended support, limited to critical fixes, runs until February 28, 2028. The path forward is AEM as a Cloud Service. AEM 6.5 LTS is an option only where AEM as a Cloud Service isn’t, such as government organizations that require a certification AEM as a Cloud Service doesn’t yet hold.
Most migrations take three to six months. Six months is the longer end, usually for migrations that need integration refactoring or a front-end rebuild.
The timeline depends on how much content you have (pages, images, videos, documents, and custom data), how many sites you’re migrating and how much they overlap, whether you’re redesigning the front end or moving the site as it is, how much backend integration work needs refactoring to run in the cloud, and where your content lives today. Content from non-Adobe platforms has to be transformed or re-authored in AEM. We scope each migration during the assessment before we propose a timeline.
Edge Delivery Services is part of AEM as a Cloud Service. It serves pages from a global CDN for very fast load times and lets authors create content in Microsoft SharePoint (using Word in the browser), Google Docs, or the Universal Editor, Adobe’s visual editor for AEM. Instead of components, sites are built from lightweight blocks.
Yes. AEM Sites can run as your content management system on its own. It also connects with Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Real-Time CDP, and Adobe Journey Optimizer when you're ready to add them, and we can help you decide which connections are worth the work.
We work on retainer, fixed fee, or time and materials, depending on how your team plans and budgets. An engagement can be a full build, a migration, ongoing support, or AEM developers who join your team for a set number of hours each week or month.
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