The .Net CMS Agency
In 2001, we started a company trying to bridge the gap between marketers needs and the latest technology. Over the years we evolved and become a consultative-first technology firm, bringing innovation and transparency to everything we do.
We are the hand-raisers. We are the technology-obsessed. And, we approach customers with sincerity to bring the best solution with real impact. This is who we are. This is who we hire. We only want team members who commit to our principles of transparency, efficiency, and providing high value to help our customers succeed with digital technology.
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Alzheimer's Association, American Health Law Association, Aon, Amgen, Arthritis Foundation, Automation.com, Ball Corp., BB&K Law, Blue Rhino, Chester's Chicken, Federal Home Loan Bank, Generac, Impinj, InnovAge, International Society of Automation, LivaNova, Mainfreight, Medical Group Management Association, Navitus Health Solutions, Options Clearing Corporation, Patterson Companies, Retail Industry Leaders Association, Truliant Federal Credit Union, United Heritage Credit Union
Truliant Federal Credit Union
CHALLENGE: With more and more of its customers engaging with Truliant online and in particular from mobile devices, Truliant needed a website that worked well across devices for tasks ranging from logging into online banking to scheduling appointments and making payments. Additionally, Truliant wanted to ensure that their site was accessible to all members which made ADA accessibility a key driver as well.
SOLUTION: BlueModus led Truliant through a mobile-first design approach, where we started with creating wireframes and designs that are optimized to ensure that mobile users had an easy experience completing their most common tasks. We then leveraged these designs to create a full web experience, which was coupled with running ADA compliance scans to help ensure increased accessibility for all users across the site. This improved user-experience was then integrated into Kentico Xperience’s Version 12, which uses MVC Architecture.
LivaNova
CHALLENGE: LivaNova’s public-facing website and intranet were built by a different Kentico Xperience implementor. These implementations were not easy for LivaNova’s content editors to maintain and make changes. LivaNova came to BlueModus to upgrade on Kentico Xperience 12 Portal Engine, but also to help make their overall implementation easier for content editors – all while keeping in mind, they would later be migrating to Kentico Xperience MVC.
SOLUTION:
BlueModus and LivaNova decided to take a unique and cost-saving approach to all changes knowing that LivaNova will eventually be migrating to Kentico Xperience MVC. With every new feature BlueModus built, we not only created a better content editor experience but made these changes, so they could port to MVC. For example, LivaNova’s new product template for its public-facing website was built for Portal Engine but utilizes widgets and structures that will later easily port to MVC.
With their news and news listing templates in their Intranet (Edge), we introduced MVC’s page types and content modeling. This allows them to now have different types of news and a dynamic news listing page. Additionally, they could now publish an article once and have it populated in multiple places within Edge. Previously they were recreating this content multiple times to post in multiple locations. Additionally, we restructured LivaNova’s media libraries to allow for easier use by content editors and greater readability by users.
Alzheimer's Association
CHALLENGE: The Alzheimer's Association needed to migrate to a more modern, responsive web portal that could serve its diverse audience, as well as more efficiently manage its home office and over 75 different local chapter sites.
SOLUTION:
- A Kentico-based solution uses role and permission schemes configured to allow proper access to editors of both the national and chapter sites within the same platform, currently supporting more than 1,000 user roles and permissions.
- The new site features multiple complex integrations, including Blackbaud, to manage events and incoming leads and an extensive custom chapter/location search tool.
- Localization features were used to generate a Spanish language mirror site.
International Society of Automation (ISA)
CHALLENGE: The largest challenge BlueModus faced was integrating ISA’s new Association Management System - Fonteva - to deliver a seamless experience for members to register, renew, and purchase new training and certifications. The selected CMS - Kentico Xperience - needed to provide a simple and effective way to display their large offering of training classes, certifications, and standards while delivering an easy experience for members to complete their transactions. Whenever projects require coordination and integration with multiple systems and teams - inherently schedules and dependencies can present challenges. This project was no exception. Coordinating and testing the full user experience across multiple systems proved to be the biggest hurdle.
SOLUTION: BlueModus followed a rapid-development mentality throughout the project, so as requirements in other systems we were integrating emerged, we were able to quickly update code within Kentico Xperience to meet the changing needs of the client. Additionally, utilizing Kentico Xperience's natural decoupled nature within MVC enabled better authoring experience that delivered a strong UX despite the multiple systems - including Fonteva, Salesforce, LearnUpon, and a third-party search.
Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)
CHALLENGE: RILA’s site design did not align with its audience’s needs. It was outdated, had challenging, clunky navigation, and was limited in its ability to edit site content or use personalization. The existing site also struggled in terms of analytics and testing capabilities.
SOLUTION
- BlueModus, in a migration from SharePoint to Kentico 12 MVC EMS, designed and developed a brand new site, which won a 2019 Kentico Site of the Year award.
- The new Kentico EMS platform offered a comprehensive CMS as well as advanced marketing and personalization functionalities.
- Positive results include a strong increase in user time on site, decreased bounce rates, plus the flexibility of the Kentico 12 MVC editing experience has been a huge time saver for the customer.
Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
CHALLENGE: MGMA was using an unstable, fragmented CMS that offered limited options for growth. The team was ready for a reliable and extensible platform to serve as a solid foundation for future projects. Among its priorities, the team wanted the new platform to handle huge amounts of content, provide a customizable e-commerce shopping cart and deliver responsive layouts for an improved mobile experience.
SOLUTION: MGMA and BlueModus migrated the association’s website to the Kentico CMS, taking advantage of the CMS’s built-in taxonomy feature and creating a logical folder structure that organized all 10,000 pieces of content. Our solution also incorporated Kentico’s e-commerce, responsive design, and online marketing features—for a future-ready platform, which we continue to support today.
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Design Consultation & Backend Development for Food Company
"They seem like an extension of our own business as opposed to a vendor."
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I am the director of marketing for a food company. We are a retail solutions provider, and we offer retailers across the country fudge solutions for their business. Essentially, we’re a private fudge company, and we manufacture fudge-making equipment, fudge ingredients, and all items related to fudge sales for our retailers.
What challenge were you trying to address with BlueModus?
We were working with another agency in building our website. However, we experienced some challenges collaborating with them and getting the final result we were looking for. Having had a relationship with BlueModus in the past, we believed that they had the capacity in getting our website where it needed to be to launch it properly.
What was the scope of their involvement?
We’ve developed and we’re getting ready to launch a brand new Kentico website, so we completely changed and overhauled everything that was on our existing website. We already had a content management system in place when BlueModus joined our project.
We brought BlueModus to ensure that from a design perspective, the website would run smoothly and that it would look the way it should. We also hired them to make sure that from a functional standpoint — all checks and balances were made to ensure that our platform would run efficiently and effectively for our existing customers and prospective clients.
The team started with an extensive discovery on our website and at the time we engaged with them, our website was 80% complete. They investigated and determined that there was poor implementation on our backend, and the BlueModus team made recommendations based on that.
The BlueModus team didn’t do the original design, but they largely contributed feedback on the design we had. That allowed us to make changes to our platform. The team continues to assist us with some backend development work.
What is the team composition?
We’re working with three primary team members, including Kate (Senior Director of Strategic Solutions), a senior solution lead, and a project manager. We’ve also worked with Anne (Creative Director) and a director of marketing technology (Martech) who was in charge of SEO.
How did you come to work with BlueModus?
We worked with them 3–4 years ago, and we knew that BlueModus was widely recognized as an expert on the Kentico platform, so we knew it was the best decision for our business to work with them.
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working together on this recent project in July 2020, and it’s ongoing.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
Their work’s impact is hard to gauge at this point since we just executed a soft launch of our website. Previously, we had a platform that was extremely inefficient so our customer visits were limited but now we’re seeing signs of success on our new website.
I’m sure that BlueModus’ work has contributed to that success. However, it’s tough to measure their contribution because of the lack of performance of our prior website.
How did BlueModus perform from a project management standpoint?
We have standing weekly calls at a minimum and in between those weekly Zoom calls, there have been quite a number of communication training sessions that have been conducted. We also have a status call weekly with BlueModus’ primary team of three.
We have a project manager that is dedicated to our account, but we have one specific that keeps us in line, organizes tasks at hand, manages budgets, and manages our hours. Overall, our project manager has been an asset to our work.
What did you find most impressive about them?
I can probably go on with a list of 10 impressive things about BlueModus, but I want to highlight that they’ve always been willing to help and dedicate time to us. They’re extremely communicative and they always keep us in the loop as far as their progress on different tasks is concerned.
