Winners

2021 Website of the Year
Awards

Recognizing excellence and innovation

Meet the Winners

Associations & Non-Profit and Most Impactful Digital Experience of 2020

World Health Organization

Leading the world throughout the uncertainty of COVID-19, the WHO experienced an enormous increase in traffic to their site – 1.4 billion unique visitors in 2020. To deliver unwavering access to critical information, the WHO migrated to Sitefinity Cloud's architecture. With 1000 editors publishing content every 90 seconds, the WHO maintained 0% content-authoring downtime,100% CI/CD automation and 100% automation towards multi-channel content-delivery. People and governments worldwide can rely on the WHO’s Sitefinity Cloud-powered website for quick, timely and accurate information throughout the pandemic.

Migrated by Progress

Consumer Goods & Services

Osborne Quality Seeds

Migrating from its legacy ERP to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Osborne Quality Seeds implemented Sitefinity and SmarterCommerce to streamline ecommerce operations and customers’ shopping experience. The new implementation drove an 800% increase in Cyber Monday sales and a 300% increase in organic search traffic.

Implemented by Premier Group

Ecommerce

Tom Tailor

To ensure business continuity when the pandemic impacted brick-and-mortar sales, Tom Tailor implemented Sitefinity and Ucommerce in only three months. After just ten days, Tom Tailor’s ecommerce shop was out-earning the average brick-and-mortar store on a daily basis by 10%.

Implemented by Vareo

Education

TAFE SA

TAFE SA was looking to redesign its site by putting the student at the heart of all changes. With over 3 million annual visits, 65,000 enrolments and 3,000 staff members, the reimagined UX supports a delightful mobile experience and has driven 1.5% more application conversions.

Implemented by TAFE SA

Energy & Utilities

Cleco

Cleco’s web content had grown significantly over the years and its old CMS made it difficult to manage, make mobile friendly and ADA compliant. According to Cleco’s annual J.D. Power Study, which measures customer satisfaction, Cleco improved customer satisfaction by 72% year over year with a modern Sitefinity-powered experience.

Implemented by Americaneagle.com

Financial Services

Legal & General America

With aggressive growth goals over the next few years, Legal & General America was looking to increase traffic and deliver an innovative customer journey. Using Sitefinity and Sitefinity Insight, they built a personalized experience across multiple channels which increased organic sessions by 17.7% and conversions by 9.5%

Implemented by Americaneagle.com

Healthcare

Clínica Universidad de los Andes

Clinica Universidad de los Andes implemented Sitefinity to facilitate the scheduling of medical appointments and to deliver a complete communication channel during COVID-19. The Sitefinity platform ensures high performance and enterprise-grade security for patients throughout peak periods.

Implemented by LFi

Insurance

IMG - International Medical Group

IMG upgraded its Sitefinity platform to leverage the latest enhancements and features. By using the most up-to-date technology, performance for visitors and end users improved. In turn, conversion rates have increased 18.9%, while pages per session are up 25.2%.

Implemented by  IMG

Manufacturing

Terex Powerscreen

Terex Powerscreen migrated from Wordpress with the aim to improve user productivity and ensure hardened security. With a consolidated web presence and the ability to quickly deliver new and relevant content, site visits rose by 40%.

Implemented by Siili Solutions

Public Sector

Department of Fire & Emergency Services (DFES) Volunteer Hub

DFES performs a critical role coordinating emergency services for natural disasters and emergency incidents in Western Australia. Volunteers registered with DFES require access to the hub from remote locations. Sitefinity supports a fast, responsive UI and WCAG 2.1 AA Accessibility compliance.

Implemented by Equilibrium

Real Estate & Construction

Bird Construction

Bird Construction was approaching an impressive milestone: 100 years of building the future. The new website needed to breathe new life into the brand. Results were immediate: engagement increased by 20% as session duration shot up; mobile traffic accounts for a bigger share of visits (up by 11%) and page download time improved by 87%.

Implemented by Flywheel Strategic

Technology

Argo Ventures

After 4+ years of providing top quality services for its clients, Argo Ventures finally turned to its own website and revamped it completely so that it demonstrates their skills, ambition and success. Now the website acts as an example when performing Sitefinity trainings or showcasing a specific functionality to clients and prospects.

