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As your website is one of the most crucial touchpoints in the user’s journey, it is imperative to clearly represent your brand’s core values. Your website is furthermore one of the most measureable marketing assets, making it a very valuable source of information.

The Reference always keeps an eye on new developments in website building practices and tools. This attitude is what makes us pioneers in web development and consolidates our expertise. We have lived through every evolution, up to the emerge of content management systems (CMS) and its inclusion in integrated platforms.
We aim for an organic approach in which our team of talented developers works closely with our designers, business strategists and online marketing consultants. This synergy provides a perfect balance between presentation and performance, thus ensuring the highest level of design accuracy and user experience.

Behind almost all of our websites is a Content Management System (CMS). A CMS helps you to facilitate the creation, publishing, distribution, organization and management of digital content. An advantage that mostly translates itself in time, as you don’t have to call us for modifications to text, images and navigation. This is perfectly in line with our motto "It's more than digital, it's your business".

When determining what CMS you should use, our team of digital experts help you find the right solution that will perfectly fit your brand’s needs.

SITECORE

Sitecore is a producer of customer experience software for excellent and meaningful customer relationships. We are a Platinum Partner of this integrated platform where content management and customer information perfectly converge.

DRUPAL

Drupal is a free and open source content-management software written in PHP. It has great standard features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent security. What truly sets it apart is its flexibility. The tools help us build the versatile, structured content that dynamic web experiences need.

Umbraco

Umbraco is a fully-featured open source CMS. It helps you to create anything -from single blog posts to responsive sites- with a user experience that lets you get the job done and with minimal training. Thanks to proven Umbraco integrations, we succeeded in becoming an Umbraco Gold partner. 

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Adecco

The Adecco Group is the world’s leading HR solutions partner. Adecco provide's more than 700,000 people with permanent and flexible employment every day. Adecco needed to reduce the time to bring new brand websites in different countries to market. The Reference created a solution where branded websites can be created from a common source. The candidate and recruiter portal was streamlined to use shared technology.

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de Persgroep

De Persgroep Online Services launches brand-new site vacature.com in collaboration with The Reference

At the beginning of last year, de Persgroep Online Services decided to give the existing vacature.com platform a complete overhaul. The company gave The Reference the go-ahead to build a completely new site which included deep integrations with the backend system. The Reference pulled off this impressive feat in less than six months.
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Carglass

Carglass selected full-service digital agency The Reference as its implementation partner because of its extensive knowledge of the Sitecore solution. With the new website, Carglass has also exceeded its customers' expectations online.
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KAIM

A brand new Digital Strategy for Kodak Alaris Information Management

Ghent, Wednesday, November 30 - Kodak Alaris Information Management, a global provider of information management solutions, has been collaborating intensely with The Reference to map out KA-IM’s own digital transformation in the form of a new digital strategy to support the company’s repositioning. Full service digital agency The Reference took on the challenge to help drive this transformative process and create a fully renewed global website on the powerful Sitecore Experience Platform that reflects as well as activate Kodak Alaris Information Management’s transformed identity. 
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October 10 2019
The Drupal Headless Series

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For some time now, there is a new hype in CMS land: it's called headless or decoupled. You’ve probably heard about it at events or read about it in marketing articles, but what is it exactly? And why is Drupal 8 going all-in on headless? In this Drupal headless series, we'll explain you what it is, why it can bring enormous benefits to you and your business and how Drupal is leading the market.

First up: the concept of Headless and why it's a little like your phone charger. You heard that right, your phone charger. 
 
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October 18 2018
Federated Authentication in Sitecore 9 with Custom Claims Using Identity Server 3

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Federated Authentication in Sitecore allows you to authenticate users into the Sitecore CMS through an external auth provider. This post aims to provide guidance on how to achieve this, as well as demonstrating some powerful configuration options at your disposal when handling the mapping of claims. I will demonstrate how to take claims from Identity Server 3 and even add custom claims that can be processed by the Owin configuration.
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It's more than digital, it's your business
The Reference is nothing without its customers. Melexis is the stock market-listed global player in the semi-conductor and sensors industry for whom we facilitated future company growth by updating the brand, building the completely new corporate website and giving shape to the use of online channels. Read more about this client.
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