Site of the Year 2018 Winners
Best Financial Services Site
Komerční banka
Komerční banka, a.s. is one of the leading financial institutions in the Czech Republic, Central, and Eastern Europe, and it is a member of the Société Générale Group. The whole solution is integrated with more than 15 Komerční banka systems to ensure proper operation, handling sales opportunities, and many more business critical functionalities.
www.kb.cz/enImplemented by ACTUM Digital
Best Business Services Site
National Food Group
This brand new website was born within National Food Group’s marketing teams to ensure full integration with the company’s other marketing and sales platforms, including NetSuite (CRM) and Act-On (marketing automation).
www.nationalfoodgroup.comImplemented by thunder::tech
Best Consumer Goods Site
Pan Macmillan
One of the UK's largest publishers has significantly strengthened their brand and user interactions. Their new site's performance has increased by implementing an API which pulls in book data 97% faster. Adding genre and author pages has aided navigation, leading to more conversions, and the EMS functionality has enabled closer communications with valued customers.
www.panmacmillan.com
Implemented by Distinction
Best E-commerce Site
Bardahl
Bardahl needed a new fresh website for their B2C customers that would: increase brand awareness through a great new user experience and design; be a go-to-site for technical questions on motor engines; and increase B2C sales through a simplified shopping experience.
www.bardahl.fr
Implemented by EMAKINA
Best Education And Career Site
Upskilled
Upskilled, a leading Registered Training Organisation (RTO) specializing in online training, found themselves investing into a website built in 2012 that was fundamentally broken. Unable to scale for Upskilled’s future growth plans, a call was made to move away from UMBRACO to a new CMS.
www.upskilled.edu.au
Implemented by Interesting
Best Entertainment, Hospitality, And Tourism Site
VISIT Milwaukee
VISIT Milwaukee aspired to create a more modern, flexible, and mobile-friendly digital experience while also positively shifting perceptions about Milwaukee as a destination. Hanson Dodge worked with VISIT Milwaukee to craft a strategic and creative vision for the website that exemplifies a new brand story for the City of Milwaukee.
www.visitmilwaukee.org
Implemented by Hanson Dodge
Best Government and Municipal Site
CzechTrade
CzechTrade is a national promotion agency established with the aim of developing international trade and cooperation between Czech and foreign entities. With the help of integrated systems, the CzechTrade portal provides agency services and informs about the possibilities of trade opportunities.
www.czechtrade.cz
Implemented by AUTOCONT a.s.
Best Healthcare Site
SE Health
Coinciding with the rebranding of Saint Elizabeth, the new multi-site approach brings a fresher, more modern, high-end design to the project role. Forms with email notification and autoresponder are in place to retrieve information and keep the client posted about their inquiries.
sehc.com
Implemented by The Pixel shop
Best Industrial / Manufacturer Site
Komatsu Australia and New Zealand
As a world-leading manufacturer of construction, mining, and forestry equipment, the aim of the project was to build a completely new flagship website for the Australasia Region. The new site is a key component of an innovative digital strategy with Kentico EMS powering many new marketing initiatives.
www.komatsu.com.au
Implemented by Create Studios
Best NGO and Associations Site
First Five Years
First Five Years is a collaborative community of parents, professionals and educators who share advice, insights and experiences to equip parents with support and tools for the important early years of a child’s life. Since launch, visitors have grown from being primarily new visitors to an audience of loyal readers.
www.firstfiveyears.org.au
Implemented by Zeroseven
Special categories
Best Kentico Kontent Implementation
Dentsu Aegis Network
Their new website needed not only to position Dentsu Aegis Network as a leader in the market but also bring to life their vision of “Innovating the Way Brands Are Built”. The project is a great success in terms of the number of leads created (a primary purpose of the project). Since the launch, it has grown substantially to almost 1500 new business leads.
www.dentsu.com
Implemented by isobar
Best Customer Success
Miss Maud
Miss Maud Group serves Australians throughout their cafes, catering business, hotel, restaurant, and bakehouse. Their new Kentico website significantly reduced the time to place online orders for returning customers. YoY comparison shows a 25% increase in online sales. There is also a monthly average of 15,500 “users” visiting the site and an average of 2,700 orders per month.
www.missmaud.com.au
Implemented by Alyka Pty Ltd
Best Graphic Design
Pietro Filipi
There were several goals set up since the beginning of the project: an urge for a clean and simple design of minimalistic approach, a portfolio of high-quality photos of products that would be subsequently displayed via all types of devices.
www.pietro-filipi.com/cz
Implemented by Bluesoft s.r.o.
Best Integration
Radboudumc Intranet
Radboudumc is a medical center, specializing in patient care, scientific research, teaching, and training. Within this portal, Radboudumc significantly improved the quality of life to all target groups. Integrated with Microsoft AD, HR-system BAS, recruitment software Connexys, CAPP, and payments system Buckaroo, the intranet daily reaches 75% of all employees (15,000 unique visitors).
www.radboudumc.nl/patientenzorg
Implemented by TrueLime
Best Kentico Online Marketing Implementation
Konsult Internet Consulting
The primary goal of Konsult is to help organizations implement Kentico or Sitecore content management systems. Their new website is designed as a showpiece using all the out-of-the-box features that Kentico can offer. Among other Kentico online marketing functionalities, they utilize contact-groups, personas and personalization, campaigns, and email marketing.
www.konsult.com.au
Implemented by WDM
Best Migration
Under the Radar Report
Under the Radar Report provide access to small cap research written by Australia’s leading small cap investment experts. However, their former platform Adobe Business Catalyst had many restrictions that have stalled the company’s growth. Pretty applied a new design and delivered a more marketing-friendly, faster and easier-to-manage website.
www.undertheradarreport.com.au
Implemented by Pretty
Largest Site
BTG Plc
Until the end of 2018, there were two main websites for BTG. The scope of this project was to develop the corporate site on Kentico and to migrate and merge the healthcare website into the same site. Rich in content and complexity, the website contains 28,000 documents stored in Kentico and 229,000 Google indexed pages.
btgplc.com
Implemented by Discover IT
About the contest
The annual Kentico Site of the Year contest seeks out the best Kentico implementations and chooses the top three from each category. Three finalists from the Users' Choice Award categories are evaluated by the public. The winners of these categories are projects that have achieved the biggest amount of votes. Subsequently, the winners of Special Jury Award categories undergo closer scrutiny by a Kentico committee consisting of technical specialists.
Benefits for participants.
Finalists and winners will be awarded with:
- A Kentico Site of the Year 2018 Winner/Finalist plaque and certificate
- A Kentico Site of the Year 2018 Winner/Finalist badge for online use
- Partner Points (up to 140 points partners only)
- Broad Kentico promotion
- A personal handover of plaques by Kentico sales representatives
- Social media promotion
- Blog posts and newsletters