• Testimonials

    Hear from clients about their experiences with their Ektron-powered websites. Learn how the Ektron solution helped them build compelling user experiences online and have on-going success meeting ever-evolving business goals.

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    American Dietetic Association

    "As a developer, I love the APIs and how I can customize almost everything on the site. Our staff members love how easy it is to update their content. Our members love the social functionality in our professional networking site; we've been able to move away from list servs and third-party community sites. Since our new site launch, we have increased our visits per day from 8,253 to 10,418. A change in the visitors patterns indicates the site is easier to navigate and more interesting."

    Badger Sett Ale Club

    "An exceptional fit with our focus on strategy, traffic building, user experience, bespoke development and application use. Consumer database has 68,000 members. Doubled online sales through traffic referred from site to their online shop. Savings at a rate of 10,000 GBP per year in content changes. A string of beer experts have agreed to be associated with the brand and provide blog posts due to the availability of the easy communication channel offered by the Ektron solution."

    Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate

    "The BHGRE site was primarily developed around the concept of a lifestyle brand. The site includes agent office profiles, content search, and world-class navigation in addition to continuous content additions and refreshing of new articles and videos. Ektron proved to be a solution that would effectively organize all of the content we had to present to a wide range of visitors."

    CARF International

    "The Ektron platform has allowed CARF to meet all our business objectives: different types of content organized logically, CRM system integration, SEO capability, integrated analytics, Section 508 compliant, multi-language support, multiple browsers, mobiles, and OS support, Word documents edited and updated within the system, and approval process ensures quality, consistency and branding. Team members do not need Masters degrees in CS or expert coding skills to administer the system."

    Cayman Islands Monetary Authority

    "Ektron has been the perfect tool for CIMA to establish clear content governance best practices while providing a toolkit for delivering significant usability improvements. End users of the site have overwhelmingly agreed that the new site is easier to navigate, more user-friendly and visually appealing overall. Traffic has increased and more importantly, time spent on the site has increased, and the bounce rate has improved considerably."

    Chesterfield County, Virginia

    "The time-savings for the Digital Gov't staff has been invaluable. The team has delivered and continues to enhance a feature-rich website. Secure and safe citizen involvement using the site has increased exponentially. Site traffic has increased daily by approximately 85%. Now average 5,700 visits a day, demonstrating increased citizen satisfaction. I’m completely fascinated by the developer tools and API within the CMS400 product. You guys have done a fantastic job for the developers."

    Chicago Symphony

    "The CSO has seen an increase in overall site traffic as well as online ticket sales."

    Chrysler Academy Intranet

    "Ektron has helped Chrysler build their vision of a learning community that spans dealerships, crosses states and country lines. The most important accomplishment of the integration is not a simple reduction in costs or faster time to market. It’s the improvement of the dealership staffs that can respond to customer needs, and are committed to strengthening the learning system by sharing best practices and solutions to common challenges that dealers face. "

    City of Berkeley, California

    "Site traffic has significantly increased 30-40% to an average of 28,000 visits/week. Page views increased up to an average of 80,000/week and weekly percentage of number of new visits increased up to 58%. Site traffic, visibility and accessibility have also been improved in areas of specific contents items like Press Releases, Police News, Marina Activities, Parking Info, etc. Other significant improvement includes ease by which content authors can make edits and publish content on the website."

    City of McKinney, Texas

    "I am the Web coordinator for the City. I had used a proprietary CMS when at my previous company for three years, but had no experience with the Ektron system. I came to New Hampshire for a training class, and began assisting users virtually as soon as I returned. Five months later, I'm delivering training classes to users. The system is easy to use and learn."

    City of Miami Beach

    "The implementation of Ektron has allowed City Departments and Divisions to create, own and control the content published to their portals. Our site has grown exponentially by thousands of pages. Number of site visits have dramatically increased. Use of Ektron has reduced costs & increased efficiencies enterprise-wide. A recent Community Survey showed our website’s satisfaction rating doubled from previous years. Ektron’s qualified and attentive support team allowed for a smooth implementation."

    City of Rochester

    "Our primary goal when we developed the site was to improve customer service by putting the user in the driver’s seat. Audience-focused portals on the homepage and the sorting of information by topics, tasks and other categories enable the website to serve as a “concierge” for the citizens of Rochester."

    Concordia University

    "Grew Enrollment 3 years in a row and improved the schools perception of the website."

    Congressional Federal Credit Union

    "Visits to CFCU have increased by 9.79% (and by 16.65% among DC residents). The Contact Us page is up 217.74%, which is important because this is one of the site's goals. Average time on page increased by 28.33%. Traffic from search engines is up 18.71%. We can confidently attribute these increases to site changes since the data for these variables has steadily increased since project launch in September 2009."

