News Archive 2011

FU Berlin: A New Face

Freie Universität Berlin presents its new website at www.fu-berlin.de.
It is one of Germany’s biggest universities and has several hundred thousand page impressions per day.

A Flexible Layout and Added Conent

To help visitors find their way around the website, a target-group oriented navigation was set up on the right hand side of the page. New information was added to the main navigation and on top of the homepage the most popular pages are linked. A new international site bundles the multiple international activities of Freie Universität.

The layout has been reworked into a multi-column design. Online editors now have more flexible design tools at their disposal. The focus of the hompage is a “media window” with room for images and videos of everyday life on the campus.

Technical overhaul with Infopark CMS Fiona and Ruby on Rails

The technical side has been modernized as well. The content management system Infopark CMS Fiona has been updated to version 6.7.2. From now on the website is based on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. This guarantees a higher productity in implementing the website. Because changes to the website are displayed immediately, work processes are sped up and more efficient, undoubtedly the biggest advantage for online editors.

Please find more detailed information on the project in our case study.

Award for Ruby on Rails and Cloud Technology

“Plat_Forms2011” required 16 teams with three developers each to program a conference planner with given features in the categories PERL, Java, PHP, Ruby and JavaScript.

Infopark took on three competitors in the category Ruby and won convincingly with its solution. The products were evaluated according to their functionality, reliability, modularity and the flexibility of the environment. Our team brought the coveted award for developers to Berlin.

In October Infopark was awarded “Best in Cloud” by COMPUTERWOCHE. In the category “Platform-as-a-Service” Infopark won with Infopark Cloud Express and stood out in the evaluation of project documentation and the ratings by the jury and the audience.

Further information on the Infopark Cloud Express here:
www.infopark.de/infopark-cloud-express

Computerwoche: Infopark is Best in Cloud

Infopark was voted the top business in the category “Platform as a Service”. We presented the project “Nuremberg Airport on Cloud 9 – Website, CMS and WebCRM as Cloud platform”. A big “Thank You” to our reference customer Nuremberg Airport and to all our software developers and to the project team!

For more information on the new Infopark Cloud Express please visit:
www.infopark.com/infopark-cloud-express

Intranet "M Delfin" Wins Award

Munich Airport’s intranet “M Delfin” won the “inkom. Grand Prix media prize”. The Deutsche Public Relations Gesellschaft (“German Public Relations Association”) awards this prize to outstanding company magazines in Germany and German speaking countries.

“M Delfin” impressed above all with its design, usability and functionality. This year for the first time intranets have been tested using a scientific evaluation method developed by the University of Siegen. Munich Airport’s intranet was built with Infopark CMS Fiona and conceptualized by Infopark’s partner Oestreicher+Wagner (OE+W).

For more information please take a look at Infopark’s references or visit OE+W’s website.

Ruby-on-Rails Day back in 2012

On 29 September Infopark hosted the first Ruby-on-Rails Day trying a new and unique combination of an open space concept and a casual get-together in the evening. Participants and us as hosts alike were so thrilled that we decided to organize another Ruby-on-Rails Day in 2012.

For photos, feedback from participants and details on the valuation system please click here.

Computerwoche: Infopark is Best in Cloud

IT magazine Computerwoche launched the competition „Best in Cloud“ to award Germany’s best offers in cloud computing. In seven categories five businesses and their cloud projects were selected for the final. Eight top-class jurors decided which 35 businesses are still in the running to be awarded the title „Best in Cloud“ on October 13 – 14 in Offenbach.

Infopark was voted among the top 5 in the category „Platform as a Service“ and will be presenting the project „Nuremberg Airport on Cloud 9 – Website, CMS and WebCRM as Cloud platform“.

For more information on the competition please visit: www.best-in-cloud.de

Infopark Internet Congress on the Road

In just one day participants of iico on tour will receive a concise overview on the most important trends and topics for company websites.
Our speakers Dr. Ralf T. Kreutzer and Saim Rolf Alkan will present successful and effective solutions for web strategy, web content and web marketing underpinned with outstanding examples from businesses of all fields. iico on tour will visit Hamburg, Düsseldorf, München und Frankfurt.

For further information please visit our German website www.iico.de/ontour

Politics Portal with Self Service

EnBW’s politics portal offers employees vital information and opionions concerning energy politics. Relevant articles can now be found more easily thanks to three features: the search function, the labeling of articles with tags or the organization of news into different categories.

Categories like „gas“, „coal“ or „climate“ can be subscribed to by RSS feed. Employees have also got the option to save topics of interest to them in their online profile and decide how often they would like to receive information.
These data are compiled and saved in Infopark Online Marketing Cockpit (OMC) and synchronized with Infopark CMS Fiona. Employees receive daily, weekly or monthly e-mails featuring all new articles for the chosen topics.

