Case Study: Texas State University achieves a unified, easy-to-maintain web presence and reduced CMS costs with Magnolia CMS

How Texas State University used Magnolia to create a unified web presence

Texas State University, a large public university with more than 34,000 students, faced a broken proprietary CMS that left roughly 250 departmental websites inconsistent, hard to update and costly to support. Only a handful of sites had been migrated, content went stale, and decentralized management made coordination and branding impossible; the university needed a scalable, easy-to-use system that would let ~300 content authors reuse content and authenticate via LDAP.

The university implemented Magnolia incrementally, adding features and custom add-ons (including an Apache cache, templates with microformats and LDAP integration) and training users as they rolled the platform out. The result: about 350 sites migrated to a unified, easier-to-maintain infrastructure with better performance, seamless authentication and integration with legacy systems, and reduced annual CMS costs.

Texas State University

Sean McMains

Technical Lead - Enterprise Applications