Group S

Implementation of a CMS system based on RedDot CMS and LiveServer.

See the published web site at www.groupes.be.

The main objectives were :

• to improve the support for authoring and publishing of articles by all non IT-staff
• to redesign the company web site to improve the visitor experience and promote Group S products and services

The quality of the implemented solution :

• all non-IT staff can now create and manage published content with SmartEdit interface
• efficient support for translation of new or updated articles, either by the author him-self, or by registered translator using the Reddot Translation Editor
• Reddot RDBMS connector was used to fetch data (such as scales, price indices, and other social numeric information) from corporate RDBMS, automatically at publication time
• automated integration with a web tracker software to track for changes on the government web site, automatically feed the corporate CMS with latest information, and trigger a Reddot workflow
• 3 IT staff were trained by CEDITI, and can now maintain the project on their own
• flexible solution : web design, content structure and business processes have evolved during the all project, but the web site was online following initial planning anyway

Main challenges :

• migration of 20 000 MS Word documents in 2 languages into clean HTML CSS-based pages, applying uniform presentation to all published documents

The result :

• web site online on due date (January 2006)

Some figures :

• 1 CMS Server (Windows 2003/Oracle 9i), 2 concurrent administrators, 10 concurrent editors
• 1 LiveServer Server (Windows 2003) supporting 100 000+ visitors each month
• Web site of 20 000+ web pages, each of them in 2 languages
• 50+ Reddot templates