Dentons’ Shift to Smarter Web Experience With Sitecore

Overview

Dentons, one of the world’s largest and most profitable law firms, needed a robust and scalable digital platform to support its global presence across 70+ countries. Its legacy Sitecore v6.6 website faced critical challenges like limited multilingual support, slow content publishing, outdated architecture, and performance issues that hindered user experience.

To modernize its digital presence, Dentons partnered with Altudo, its trusted digital transformation partner since 2013, to migrate to Sitecore v8.2 on Azure IaaS. Altudo revamped the site architecture with a reusable backend framework, rebuilt 18 pipelines, and removed redundant code to improve performance. Multiple subsites and microsites were launched with 50% faster turnaround. The new platform supports nine languages, advanced search, and AA-level accessibility, empowering Dentons to deliver a secure, high-performing, and globally consistent digital experience.

Challenges

• Developing multilingual websites.
• Upgrading website to Sitecore v8.2.
• Facing issues with website performance, load balance and content publications.
• Needed navigational structure on the website.
• Lack of career search functionalities and search engine module.

Solutions

Our team developed advanced sub-websites for Dentons, redesigning templates and revamping 18 customized pipelines with an upgraded generic architecture. The project included migrating Sitecore from version 6.6 to 8.2 on Azure IAAS, eliminating redundant code, and implementing an intuitive navigational structure. Additionally, we updated the search engine logic for global search, enabled career search functionalities, and provided comprehensive support for all client websites.

Results

• 71.03% decrease in bounce rate

• 50% increment in client engagement

• 30% cost saving

• 22% increase in social media traffic

• 21.06% increase in pages per session

• 20% improvement in conversion rate

• 20% year on year productivity

• 7.71% increase in pageviews