Component-Based Development & Rapid Rollout of 15+ Websites for a Publishing Conglomerate

Crain Communications is one of the largest privately owned media companies with more than 50 leading business, trade and consumer brands in North America, Europe and Asia. It boasts of delivering news to more than 6 million global business leaders.

Managing a number of websites, proved to be a challenge since each brand was operating on its own web platform. The new digital initiative was to ensure brand consistency and operational efficiency.

Providing a central governance model, it would help efficiently manage the different web properties while also lowering down the cost.

Srijan rolled out 15+ websites onto the new platform from the various framework without compromising on the best practices across SEO, performance, and media management.

The central digital publishing platform was built on Drupal 8, reducing the development time by half compared to an earlier estimate (if websites were done independently).

Here’s how we did it: