News Archive 2008

General Hospital Society AHG Introduces New Communication Concept

The General Hospital Society (Allgemeine Hospitalgesellschaft AG, AHG) presents itself with a new overall concept on the Internet. The corporation itself as well as all clinics now have their own web presence that adheres to the new internet style guide. For maintaining the web presence, the AHG introduced Infopark CMS Fiona.

The aim of implementing a new communication concept was reached as the website was relaunched. For patients and their relatives, several methods of finding answers to their medical questions are available. The extensive Internet presence helps the affected persons to find a clinic where their disease can be treated appropriately.

The new website of the AHG was judged highly accessible by the BIK project, a joint project of German associations for blind and vision-impaired people.

The AHG is a medical rehabilitation company with over 45 institutions in Germany. Every year, approximately 50,000 patients are treated in clinics, first-aid stations, and therapeutic centers.

Yamaha Makes Music on the Web with Infopark's Solutions

After using Infopark CMS Fiona in Europe with great sucess, Yamaha Corporation started to use the system for global websites. Thats why they are going to implement Infopark CMS Fiona in regions such as Asia-Pacific and North America. One reason for this decision can be seen in the modern architecture of Infopark CMS Fiona. The system is based on Ruby on Rails and therefore designed for dynamic. This fact as well as the system’s high degree of expandability made it an easy choice for Yamaha.

The Yamaha Corporation with its headquarter in Hamamatsu (Japan) is the worlds leading producer of musical instruments. The company employs about 50,000 people worldwide.

Free University Berlin is Germany's Best in the "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. Since many years, the university uses Infopark CMS Fiona as their Content Management System for running their internet presence, www.fu-berlin.de.

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.

The “Freie Universität Berlin” is regarded one of the best scientific places. More than 34,000 students are enlisted in the university’s eleven faculties.

New: Dialogue on the Web with Infopark Online Marketing Cockpit

Online-Marketing is increasingly characterized through active exchange between customers and companies. Infopark Online Marketing Cockpit (OMC) - the newest product of Infopark AG - offers the chance to initate and create your dialogue on the web actively.

Utilize the potential of customer acquisition via the internet. Rely on our solution for effective customer relationship management to create profitable long-term customer relations via the web. By integrating the OMC into Infopark CMS Fiona, you receive an efficient complete service solution.

Dialogue on the Web: Infopark's Website Relaunched

Welcome to Infopark’s New Website!

On our new website we present much more information about our products and services. And we would also like to demonstrate that “Dialogue On Your Website” is not just an empty phrase for us but the gist of our philosophy.

Not only did we improve the navigation, search, and usability, we also worked on the content. Another novelty is the customer portal, www.infopark.com/portal, which is dedicated to the users of our solutions. Of course, we implemented all of our new website with Infopark CMS Fiona and Infopark Online Marketing Cockpit.

Feel free to comment or rate our new website right now (login required)!

Infopark's New Customer Portal: More Online Services for Our Users

In parallel to our reworked website, our new customer portal has opened. It is the central point of contact for the users of our web solutions. Here, customers can find exclusive information and services such as software downloads, the extended support area, and our Knowledge Base.

In our customer portal, new means of communication and interaction are available to the the users of our web solutions: you can comment and rate content, track or extend your support cases online, and much more.

The customer portal can be reached directly at www.infopark.com/portal.

Slovenian EU Council Presidency draws positive conclusion on the usage of Infopark CMS Fiona

Sixth months into the existence of the website the Slovenian EU Council Presidency concludes its success: Using Infopark CMS Fiona, from January until June 2008, Slovenia was able to provide its stakeholders with a wealth of up-to-date information on its website www.eu2008.si.

Particularly remarkable were the Web 2.0 technologies that were used on the website. A total of 765,000 visitors could benefit not only from the newsletter and the search function but also from podcasts, live streams, and an RSS feed. Slovenia was the fourth EU Council Presidency that decided in favour of Infopark CMS Fiona for implementing their website. The website was realized by Babiel GmbH.

Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V.: Portal solution with Infopark CMS Fiona

The “Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V.” realized its new internet presence with Infopark CMS Fiona. The new portal is a common platform on which information about the Stifterverband’s activities are presented in a clear, user-friendly form. Due to its extended functions, the portal offers a high value of benefit. When the Content Management System was chosen, Infopark was selected because of its extensive portal solutions and services.

