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The university "Freie Universität Berlin" decided to introduce a high-performance Content Management System (CMS) in 2005. Founded in 1948 and being Berlins largest university, the Freie Universität Berlin is using the Infopark Content Management System to manage its webpresence.

About Freie Universität Berlin

The modern and internationally renowned Freie Universität Berlin is especially characterised by its excellent teaching and research efforts. A total of 460 professors are presently teaching and researching at the Freie Universität. More than 34.000 students are enrolled in eleven faculties.

Initial Position

Each faculty and department had its own way of publishing information on the Internet which resulted in a multitude of systems and a redundant array of editorial processes, requiring quite large amounts of time. To create a consistent website in regards to a corporate design was nearly impossible under these circumstances.

Decision of a CMS

Due to this fact the university decided to introduce a high-performance Content Management System (CMS) in 2005. The CMS was supposed to manage the entire Web presence of Freie Universität Berlin, including the Web presences of all faculties and departments. At the same time the creation of a new corporate design was started.

The chosen product was the Infopark Content Management System. The technical concept and the individual support was crucial for the decision to use the Infopark CMS. The CMS enables its users to maintain their websites in an easy, save, and uncomplicated way.

Usage of Infopark CMS Fiona

For the implementation of Infopark’s CMS, a team under the management of Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS), the Competence Center for multimedia and e-Learning of Freie Universität Berlin was created. Since November, 1st 2005 the new Web presence of Freie Universität Berlin is online. On November, 4th 2005 the website was introduced on a CMS-symposium at Freie Universität Berlin.

Germany’s Best Web Ranking of World Universities

The “Freie Universität Berlin” is Germany’s number one in the 2008 “Web Ranking of World Universities”. This placing reinforces the web strategy of the university.

For the ranking, over 16,000 web pages of universities and colleges were examined. The criteria applied were the size of the website, search engine results, linking, the number of page quotations on other websites, as well as the number of PDF files, text documents, and presentation slides.