Moreover, they’re pleasant to work with and that’s extremely important in developing any relationship. Above all, they seem like an extension of our own business as opposed to a vendor.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I can’t say I have any critical feedback on anything that I felt was a shortcoming. Overall, we don’t have anything we’ve not been happy with.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Communicate with BlueModus closely — have meetings and keep everyone in line with a weekly status at a minimum. However, the necessity to communicate depends on the project’s scale. In our case, a weekly status with BlueModus’ core team has ensured that everybody is doing what’s expected of them and that there are no surprises.
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Kentico Maintenance for Healthcare Organization
"They’re fantastic, and we have a great relationship."
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the digital marketing coordinator at a rural healthcare facility.
What challenge were you trying to address with BlueModus?
We wanted to have a user-friendly website, and we were looking for someone who could manage a Kentico platform.
What was the scope of their involvement?
BlueModus helps us maintain our website through Kentico CMS. Whenever we have issues with our platform, they perform troubleshooting.
What is the team composition?
We work with three people from their team, including a project manager.
How did you come to work with BlueModus?
They’ve been partnering with us longer than I’ve been here.
How much have you invested with them?
We’ve probably spent $200,000.
What is the status of this engagement?
BlueModus started working with us in October 2019, and it’s ongoing. They’ve been our web developer for a little over two years.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
I love BlueModus’ responsiveness whenever we have an issue. They always have our best interests in mind. However, we don’t have anything measurable metrics that can speak to their work.
How did BlueModus perform from a project management standpoint?
We use Jira and Atlassian to manage the project. Our project manager is communicative, organized, and always on top of things for us.
What did you find most impressive about them?
BlueModus is always ready to help anytime whenever we have problems, and they send an email back right away or set up a meeting to figure things out.
I feel confident that BlueModus knows what they’re doing, and that also makes me feel assured about my job since I’m the one managing the website, content, and more. Overall, I know that I can rely on them to do their job well.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I don’t know anything they can improve. They’re fantastic, and we have a great relationship.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Be open and honest with them because they’re always willing to respond. In my case, I’ve always felt really comfortable reaching out to them whenever I have a question.
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Kentico Migration & Web Maintenance for Medical Device Firm
“They’re very skilled and I consider them an extension of my team.”
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I manage the digital presence at a global medical device company.
What challenge were you trying to address with BlueModus?
We’re a small internal team and needed help managing our site.
What was the scope of their involvement?
They’re basically our digital team since we don’t have one in-house. They do all of our web maintenance for our site and intranet on an ongoing basis.
Currently, they’re working on a web migration project. Since we’re a global company with a lot of support areas, we have different Kentico websites that our marketing team has put up over the years. BlueModus is helping us consolidate 130 domains into one corporate website. They’re responsible for the design, development, and migration of all of the sites.
What is the team composition?
I work with three people from their team, including Meredith (Director of Strategic Solutions), Matias (Solution Lead), and Mike (Senior Project Manager).
How did you come to work with BlueModus?
I did a search on the top-ranked Kentico development agencies. They were one of the top vendors on the Kentico website. We looked into other vendors but BlueModus seemed top notch and met the needs that we were looking to fill.
How much have you invested with them?
We budgeted $1.2 million. Our spend so far is about $250,000 for our maintenance agreement.
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working together in April 2019, and our work is ongoing.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
They’re very skilled and I consider them an extension of my team. I look at our engagement across our sites and intranet and see if there are any issues. If I come to them with an issue for them to design around, they’ll redesign it. Then, we look at the usage and engagement after the launch to see how successful they were.
How did BlueModus perform from a project management standpoint?
They’re very strong with communication. They clearly layout where they are in a project and use an agile methodology. We meet once a week for a status update. We have other check-ins to support the website migration project.
I’m in constant contact with Meredith via Slack and phone. She provides immediate answers to any questions I have. They’re very transparent and their project management is top-notch.
What did you find most impressive about them?
They’re really great at anticipating what our needs are and staffing on their side to support us. I don’t have to go to them, they’re really proactive and come to us with good ideas and new strategies. They do the heavy lifting and think through things very critically to make sure that what we’re building makes sense for our users and our needs.
Are there any areas they could improve?
In a couple of cases, they’ve underbid a project. It doesn’t happen often. That being said, there are always unforeseen things in development; I wouldn’t consider it a dealbreaker by any means.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
My advice is to lean on them as part of your team. Give them direction but don’t micromanage them.
BlueModus' work has yielded a positive impact on the client's new site, making it efficient and user-friendly for third-party customers. Helpful and detailed, they lead a solid process and promote open and consistent communication with the company. The team is also organized and easy to work with.