To improve maintenance of its multilingual national site, and to allow each member organisation to create and manage its own website, Panoptic implemented Tridion as content management system for the ACV confederation. Member sites required support for site-specific navigation structure and the possibility to develop specific content and applications, or inherit them from the Confederation's site.
Solution
The objective was to create a global website which permitted us to inherit content and applications but allowed localizations in style, in content and in applications. Panoptic implemented Tridion as web content management tool. Its blueprinting capacity allowed ACV to share content across a parent site and 32 child sites. By simplifying the tasks of creating, managing, distributing and delivering content in this distributed environment, Tridion reduced the overall cost compared to the previous isolated solutions. Webmasters use Tridion’s standard full-functional authoring client, but for the large group of non-technical members, we developed a custom ASP client with a simplified set of functionalities for creating and managing a member site, starting from a centrally managed template.
To manage security for the distributed user base, Tridion was deployed to a production environment with a double firewall featuring an intrusion detection system and integration with Active Directory.
To manage the project, Panoptic used the traditional waterfall methodology because a very strict analysis of the functionalities and network had to be performed before beginning of the implementation.
Partner:SDL Tridion
