SmartOSC Gets Sitecore Award Honorable Mention for Most Sophisticated Implementation with Ricoh Asia
SmartOSC has been given an Honorable Mention for Most Sophisticated Implementation in the 2020 Sitecore Experience Awards for its work with Ricoh Asia Pacific.
The Sitecore Experience Awards (SEA) are held annually and celebrate brands that build digital experiences for their customers using Sitecore®️ technology. Following on from winning the award in 2018, SmartOSC was recognised this year for its use of Sitecore’s powerful eCommerce tools to deploy a new digital platform for Ricoh Asia Pacific, which Sitecore said showcased “the complex capabilities and scalability that Sitecore enables for organizations and brands”.
The Award-winning Ricoh Project
Ricoh is a market leader in document management solutions, IT services, communications services, commercial and industrial printing, digital cameras, and industrial systems. Founded in 1936, Ricoh now provides support to more than 1.4 million companies across 200 countries and has annual global sales of $18.5 billion. In 2019, Ricoh Asia Pacific decided to revamp its regional website to be more customer-centric, and approached Digital Transformation agency SmartOSC for help.
To deliver a new and improved site suitable for 9 different countries in Asia-Pacific, SmartOSC leveraged Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 for its powerful site-building capabilities and SEO marketing tools. In the interest of overhauling Ricoh’s content synchronisation, too, SmartOSC introduced content migration to a centralised Content Repository, leading to faster time-to-market delivery for quick rollout in each country in the region.
Finally, SmartOSC focused on personalising the customer experience for visitors to Ricoh’s new site. This involved identifying different types of end-users and segmenting them across industry verticals, and then creating custom profiles to provide tailored content to each type of user. This, along with a reconfiguration of Ricoh’s search function and download assets reports, generated more customer data which could be used for detailed analytics to help deliver relevant and engaging content to the customers.
“The greatest challenge for Ricoh Asia Pacific was providing a central governance on Ricoh products and solutions while allowing each operating company to customise the marketing content with reference to their local market. Ricoh project team and SmartOSC worked together closely to deliver the results that we see today, exemplifying Ricoh’s core belief that change is driven by imaginative thinking.”
[Yuji Hiruma, Director and Senior General Manager, Ricoh Asia Pacific]
Learn more about SmartOSC’s digital transformation project with Ricoh
About Sitecore Experience Awards
The Sitecore Experience Awards are the platform’s own way of recognising brands that have delivered outstanding digital experiences with Sitecore in the last year. SEA 2020 Honorable Mentions were selected as they demonstrated to the judges that they used Sitecore solutions to make notable impact in terms of experience or content management, of which SmartOSC’s solution for Ricoh Asia was ruled to be a perfect example.
“We have seen exceptional customer work this year, unlocking new levels of audience engagement and shortened time-to-market for content creation to provide superior digital experiences that drive ROI and deliver business value.”
[Paige O’Neill, CMO, Sitecore]
SmartOSC is a registered Sitecore Partners, providing services on its Experience Platform and using its bespoke extension Commerce B2B Accelerator to help B2B businesses optimise their eCommerce websites, deliver smarter online shopping solutions and improve their customers’ retail journeys.
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