Implemented by Argo Ventures Digital

B2B

XTRA Lease

XTRA Lease’s previous site experience was not mobile friendly, optimal for SEO or fully integrated with critical business systems. With Sitefinity, XTRA Lease was able to integrate with its own data services, offer a responsive design and optimize to increase organic traffic – with sessions increasing 40% and session duration increasing 75%.

Implemented by Americaneagle.com

Graphic Design

Enqbator

Enqbator needed to revamp the representation of its brand and constituents it serves. With an enhanced Sitefinity-powered content experience, Enqbator increased traffic to the site as well as engagement, with a 52% improvement in sessions and 19% improvement in session duration.

Implemented by Enqbator

Multichannel

Hospital del Trabajador

The Hospital del Trabajador website is part of a migration project of multiple Chilean Safety Association websites. Sitefinity enables the hospital to easily manage web content and publish it to its mobile app via Rest APIs, while ensuring enterprise-grade security. After the launch, uptime is 100%, delivering an always-on experience to patients throughout the pandemic.

Implemented by LFi

Portal

RedSail Hub

RedSail Technologies is the parent company of two major pharmacy software brands, QS/1® and Integra®, and one public brand, PUBLIQ Software, and wanted to unite its siloed support portals, use single sign-on and improve the search experience. RedSail implemented Sitefinity and Pavilk’s Portal Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. Immediately, they achieved a 30% resolution rate for those who read knowledge articles.

Implemented by Smooth Fusion

Sitefinity Cloud

Kubota USA

Kubota USA needed to ensure it was delivering an always-on experience to customers throughout peak traffic periods. By moving to Sitefinity Cloud, Kubota can manage a multisite experience, develop custom widgets and enhance the customer journey all while experiencing zero downtime and driving an 18% increase in sessions.

Implemented by TracTru, LLC

About the Awards

Since its inception in 2011, the Website of the Year Awards recognize websites powered by Progress Sitefinity for their excellence in user experience and their innovation in applying Sitefinity features and capabilities.

Interested in participating in our 2022 edition? Submit your nomination here.

Meet the Finalists

Multisite

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Nova Scotia Power

Implemented by

In multi-site setup with 6 other utilities websites, including emera.com, emeraenergy.com, etc. NSP needed a robust platform that would handle the skyrocketing traffic to the site during storms and power outages. Sitefinity was put to the test and proved it could not only handle NSP’s highest historical traffic but twice as much for a way longer period. The site saw a 42% increase in new users and a 52% decrease in bounce rate.

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MAPEI

Implemented by

The global Mapei website includes 59 country websites in almost as many languages, all running in multi-site environment. All sites have custom modules and advanced search capabilities, attracting about 550K unique users per month. The site integrates with Dynamix CRM, custom Mapei PIM, Mapei APP, Sendgrid, Hotjar, Elastic search, Newrelic, Google Maps and Google Analytics.

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Chumash Casino Resort

Implemented by

The site runs in a multisite environment with chumashcareers.com, which supports English and Spanish language versions. It uses a custom module in the Sitefinity backend to manage promotions – promos are shown and expire from the pages automatically and get replaced with new promotions. The site also includes integrations with backend systems, including Salesforce, and utilizes the Sitefinity personalization capabilities.

Ecommerce

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Leer

Implemented by

SmarterCommerce by Premier

Leer leverages SmarterCommerce to effectively showcase its trucks and equipment, as well as facilitate purchases. Additionally, they integrate with Etools for vehicle fitment and Google Maps for dealer locator, creating a seamless experience from store to online. Site Sync facilitates faster transitioning from development to staging and to production deployment.

plumbing specialties

State Electric Supply Company

Implemented by

Americaneagle.com

State Electric implemented a new site to deliver a B2C look and feel while having the functionality B2B users need. Sitefinity is integrated with ROC Commerce for ecommerce, and SharpSpring SXe Punchout which runs on Progress OpenEdge. Using Hawksearch and LiveChat, they have streamlined the visitor journey.

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Kirby Risk

Implemented by

Americaneagle.com

Looking to achieve B2B/B2C operational efficiency, Kirby Risk integrated with ROC Commerce, Eclipse Ariba Punchout Coupa Punchout, and SciQuest Punchout, run on Progress OpenEdge. They utilize Hawksearch for site search and Live Chat for customer service to engage customers in real-time.

