Saint Gobain - WebSites Integration Platform

Adyax designed and built a custom core for St. Gobain, built to their exacting specifications, including the modules that they preferred, and in support of requirements for existing sites and planned projects.

From a business perspective, The St. Gobain common core allows for standardization of each site and for every business and brand to maintain autonomy and creative freedom, while benefitting from the security of a central platform maintained by IT. The solution is designed to be used with ease by the various digital and marketing agencies responsible for creating and maintaining subsidiary sites and content. Content teams no longer are strained to depend on company development teams in order to modify and enhance various brand websites at the presentation level. Brands and agencies are empowered to make changes and updates, within the governance structure of the core system.

St. Gobain can now maintain centralized project governance and control over many projects on a consolidated, global web platform, integrated into company systems. Planning multiple projects across multiple brands is easier due to uniform use of technology on a shared Drupal multisite architecture. Coordination between multiple parties is easier due to clear parameters for use of Drupal, which is quite flexible and benefits from platform coordination and governance.

Today, it takes only a small team to manage the a vast portfolio of websites, with less time, effort, complexity and cost. The work will continue to pay off over time as more and more sites and apps are integrated into the platform on St. Gobain’s network. The more websites that utilize the shared core, the lower the costs, the shorter the time to launch, and the easier to maintain.