Frankfurt School of Finance & Management + Magnolia
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management excels with a new and dynamic website
Über den Kunden
ICON Worldwide
Founded in 2007, ICON Worldwide is a privately owned Design and Technology agency headquartered in Zürich, with a technology and development centre in Sofia, Bulgaria and sales offices in Bahrain, Madrid and NYC.
We design, build and manage websites, mobile apps, and social media campaigns for global companies across all sectors. We have industry specific expertise in Pharma, Finance, Banking and Education. We work with a wide array of clients, from large publicly traded corporations to innovative start ups positioning them for long term sustainability.
Design and Development is done in house, meaning we own and manage your code on our servers, not a freelancer who can disappear one day.
The rapid advances in technology, along with digital savvy clients are changing the way clients and agencies work together. Our clients engage actively in their digital development projects as full partners, involved in every step of the process - and this is a big part of our success as an agency, and our projects. We love what we do, and we have great respect for the people we work with.
At ICON we are actively working on a future powered by amazing technologies, like AI, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Block Chain and Cyber Security.
We have successful experience with Magnolia Projects.
The Challenge
Revamping the entire customer journey
Competition is hot in the education market. Bachelors, Masters, and management training courses are in high demand. Each type of training course has its own target group, and competition is different for each case.
Anyone wanting to train as a manager or land a top position in economics, finance, or management has a wealth of training modules to choose from. Consequently, finding the perfect fit is complicated and large amounts of site data indicate that course bookings are often lost.
For someone interested in finding training offerings, the customer journey typically looks like:
A search process based on a large volume of topics and data found on one or more websites. Lost time spent searching through extensive information since a considerable portion of programs and events display their content on separate pages. Difficulty keeping track of everything.
The Solution
Central and simplified content management
As a headless CMS, Magnolia was the ideal solution, providing central management of data which more than one hundred employees can access. The CMS offers a range of options for continuously improving and expanding the individual functionalities of the online presence.
Modularity was key here, and Magnolia CMS offers many modules for expanding the functionality and performance of a website. A central module enables a large website to be split into several small ones.
The benefits of this procedure are obvious:
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A uniform design despite the differences in content. The look and feel are consistent for the user, no matter which individual page they are on.
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Content management is more intuitive and precise, making it much easier for creators and editors.
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Structured and modular work for the developers makes it possible to separate implementation and design clearly from one site to another.
Alongside the database aspects, the new website also required flexibility of design. Magnolia’s headless CMS was ideal for realizing this requirement together, providing a flexible design, lightning speed, and high data performance.
The Result
Responsive design and personalized user interfaces
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management unveiled in a fresh and dynamic design for their new website, which was optimized for all devices. No matter whether the user accesses the website from a smartphone or a stationary device, all information and functions remain perfect.
The mobile-first approach can now be seen on the pages of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and the online presence is a plus for employees too as new content such as events or seminars no longer has to be entered manually. Necessary details only need to be entered into a clearly defined template page so that this information can be reused again later.
Other benefits:
- Page speed is tripled
- Improved and personalized user interfaces, for example, with seminar suggestions based on previous history
- Implementation of a multi-site search function
- Dynamic content pages with seminar information which are addressed via an API
- Consistent workflow for editors and content suppliers
Using Magnolia as a content management system has paid off for the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. The improved quality of the website is also evident in search engine optimization. The university’s website is showing improved performance in terms of SEO across major search engines: more visitors, fewer bounces, an increase in leads, and more customers.
