Kentico Top 10 Websites for April 2017

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The IDA is Ireland's inward investment promotion agency. It is a non-commercial, semi-state body promoting Foreign Direct Investment into Ireland through a wide range of services. The project was delivered with full migration from the ROXEN CMS after eight months and includes 11 different language sites and nine separate sub-sites dedicated to investors. Kentico EMS tools such as Lead scoring, Web analytics, and Personalization coupled with third-party Geo-IP solutions are delivering meaningful customer insights that can inform the follow-up activities of the IDA’s account managers. The website now provides deeper insights on potential investors who have engaged with the online content. 

Vidant Health is one of the largest healthcare systems in eastern North Carolina, serving 1.4 million people across the state. Vidant Health is comprised of seven community hospitals along with physician practices, hospice, wellness centers, and more. From the outset, the team developed clear goals for their new website: to be mobile responsive, service line centered, utilize geolocation services, to include information on other hospital locations, wayfinding initiatives, site search, and a new provider directory to more easily find physicians. Since the site went live, results have shown a 15% YOY traffic gain, a MOM 19% increase in unique users and an increase in mobile traffic of 19%.

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, MCPc is a technology solutions provider that helps companies manage their IT fleet, from device selection through to device retirement. Their customers include some of the most prominent Fortune 500 companies, hospital systems, and financial institutions in America. MCPc chose Kentico for its ease of editing, adding, and moving content to align with their continued evolution of business and service offerings. They also required Kentico’s ability to have a secure login for internal access to assets and forms. The new website is fully integrated with ConnectWise’s business management platform and also with HubSpot for the delivery of gated content.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is the UK’s independent regulator for the financial sector. FRC needed to ensure that this was accurately reflected online. Its previous website was overloaded with content, so the navigation needed to be stripped back, making it easier for the visitor to find the information they need. MMT Digital created a number of custom widgets that could be used to point visitors to relevant information. These included latest publications, quick links and signposts to navigate the user to where they need to be. FRC also wanted to be able to send out regular press releases, event details and information to its subscribers which is easily enabled with Kentico Email Marketing features.

The Australian Apprenticeships Pathways website was developed to meet the needs of schools, students, jobseekers, parents, and employers who have an interest in Australian apprenticeships. The goal of this project was to merge a website positioned as a resource for students and jobseekers, and the other aimed toward industry insiders. IIS has more than 100,000 pieces of data and more than 30 Kentico custom tables/page types needed to be imported from the old Kentico 5.5 site to the new Kentico 10 site. IIS also has a client portal for service providers that contains a lot of forms and grids. Get Started utilized Kentico Forms and UniGrid web parts to easily extend them to meet all the client's requirements.

Dynamic Networks is an IT Systems and Support company based in Leeds, UK who are going through a significant period of growth. A decision was made to develop a new website, after a number of months working on PPC and SEO strategies. The website uses widget-driven page templates allowing huge flexibility in both the type of content that could be created and uploaded to the site and how that content is displayed. In the first week since launch, the new Dynamic Networks website has successfully increased on-site engagement metrics. Page views increased by 77%, pages per session increased by 108%, the average session duration increased by 92%, and the bounce rate decreased by 42%.

For more than 70 years, NCM Associates is focused on improving the operational and financial performance of their clients. Their expertise covers both automotive retail and OEM support. The former website had an outdated design, was divided between disparate systems (e.g., blog on a different site), and was creating barriers to e-commerce capabilities. A switch to Kentico helped NCM Associates lay the foundation to enrich its website with E-commerce functionality (coming soon), leverage Advanced Workflow, and engage Content Staging. Changes made lead to a 32% increase in pages per session and average mobile session duration increased by 51%.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare is the leading health statistics agency in Australia. It produces high-quality reports and information products on key health and welfare issues in Australia, used to improve the delivery of health and welfare for Australians. Their website content is edited, staged, and reviewed in distinct groups of nodes. This includes reports that contain a large sub-tree of nodes of varying types, associated images and documents, and top-level information that applies to all nodes beneath it. Zeroseven has created an on-demand, multi-document content promotion tool which leverages the Staging Module API, Kentico REST service, Media API and internal document type objects.

Global law firm, Gowling WLG, needed a new careers microsite that would be the first step in positioning the firm as an employer of choice within the legal sector. MMT Digital managed to leverage the widget approach within Kentico to rapidly produce components/features that could be deployed to a staging environment. Kentico’s multi-lingual functionality was also important to Gowling WLG as longer-term plans involve a rollout of the website to all the firm’s major regions worldwide. A comparison of the site performance in September 2016 to September 2017, has shown several improvements: page views increased four-fold, sessions have increased by 137%, and users have increased by 105%.