The Challenge
Since its creation, building on the strength of its engineering capabilities and the demonstrated pre-eminence of its power conditioning products, UST continues to grow, to develop cutting-edge solutions for power quality issues and forge new customer and market channel relationships around the world. It needed a website that would communicate all that and further enhance and develop the brand’s presence.
The site had to be maintained by users with no technical background. An important requirement was for the CMS to be compatible with the existing SQL databases and CRM system. The web application had to be with a consistent design throughout as well as allow for users with different access rights.
The Solution
With Sitefinity CMS content was created and edited by non-technical users accurately and easily due to the built in WYSIWYG editor. Using the CMS’s built in features a consistent corporate branding was achieved. Management of the web application was centralized and maintenance streamlined. Sitefinity CMS protects UST’s web site content by ensuring it is easily edited and therefore always up-to-date. By generating menus using the database, Sitefinity also ensures that there are no links that lead to non-existent pages.
We have found that the Telerik database-driven content management system is a powerful Web-based Content Authoring and Editing tool that allows our clients to create online HTML editing for real time web content publishing. It is simple to facilitate ongoing updates and customizations of Web sites with little need for knowledge in HTML or other technical products. Our clients find it user-friendly to maintain and edit a browser-based, data driven applications. It allows for multiple updates of the same information throughout the site simultaneously. The database becomes a searchable, archived and vital information resource for this client.
The Results
The web application created with Sitefinity helped UST build and maintain a viable web presence, which is important for any company. Development time was approximately 6 months. Three developers were utilized on the project. Site developed primarily in ASP.NET. Numerous SQL and CRM databases were utilized.