2015 Sitefinity Website of the
Year Awards
Since its inception in 2011, the Sitefinity Website of the Year Awards have been recognizing websites powered by Progress Sitefinity for creativity, design, user experience, functionality and overall website presentation.
Meet the Winners
Intranet
Dixit Today, BNP Paribas Fortis
With Telerik Platform for mobile apps, employees access private intranet articles on the Dixit website and on IOS and Android.
Implemented by idweaver, for BNP Paribas Fortis (Belgium)
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Ecommerce
A Little Bird Told Me...
Uses custom payment providers, inventory warehouse controls and automatic purchase creation; sales increased by 50% post launch; the site also uses the Sitefinity personalization module.
Implemented by Van der Helm Services
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Multisite
Wärtsilä
Runs 70 sites on a single Sitefinity instance; integrated with Marketo and Salesforce, and load-balanced. Utilizes Sitefinity Insight and Amazon Web Services.
Implemented by Siili Solutions
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Consumer Goods
Tata Global Beverages
Created a world-class user experience, a compelling visual design and a neat structure via multisite management, site sync and mobile responsiveness features.
Implemented by Indigo Systems & Technology Consulting
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Food & Beverages
Redpack Tomatoes
Via multisite technology, Red Pack brand joined 2 other Red Gold brands sharing interaction through recipe searching and reviews.
Implemented by Aptera Software
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Banking
Hello Bank!
First Belgian bank to offer credits loans application fully online; multi-lingual site; integrated with banking system for loan calculation & application through web services.
Implemented by idweaver
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Insurance
Tradex
Observed a 35% increase in organic traffic and a 25% increase in conversions post launch; substantial cost savings with 90% (vs. 30%) of the daily updates being done in-house and not outsourced to an agency.
Implemented by Dock9
Healthcare
Lakeland Health
Offers a retail type of experience when choosing a physician as the site integrates with online Physician bios and Healthgrade.com ratings directly; uses the Sitefinity personalization, multisite capabilities and load-balancing capabilities.
Implemented by Enqbator
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Education
ROC Tilburg
Bold, new website integrates with Summit, Educus, Icares education solutions. Site also includes student portal and is responsive to students accessing site on mobile devices.
Implemented by Estate Internet
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Construction
Essex Crane
Leveraging multisite; two separate websites sharing same code base, website maintenance from a single location. Integrated Hawk Search, delivering dynamic product catalogs and custom form submissions.
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
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Manufacturing
Clopay
Responsive website, integrated with Oracle CRM, has met goal of Business team managing content. Traffic increased by 13% and mobile traffic has increased by 100%.
Implemented by Evoke Technologies
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Transportation
Delphi Automotive
Utilizes the Sitefinity Load Balancing, Site Sync and Ecommerce modules as well as Sitefinity’s MVC support; runs on Microsoft Azure; also, the site has witnessed an overall traffic increase by 37% in the first 6 months after launch.
Implemented by Springthrough
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Associations
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Lack of mobile, a difficult to manage Sharepoint-driven site, integration with iMIS Association Management Software were all overcome with their newly launched site.
Implemented by Vanguard Technology
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Non-Profit
World Vision
Newly launched site upgraded from older Sitefinity version, integrated CRM and legacy systems; leveraged the re-designed site to improve customer engagement.
Implemented by Websilk
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Services
Tribridge
What started as a site facelift project from an older version of Sitefinity became an entire redesign. Much of the original code was kept, making the project move along efficiently.
Implemented by US Digital Partners
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Sports & Entertainment
Team GB
Extensive integration work including social login and external data feeds automatically creating or updating Sitefinity pages. Also integrated with Sitefinity Insight.
Implemented by Aqueduct
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Tourism & Hospitality
Outback Steakhouse
Online ordering capabilities with CRM integration; also features a content rules engine which allows content managers to choose which content block should display based on time of day, day of week, selected restaurant.
Implemented by Bloomin' Brands IT / Wondersauce
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Graphic Design
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo
More than half of the new 100,000 sessions per month are on a mobile device since the launch. Year-over-year online sales increased by 151%.
Implemented by Roger West
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Meet the Finalists
Intranet
KeolisAmey Docklands
Implemented by Appius
Powerful customization and data integration. Active intranet users increased from 50 to 2000+ users. Page load time decreased by 27%.
Euler Hermes
Implemented by Estate Internet
Sitefinity MVC support, integration capabilities and marketing features. Results in an intranet site that talks to the main website.
Dixit Today, BNP Paribas Fortis
Implemented by idweaver, for BNP Paribas Fortis (Belgium)
With Telerik Platform for mobile apps, employees access private intranet articles on the Dixit website and on IOS and Android.
