Softweb implemented Sitecore CMS for all sites so that they can carry out all the activities related to database using a central content management system.

1. Case Study
Integrating Sitecore Enterprise Content
Management to Manage Multiple Sites
Challenge
Background
Our client owns several websites ranging from corporate, market, brand, to product and
platforms. These websites were built on different technologies such as .Net, PHP and
other platforms. Most of these websites are content based, displaying dynamic data from
database and integrating third party application programming interfaces. In addition,
content managers and editors of our client were conversant in different content
management systems, which made the content maintenance very difficult. The company
wanted us to overhaul its whole online network and consolidate its sites into one.
Our client is a well-known designer, producer
and vendor of the mechanical power
transmission products. The products of client
are sold into more than seventy countries in
the world. Most of the products are used in
manufacturing process. Due to high
performance and reliability, our client’s
products are considered as the number one
choice of many end users. They are the single
source of providing thousands of product
solutions and meet the customer’s
requirement.
To maintain its corporate identity, consistency, and reduce time to update content of
different site, there was a need of single admin panel for easy content management.
Besides, they wanted their sites to appear in local language according to the
geographical location of the visitors. The client also wanted that websites should be
scalable enough after implementation of CMS so that any changes required in future can
be made easily. Along with a single content management system, client wanted to adopt
the following approaches:
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Content restructuring
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Robust search capability
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Visual redesign
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Internationalization and localization
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Site expansion
ENTERPRISE CONTENT
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
MULTI-LINGUAL
Solutions
With various sites built on multiple technologies, managing and securing content
distribution was a challenge. After going through the requirements of the client, Softweb
Solutions implemented Sitecore CMS for all websites of the client falling under various
categories like corporate, market, brand, product and platform. Our solution provides
content managers with a facility to manage content of all sites from a single backend
system resulting in a well-thought out and organized online entity. It does not only bring
better outcome but also saves a lot of time and efforts. The website now presents
region-specific content and language, while maintaining brand standards such as
corporate content, colors, and fonts. These websites are available in seven languages and
users can manually select the language. Each site includes a variety of products and
allows visitors to search desire product effortlessly with a few keywords only. Our
designers also restructured the website giving a completely fresh, new look for a richer
online customer experience. Sitecore’s flexibility and scalability allows content managers
to integrate third party tool on their websites. With Sitecore, content managers can reuse
content across multiple documents or web pages. Content managers have full control
over the publishing, expiry and archiving of content. Document based content use the
versioning, permission and workflow functionality.
CONTENT
VERSIONING
ADVANCE SEARCH
CAPABILITIES
SCALABILITY &
EXTENSIBILITY

2. Case Study
Features
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Multilingual facility
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Multi-site capabilities
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Content reusability & Content versioning
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Third party tool integration ability for future expansion
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Content Scheduling, expiration, and archiving
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A unified backend system for easy content management
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Integrating third party tools on websites
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Advance search capabilities
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Sleek user interface for improves user engagement
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Displaying content on websites in well-organized manner
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Managing folder structure for storing images, videos, and documents
Business Benefits
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Providing multi-site capabilities feature to manage multiple domains and sub-sites.
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Enabling Customer Engagement Analytics, Engagement Automation, and the
Personalization and Experience Editor.
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Multilingual sites concept enables the efficient reuse of content
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A sleek interface for free navigation of the site along with easy in-line editing capabilities
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Provides content access permission and complies with security mandates
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Enable sales managers to take an active management role
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Improves sites search engine ranking through SEO tools
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Better customer experience with an access to a site in local language
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Our client has several websites under various
categories like corporate, market, brand,
product, and platform. The client wanted to
implement Sitecore CMS for all their sites.
The main goal of the client behind implementing Sitecore CMS was to manage
backend activities with a single instance.
Softweb implemented Sitecore CMS for all
sites so that they can carry out all the
activities related to database using a central
content management system. Softweb also
provided additional features like advanced
search capabilities to find any product
quickly by just entering a few keywords,
multi-language facility, track user profile and
analytics, content reusability capability and
content versioning. We also refreshed the
website templates for a richer online
customer experience.
A unified content management system that saves lots of time
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Summary
Increases global brand awareness and sales leads
Contact Information
Technologies Used
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Database: SQL Server
Operating System: Win server
Architecture: open architecture
Language: C# .Net
Web Technologies: Sitecore CMS & Visual Studio
Plugins: Sitecore Plugins (Like as Multi Site, Search, and Analytics)
Softweb Solutions
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