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AEM Edge Delivery Services Implementation
From design through cutover, delivered by people who set this platform up for a living — correctly, once. Delivered by Adobe-certified Edge Delivery specialists.
Overview
Edge Delivery implementation, done properly
Edge Delivery Services serves content from the edge with document-based or headless authoring, routinely achieving 100 Lighthouse scores and shortening the path from edit to publish. Getting it stood up properly is where everything downstream gets decided.
What makes Edge Delivery implementation its own discipline is the platform's specific failure surface — block-based component development model behaves differently in production than in documentation, and shortcuts around publish pipeline and preview environment setup surface months later as trust-eroding gaps that are expensive to unwind. The Edge Delivery scope below encodes both kinds of lesson: the launches that worked, and the rescues that taught us why others didn't.
Scope
What's included
- Solution architecture and technical design
- Configuration, development and integration
- QA, UAT and production cutover
- Documentation and team handover
Our approach
Edge Delivery expertise applied
- Block library development and design-system mapping
- Authoring workflow setup in Drive or SharePoint
- Migration of priority templates and content
- RUM, experimentation and performance budgets
- Publish pipeline and preview environment setup
The specifics
What implementation means for Edge Delivery
Edge Delivery implementations invert traditional AEM: document-based authoring, blocks instead of components, and performance budgets that target perfect Lighthouse scores from day one. We set up the boilerplate and block library, wire the authoring flow (Docs or SharePoint) your content team already knows, and keep the discipline that makes EDS fast — because it's easy to build the speed back out of it.
Whatever the engagement shape, Edge Delivery work answers to the same outcomes: lift Core Web Vitals into the green without a full replatform; let marketers publish without a developer in the loop; reduce delivery infrastructure cost and complexity. At least one of those goes into every implementation scope we write — it keeps the work honest about why it exists.
In practice: how Edge Deliveryimplementation actually runs
An EDS build in practice: the block library gets designed against your content patterns (not speculative flexibility), authoring conventions get documented as a one-page guide your writers actually read, and performance budgets are enforced from the first commit — third-party scripts are the negotiation, and we hold the line because the platform's perfect-score potential is exactly why you chose it. The launch sequence includes redirects and metadata parity if replacing an existing site, plus an experimentation setup, since EDS makes testing nearly free and most teams underuse that.
How it runs
Edge Delivery implementation: the delivery arc
- 1
Discovery & success criteria — Stakeholder interviews and a current-state review of how Edge Delivery must serve your teams, ending in written success criteria — the yardstick every later Edge Delivery decision gets measured against. Expect migration of priority templates and content to feature here.
- 2
Architecture & design — Solution design where block library development and design-system mapping takes shape, with data and integration contracts reviewed by your team before configuration starts. Expect rUM, experimentation and performance budgets to feature here.
- 3
Build & integrate — Configuration and development in agreed increments — authoring workflow setup in Drive or SharePoint and migration of priority templates and content — demoed as they land rather than revealed at the end. Expect publish pipeline and preview environment setup to feature here.
- 4
Validate & cut over — QA against the Edge Delivery design, UAT with your users, then a rehearsed go-live with a rollback path agreed before anyone needs it. Expect document-based authoring via Google Drive or SharePoint to feature here.
- 5
Enable & hand over — Documentation in your systems, role-based Edge Delivery training and a hypercare window sized to the launch's actual risk. Expect edge-rendered delivery with sub-second loads to feature here.
Engagement models
- Fixed-scope implementation.Defined Edge Delivery deliverables, milestone billing, change control — the right shape when requirements are stable and procurement wants certainty.
- Phased delivery.Edge Delivery foundation first, then value waves targeting lift Core Web Vitals into the green without a full replatform. Slightly slower on paper, dramatically safer in practice. A natural fit when incremental adoption alongside existing AEM Sites is on the near-term roadmap.
- Team augmentation.Our certified Edge Delivery specialists embedded in your delivery organization — for when you own the program and need depth, not a vendor.
How we measure success
- Edge Delivery launched against the written success criteria, not vibes
- Progress on lift Core Web Vitals into the green without a full replatform measurable within the first quarter
- Your team running Edge Delivery day-to-day without a ticket to us
Pitfalls we design against
- Skipping written success criteria.Edge Delivery projects without a yardstick drift toward "done" meaning "exhausted". We write the criteria in week one and hold ourselves to them.
- Big-bang scope.Launching every Edge Delivery capability at once trades risk for optics. Foundation plus a first value wave aimed at let marketers publish without a developer in the loop beats a heroic cutover.
- Enablement as afterthought.Edge Delivery handed to an untrained team decays immediately. Training and documentation are launch criteria on our plans, not courtesies.
Frequently asked questions
What does Edge Delivery implementation cost?
It depends on scope — for Edge Delivery chiefly on traffic volume and edge request counts and how much integration surrounds it — which is why we don't publish rate cards. Share your requirements and we'll return a transparent, itemized implementation proposal.
How senior are the people doing the Edge Delivery work?
Delivery is led by Adobe-certified consultants who work with document-based authoring via Google Drive or SharePoint daily. We staff named individuals, not a rotating bench, and you meet the Edge Delivery team before anything is signed.
How quickly can a Edge Delivery implementation engagement start?
Scoping starts within days of first contact; Edge Delivery delivery — including early work on authoring workflow setup in drive or sharepoint — typically begins within two to three weeks once scope is agreed and access is arranged. Urgent Edge Delivery situations can be fast-tracked; say so and we'll plan around it.
What does DWAO need from us for Edge Delivery implementation to succeed?
Three things: access to the relevant Edge Delivery environments and the data behind block-based component development model, a named decision-maker who can unblock implementation questions within days rather than weeks, and honesty about the current state — the plan is more accurate when nothing is polished for our benefit.
What does a Edge Delivery implementation typically deliver?
Concretely: block library development and design-system mapping; authoring workflow setup in drive or sharepoint; migration of priority templates and content — plus documentation and role-based handover. The full deliverable set is scoped to your estate, but those are the artifacts almost every Edge Delivery implementation needs to produce.
What affects Edge Delivery implementation effort most?
The same drivers that shape licensing shape delivery: traffic volume and edge request counts and content migration volume, plus how many systems we integrate and the state of the data feeding them. Integration count moves Edge Delivery effort more than any other single variable.
Why choose DWAO for Edge Delivery implementation?
Adobe Gold Partner status, certified Edge Delivery specialists who work with document-based authoring via Google Drive or SharePoint daily, and delivery evidence toward outcomes like lift Core Web Vitals into the green without a full replatform. More practically: named people, documentation in your systems, and success defined as your team owning Edge Delivery — the model that earns renewals rather than assuming them.
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Scope your Edge Delivery implementation
Tell us where your Edge Delivery estate stands and what implementation needs to achieve. A certified Edge Delivery consultant reviews it and comes back with a practical next step — not a sales pitch.
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