Sector(s)
Perforce offers versioning services for clients like Netflix, Samsung, Salesforce, and 18 of the top 20 game development companies like Ubisoft.
The software leader needed a powerful, customizable SaaS website to serve their large content team and scale with the rapid growth of business.
We helped Perforce design, architect, and rebuild a B2B website that allows administrators to take advantage of the flexibility and ease-of-use offered by a content management system. They needed a responsive, functional site that would leverage SEO, integrate with third party tools, like Marketo, and provide a more efficient content management process.
"Elevated Third is a devoted and committed partner with deep technical expertise and a clear understanding of modern online behavior. They play a key role in our website's success as the main lead driver for our marketing organization." - Director of Demand Generation, Perforce Software
About the project
Multi Audience UX
The challenge with this project was not in building the SaaS website, but rather in making it intuitive, usable, and helpful for Perforce’s various audiences, as well as the Perforce staff. Perforce specializes across a multitude of industries including medical, auto, and gaming, each with different communication styles. User experience was at the core of our process to ensure each vertical could easily navigate the website. This UX focus assured the new website was seamless for various audience groups but also simple for the internal content team.
The Perforce website is packed with resources that break down even the most complex software packages. To streamline content delivery based on the unique needs of users, we opted for a tiered content hierarchy. As users gain familiarity with the product offerings, they would naturally navigate to more in-depth content.
Our custom-built downloads manager tool is the engine behind this new taxonomy system. It helps organize resources by product, resource type, and topic. This not only serves users but also site administrators who share ownership of the site and depend on a consistent back-end infrastructure.
B2B Industry Experts
A key component of the Perforce Software brand is its role as an industry expert. Our goal was to capitalize on this competitive advantage and translate a wealth of knowledge into an engaging user experience.
The new website supports rich media like videos, infographics, and events. We integrated with video streaming service Wistia for embedded videos, designed custom infographics and icons for an interactive experience, and organized events with intuitive registration pages.
Drupal for Enterprise
In a project that showcases Drupal 8’s capacity for enterprise B2B website development, the new Perforce website delivers a seamless online experience for customers and site administrators alike.
If your company's SaaS website needs an updated strategy, let's talk.
Why Drupal was chosen
A Flexible Base Build
To save budget and time, we utilized Paragon, a custom base build, to kick off the project. Our development team built Paragon as a base configuration of the powerful Drupal 8 core, with a collection of modules that improve administration, flexibility, security, and performance, all while staying true to Drupal. Paragon’s features increase the speed at which a site can be developed, and save money by addressing common problems during the first stages of a project.
Paragon component based design which means we are not limited by the number of page templates we can create and don’t spend time rebuilding the same elements on several pages. Our developers create components that can be easily compiled to form an endless amount of page configurations, which has helped Perforce build out a flexible website.
Technical Specifications
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The Paragraphs module was used for easy updating by Perforce's internal marketing/content team
