Sitecore CMS for Education Websites

Sitecore CMS helps Universities, Colleges and private schools:

• Increase student applications
• Better engage alumni
• Improve fundraising effectiveness
• Promote a first rate and relevant school image
• Reduce student attrition
• Generate student and applicant self-service.

For Educational organizations serving a defined community, Sitecore addresses:

• Increased communications by providing a convenient and cost- effective means to communicate and to make efficient use of available resources.
• Enhanced program effectiveness by providing information, collecting data, or calendaring and scheduling.

Leading Educational websites provide the following in their overall website Solution	Sitecore based website
Goals driven site, where focus and direction is provided for all content and functionality, reinforced by the system.
An experience based website, where the visitors experience is highly valuable and is balanced with your site goals.
Personalization and targeted calls-to-action to build a dialog with each of your visitors.
A constantly improving website which can experiment and test new content, messaging, imagery and design with A/B and multi-variate testing.

Content Management System (CMS) Requirements for the most successful Education websites

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  An interface for the Website editors which is intuitive and user friendly.More >

  Sitecore’s in-line editing set the new standard in usability, allowing content to be added and updated quickly and simply by a wide range of editors.

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  Ability to integrate with associated databases, student records systems, and legacy systems.More >

  Sitecore’s rich API allows extensive integration capabilities with all the leading databases, repositories and systems via numerous methods.

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  A true Development Platform for extensive customization.More >

  Fully committed to the Microsoft .NET platform, Sitecore gives developers unprecedented freedom and powerful tools. Based on RIA technology, Sitecore work through a browser interface and natively supports Visual Studio development.

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  Brand enforcement and content compliance across all websites being managed by the CMS.More >

  Sitecore natively supports multi-site support and content sharing across multiple sites, ensuring consistency. Further, Sitecore’s Patent pending validation technology can be configured to enforce branding requirements such as image sizing and corporate color enforcement.

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  Implicit or explicit Personalization.More >

  Sitecore serves up completely dynamic content for every page, which can be controlled by implicit or explicit information on a per visit basis via integration with analytics packages.

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  Powerful Search and metadata abilities for classifying information.More >

  Sitecore comes with Search included and can integrate with other Search tools. Further, Sitecore can be structured to any metadata standard and content can be classified with any taxonomy structure desired.

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  Multiple device support, including wireless devices, RSS, and more. For editing, support for both PCs and Macs.More >

  Sitecore natively supports multi-device output capabilities with extensive flexibility for visitors. Further, for content editors, both PCs and Macs are supported by Sitecore.

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  Flexible workflow to control and adapt to any content contributor, reviewer and editor environment.More >

  Sitecore’s encompassing workflow control operates out of the box, with considerable flexibility.

Selected Sitecore Education Customers

Next Steps

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