Financial Services

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Hughes Federal Credit Union

Implemented by

Americaneagle.com

The site utilizes the Hawksearch add-on from the Sitefinity Marketplace and includes integrations with Google Maps, Yourpayrollhr.com, loan and deposit rate APIs, financial calculators and JazzHR. It features Spanish versions for 85% of the pages. Page load time improved by 30% after the site redesign.

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North American Savings Bank

Implemented by

ZAG Interactive

Integrates with Fiserv, Andera, Roostify and Leadfusion. Features a custom, interactive Financial Solution Finder tool, a custom Locations Finder tool and a custom lead generation form. In the first month after launch: 43.76% increase in average session duration and 30.25% decrease in bounce rate.

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GTE Financial

Implemented by

Americaneagle.com

Features integrations with its online banking and custom locations providers. The site is responsive, load-balanced, and makes use of the Sitefinity personalization capabilities. It saw an improvement in mobile visibility along with lower bounce rates and longer stays on pages.

Healthcare

change healthcare

Spectrum Health Lakeland

Implemented by

Integrates with CACTUS provider data management platform and Four Winds Interactive secure digital signage software. Makes use of Sitefinity’s built-in workflows, personalization, content analysis, multichannel management, headless CMS capabilities, load-balancing, site sync. Mobile users increased from 30% to 50% immediately, and then upwards to 70%.

lakeland

Red de Salud UC Christus

Implemented by

Integrates with SAP, Salesforce, SharpSpring and Eloqua. Utilizes Sitefinity’s load-balancing, roles and permissions, personalization, content analysis and headless CMS capabilities. Right after go-live, the web-based appointments increased 20%, conversions in medical programs increased 80%, while time and cost of content management decreased 15%.

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Premier Health

Implemented by

The site features a high level of customization and integrates with PayPal, Trust Commerce, Mailjet, JotForm and Stericycle. It consolidates nine sites into one and required the transfer of over 5,000 pages. Completed for less than six months by a team of six, the site also makes use of the Sitefinity roles and permissions, load-balancing and personalization capabilities.

Education

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Singapore University of Social Sciences

Implemented by

Bray Leino Splash

The site offers clear navigational paths by persona and a private login area. It’s load-balanced and utilizes various built-in features including personalization, roles and permissions, and workflows. The site was moved from SharePoint to overcome existing limitations.

neynrode

Coast Mountain College

Implemented by

Graphically Speaking

Includes custom-designed mega menu and top-level landing pages with quick links section on the right of the home page, photo galleries, testimonial sliders, social media feed, and more. The site integrates with MailChimp email marketing and CourseLeaf curriculum management.

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Murdoch University - This Is Free Thinking

Implemented by

Isobar Australia

This microsite is an extension of the official Murdoch University website, also powered by Sitefinity. It uses various interactive widgets to dynamically display the presentation layer of the site, while achieving a completely headless approach to content. The site integrates with Salesforce CRM.

Public Sector

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Central en tu Vida

Implemented by

Central en tu Vida is the education program of the Central Bank of Chile. The team's goal was to increase the applications for admission to training programs provided by the Bank by 30%. With the launch of the new website, participation in the programs increased by 55% and costs were reduced by around 35%. The site integrates with Salesforce and SharpSpring.

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ALCOSAN

Implemented by

McCormick Taylor

Sitefinity enabled ALCOSAN to more easily edit their website. This increased the timeliness and quality of the content that was placed on the site. The ability to add forms to the site improved the customer service process as inquiries are now going to the right people. The site also utilizes the built-in roles and permissions and uses Everbridge.

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Aquarion Water Company

Implemented by

Chateaux Software Development

Sitefinity helped Aquarion significantly improve business processes and user experience. Business users are now able to make changes themselves, using Sitefinity workflows and site sync. Changes that used to take weeks now take minutes. For the customers, Sitefinity has improved their ability to find information and experience the website on their mobile devices.

Manufacturing

plaskolite

Algol

Implemented by

Kraftvaerk Finland

Algol’s new site offers a flexible, extensible and easy-to-use experience for end users. They utilize load balancing, localization, multi-site management, and roles and permissions to quickly develop engaging digital experiences. They included new types of content on their website such as news, articles and blogs from subsidiaries.

