Sector(s)
Introduction & About The Client
Worldwide, non-profit agencies constantly work for major global causes that directly impact our lives. A significant part of their projects is to create powerful communication and campaigns around a cause so that they are able to educate their target audience and make them realize their vision.
Therefore, it is important for non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest tech advancements and optimize their website performance to offer an excellent user experience. But, envisioning and building such digital experiences requires continuous efforts and technical expertise.
Our client, UNDP, is a prominent non-profit organization. They work globally to help countries eradicate poverty and inequality through their sustainable economic growth initiatives. They have a vast digital presence of multiple corporate websites that host a wide range of content for a diverse set of audiences.
About the project
UNDP wanted to:
- Relaunch their global website in three languages - English, Spanish, and French
- Migrate 200+ websites with 30K multilingual pages to a scalable, flexible, and responsive CMS
- Deliver user-friendly experiences to web admins, content creators, and users
- Enhance developer experience with reusable components
- Deliver frictionless experience to their marketers by providing features like content sharing and localization capabilities
- Improve editorial experience
- Optimize the overall website performance
Solution
We, at Material, understand the impact of delivering holistic digital experiences to end users. We have worked closely with the UNDP team during the discovery phase to understand their needs at the micro-level.
We leveraged the potential of Drupal and the Acquia suite of products including Acquia Cloud for a seamless transition with negligible impact on ongoing operations. This resulted in building high-performance, secure, and scalable websites capable of rolling out content and tailored user experiences, faster.
Outcome
Here are some of the notable results:
For Website Admin and IT Teams:
- Easy and seamless hosting of multi-site platforms
- A centralized hosting solution to manage all digital properties from a single interface
For Content Editors/Creators:
- Faster development of content pages with the help of reusable components greatly reduced developer dependency
- Collaboration and consistency across the websites led to faster publishing cycles
For Content Consumers (website users):
- Consistent experience across all websites due to standardized UI/UX
- Advanced search capabilities leading to a 150-200% increase in response time to queries
Why Drupal was chosen
The client wanted to migrate their websites to a platform that offered easy website maintenance and also ensured hassle-free content management. Therefore, Drupal was chosen to consolidate their corporate & regional microsites on one platform. We then built a master distribution that streamlined content management across multiple websites. Furthermore, Drupal served the following key requirements:
- Ease of Management
Enabled easy onboarding and management of future sites on account of its multisite architecture with single code base
Seamlessly integrates with Acquia Site Studio for hassle-free content update
- Reusability
Ensured design consistency across all the regional websites by reusing the design elements. This leads to shorter turnaround times in building new websites.
- Multilingual support
Enabled sharing and localisation of content
- Flexibility and affordability
Open source CMS was free of vendor-lock in and brought in the best-of-breed solutions
- Ensured frictionless experience for the engineering teams and marketers alike
