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Visit the siteWhen one of France’s largest media conglomerates, Le Monde, was in need of digitizing their publishing process, they turned to Adyax.
They were struggling to unite both the physical publishing and digital publishing arms of their companies, due to a dependency on legacy systems.
They were looking for a way to unify all of their publishing needs onto a single, digital-first platform and improve access to archived data. Their antiquated blackbox data storage process encumbered access, sorting and storage of valuable archival content.
About the project
Adyax proposed a unified publishing CMS solution built on the Drupal framework, which would provide a best in class web content management system to support web and mobile experience.
but which could also be used to create a multi-platform media distribution system to support the entire business. We also proposed to free their archival data and to store it in a more accessible format using Drupal. All data and content, physical and digital, would be easily indexed and searchable.
The multi-platform media solution also allows for Courrier International, another division of Le Monde, to improve the efficiency of its global news publication by gathering articles from around the world and and sending them to a staff of journalists and writers who can then localize the content for the French audience and quickly publish to the CMS.
Telerama, the media and entertainment arm of La Monde, which aggregates data relating to media, cultural events, and locations, was then easily consolidated and launched into the new digital distribution framework.Personalization strategies, enabled by the solution, allow users to create custom made television schedules, explore the city, and stay aware of relevant events – all based on selected personal preferences. And all content created through the site could then be extracted from Drupal, edited and optimized for print, and sent straight to the publisher of print and related production.
Why Drupal was chosen
Drupal was selected because of its flexible ways of configuring the backend for their newsroom use and for the robust architecture that can handle heavy traffic, with proper configuration. Additionally, the internal knowledge of the client team of Drupal minimized maintenance costs.
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Search API - everything from the backend to frontend search is based on SOLR because of a very big amount of content. Crucial for the system to work.
Views - front-end and backend content lists
ECK - to keep non-editorial content (tv program) in an organised flat way
Panels / Panelizer - to manage a 85 different templates presented on the website
