Overview

Talk about a drop-dead deadline—that's what the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) was up against. For more than 70 years, IFT has been unlocking the potential of the food science community by creating a dynamic global forum where members from more than 100 countries can share, learn, and grow. Each year, IFT hosts its Annual Meeting and Food Expo, an event that attracts tens of thousands of food professionals from around the world. With the event rapidly approaching, IFT needed to overhaul its Web site – and they needed to do it very fast. So, after completing the design, IFT brought in Velir to build the site.

With the clock ticking, Velir executed a rapid implementation of a Sitecore CMS for the redesigned IFT.org. Following our proven methodology, we quickly worked through the phases of the Sitecore process — from Content Object Definitions and Page Level Specifications to Sub-layout Creation. And, to make the process move even faster, we leveraged our comprehensive library of Sitecore Accelerators, which provide out-of-the-box enhancements to Sitecore and enable us to swiftly build requested features. We also performed a complicated series of integrations including the Personify Association Management System and SusQTech's Member to Member community software.

Despite the compressed timeline, we delivered the site on time and without headaches – ensuring that IFT had a compelling new site to showcase at its Annual Meeting. The new site provides IFT's members with a host of new resources and capabilities, organized to be simple to find and use. On the back end, it is now much easier for IFT's staff to use and enables them to delegate content responsibilities and ensure that new content retains a consistent look and feel that strengthens the brand. With the new site live, IFT is more relevant to its members and better equipped to advance its mission: feeding the mind's that feed the world.