When Elopak, the globally acting packaging specialist headquartered in Oslo, Norway decided to re-launch her corporate website a few key requirements were set right from the start:

-          The corporate website should be maintainable by non-technical staff with a minimum of training,

-          The solution should be scalable and flexible enough to adapt to further extensions in the near future, e.g. to offer localized contents for different countries,   

-          Contents from the intranet (which is powered by Microsoft SharePoint) should be re-used on the internet with least possible effort,

-          The initial project should fit into the sporty timeline.

More than 10-years of fruitful co-operation between the German subsidiary of Elopak and the Mannheim based JANUS die Werbemanufaktur agency made it quite a logical step, to turn to JANUS and ask them for advice.

A most critical challenge of this project was, of cause, to identify the most suitable CMS to get the job done in a sustainable way. After researching into a variety of different options, JANUS selected the onion.net CMS to build the integrated solution. Not only could onion.net demonstrate a very powerful SharePoint integration as part of their product offering, both systems do fit together very well from an operational point of view: they rely on the same server technology. The model driven approach of onion.net came in handy to generate a bespoke but flexible solution in only a few weeks.

With the web-based onion.net editor the corporate websites' contents and appearance can be controlled virtually from any place in the world. The powerful onion.net SharePoint integration enables the internet editors of Elopak to select any suitable contents from the SharePoint intranet  to re-use it together with other contents in the proper corporate design of the respective public website. Later, when contents in SharePoint are changed (and approved) the corresponding corporate websites are updated automatically. Image processing has also been automated, especially in the comprehensive marketing & media section. When a pdf-document is offered as a download the associated thumbnail image is automatically generated from its first page, multi-page pdf-documents are dynamically split into single pages and fed into a flip page creator, and so on. 

The new corporate sites Elopak.com and Elopak.de have been re-launched on the new platform, and run now on a consolidated virtual server infrastructure in the JANUS computer-center. More projects like the addition of further languages, localized pages for a variety of countries and a corporate site for Russia are already in the planning stage.

The CMS vendor onion.net is a silver sponsor of the European SharePoint Conference. If you are interested to gather more insight into their unique model-driven CMS technology don't hesitate to talk to the experts at booth 34. Appointments can be made in advance online at t.b.d