In the face of stiff global competition, the RCSI has created a digital window into its high-quality education and student experience, cementing its place in the top 2% of universities worldwide.
Sitecore Experience Awards
Royal College of Surgeons
SEA category: Most intelligent content optimization
Challenges
- Maximize the effectiveness of digital technology to recruit students from around the world
- Establish trust and confidence among students and parents that RSCI is the right choice
- Redesign and merge all websites onto a single Sitecore platform
- Accommodate the diverse language and cultural differences of three locations: Ireland, Bahrain, Malaysia
Solutions
- Sitecore Experience Manager (XM)
- Sitecore Experience Platform (XP 9.2)
- Sitecore Experience Database (xDB)
- Sitecore Services
- Integrations include:
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Research management system
Results
- Showcases the RCSI as a world leader in healthcare education
- Enabled a modern, flexible, personalized and intuitive website experience, focused on the user
- Improved engagement: site visits up 177%, sessions up 52% and pageviews up by 127% with organic search up 90%.
- Created new sections and business areas efficiently and cost effectively
- Launched a dedicated COVID-19 content hub within days
- Now manages the entire RCSI digital experience
- Provides digital governance to optimize content for a best-in-class digital experience
- Won the 2019 Digital for Good/Not for Profit Award, Spider Awards, Ireland
Silver Solution Partner
Arekibo is the largest independent digital consultancy in Ireland. We are an ambitious, established and growing firm with an obsessive focus on customer and quality. A key differentiator for Arekibo is our emphasis on longer term strategy programmes and not just on achieving short term goals.
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