Agility Centralized Content Management for The English Montreal School Board
Before Agility, EMSB lacked a single point of truth for all its content. With Agility's help, EMSB gained control over their website again. Now editors can edit content granularly, knowing the site will be properly indexed and visible for visitors.
Difficulty Migrating Content
Before Agility, EMSB lacked a single point of truth for all its content. The challenge was migrating content from their custom CMS into Agility to create a content hub, enabling omnichannel content delivery and decentralized content management.
EMSB Sought Control Over Their Website
EMSB succumbed to its own success. With 27 schools across Montreal, the school board's legacy platform couldn't manage every site. It struggled to allow users from each school to create and update content granularly without affecting the other users.
Disjointed Experience and Business Lack of Content Governance
After a while, EMSB's website couldn't keep up with the school board's growth. The platform that supported EMSB's operations was built for a single website with a centralized team and couldn't cope with the needs of every separate school. Every time an edit was made, someone from another school would change it and edit something different. This created chaos and disorganization, impacting the content creation process. Also, the school board was having issues indexing their content, and visitors commented that they couldn't find the EMSB on the search engines.
EMSB approached us looking for a CMS solution that enabled them to manage, build, and maintain multisite in a way that made sense for content editors and non-technical users. With Agility's help, EMSB gained control over their website again. Now editors can edit content granularly, knowing the site will be properly indexed and visible for visitors.
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- More editors empowered
"Agility is a very flexible platform for developers, offering a way to create CMS content for any kind of website easily. The built-in photo editor, the easily searchable media & documents are great for keeping track of anything we put online. Also, it's great that Agility CMS updates their software frequently with new features."
– Andrea Domasio, English Montreal School Board
Building a Centralized Content Hub With Agility
Here's a summary of the English Montreal School Board pain points before implementing Agility:
- Poor indexing of content
- Didn't allow multiple users
- No multisite management capabilities
With Agility, EMSB's content is now organized and structured, which reduces duplication and confusion, enabling each school to work in sync and create school-wide initiatives. With Agility's platform, EMSB now has a structured content workflow that adds visibility to the content creation process.
Agility provided the EMSB with a customizable content hub that allowed for custom roles and workflows, granting the school board granular control over permissions and roles across their Agility instances.