    DACOR

    "Time savings is money saved."

    DLR London

    "Search traffic levels increased 20%, 10% improvement to bounce rate and 40% increase in user engagement with venues, events and facilities content. Web content available and usable for 10,000+ smartphone users each month. The UK Ektron team provided exceptional support to us throughout both the sales and implementation stages of the project. Great value for money and and exceptional fit with our focus on strategy, traffic building, user experience, bespoke development and application use."

    Fraud Magazine

    "Traffic to the site has increased over 800% since going live with the new site in Ektron as compared to the same time last year."

    Front Range Community College

    "We have more visitors to our website at the beginning of the semester compared to last year. We are receiving fewer e-mails and calls inquiring about where to find certain information."

    Gray Plany Mooty Law

    "I cannot commend Ektron’s support staff enough. They are always responsive and thorough."

    Honeytribe

    "Ektron has made it easy to deploy social media focused content and distribute this across multiple channels. The ability to manage flash and multimedia makes it easy to update."

    Hunter Fan

    "Ektron e-commerce was the absolute key feature that addresses a majority of business goals. The new HunterFan.com is outfitted to sell the entire portfolio of Hunter Fan products. The geomapping functionality has dramatically improved the dealer search function. Ektron's social networking capabilities have allowed us to create an apparatus for user generated product reviews, which are critical to selling products."

    Infertility Network UK

    "Since implementing Ektron, membership increased 400%. Page views increased from 270,000/month to 500,000+/month. Whenever we've experienced an issue, Ektron manuals are incredibly helpful or our web company has solved problems/contacted Ektron whose ensured we know what is happening and when - so important when working with online communities where our members are in incredibly difficult and/or emotional situations. Knowing the support is available when you need it gives added peace of mind."

    Intertek

    "We have registered double-digit monthly visitor growth on on our website, and have seen consistently increasing lead generation results. Additionally, our Intranet site continues to grow into the master source of information, toolset and policies for our global employees. It is the first-ever truly global Intranet, which is a useful communication tool and work resource connecting nearly 26,000 Intertek employees across continents with consistent information."

    Jani-King

    "Ektron equipped us with a robust and accessible framework to build on, allowing us to create a solution that exceeded our requirements and shortened our development phase significantly. Our organic visits increased 20-40%. Users spend more time on the site, and leads are being generated from organic search and stronger calls to action. Nothing compares to calling Ektron and having someone on the phone to help you solve a problem or make a recommendation on the implementation of new features."

    Kindred Healthcare

    "Kindred needed a way to maintain brand integrity and easily manage content for their main corporate site, 83 hospital websites, and 222 nursing center facility sites. Utilizing Ektron, we were able to develop an architecture that included global content, local content, and a hybrid "global-local" content structure. The new website structure for Kindred Health Care embodies the same core values their medical practices are built upon: hope, healing, dignity and value."

    Kinecta Federal Credit Union

    "eSync has provided our Marketing Department the ability to rapidly deploy content without delays in waiting for IT to go live with changes. Our nationwide Wholesale Lending team leverages the membership module to enable Mortgage Brokers nationwide to log in and receive a rate sheet based on their location. The integrated rules to manage content have helped increase our search engine visibility."

    Laurentian Publishing Ltd.

    "Since Ektron, our team has been able to collaborate on editorial material via workflows and extend our articles on the web to feature videos, photos, reader comments, and extended articles (compared to our newspaper(s)). The most important change for us was speed and efficiency. In the past, it would take up to 20 minutes to enter a story. Now, only a few minutes and articles are online and look great. Reader satisfaction has also increased with our use of the messageboard and user feedback."

    Lloyds Commercial Finance

    "Site is primary source of new business prospects. Needed to focus on conversion funnels designed to channel different types of business customer by size, sector and product interest, into an online quote and request for sales contact. Ektron provides a stable platform for delivery of content across multiple sites. 4 commercial presentations offered through multi-site. 30% rise in conversion of traffic to 'request for quote' in the first 6 months of 2010, compared to the same period in 2009."

    Marina Bay Sands

    "Ektron enabled the launch, management and support of multilanguage sites (supporting 6 languages). Ektron allowed non-technical web content authors, editors and contributors located around the globe to contribute content and keep site updated daily. The project is an excellent case study on using Ektron as a global CMS platform to launch and manage a multilingual site and the teamwork between the agency, implementer, localizer and client."

