Case Study: Junior Achievement achieves 20x faster multi-site launches with dotCMS

How Junior Achievement created a centralized system for managing region-specific sites and content

Junior Achievement, a global youth-serving NGO, needed a better way to manage hundreds of localized microsites that had become fragmented under Liferay. The organization wanted a centralized platform to keep branding consistent, reuse content more efficiently, support SEO and privacy compliance, and make it easier for local teams to launch and manage region-specific sites. dotCMS was selected to help address these challenges.

With dotCMS, Junior Achievement implemented a multi-tenant CMS with an object-based content repository that made it easier to share content across sites and align content types with business needs like events, programs, and campaigns. The result was a major efficiency gain: site launches now take hours instead of weeks, training time dropped significantly, and the team can spin up microsites 20x faster than before. Junior Achievement now manages 200-250 microsites with streamlined workflows and less developer overhead, all with dotCMS.

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Robert Berndt

Senior Web Developer