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Aprilaire Partners

Implemented by

Aprilaire Partners' new website handles multiple levels of teams and permissions, while also simplifying site content and database connections. Sitefinity provided the perfect combination of seamless functionality and customization that allows global visibility with local control. The site is mobile first and fully integrated with third-party apps, allowing for a wide range of coverage and capabilities.

werner

Stoner Molding

Implemented by

Stoner Inc.

Stoner Molding’s site integrates with SmarterCommerce to allows users to easily shop their products online, through their various offering categories. Using content analysis, roles and permissions, and site sync, Stoner Molding drives operational efficiency. The site offers an easy experience that reduces developer backlog and encourages CI/CD.

Consumer Goods & Services

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Rhea Lana's

Implemented by

Custom APIs and syncs to bring in events & franchises. Google Places API integration. Improved site metrics, YoY: 7.7% increase in users, 12.65% increase in sessions, 4.59% increase in sessions per user, 16.54% increase in unique pageviews.

agpro

Dawn Foods

Implemented by

Features custom widgets and integration with Pardot, B2B marketing automation by Salesforce. The site is load-balanced and utilizes multi-channel management, roles and permissions, personalization and multi-site management.

lehigh

Celebration Cinema

Implemented by

This project is in a multi-site setup with www.studioparkgr.com and www.listeningroomgr.com. It integrates with Vista.co ticketing and Google Checkout, while utilizing Sitefinity’s load-balancing, personalization and multi-channel management features.

Technology

lumina

Bayshore Solutions

Implemented by

Bayshore Solutions

The site utilizes Sitefinity’s Site Sync feature for ease of content publishing, and scheduling of production syncs. Currently seeing overall traffic increase by 26% MoM, with the majority of the increase coming from Organic Search, Paid Search and Referral. Organic Search seeing an increase of 25% MoM.

blackbaud

Smooth Fusion

Implemented by

The site is heavily utilizing the Sitefinity out-of-the-box features, including Audience Segmentation, Content Personalization, Site Sync, Roles and Permissions and Workflows. For the moment, the blog section acts as the main web traffic driver and the team has already seen an increase in leads.

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Dock9

Implemented by

The new, responsive Dock9 site has empowered a non-technical business staff to collaborate, contribute and deliver content across web, email and social media channels, all from one source. The entire project was completed with a four-member team and took just under two months.

Associations & Non-profit

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New Jersey Society of CPAs

Implemented by

Americaneagle.com

The site heavily integrates content and information from their association management system, Aptify. It also includes integrations with YM Careers, Higher Logic, Add This and Melissa Data. In its first three months, the site saw a 73% increase in the percentage of visitors accessing via mobile instead of desktop, YoY.

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Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

Implemented by

Vanguard Technology

Takes full advantage of Sitefinity’s capabilities to create custom content types, categorize the items of content with these custom content types, and deliver this information dynamically through the website's taxonomy. Integrates with Association Anywhere AMS and Boxwood/Naylor job board platform.

american payroll assoc

Association for Institutional Research

Implemented by

Americaneagle.com

Sitefinity helped AIR streamline internal content creation and management, while supporting its mobile and SEO strategies. The site makes use of Sitefinity’s customization and extensibility capabilities, featuring an integration with AIR’s association management platform, Association Anywhere AMS.

Transportation & Logistics

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Premier Trailer Leasing

Implemented by

Premier Trailer Leasing

By leveraging the base platform features of Sitefinity (e.g. Page Templates, Roles, Security, Forms, etc.) the development team was able to focus on the implementation of the custom MVC widgets (MVC) to support the dashboard requirements. This greatly reduced the time to market of the web site launch.

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Titan Machinery

Implemented by

Includes dynamically created equipment listings showing real-time inventory for all 100+ locations that is synced from Oracle via custom-built sync. Forms integrated with Oracle Eloqua CRM. 153.90% increase in sessions, 127.55% increase in users, 184.66% increase in unique pageviews, 57% decrease in bounce rate.

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Dublin Airport

Implemented by

Features integrations to various systems, including multichannel engagement & experience platform Xtremepush, Barclay’s online payments, flight feeds and car parking APIs. Mobile traffic and usage have increased by double digits, YoY. In January 2020, Dublin Airport website was named in the top 3 most secure international airports, by ImmuniWeb.

