Ascensus

Replace an outdated solution with a performant CMS

Jahia has met all of our requirements. Jahia was the right choice as it provided a powerful user interface built on an Open Source platform that integrated well in our technical and operational environment.

– Matthew Rowe, Chief Information Officer

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Ascensus College Savings is a leading administrator of 529 Plans dedicated to meeting the needs of families saving for college across the country. The company was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Newton, MA. They currently provide program management and administration services for 31 plans across 17 states. Ascensus has approximately $70 billion in assets under administration through 3.5 million accounts (as of October 30th, 2015).

Objectives

Replace it’s outdated, inefficient and inflexible content management system platform: create a new page meant creating individual assets for each PDF and image to be used on that page. That could mean creating 10+ assets before even beginning the actual page build
Responsive capabilities: inability to easily create responsive websites and stay current with technology. (Ascensus had to build and maintain two versions of each site to cover both desktop and mobile versions)
Improve clients' online experience by presenting information to any device in a simple, quick and intuitive way
Ability to plug-in to existing Content delivery network (CDN)
Alignment with current architecture infrastructure

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unique visitors/month

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Ascensus associates

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internal users of Jahia’s technology

Solutions

A powerful, intuitive User Interface for content editors
Customizable workflow and authorizations
Responsive template designs ready for customization
Multiple site hosting: Jahia enables a core engineering team at Ascensus to run three websites, each with their own brand, in order to manage a variety of service models that range from record-keeping and administration to fullservice program management
Great support: Jahia’s engineers were available off-hours to create and test workarounds and fixes as needed post-launch. “The Jahia team has been very responsive to our unique configuration and provided a stable platform to grow.” Matthew Rowe / Chief Information Officer
Content API & Asset handling: “We have built custom applications for analytics, login integration from our application, data collection pages using Rest API, pie chart rendering and added srcset attribute on images to handle responsive images.” David Richards / Sr. Web Content Manager