Media company consolidates online portal
The Challenge:
The Internet portal of a leading media company acts an important interface for a variety of content including text-based material, images, documents, video and audio files. The system landscape has evolved historically over the years and is largely based on an outdated content management system (CMS). The old system is inflexible in face of new demands, expensive to operate, update and adapt.
The Solution:
In order to implement a new system the company opted for a best-of-breed approach, aimed at achieving improved flexibility and vendor independence. However, in order to prevent uncontrolled growth the new system is to be based on uniform SOA system architecture. This results in standardized interfaces, formats, system and software architecture. With over 30 million page impressions, 30 language versions and some 500 active editors, the media company’s demands are high in terms of performance and reliability. SOPERA ASF not only meets these demands but because it’s open source, also drives down costs. So SOPERA was the ideal choice for consolidating the company’s portal.
The Result:
The media company opted for a migration strategy involving five independent stages. This gradual modernization is facilitated by the decoupling and modularization that SOA enables. The SOPERA ESB connects all the components of the new CMS, realizing a decentralized “content-bus”. Using SOPERA’s ToolSuite new project can develop standardized and reusable services, while the SOPERA HQ option pack provides for transparent management of the distributed system. Within the project both new front- and back-end applications were developed and the old content database integrated transparently. Using SOPERA ASF, the media company has modernized its CMS infrastructure so that it is not only future proof but also cost effective.