    Motilal Oswal Financial Services

    "Increased business leads through the online channel. Higher levels of organization productivity. There has been a steep increase in the number of hits and page views, while an increase of over 200% in the total number of visitors to the site."

    National Association of Electrical Distributors

    "Visitors are spending 15% more time on the site vs. our old site. We are getting 5% less unqualified leads. And we have increased return visits to our site by 15%."

    Oakham School

    "Visits to site up 28% in first year."

    PADI

    "Ektron allowed us to streamline global content and then also provide flexibility to show local/regional content where appropriate. It took a tremendous load off our IT team and allowed the marketing team to be much more nimble in managing new content and changes."

    Ramapo College of NJ

    "CMS400.net, the Volkswagen Beetle of this century, reliable, fun to use and indestructible."

    Real Estate Round Table

    "We get our policy message across to our exact target audience, represent our members' views to Congress and efficiently deliver content in a creative way. Is the mantra "Make It Easy" posted around the hallways in Nashua? Ektron Makes It Easy. The End."

    Red Prairie

    "25% increase in traffic, 35% increase in salesforce leads, 40% increase in user interaction. The site was implemented in 5 different languages: English-US, English-UK, French, Spanish, and Chinese. What we liked most: ease of use and simple interface!"

    RL Solutions

    "Results include: massive time savings (changes that used to take days now take minutes), increased conversion rates, and more relevant information displayed to our site visitors. No hitches with the implementation was extremely important. The nice thing is that everything just 'works'. This is major considering where we came from."

    SalesEdge

    "Ektron has helped SalesEdge win by creating a website that makes us a player in our marketplace, generates leads for new business and add-on sales, and enables us to support our customer community. Our marketing team uses Ektron with minimal developer support and intervention. The DevCenter makes it easy to learn how other Ektron users realize success using CMS400.NET. The Ektron Support Team has consistently helped the SalesEdge team realize success."

    Sperian

    "The Ektron implementation on Sperian.com has accommodated the merger of over 10 sites, 6 languages, and countless numbers of content assets. The implementation's technological features and functionality directly correspond to Sperian.com's growth and great success."

    sport&health

    "Ektron has helped us save time by centralizing web pages for 24 locations into single pieces of content. Generally speaking, we've increased online lead collection by 14% so far this year."

    Texas Oncology

    "eSync has been invaluable and shortened the time as well as hours our client has had to invest in launching new items from development to production."

    The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

    "It's tremendously important for us to react quickly and to have a site allowing the flexibility to build on its functionality and reflects our corporate designs and personality. Ektron delivers a top of the line CMS, and their integration with Google Analytics will help us to target content specifically at our audience. Ektron has played a huge role in ensuring our website is a good tool for publicizing our services and is a key online resource for the people of Rotherham and South Yorkshire."

    Travis Credit Union

    "Site traffic has increased 400% since we launched our Ektron site. We have saved thousands of hours maintaining the site with just a two person staff. It is incredible for just two people to support $1.4 billion dollar credit union with the Ektron product."

    UN Federal Credit Union

    "Members are happier with the new design of the website and the consistency in the menus and functionality of the website. Consistency and intuitive design have decreased the amount of click-throughs it takes to get to the a majority of the content. Turnover for projects have drastically changed from days to hours and minutes, and content changes are immediate. The use of the Professional services team was critical to the completion of our website."

    University of North Florida

    "Saved 40k+ a year just on catalog project alone."

    University of Texas School of Public Health

    "Ektron has been a stable platform for our website for many years. It is feature rich and has excellent customer service behind the product!"

    Value Place

    "All of the normal indicators that speak to the performance of a website are positive: visits, unique visits, page views, time on site (all up about 47%). But the result that tells the biggest story is this one: 93.3% year-over-year revenue growth from online reservations. The extensibility of the platform is great. It's a big erector set or a Swiss Army knife. If our customers can imagine it, we can build it on Ektron."

    Van Eck

    "The adoption of Ektron as the CMS technology platform has been a foundational change to adopt new web processes and technologies. Van Eck is a strong believer in the Ektron environment, and is in the process of implementing a 3rd Ektron website this year. What do we like best about Ektron? Regular updates, consistent improvement, and fantastic partner support."

    Verizon Insider

    "This site has been continually expanded over the past year. We started with 0 "insiders" and we have over 22,000 now. There has been very little media spend, so the site is purely viral. Using Ektron helps us quickly add site functionality."

    Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

    "We've made extensive use of dev.ektron.com to communicate and collaborate with other Ektron Developers around the world."

    WSOL Intranet

    "User adoption has been very high and based on the ongoing additions of new features and the solution continues to grow. The personalization framework and custom widget capability is fantastic."

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