Case Studies : Sitefinity Development

Content Management System (CMS) for an NGO

Client Requirement :

This project was about developing and deploying a content management system (CMS) for a Non-Government Organization (NGO). The NGO helps victims of family violence, and supports them with the donations it receives. This online platform was meant to help the NGO have a wider outreach and collect online donations. Hence, we were supposed to integrate a Payment Gateway for the same.
Another objective of the website was to spread awareness about the organization and its various objectives. This would help it raise more funds & help the victims of family violence.

Following are more details of the key client requirements :

Complete client control over content management on the new website.
Ability to add new pages with images & videos as and when required.
An information driven website, one that explains the role of the organizations towards helping the victims of family violence.
Ability to promote and allow donors to donate online.
Sections for Event Registration and Sponsorship.
Section for Volunteer registration.

Project Challenges :

Developing a comprehensive understanding of the requirement.
Identifying the scope of work.
Managing online donations and event sponsorships.
Ensuring complete site & data security.
Deployment of the website on the server.

Technologies Used :

Sitefinity CMS – Content Management

Solution :

Given that the client desired to have complete control over the system without requiring the development team to add more details, pages, or information; we decided to develop the site with Sitefinity CMS. Following are some of the highlights of the solution:

Top-notch content organization.
Complete client control over the website content.
Easy-to-publish pages and posts without any need of the technical team’s support.
Real time update of news and other information.
Ability to receive online donations and event sponsorships.
Easy-to-create events & generate revenues through sponsorships.
Payment gateway integration for online payment.
Multiple user access with control permissions.

Sitefinity Custom Module Development & Email-Campaigning for a leading asset management firm.

Client Requirement :

A leading asset management firm was looking for user friendly approach for uploading the mutual funds scheme related data into the system, existing approach being too much time consuming due to complex format of excel files to be uploaded. Also, they were looking for email subscription and e-mail campaigning in Sitefinity for scheme related information like daily NAV, Scheme Performance, Market Insight…etc.

Following are more details of the key client requirements :

Module for uploading performance related data using excel file for different schemes.
Custom Module for uploading holdings (Top sectors, top schemes...et) using excel file for different schemes.
Uploading the data should be simpler and less time consuming as compared to existing approach.
Email subscription and campaign management.
Should be simple and user friendly approach.

Project Challenges :

Understanding the requirements and identifying the scope of work.
Understanding the existing structure without any previous reference of technical documents and other technical know-how.
Complex format of excel files to be uploaded.
Displaying data on the website without disturbing the existing design structure.

Technologies Used :

Sitefinity CMS – Content Management

Solution :

Client required complete control of the system without any need of development or technical team to upload the data files and run email-campaigns using Sitefinity.

Developed user friendly custom ASP.NET modules for uploading excel files for scheme related data.
Modules were developed keeping in mind the complexity of the excel files to be uploaded and should be easier for the person to upload the files through Sitefinity Admin.
These modules helped the client to update the data within few hours as compared to the previous approach that use to take couple of days for updating the data on the site.
E-mail subscription was set-up on the website for availing user subscription for various scheme related information available on the website.
Complete email campaign was set up in Sitefinity admin for campaign and send subscribed user the information they subscribed for.
Complete updates available for emails sent, delivered and email opened for the subscription sent.
Responsive E-mail templates were created for different scheme related information to be sent to the subscribers.

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