Background
Apex Group is one of the world’s fastest-growing financial services businesses, supporting asset managers, financial institutions and corporates in more than 50 jurisdictions. With 13,000+ employees and $3.4 trillion assets serviced, its global websites are critical to supporting brand trust, commercial growth and a seamless client experience.
Apex Group needed a new Umbraco managed services partner with the expertise to enhance the performance, flexibility and maintenance of its corporate website.
As a Platinum Umbraco Partner, Digital Wonderlab was selected based on our deep technical capability and proven ability to: Improve platform resilience, reduce operational costs, support rapid expansion and strengthen analytics accuracy.
Solution
Apex Group partnered with Digital Wonderlab to stabilise, optimise and future-proof its Umbraco platform, enabling rapid growth without driving up running costs.
Migrated Apex Group’s websites to Umbraco Cloud, enabling automatic security updates and removing unnecessary server load. This reduced monthly hosting and operational costs by 50% while restoring accurate analytics data for the marketing team.
As an ongoing managed services partner, we actively guide roadmap development, identifying issues before they escalate, improving publishing workflows and supporting new feature development in line with business growth.
Impact
After the first few years of partnership, Digital Wonderlab has transformed Apex Group’s digital foundation delivering measurable improvements in performance, governance and operational efficiency.
Here are the results:
50% reduction in hosting and operating costs
Reduced server strain by eliminated unnecessary processing
Faster publishing capability
Improved site stability
Analytics accuracy restored with phantom traffic removed
Reliable data now informing marketing and investment priorities
Redesigned and improved the flagship corporate site
Successfully launched a new foundation website
Component library now enabling faster rollout of new pages and future sites
Results
"As Platinum Umbraco Partners it’s not surprising they have the skills and experience we needed to implement some ambitious projects. What we weren't expecting was the way they’ve really delved into the infrastructure of our sites and found solutions for problems we weren’t even aware of."
