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 multiple 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 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.

Sanity unlocks marketing teams with landing pages backed by structured content.

Combine Sanity with audience insights, 3rd party platforms, and data from internal systems to optimize workflows and drive campaigns that convert.

Sanity is the content backend for efficient frontend workflows.

Use your favourite JavaScript framework to access content over APIs and build in an intuitive and logical manner.

Integrate Sanity with design systems like 

 to populate your components with real data. Test-drive Sanity with our starters for React (

Sanity integrates with modern hosting and serverless platforms like Zeit, Netlify, and AWS to achieve excellent lighthouse performance scores.

fast images with on-the-fly transformations

 from a global CDN. Provision content flows for SEO metadata that improve SERP with microformats, Google listings, Open Graph, JSON-LD, and more.

Structure content the way you need it. Build using a single source of truth to avoid the pitfalls of managing content across marketing and business platforms.

Use product data, inventory, and geolocation to drive display. Synchronise Sanity with data from legacy systems – work with content old and new, and distribute it through scalable, flexible APIs.

Use code to mix-and-match content blocks and automate page creation for target demographics. Combine conditional logic with audience insights to to personalise, optimize, A/B test, and convert.

 for an intuitive project-tailored editor experience.

Support efficient workflows with real-time preview and real-time collaboration. Roll back documents to previous versions. Integrate Google Analytics into the editing experience and see how different published versions of a document affect bounce rate and dwell time.

As long as your marketing stack has APIs you can integrate it with Sanity.

Sanity works with best-in-breed marketing automation and CRM services like Hubspot, Marketo, and Salesforce. Use it to gate content, collect email leads, and build relationships.

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

Create, test, and iterate with structured content

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. 

Sanity provides an experience like Google Docs within a CMS. Our editing environment has real-time capabilities built-in so that you can work faster, and collaborate with colleagues regardless of where they are to get things done.

We got editing basics right so that your editors don’t waste time on repetitive actions. Sanity supports all the features you’d expect as well as 

, image paste from clipboard, MS Word format preservation, and customizable 

 document states built in, but doesn’t stop there. You can 

, such as approval states with custom badges, then sequence them however you need.

You can also assign documents between users, and combine states and assignments to build a kanban/swimlane style document project management interface.

 however you like to meet the needs of content creators.

Managing complexity can be a challenge for advanced content projects. Use our 

 to partition and arrange content types for a clean admin interface.

choose which text and image fields appear in your document lists

 so that editors can preview what they need at a glance. Sanity also lets you build and incorporate multiple 

 with custom fonts, colors, and logos to match your project’s style.

 of every field and document down to the keystroke. If you need to go back to a previous session you can easily travel back in time and fetch an old version.

With Sanity you get editing experiences adapted to the way you work, not the other way around. The Sanity Studio ships with sensible defaults to get you started instantly, yet extends to meet the needs of advanced content teams.

Editorial workflows

Work faster with tailored editing experiences

When dealing with localization, context is everything and text is just the beginning.

Sanity doesn’t restrict your content's structure. Create content models that span languages and territories in ways that suit you best.

Apply localization to any combination of 

 levels to get the optimal workflow and localization for your audience.

 that lets you decide how and where to support translations. Start with strings and extend to support tailored graphics, captions, and ALT texts.

 and intelligent rule-based fallbacks. You can also group and sequence editor inputs any way you like to support content quality with optimized workflows.

Sanity supports integrations with API-based 3rd party services. Connect to translation platforms like Transifex and Smartling to build workflows that work the best for your organization.

Ensure consistent and efficient messaging across business regions with localization deployed at the 

 level. Generate master content at HQ and support override patterns for satellite regions.

Localization is a way to get the same message across to different people. If this sounds similar to personalization and segmented messaging, that’s because structurally, it is.

The same data modelling techniques used to provide locales can also deliver content based on audience segment, preference, or lifecycle.

With Sanity you can do both in a structured way that makes the most sense for your content.

Apply localization to any combination of field, field set, document, and data set levels to get the optimal workflow and localization for your audience. Sanity supports integrations with API-based 3rd party services.