Ecommerce
God Mat på 123.no
Implemented by By Syn-RG
Unique business model using Sitefinity as the central point for gathering and using information from various logistic and payment APIs, which also trigger events in Sitefinity such as shipping notifications and invoicing, as well as document creation (shipping documents, etc.).
A Little Bird Told Me...
Implemented by Van der Helm Services
Uses custom payment providers, inventory warehouse controls and automatic purchase creation; sales increased by 50% post launch; the site also uses the Sitefinity personalization module.
Aprilaire
Implemented by Clotho Digital
Provides customized and tailored ecommerce experience with unique pricing logic where each parent product has the option to have children products that have unique SKUs, but display to the frontend user as one product; also features volume discount logic.
Multisite
Wärtsilä
Implemented by Siili Solutions
Runs 70 sites on a single Sitefinity instance; integrated with Marketo and Salesforce, and load-balanced. Utilizes Sitefinity Insight and Amazon Web Services.
Kansas City Area Development Council
Implemented by Triple-I
Doubled the average time visitors spend. Runs 5 sites in a multisite setup; load-balanced. Heavy customization and extensive use of multi-media.
Indianapolis Home Show / Marketplace Events
Implemented by Ripple Effect Interactive
38 tradeshow sites running via multisite, sharing templates, users and settings; managed through one administration panel; all 38 sites are seeing great improvements in their KPIs.
Consumer Goods
Energizer
Implemented by Beeby Clark & Meyler
Website build created excitement during brand’s new product launch and has increased the number of mobile device visitors. Now accurately measuring website initiatives via analytics.
Tata Global Beverages
Implemented by By Indigo Systems & Technology Consulting
Created a world-class user experience, a compelling visual design and a neat structure via multisite management, site sync and mobile responsiveness features.
Carolina Skiff
Implemented by Roger West
Customized a ‘build your own boat’ and events modules and developed a secure dealer portal on a completely mobile responsive site.
Banking
Savings Institute Bank & Trust
By ZAG Interactive
Combines powerful features and scalability thanks to the use of the Sitefinity platform; integrated with numerous 3rd party systems.
Commercial Bank of Dubai
Implemented by Prototype Interactive
The site integrates with the banks middleware and CRM systems to enable a smooth flow of data; utilizes the Sitefinity multisite and site synchronization capabilities; load-balanced.
Hello Bank!
Implemented by idweaver
First Belgian bank to offer credits loans application fully online; multi-lingual site; integrated with banking system for loan calculation & application through web services.
Insurance
IRMI
Implemented by IRMI's IT team and Falafel Software
Takes full advantage of the Sitefinity ease of use, saving immensely on time and resources needed for site updates; integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Zuora Google Search Appliance, JangoMail, Vimeo, Wistia; load-balanced.
Tradex
Implemented by Dock9
Observed a 35% increase in organic traffic and a 25% increase in conversions post launch; substantial cost savings with 90% (vs. 30%) of the daily updates being done in-house and not outsourced to an agency.
Aedes SA
Implemented by Aedes IT
Utilizes the Sitefinity multisite capabilities to achieve centralized website management and integrated data analyzing; seamlessly integrated with their existing ERP system in addition to other third party systems.
Healthcare
Lakeland Health
Implemented by Enqbator
Offers a retail type of experience when choosing a physician as the site integrates with online Physician bios and Healthgrade.com ratings directly; uses the Sitefinity personalization, multisite capabilities and load-balancing capabilities.
Columbus Regional Health
Implemented by Primacy and Columbus Regional Health
The site incorporates the content and domains of 22 existing websites, merging them into one overall health system website; also integrates with their in-house-built patient pre-registration system, Google Analytics, Clockwise MD, StayWell, USAePay.
St Lukes Hospice
Implemented by Itineris
Provides an improved user journey, consistent brand implementation and a significantly enhanced look and feel; takes full advantage of the ease of use of the Sitefinity system and its mobile support.
Education
School of the Arts Singapore
Implemented by A8
People-centered experience for visitors combined with greater control of the corporate communications team over the online presence.
Lowestoft College
Implemented by Itineris
Leveraging ease-of-use, historic website was quickly replaced with a fresh and responsive look and feel; resulting in a substantial increase to applications.
ROC Tilburg
Implemented by Estate Internet
Bold, new website integrates with Summit, Educus, Icares education solutions. Site also includes student portal and is responsive to students accessing site on mobile devices.
Construction
Caverion
Implemented By Siili Solutions
Ease of use and existing content creator expertise from a previous version of Sitefinity, the new site includes multisite and load-balance, enables quick creation and deployment of campaigns.
Rodda Paint
Implemented by Graphically Speaking
Integrates with Microsoft platform services. Site has product data custom search tool, on-the-fly creation of PDF data sheets, store locator tool and discrete login for Dealer's Only section.
Essex Crane Rental Corp.
