Siegen/Hannover, 14. October 2009

New Content Management System for Heise - Successful CMS-migration at heise online

In October, the Heise Zeitschriften Verlag has migrated its IT news portal ‘heise online’ to the Content Management System (CMS) of InterRed. Thereby, a new basis was not only created for the production of the news-ticker. All topic sites, ranging from heise Security to heise Developer, as well as the web presences of the magazines c’t, iX and Technology Review, are also affected by the migration.

Up to now, the Heise editors worked with a self developed CMS that could no longer meet the constantly increasing requirements. Michael Wilde, head of web development of the Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, said that instead of completely reprogramming the system, Heise made a decision for the performant standard product of the company InterRed. For the realization, the Heise team has worked closely together with the developers of InterRed. Stefan Müller-Stock, head of project management of the service provider, emphasized that due to the high requirements and complexity of the internet presence, the cooperation between Heise and InterRed during the work was absolutely target-oriented.

From the outside, the changes are in essence invisible. Databases, service offers, as well as the forum including the user database, remain mostly unaltered. Also regarding the other infrastructure of heise online, there are no changes, all URLs from the archive are maintained. The about 30 web servers continue to be located in Frankfurt am Main.

After the migration of the offers produced in Hannover, the foreign activities ‘heise online Poland’ and ‘The H’ in Great Britain are going to follow in the next weeks. Subsequently, the Telepolis editorial department in Munich will be joined to the new CMS.

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