Equiniti

Consolidating 14 sites to one platform for a £300m company

Equiniti Group is a leading business services provider, delivering complex administration and payment solutions to over 2,000 clients in the UK's public and private sectors. As one of the fastest growing and most successful companies in its sector, Equiniti is rapidly acquiring new businesses.

In response to this lively expansion, Etch was asked to work with Equiniti in order to help manage their growing portfolio of websites. This was to involve bringing them all under the same 'branded' umbrella whilst also relocating the disparate platforms to one centrally managed CMS - Umbraco.

Our initial focus was set on helping them understand the level of requirements, and how we could organise a large-scale series of acquisitions into one system. Following closely after this was a responsive design structure that could be applied across the portfolio of sites, bringing them all visually into one clear branded hierarchy.

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The Result

An on-going program of modular development with planned rollouts of specific areas across the year. This allows a controlled visual & code transformation from a fixed to a responsive site.

The Deliverables

  • UX Design
  • Technical Re-architecture
  • Systems Integration
Users test driving the Equiniti sites
Users test driving the Equiniti sites
The results of a wireframing workshop for Equiniti
The results of a wireframing workshop for Equiniti

Centrally managed content platform

An overarching Umbraco system driving multiple websites, sharing resources such as code, media and copy. This approach allows us to deliver multiple sites, fully branded in a fast and cost effective manner.