Customer: Mannheimer Morgen
Project: Multichannel CMS implementation for digital news platforms
- Introduction of Polopoly as a modern client-capable Web-CMS for all online publications from the Mannheimer Morgen publishing group
- Relaunch and facelift of the morgenweb.de and fnweb.de media portals
- Introduction of an entire system: from the analysis of functionality, the architecture and implementation of hardware and software, control of suppliers and integration of the new Web design through to training for editors
- Implementation of a perfectly fitting content structure consisting of editorial sections, regions, features as well as a whole series of different article formats
- Fully automatic integration of print content from the Alfa editing system
- Media integration with the Brightcove video portal and the DC-5 image database
- Syndication of various content sources (DPA, Spotpress, ...)
- Implementation of an innovative regions concept
- Personalization and integration with the existing SSO-system
- Technologies: Polopoly, Java EE, Spring, SOLR, Velocity, Tapestry, Maven, Continuous Integration with Hudson
Success
- Successful launch on time & in budget
- More time for creating original content as a result of the extreme simplification of day-to-day editorial work
- Very satisfied online readers and positive comments from users
- Significant increase in the number of visits to the site
- Successful change in culture in the technical development team with respect to the changeover from PHP to Java technology
- Transfer of technical and methodological know-how to the customer during development
- Excellent software quality with high test coverage
- High level of server performance thanks to the use of multi-level caching architecture
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