Django CMS multilingual website relaunch

Corporate website redesign and relaunch

Guiding a distributed team at Sherpany to successfully design and develop their enhanced online presence on Django CMS.

Strategic guidance

what. provided guidance to help Sherpany plan the website design and implementation to get the company’s new positioning public fast and iterate continuously afterwards.

Open source stack

Our preferred Django CMS solution was chosen to ensure longevity of the platform, low total cost of ownership and enterprise like features.

Getting things done

what. turned around the project, enabling Sherpany to focus on their core business and celebrate the relaunch within 3 months from starting the project.

overview

what. we did for Sherpany

We worked closely together with the Sherpany offices in Portugal and Zurich to advise and lead the design and development of the new corporate website.

Our iterative approach and experience gave the team at Sherpany confidence in our process. Subsequently we led a successful website relaunch and redesign, whilst closely and intensely collaborating with the team at Sherpany.

customer

Who is Sherpany?

Sherpany was founded in 2011 with the vision of creating a world where every meeting counts.The SaaS solution for meeting management follows these best practices and paves the way to productive meetings. More than 7’000 executives have increased the productivity of their meetings since Sherpany’s inception.

- Sherpany is streamlining meetings to achieve business objectives faster.
- It’s one of the most successful Swiss scale-ups and Top 100 Swiss startups.
- The privately owned and award-winning company employs over 100 people in 6 offices in Europe.

Challenges

New positioning

Sherpany has changed its positioning and needed guidance to translate and apply the new strategy to the visual presence on the website.

New design

The website was redesigned and required some reengineering to ensure efficient delivery and sustainable further development.

Time pressure

The team was under pressure to deliver results due to high expectations associated with the new strategic positioning.

Goal

Our main target

High quality and fast relaunch of the website aligned with the new positioning and strategy

Summary

How we did it

We led the analysis of the prepared concept and scoped the “MVP version” of the website that we could quickly implement to address the time pressure related to the relaunch of the positioning and new messages.
Working closely with Sherpany’s marketing team, we reworked the design to create the pages faster – keeping the style but with more consistency and implementability. We then built the pages on Django CMS. The “MVP version” went live in less than 3 months after initial contact.
Since the website relaunch, we have added more features to the site in several iterations and continue to work with Sherpany to improve the site.
We worked with Sherpany’s Portugal and Zurich office and the collaboration was intense, collaborative, and productive. We were able to iterate fast to be able to follow through with the tight schedule.

Our experience

“The team at Sherpany immediately connected to our iterative design and development methods, where clients can transparently see the progress. We led the project to deliver a high quality website before the important deadline.”

Marcus Kuhn

Partner