At Ascedia, we've always been committed to creating engaging and impactful online experiences for our clients, and a key part of that has been our long-standing partnership with Kentico. Now, we're excited to announce that we've officially become a Kentico Gold Partner. With this milestone, we’d like to take a moment to share more about Kentico, what it means to be a Gold Partner, and most importantly, how this achievement impacts our clients.
Who is Kentico?
Kentico is the award-winning digital experience platform that combines content management, digital marketing, and commerce. Available in the cloud or on-premises, Kentico is an easy-to-use solution for modern websites. It provides personalized experiences and integrates seamlessly into any technology stack. Kentico provides advanced capabilities, short time to value, and ease of use, backed by market-leading support and a global network of implementation.
This digital experience platform empowers marketers to do things like…
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Create personalized experiences for customers across channels
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Automate their marketing campaigns
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Manage multisite environments from one central location
Likewise, Kentico empowers developers to…
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Create fast and scalable websites using modern tech
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Integrate with any system to meet the unique needs of every site
- Build web solutions that increase marketers’ productivity
What is a Kentico Gold Partner?
Kentico offers a partner program comprised of three levels: bronze, silver, and gold. Each level offers unique benefits for partners and clients like access to exclusive Kentico training and reduced licensing costs respectively.
Ascedia recently achieved gold partner status with Kentico. This level requires partners to have three live and recent sites along with at least one Kentico certified marketer and developer on staff. Additionally, Kentico Gold Partners must pass a partner quality audit on a regular basis.
You can think of this as a stamp of approval from Kentico themselves. But what does this mean for our clients?
What does Ascedia’s Gold Partner Status Mean for Clients?
- Significant Kentico licensing discount for our clients
- Exclusive support and training for Ascedia ensuring that our clients have a site that empowers marketers to create engaging digital experiences for their customers
What Our Clients are Saying about Kentico?
Kate Moreland, Marketing Manager at Sentry Equipment had this to say when asked about her experience working with Ascedia and Kentico: Did you know much about Kentico before you started working Ascedia?
No. Until I was introduced to Kentico, I was exposed to Magento and other heavy e-commerce platforms or simple platforms such as WordPress.
What were some of the features that made you want to go with Kentico as the CMS for Sentry?
There was minimal development intervention needed to make modifications or edits. We are a small team with no in-house development, so taking the responsibility from the IT team's shoulders and budget for outsourcing was crucial. We had a lot of silos within our tech stack as we overgrew and responded to changes quickly. This caused a need for consolidation and streamlining - our website had to move along with this. Kentico's ability to work with Azure seamlessly was a critical choice for us. Ascedia being able to support Kentico and having extensive experience was a bonus that made the decision a no-brainer.
Now that you’ve had your site up and running – what do you like about it? And are there things you don’t like about it?
The ease of use and quick updates have been immensely helpful. We can create content schedules and publish new content, SEO updates, and more without anyone's help. And when we need help, Ascedia is there to quickly answer any questions. We dislike the native search functionality. It is incredibly literal, and traditional users are likely to spell things wrong or search for the wrong term for their needs. We are now implementing Azure search to combat this, but it hasn't been as helpful as we had hoped.
How was the training process Ascedia put together for you and team?
The training process was incredibly simple. Luckily, our needs and the development team created widgets and items with ease of use in mind. This requires a minimal review of our training documents after initial training. However, having these documents and Ascedia on hand to answer any questions is important, especially as our team grows and evolves.
Would you recommend Kentico to someone? Why or why not?
Yes, I recommend Kentico to individuals who aren't planning on doing traditional e-commerce on their website. Having the security and robust capabilities of our previous platform and the simplicity of a WordPress-type CMS is incredibly beneficial to smaller teams in the B2B space.
Overall
Kentico asks developers and marketers to imagine a web solution that…
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Is easy for marketers and developers to work with
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Has all the tools marketers and developers need out of the box
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Helps marketers reach their audience on relevant channels
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Is flexible and scalable, providing long term value
So, if you are ready to evolve your content management system and marketing or have more questions about Kentico, connect with us here!
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