First Quartile
Consulting
www.1stquartileconsulting.com
Industry
Finance/Investment
Partner
Gatesix Inc.
22601 N. 19th Ave / Ste 214
Phoenix, AZ 85027
USA
www.gatesix.com
Sudhir Subbaiah
[email protected]
1-623-572-7725
Goals and Challenges
First Quartile Consulting (1QC) is a focused utility benchmarking and consulting
firm that offers a powerful combination of benchmarking programs and consulting
services to help our clients achieve measurable performance improvements.
Goals:
 Provide superior benchmarking service and projects
 Delivery of accurate and useful data, comprehensive and complete analytic
reports and presentations, insightful advice
 Creation of valued communities within our client group of companies
 Provide high level of customization, which would facilitate on the “task to be
done” rather than “how it should be done”.
 Provide highly scalable website
 for regular users, ready access to all the things they need most, with easy to
find information
 Provide our regular users a place to bring their management and encourage
sales
 Quick and easy access to new users for greater conversion
 Simple and sophisticated look and feel.
 1QC preferred to host and maintain the server themselves. They needed software and services that are robust and don't require lot of hand handling. Handling the website of this magnitude should be the easiest thing for the layman.
Challenges
For existing customer base, they wanted to have a strong community building
effort to progress constantly and:
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Blogs: monitored, limited access
User access to secure areas for downloading sensitive documents
Calendar of events
Link to Webex or Gotomeeting site
Meeting Registration integrated with third party sites.
Access to ad hoc surveys.
All aspect of websites needed to be as easy as possible and user should be able to
accomplish all this with minimal effort.
Solutions
1) Customized DocType / Transformation for LNB
2) Custom Section wise Templates creation
3) Customized Transformation on Photo gallery
4) 1.5 Months
Results
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Enhanced branding
Higher Conversion rates
Increased user satisfaction.
Strong Community base
Hassle free maintenance.
Key criteria for selecting Kentico CMS
Kentico allowed us to
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Provide customization and encapsulation which allowed us to provide the finest
level of detail as per client requirement.
Third Party Integration of different SEO tools is a cake walk in Kentico
Total control over all the visual and information architectural elements.