Rebuilding the Christie's website
<p>Digitalisation, innovation, and further improvement of the web application of the world's largest auction house</p>
Christie's
<p>The British auction house has a long history of trading, going back to the 18th century. It is famous for holding <strong>auctions of large quantities of fascinating and unique objects, and the most valuable artworks and collections</strong>. Christie's facilitates sellers reaching a global audience for their objects and finding buyers around the world looking for desirable artworks, ultimately achieving the highest price. The aim was to <strong>e</strong><strong>stablish a modern</strong>, <strong>scalable, and flexible </strong><strong>website</strong> that will be able to host a large number of visitors during online auctions, live auctions and provide a platform to allow clients to explore lots and content.</p>
Cooperation with ACTUM
<p>Christie's auction house sells exclusive and often unique products and is counted among the best art and luxury businesses in the world. Therefore, connecting with <strong>ACTUM Digital</strong>, a leading brand in the digital field, was a sensible choice. ACTUM soon became the<strong> partner for Christie's</strong>, offering its IT services, smooth and cost-effective cooperation with IT experts. Creating smart solutions, ACTUM continuously <strong>improved the customer's experience</strong> of Christie's webpage.</p>
Attractive Web Exploring
<p>In order to <strong>increase the visitor's engagement</strong>, ACTUM is in the process of completely redesigning Christie's website. Leveraging technologies such as <strong><a href="https://www.actumdigital.com/technologies/sitecore">Sitecore XP 9.3</a></strong> with SXA, editors can now create the content more conveniently. Moreover, maintenance costs were reduced by migrating the website to <strong>Azure PaaS</strong>. Christie's <strong>switched to digital channels</strong> and vastly reduced the number of printed catalogues, at the same time enabling users with special needs to discover new works of art, as Christie's.com is compliant with <strong>WCAG </strong>and <strong>ADA standards</strong>.</p>
Clever & Elegant Consignments Management
<p>The "My Account" section of Christie's website now provides <strong>consignment management</strong> more efficiently. The new performant application is fully independent of the legacy system, scalable, and highly available. Utilizing Amazon Web Services ACTUM has ensured the <strong>cost-effectiveness</strong> of the new solution while requiring <strong>minimal maintenance costs</strong>.</p>
Fast and Accurate Search
<p>Improving and simplifying the <strong>Enterprise Search Engine</strong> on Christie's website was performed in tight cooperation between Christie's and ACTUM while decreasing the operational costs. <strong>Migrating to SaaS</strong> and leveraging <a href="https://www.actumdigital.com/technologies/aws">Amazon Web Services</a> brings consistent, precise, and relevant results for the new Search Engine users.</p>
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