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
Leveraging multisite; two separate websites sharing same code base, website maintenance from a single location. Integrated Hawk Search, delivering dynamic product catalogs and custom form submissions.
Manufacturing
Clopay
Implemented by Evoke Technologies
Responsive website, integrated with Oracle CRM, has met goal of Business team managing content. Traffic increased by 13% and mobile traffic has increased by 100%.
Larson
Implemented by Aptera Software
Multisite feature and use of custom modules insure quick delivery of customer access to consistent product information and up to date Dealer location and contact information.
Amana Heating and Air Conditioning
Implemented by Softway
First of 4 sites leveraging multisite, site sync, responsive design, eCommerce, and mobile features to increase traffic by 18% and decrease bounce rate by 4%.
Transportation
Delphi Automotive
Implemented by Springthrough
Utilizes the Sitefinity Load Balancing, Site Sync and Ecommerce modules as well as Sitefinity’s MVC support; runs on Microsoft Azure; also, the site has witnessed an overall traffic increase by 37% in the first 6 months after launch.
Irish Aviation Authority
Implemented by Engine Solutions
Features a custom flight planning extranet; load-balanced; Sitefinity has had a tremendously positive impact on the metrics of the website with visitor traffic up by approximately 50% since go live and sessions up with 60%.
İGA
Implemented by Project House / Havas
Leverages the Sitefinity ease of use and flexible administration options, its mobile support and multilingual capabilities. Extensibility and scalability were also main factors when choosing the CMS platform for the project.
Associations
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Implemented by Vanguard Technology
Lack of mobile, a difficult to manage Sharepoint-driven site, integration with iMIS Association Management Software were all overcome with their newly launched site.
The Catholic Health Association of the United States
Implemented by Matrix Group International
Integrates with AMS and CHA’s Learning Management System, Crowd Wisdom; the Aptify integration is used in the password-protected submission of videos.
The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand
Implemented by VC R&D
Hosted on Microsoft Azure, website leveraged multisite to engage and increase their membership. Already seeing increase of competence assessment applications.
Associations
Federation of Small Businesses
Implemented by Every1
Personalization functionality used extensively throughout the site to present differing content and CTA’s to member and non-members.
World Vision
Implemented by Websilk
Newly launched site upgraded from older Sitefinity version, integrated CRM and legacy systems; leveraged the re-designed site to improve customer engagement.
Allen County Public Library
Implemented by Digital Strategy Team
Modern look, mobile friendly site, and templates make refreshing content easy. Programs are easily viewed. Integrated Enterprise Catalog, Analytics, Book Letters.
Services
Adverteren bij RTL
Implemented by SWAT
Integrated with ERP-system; live data automatically shown without needing a web editor. Commercial day schedules and viewer ratings can be shown immediately.
POPLA
Implemented by Hitachi Consulting
Load-balanced and fully responsive site integrated with Microsoft Azure and Dynamics CRM. Goal of having an appeal submission process with content managed by Marketing was met.
Tribridge
Implemented by US Digital Partners
What started as a site facelift project from an older version of Sitefinity became an entire redesign. Much of the original code was kept, making the project move along efficiently.
Sports & Entertainment:
Team GB
Implemented by Aqueduct
Extensive integration work including social login and external data feeds automatically creating or updating Sitefinity pages. Also integrated with Sitefinity Insight.
Gulfstream Park
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
Custom integrations to third party systems to establish an exciting and robust Racing section that includes upcoming and past race statistics, as well as close to real time updates.
Skydive Arizona
Implemented by Simply Bits
Takes full advantage of the Sitefinity flexible administration options and ease of use; 22% increase in site traffic since deployment.
Tourism & Hospitality
Outback Steakhouse
Implemented by By Bloomin' Brands IT / Wondersauce
Online ordering capabilities with CRM integration; also features a content rules engine which allows content managers to choose which content block should display based on time of day, day of week, selected restaurant.
Best Western
Implemented by Spinbox
Provides personalized and extremely fast content delivery across all devices; features connections to 3rd party systems for authenticating user logins; extranet portal.
The Streets of Barangaroo
Implemented by The White Agency
Offers a multi-channel digital experience for site users and have witnessed a steady increase in active users, return visitors and growth in new users and onsite engagement; extensive customizations of the Sitefinity site search service and API.
Graphic Design
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo
Implemented by Roger West
More than half of the new 100,000 sessions per month are on a mobile device since the launch. Year-over-year online sales increased by 151%.
QPS Employment Group
Implemented by Azavar Technologies
Customization and multi-lingual support increased search traffic by 15%, decreased bounce rate and increased time on site, online sign-ups are up 10% since launch.
Clean & Green Singapore
Implemented by A8
Took advantage of out-of-box features, security, and ease-of-use and customization capabilities. People-centered experience and social media integration.