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.
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
