With Sanity Studio, the developers at CSOD could tailor a custom and intuitive editing interface for their marketers. 

Improved content editing experience

CSOD were able to represent their old site and start iterating to adopt Structured Content for rule-based and more resilient design.

Flexible content modeling

Using Sanity’s hosted APIs for content and images, CSOD’s developers could focus on solving their specific problem. This also drastically reduces lead time and complexity in keeping local servers up to date.

Accelerated developer pace

. is a cloud-based learning and talent management software provider headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The company has ~2k employees, and its software is used by over 42 million people across 192 countries.

With rapid growth, CSOD needed to replace their old stack with a monolithic CMS that run on their servers on-premise. Adopting the 

 architecture using Sanity for structured content, they were able to improve the developer experience significantly. Meaning it is easier to onboard new additions to their team by reducing complexity that came with self-hosting a legacy CMS, and being able to adopt modern website frameworks such as 

The results were a much more performant website, improved user experience, more intuitive and efficient editorial workflows, and shorter time from idea to production. 

Content backend for multi-localized web pages including translation flows.

Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD) switched out their monolithic CMS with Sanity.io to quickly build editorial workflows for translation and get their websites on the JAMStack with 13 languages.

. (CSOD) is a cloud-based learning and talent management software provider headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The company has ~2k employees and its software is used by over 42 million people across 192 countries.

Cornerstone OnDemand

5x faster to deliver new customer touchpoints. Increased developer and editor productivity. Flexibility and easy integration into new tech stack. Faster deployments and more responsive to business needs

Eric Johnson

Defining content models in JavaScript is really powerful. It's easy to add custom previews, complex field validation logic, and we can reuse sets of fields across content types.

CornerStone OnDemand Moved Away From The Monolith with Help from Sanity

There are many ways of setting up multiple websites on Sanity. For CSOD it made sense to share one configuration of the Studio, but deploy one for each of the locales connected to separate datasets. Having one dataset as the master, they can also set up small syncronizing scripts for content that should be shared and translated across all the locales. 

Expanding into overseas markets can get complicated quickly—particularly if you need to build out new architecture and leverage new technologies to support translations and localized content.

We built Sanity to seamlessly connect with many different datasets while preserving itself as a single source of truth. This makes it easier for teams to manage multiple websites or frontend experiences with varying data and content needs.

Different datasets within Sanity, for example, can store content that’s translated or localized for specific countries or regions. Datasets can even synchronize with one master dataset using scripts to help maintain overall brand consistency across websites, global regions, digital channels, or nearly any other frontend. By using a multi dataset architecture, therefore, companies can utilize one configuration and workflow built with 

—the open-source SPA that’s highly customizable via plugins—while defining datasets based on delivery requirements.

Cornerstone OnDemand used Sanity to build editorial workflows

 that enabled website launches in 13 languages.

Multi-dataset architecture

Fuel your entire ecosystem with one centralized content hub

CSOD runs its new website using the React-based website framework Gatsby.js. With 

 they also get low latency real-time previews for their marketers. Using block content with 

 they could make intuitive page builders for landing pages, but not locking the content to one particular markup language.

With flexible content modeling capabilities that replicate the best parts of ACF Flexible content, Sanity can be used to create sophisticated page builders that non-technical editors will find user-friendly. Sanity also supports content previewing, and you can build custom previews reusing React components from your frontend.

 - an open-source application that's customizable via plugins - you can configure web pages to be modularized, giving marketers easy editing access to specific sections and components that can be combined, nested, moved, and customized. With separate route types, marketers can also set up and monitor easy-to-use A/B-testing rigs.

Sanity’s unique 

 also benefits marketers when it comes to images, enabling smart cropping, color palette extraction, as well as EXIF data and image geolocation.

Sanity can be used to create sophisticated page builders that non-technical editors will find user-friendly. It's also easy to configure web pages to be modularized, giving marketers easy editing access to specific sections and components that can be combined, nested, moved, and customized.

Landing page builder

Empower your marketers, unchain your engineers. 

Personalized customer experiences are magnetic, giving your customers and clients a sense of belonging while showing them the most relevant content, products, and services.

—the open-source application that's customizable via plugins—you can build flexible content models for any number of audience segments. Choose freely if you want to segment content by page, field, block, documents, whole datasets, or a combination, reusing content models and Studio configurations.

Thanks to sparse representations that let you define fallbacks, you only need to define the variations you need. Plus, with Sanity’s powerful content delivery APIs, developers can select lightweight payloads for the right markets. For marketers, that means faster content delivery and loading times, even in marketers with low bandwidth.

Choose freely if you want to segment content by page, field, block, documents, whole datasets, or a combination, reusing content models and Studio configurations.

Audience segmentation

Personalize content at scale

A growing brand needs a growing team of content creators. When it comes to entering new markets and regions, you may even need brand new editor environment to support different languages and new forms of content.

With Sanity, it’s straightforward to set up multiple editor environments by deploying several instances of 

 - the open-source application that's customizable via plugins. Global organizations find it convenient to customize the Sanity Studio for specific languages tailored to their specific office locations.

With Sanity, it’s straightforward to set up multiple editor environments by deploying several instances of Sanity Studio - the open-source application that's customizable via plugins.

Multiple editor environments

Give every content creator room to innovate. 

A contemporary brand needs multiple customer and client-facing channels. With Sanity, you can bring your own frontends, and use GraphQL or Sanity’s open-source querying language GROQ to manage, organize, push, pull, and deliver content anywhere.

As an API-first, headless CMS, Sanity was created to allow rapid iteration on content models. For instance, changing the content model will hot-reload the editing UI so you can test out your ideas immediately and query your new data structures over APIs.

With properly structured content, your editors can create content once and re-use it for numerous projects and channels, eliminating content duplication, wasted time, and marketing budget.

As a frontend-agnostic CMS, you can use your favorite frontend frameworks and static site generators, including React.js, Vue.js, Angular, Svelte, Gatsby, Gridsome, as well as eCommerce platforms. To get you started quickly, we even have 

—the open-source SPA that’s highly customizable via plugins.

With Sanity, you can bring your own frontends, and use GraphQL or Sanity’s open-source querying language GROQ to manage, organize, push, pull, and deliver content anywhere.

CornerStone OnDemand Moved Away From The Monolith with Help from Sanity

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Key benefits

Improved content editing experience

Flexible content modeling

Accelerated developer pace

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Multi-dataset architecture

Landing page builder

Audience segmentation

Multiple editor environments

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