Case Study: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University achieves painless migration and streamlined management of 400+ websites with Kentico

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University - Customer Case Study

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, the largest higher-education institution in the Eastern and Southern Cape with about 26,000 students across six campuses, was managing over 400 websites and tens of thousands of pages on a home-grown Classic ASP CMS. With just two web developers, the university struggled to maintain the system, add new features and support hundreds of content managers; they needed a scalable CMS that could handle complex site structures, per-department media stores, external data links and a short learning curve for staff.

The team implemented Kentico, migrating personal sites to a community site, clubs to community groups and departments onto subdomains with tailored page templates and disk-based media libraries. Custom web parts and widgets plus a locked-down UI gave content managers flexible, safe editing, while documents and images were mass imported and pages re-linked during a 10-month, department-by-department migration supported by weekly training. The result was a maintainable, scalable platform with strong user buy-in, easier development via Kentico’s macros and modules, and effective ongoing support.

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University