• A demo solution that our sales team can use to demonstrate Sitecore features to customers or partners, and adapt to a customers’ requirements from CMS functions to Experience Marketing. It should be slick, agile, and have a wow factor that shows off all of Sitecore's key selling points, aligning where possible to the SBOS ROI calculator.

• A demo solution that can be used to show new features to the analyst community before general release.

• A demo solution that can be used to rapidly create tailored demonstrations for prospects, there may be certain content or Experience Marketing based scenarios that we need to demonstrate.

• A demo solution that can be provided as a content editor sandbox, where content authors follow a pre-defined script to evaluate Sitecore.

• A demo solution that can be provided to prospects on a hosted development machine, for prospects who wish to trial development on the platform.

• A demo solution that can be used by the product team to test the product before release.

• A demo solution that can be used for training.

• A demo solution that can show off our strategic products.

• A demo solution for SBOS to use to highlight business optimisation and the power of the DMS.

• Clone this repository to your local file system.

• Open up a command prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator and navigate to the build directory.

• Type install and press Enter.

• Pulls down Sitecore and necessary packages from the build server to c:\SpitfireInstaller on your local machine.

• Installs Sitecore and packages with complex installations using a command-line hook into the Sitecore Instance Manager (SIM). SIM supports manifests for complex post-installation steps such as attaching extra databases, running SQL scripts, etc.

• Adds hostnames for each of the verticals as extra bindings in IIS and also into the Windows “hosts” file.

• Builds and deploys the solution to the newly installed Sitecore website.

• Installs the more simple Sitecore packages using Sitecore Ship.

• Deploys the source controlled content items onto the Core and Master databases using Unicorn.

• Rebuilds the link databases

• Deploys marketing assets such as Goals, Campaigns, Path Experience Maps and Outcomes.

• Re-indexes the System (Quick Search), Core and Master search indexes.

• Smart publishes to the Web database.

• Run the same install.cmd that is run on developer workstations.

• Quality control rules run through SonarQube with FxCop, StyleCop and Resharper plugins.

• The command-line hook into the Sitecore Instance Manager (SIM) is used to create an export of the instance of Sitecore, including files, SQL databases and MongoDB databases.

• Bug-tracking: Bugherd
• Build server: TeamCity
• Code quality: SonarQube
• Builds: SIM Exports

Contact Andy Thompson or Steve McGill