Airport Munich: Authentication and more with Infopark OMC

In addition to Infopark CMS Fiona, Airport Munich use the Infopark OMC. The OMC helps to maintain user data and access data for intranet and internet and enables users to make changes to their contact data themselves. Intranet users include airport staff as well as staff from subsidiary companies and cooperation partners.

In future Airport Munich also want to make use of the OMC’s event management tool as well as web-2.0 elements like a comment function.

Airport Munich was awarded Best European Airport at the World Airport Award 2010 and ranges among the top three cargo airports of the world. Airport Munich use Infopark CMS Fiona since 1999 and have developed their website and intranet using Infopark’s solutions ever since.

For more information please read the reference of Airport Munich.

iico2011: Feedback Evaluation Shows Top results

This year’s feedback shows our excellent speakers and a hands-on program left the 350 decision makers from marketing, sales and IT very satisfied.

On a scale of one (very good) to five (bad) the overall satisfaction with the congress was rated 1.5 on average. The organization was rated even better with 1.2. The new show event „Dialogue on the Web: Tops and Flops“ got mark 1.2. And what made us really happy: 99% of the participants would recommend the Infopark Internet Congress.

You can find impressions of iico2011 here or further information at www.iico.de.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Berlin for next year’s congress on May 23–25.

Amazon Web Services Tech Summit

On May 16th 2011 Thomas Witt demonstrated how to develop and deploy Multitenancy Web Apps in the Cloud. The Amazon Web Services Tech Summit offered visitors the latest information on AWS products, use cases and experiences with AWS and in-depth knowledge of key technical concepts.

For further information please click here.

mitmischen.de: relaunch with Infopark CMS Fiona 6.7.2

Mitmischen.de is the German Bundestag’s portal for young people. Its aim is to offer young people an easy access to political issues and to raise their interest in the parliament’s work. The portal first launched in 2005, has got 10,500 registered users and about 250,000 page impressions per month. The recent relaunch with Infopark CMS Fiona saw the portal with a new web design inviting users to actively get involved and express their opinions.

Sihl Direct launches website to schedule with software-as-a-service solution

Sihl Direct GmbH launched their revamped website to schedule with Infopark CMS Fiona and Infopark Online Marketing Cockpit as software-as-a-service solution. New technology has been used in the relaunch. Infopark’s Rails Connector for Infopark CMS Fiona and Infopark Online Marketing Cockpit provide a customer friendly and dynamic website.

Sihl Direct is the marketing company of Sihl-Diatec Group which spezializes in large-sized prints and delivers directly to their clients.

Publication: „Das Internet im Wahlkampf“ (Political Campaigning and the Web)

The scope of the study was to evaluate 750 candidates of the five largest parties in Germany with regards to the quality of their websites, social media activities as well as response times and the quality of replies to online inquiries.

Conclusion: The Internet still plays a minor role in winning over first-time voters in Germany. Almost half of the candidates did not offer any dialogue via social media, 42% did not reply to e-mails and about 7% could not be evaluated because they did not match any of the criteria. The average score in the study was 36%. The most active candidate scored 40 points equivalent of 89%.

iico 2011: Congress Program with Top Speakers Now Online

The program of this year’s Infopark Internet Congress has recently been made available on www.iico.de/programm. From May 17 to 19, in Berlin, top speakers such as Prof. Wolfgang Henseler, Dr. Torsten Schwarz, and Prof. Erik Spiekermann will answer questions on current trends on the web. Learn from the talks how social media, mobile business and the cloud sustainably improve business success.

Register now! Save 10 % for early booking until March 15!

Nuremberg Airport Addresses Customers Individually on the Web with Infopark CMS Fiona

In 2010, the Nuremberg Airport was once again given the Business Traveller Award for being the “best German airport”. The airport has now acquired the right to use Infopark CMS Fiona and Infopark Online Marketing Cockpit.

Nuremberg Airport uses Infopark’s software solutions as a service (SaaS). This ensures excellent availability without the need to buy the software or to provide the required IT infrastructure. Content management and online marketing through SaaS also save resources since installation and maintenance are taken care of by Infopark.

Nuremberg offers 60 non-stop connections and onward flights to more than 300 other destinations worldwide.

ODR Technologie Services GmbH Uses EnBW's Corporate License

After revamping their product range ODR Technologie Services GmbH also relaunched their website. The subsidiary of the EnbW group offers innovative services in the telecommunications industry. An Infopark consultant implemented the website with the latest version 6.7 of Infopark CMS Fiona in only thirty days.

ODR TSG develops new building sites with fiber optic network architecture, which will in future provide customers with extremely fast internet access.

FunDorado manages more than 600,000 objects with Infopark CMS Fiona

The migration of Infopark CMS Fiona to the latest version 6.7.2 was completed within twelve days and without any down time.

FunDorado GmbH with headquarters in Hamburg runs several big premium adult entertainment web portals and received several awards since its foundation in 2001.

FunDorado manages 600.000 objects amounting to 28 GB and an additional 20 TB of moving images with Infopark CMS Fiona.