Case Study: Acuity Brands achieves 83% faster product catalog search and easier product discovery with Sitecore

Acuity Brands builds new Sitecore site that brings more than 4,500 product web pages to light for business customers

Acuity Brands, a leading provider of lighting and building management solutions, faced a bulky, unreliable website that made it hard for its diverse customers to find the right products across more than 4,500 product pages. To create a more stable, faster platform and reduce maintenance costs, Acuity chose Sitecore (building on the Sitecore Experience Platform, XP 9) to drive a comprehensive site redesign.

Working with Sitecore and partner RDA to deploy Sitecore on Microsoft Azure PaaS and integrate the product information management system and Coveo search, Acuity delivered a faster, more searchable site that supports its main site plus 14 brand sites. The Sitecore implementation cut catalog load and ETL times dramatically (catalog ETL 72→2 hours), sped search from up to 15 seconds to under 2 seconds, improved page loads (4–5s → 2–3s), raised click‑through rates from 70% to 85%, and reduced users unable to find products from ~15% to ~5%, while reducing maintenance overhead and enabling faster time to market.

Acuity Brands

Andrew Crowder

VP of Enterprise Architecture