Modernizing Trojan Technologies’ Global Content Ecosystem
Replacing a legacy CMS with a composable, content-first platform designed for scale, flexibility, and partner enablement.
Trojan Technologies is a global leader in water treatment solutions, supporting critical infrastructure for municipalities and organizations around the world. Working with major cities, including New York City, Trojan Technologies relies on a network of regional partners to bring its solutions to market. To support this global footprint, they needed a modern content platform that could replace a legacy system that no longer met their needs, unify a fragmented web presence, and enable teams to confidently manage consistent, brand-centric content within a cohesive Trojan Technologies digital experience, with multilingual capabilities as a future phase.
The Challenge
Trojan Technologies needed to move quickly to replace its legacy monolithic platform ahead of a firm deadline. At the same time, the team wanted to simplify a fragmented digital landscape that had grown to include four separate web properties.
The new platform needed to support future multilingual content, gated resources, and brand-specific content hubs, while also serving as a lead generation engine focused on form fills and partner enablement. Just as important, Trojan Technologies’ internal team needed to be supported through a significant shift in tooling and working practices as they transitioned to a composable CMS and new ways of managing content.
Complexity had become part of how we operated. Moving everything onto a single platform changed that. We now have one place to manage content across regions and brands, and that clarity has made a real difference.
The Strategy
From the outset, the focus was on building a future-ready content platform that could scale with Trojan Technologies’ global business and evolving go-to-market model. Orium recommended a composable CMS-first approach, leveraging Contentful as the foundation for both content management and search, paired with a modern hosting layer on Vercel.
The strategy would centre on consolidating Trojan Technologies’ digital properties into a single corporate website capable of supporting multiple brands, regions, and languages from one platform. This would include designing content models that make it easy to manage regional variations, brand-specific experiences, and partner-focused resources without introducing unnecessary complexity.
Because regional channel partners play a significant role in selling Trojan Technologies’ solutions, the strategy also included plans for a gated partner hub. This login-only experience would allow partners to access regionally relevant product information, brochures, and resources, while ensuring security and proper access control through Auth0.
Finally, the engagement would intentionally be structured as a fixed-fee project, with a strong emphasis on enablement, to ensure that supporting Trojan Technologies’ team through training, upskilling, and a shift toward more agile ways of working was delivered in close partnership throughout the process.
We set out to consolidate our fragmented web presence into one website without losing the individual brand identities our customers know and trust. Orium built functionality that allows any page to reflect a specific brand’s look and feel, helping customers instantly recognize the brand within each section of the site.
The Solution
Given the scope and content-heavy nature of the platform, Orium led an extended alignment phase to ensure clarity and stakeholder buy-in before development began. Over six weeks, the teams worked through three full design review cycles, creating space for feedback, iteration, and collaboration across business and technical stakeholders.
Extensive user interviews were conducted with both Trojan Technologies’ internal team and regional partners to ensure the platform’s structure and outcomes aligned with real-world needs. These insights informed everything from content modeling to navigation and access controls.
To streamline delivery and protect budget for high-value work, Orium used AI-assisted tooling and automation to accelerate repetitive tasks and support content modeling and migration. Design was developed upfront in Storybook, allowing development teams to generate strong foundational code that could then be refined, rather than rebuilt, during implementation. The website design was distinguished by its highly flexible branding system, enabling consistent yet adaptable application across components and pages, supported by a responsive partnership throughout the engagement.
The platform was built on Contentful, replacing their existing legacy CMS and consolidating content from additional CMS instances into a single, unified platform. Marketo forms were integrated to support lead generation goals, including rebuilding a key calculator used to demonstrate cost savings to prospective clients. SEO best practices were incorporated throughout to ensure the new platform supported discoverability from day one.
Because Trojan Technologies’ organization had historically worked in a more traditional, engineering-led project model, Orium also played a consultative role in introducing agile and scrum practices. This included structured acceptance testing, early defect identification, and collaborative planning that enhanced visibility, supported continuous improvement, and strengthened team confidence throughout the project.
Orium helped us transform a complex digital environment into a cohesive, future-ready platform. Their guidance in moving from a monolithic system to a modern headless architecture was instrumental in setting us up for greater flexibility, scalability, and long-term success.
Outcomes & Next Steps
Trojan Technologies’ new platform replaces their historic monolithic CMS platform. Going forward, the organization will operate from a single, scalable content platform that supports multilingual content, brand-specific experiences, gated partner resources, and lead generation across global markets.
With Contentful in place and the internal team trained and enabled, Trojan Technologies will be positioned to continue evolving its digital presence with greater speed and autonomy. The new foundation supports ongoing optimization, regional expansion, and future enhancements as Trojan Technologies’ content and partner strategies continue to mature.
