14 websites in one Umbraco solution

We could see that many of the wishes we had for our future web solutions would generally be extremely expensive to develop because our solution was "fragile" and no longer suitable for further development.

Jane Ernst Nielsen, Digital Marketing Officer at the Danish Dairy Board

Greater independence

A big wish for the Danish Dairy Board was to become much more self-reliant when it came to maintaining their many websites. In the old CMS, they found the user interface complicated to navigate and they were locked into outdated page templates that no longer supported the way they wanted to work with content.

Another realisation was that they were only using a fraction of the many options Sitecore offers, simply because it was too complex and almost impossible to set up without calling in a trained Sitecore developer every time. Therefore, the cost of Sitecore licences and minor development tasks on the solution was also completely disproportionate to the real needs of the Danish Dairy Board.

Fewer bottlenecks

To avoid bottlenecks, the Danish Dairy Board also wanted to enable many more employees to act as content editors, which supported the move to a more user-friendly and intuitive CMS.

Good experiences with Umbraco CMS

The Danish Dairy Board already has a couple of well-functioning sites on the Umbraco platform, so it was natural to consider a future with a corporate Umbraco solution.

The solution

Initially, the Danish Dairy Board had nine websites that needed to be brought together in one common Umbraco solution.

Our solution is based on a website template that the Dairy Board can use to create any number of new websites that are managed in a single Umbraco back office.

All websites use the same basic package of features and functions and can relatively easily be assigned a new design theme that makes the websites visually different from each other.

We hadn't seen the template solution as an option ourselves, but it fits our organisation and needs really well, and we're glad Illumi brought it to the table.

Anja Rasmussen, Digital Communications Officer at the Danish Dairy Board

This model is particularly interesting for larger companies or organisations with many business areas where there is a need to communicate to different target groups.

Delighted with the new solution

The new solution is much more intuitive to work with. For the Dairy Board, it has meant that more people can take responsibility for producing and maintaining the content for the many websites.

Many more people now have the courage to take on the role of editor, and even those who have little experience with CMS have given positive feedback on the solution.

Unlike the previous Sitecore solution, with Umbraco there are no ongoing licence costs.

It has been an economically advantageous solution because every new website we build is largely based on reuse.

Anja Rasmussen, Digital Communications Officer at the Danish Dairy Board