Complex Sitecore to Sitefinity Migration for Real Estate Investment Platform

THE CHALLENGE

Migrating Complex Legacy Platform with Multiple Dependencies

A prominent real estate investment company needed to migrate their complex Sitecore instance—hosting multiple websites with significant legacy code—to Sitefinity. The platform served as a hub for various consumer-facing websites and internal services consumed by mobile applications and partner systems. The challenge required preserving all custom functionalities, integrations, and maintaining responsive design across all migrated content.

Server racks and data center infrastructure

Enterprise Infrastructure Migration

Complex platform migration with technical leadership and comprehensive planning

Complex Legacy Code Foundation

The Sitecore platform had accumulated years of custom development work, legacy code, and specialized functionality that needed to be identified, evaluated, and migrated carefully to maintain business continuity.

Multiple External Service Dependencies

The platform consumed numerous external services and provided APIs to mobile applications and partner systems, requiring careful assessment and re-integration during migration.

Large Content Volume and Complexity

Significant volume of content assets, multiple website instances, and complex content relationships across the platform required sophisticated migration planning and execution.

Responsive Design Validation

Need to maintain responsive design and user experience across all migrated websites while identifying and addressing any inconsistencies in the new environment.

THE SOLUTION

Comprehensive Enterprise Migration with Technical Leadership

Our team provided full technical leadership throughout a methodical migration process. We conducted extensive planning meetings, performed detailed architectural assessments, managed functionality migration, enhanced content items for better usability, and implemented rigorous quality assurance. The result was a successful transition that preserved all business-critical capabilities while improving SEO and content editing capabilities.

Planning and Architectural Analysis

Conducted multiple planning sessions to establish project scope, timelines, and resource allocation. Performed deep architectural discussions with both internal and client teams to ensure clear understanding of migration challenges and requirements.

Technical Implementation: Project kick-off coordination, architecture documentation, content structure analysis, and migration strategy development

Comprehensive Functionality Migration

Migrated all major functionality modules including blogs, guest services, offers, stores, and custom features from Sitecore to Sitefinity, ensuring each component worked correctly in the new environment.

Technical Implementation: Feature-by-feature migration with integration testing and compatibility validation

Content Enhancement and SEO Optimization

Improved content items throughout migration, enhanced SEO metadata, and simplified content editing processes. Sitefinity's superior content editing interface made future content management significantly easier for the client's team.

Technical Implementation: Content item refinement, SEO field optimization, and content editor training

Responsive Design Validation and Quality Assurance

Thoroughly validated responsive design across all devices, identified inconsistencies, and implemented fixes. Implemented comprehensive quality assurance strategy with lean methodologies for quick turnaround and stakeholder confidence.

Technical Implementation: Cross-device testing, responsive design fixes, QA process implementation, weekly stakeholder demos

Data center server racks and infrastructure

Successful Platform Migration

Complex Sitecore to Sitefinity transformation with all functionalities preserved and enhanced

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