In January this year Wellington Based Web Development Company SilverStripe was thrust into the international spot light by being awarded the contract to build the Official U.S. Democratic Convention website.
To give you some idea of the scale, recent released traffic statistics of the site measured 2.6 Billion Hits and 3.2 Million visitors during the four day convention and more than 350,000 hours of video had been viewed.
With thousands of CMS applications around the world, what was it about the SilverStripe platform that cemented the deal?
CEO of SilverStripe Brian Calhoun says that it ticked all the right boxes with the ability to integrate with third parties, the ability to scale and a high level of support throughout the convention.
“Being awarded the Convention site was validation that the Silverstripe CMS rates as one of the best in the world” say Calhoun. Ten months on from being awarded the Democratic site, international sales now account for 30 percent of their revenue, staff numbers have increase by 30 percent and they have just recently shifted into new premises.
SilverStripe’s international profile has also gone through the roof with Ohio State University carrying out a one year research program to find out which CMS they would use for their libraries. After using comparison techniques and going through a rigorous selection process the Silverstripe CMS came out on top. This was a nice surprise as Calhoun attended Ohio State University back in the 80s.
SilverStripe was also awarded the California Women’s Convention site which is spear- headed by Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver. The convention is the largest Women’s event in America with 14,000 women in one arena.
The focus has strongly shifted for SilverStripe to international markets; with co-founder Tim Copeland based out of the United Kingdom, SilverStripe is now looking for opportunities to grow the business further.