Travel & Tourism

crystal cruises

Carnival Grand Port

Implemented by

Bayshore Solutions

Completed in less than 30 days, the Carnival Grand Port site needed to reflect the local culture and act as a resource center for all parties associated with the new port being established by Carnival Cruise Lines in the Bahamas. The site utilizes many of the out-of-the box Sitefinity features.

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Best Western

Implemented by

Re-developed in MVC, the Best Western website enjoys a dramatically improved speed. The site is load-balanced and takes advantage of the Sitefinity personalization and multichannel management functionality. It integrates with international booking systems DC, as well as image repositories and CDNs.

cubatravel

Smile Acadimos

Implemented by

Sitefinity helped Smile Acadimos showcase their large array of products and travel packages in a vibrant, informative and SEO-friendly way. Sitefinity has facilitated content management tasks with approval workflows and scheduled publishing of limited-time offers. Sales and leads increased by 65 and 30%, respectively, YoY.

Graphic Design

arium

Professional Beauty Association

Implemented by

Vanguard Technology

The site integrates with PBA’s AMS platform and makes use of Sitefinity’s scalability to introduce customized views that engage the beauty industry. Shortly after launch, the site saw a reduction in its bounce rate which dropped from 50% to 40%. Sitefinity enabled real-time updates which helps the team to keep the site fresh with content.

kalpataru

Family Building Society

Implemented by

Appius International

The site heavily utilizes personalization to tailor the website experience for the first-time visitor and build engagement with regular users. The website also has a bespoke workflow and audit trail that moved compliance processes online and led to increased speed and efficiency. The site integrates with the Criteria Hub API.

man energy

MasterControl

Implemented by

MasterControl

Multilingual website – with 3000+ pages in French, German and Chinese (coming soon). The site utilizes the out of the box localization capabilities of Sitefinity as well as multi-site management for all language versions, in addition to workflows, site sync, content analysis. Integrates with Salesforce, Pardot, YouTube, Uberflip and other.

Previous Winners

Transportation & Logistics

Dublin Airport

Features integrations to various systems, including multichannel engagement & experience platform Xtremepush, Barclay’s online payments, flight feeds and car parking APIs. Mobile traffic and usage have increased by double digits, YoY. In January 2020, Dublin Airport website was named in the top 3 most secure international airports, by ImmuniWeb.

Implemented by Arekibo

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Travel & Tourism

Best Western

Re-developed in MVC, the Best Western website enjoys a dramatically improved speed. The site is load-balanced and takes advantage of the Sitefinity personalization and multichannel management functionality. It integrates with international booking systems DC, as well as image repositories and CDNs.

Implemented by Spinbox

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Education

Murdoch University - This Is Free Thinking

This microsite is an extension of the official Murdoch University website, also powered by Sitefinity. It uses various interactive widgets to dynamically display the presentation layer of the site, while achieving a completely headless approach to content. The site integrates with Salesforce CRM.

Implemented by Isobar Australia and Diviv Group

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Associations & Non-profit

World Health Organization

Features integrations to various systems, including other CMS systems, Duraspace document repository system, Power BI, AWS CloudFront. Utilizes Sitefinity Insight. Improved audience engagement, broader user base and higher ranking in search results.

Implemented by Siili Solutions

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Travel & Tourism

Crystal Cruises

Decreased dependency on IT. Increased speed at which marketing can execute digital campaigns. Integrated with Salesforce Community, Versonix Seaware, Mapbox, Live View Feeds from Ships at Sea, Crystal Cruise’s trip booking web application.

Implemented by Americaneagle.com

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Ecommerce

Weaver Leather

Includes integration with SmarterCommerce, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP, SnapEngage chat, Power Reviews, Pixlee, SLI Enterprise learning search, Hubspot. In multisite setup with four other brands under the Weaver family.

Implemented by Premier Group

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Automotive & Transportation

Aston Martin

A truly global site, reaching across 6 regions, 15 languages and 163 dealer websites, while offering a much-improved digital experience.

Implemented by POSSIBLE

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Consumer Goods & Services

PMI

This site has made a major leap forward in usability and scalability, while enjoying seamless integrations with NASDAQ systems and TALEO.

Implemented by Emakina Group

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