The Stifterverband is a joint action of the German economy. It unites approximately 3,000 companies, commercial federations, foundations, and individuals in their aim to improve the prevailing conditions of science. The German Center of Foundations (Deutsches Stiftungszentrum) associated with the Stifterverband looks after approximately 420 non-profit foundations.

Lego gains the 2008 Infopark Web Dialogue Award

www.lego.de is the first winner of the Infopark Web Dialogue Award. In the context of the Infopark Internet Congress, iico.de, this award was given to the toy manufacturer. LEGO A/S was honoured for their outstanding solutions regarding “Dialogue on the Web”. www.bmw.de and www.zdf.de came second and third, respectively.

“To achieve success like this on the web, you need to be serious about your business. In the first place, everything we develop is addressed to our audience, the children. And if children can use this site, adults can as well”, said Peter Hobolt Jensen, Vice President Lego Online, in his words of thanks in front of several hundred participants of the Internet Congress.

More than 350 participants at Infopark Internet Congress iico.de

After three congress days, the fourth iico.de ended on Wednesday in Berlin. More than 350 participants attended this Internet Congress’s lectures and workshops on topics such as online marketing, internet TV, web usability and internet law. This year, the congress attracted over 20 percent more participants than in 2007. Highlight of the social programme was a festive gala evening with the legendary show “Stars in Concert”.

Next year, the Internet Congress iico.de will take place from June 15th until June 17th in Berlin.

Infopark CMS Fiona 6.7 is available now

The latest version of Infopark CMS Fiona offers a lot of useful upgrades, for example a faster Rails Connector. Customers can find detailled information about new, corrected, and removes features, as well as further instructions concerning the upgrade, in the Release Notes.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us. Licence holders can download Infopark CMS Fiona 6.7 directly.

Making your website successful with good content: White Paper and Workshop

“Content is king”: Only good content attracts visitors to your website and causes your online offers to become and stay successful. But what is good content and how should it be presented? What are the pitfalls to be avoided? How can a CMS help with content creation and adaptation? Answers to questions like these are provided in our White Paper “Making your website successful with good content” (German language).

At the Infopark Internet Congress, we offer workshops and talks around the subject “Clarity as a matter of course. Successful texts for the web”. The Internet Congress iico.de will be held June 2 - 4 in Berlin.

Infopark Internet Congress 2008 invites for 'Dialogue on the Web' to Berlin

This year’s Infopark Internet Congress (www.iico.de) starts at June 2, 2008 at Berlin with a very special keynote from Dr. Sven Prüser, the Executive Director of the internationally leading IT fair CeBIT. The Senior Vice President of Deutsche Messe AG speaks at the opening of the three-day Internet event about the changes in the fair economy sector from classical presence events to virtual fairs.

Great together: Infopark CMS Fiona and University of Munich

Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) at Munich is making up a balance after one and a half years in use of Infopark CMS Fiona on all of their campuses.

116 websites with more than 80,000 pages were brought online in an homogeneous design. Nevertheless have been created very individual sites as the one of the Institute of Dramatics, for example. The acceptance of Infopark’s CMS among the users is very high. In the mean time more than 850 editors are working with this system. Thomas Mahr, head of the department for Information and Communication of the LMU, is very delighted about the great results: “I am absolutely pleased about Infopark CMS Fiona. Since the launch of this CMS our web-projects made a lot of progress.”

Combining Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and CMS in a single solution: Infopark at the CeBIT 2008

From the 4th to the 9th of March, Infopark presents Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and CMS combined in a single solution at the CeBIT in Hanover (hall 3, stand C14). Additionally, visitors at Infoparks booth are invited to attend professional presentations for free about the latest web trends.

A healthy welcome: "BKK für Heilberufe" and "pronova BKK" now on the internet with Infopark CMS Fiona

From now on, the German health insurance companies BKK für Heilberufe and pronova BKK are represented on the Internet using Infopark CMS Fiona. Although the concepts, designs, and online services of these two organizations are different, their Internet presences derive from the same Content Management System, Infopark CMS Fiona.

The benefits of content sharing led the two organizations to share one CMS: content offered on both websites needs to be created and maintained only once but can be published in as many different locations as desired. An example for this is their central health encyclopaedia that comprises more than 15,000 documents.