Case Study: Morningstar speeds up content delivery with Contentstack

Morningstar speeds up content delivery with Contentstack's headless CMS

Morningstar, a leading provider of investment research and financial data, needed a CMS that could fit a cloud-based architecture while handling complex content types and real-time financial information. The company’s traditional document-oriented system could not easily support content like its “Our Picks” lists, which combine analyst commentary, structured securities data, financial identifiers, and supplemental assets. Morningstar turned to Contentstack’s headless CMS to better support its public web content and related content within paid products.

With Contentstack, Morningstar built a structured, API-first content workflow that let teams create, enrich, and deliver content from multiple data sources in a unified UI. The implementation also supported migration from the legacy system, faster edge delivery, and a more streamlined editor experience. As a result, Morningstar reported content rendering was five times faster, content could be enriched more easily, and publishing that once took days could now be completed in minutes.

Morningstar

Clay Gregoryy

Principal Architect