Bertelsmann Subsidiary BOL.de Selects RedDot Content Management System; EINSTEINet Implements BOL.de Web Site with RedDot Content Management Server 4.1 and Intershop Enfinity.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2002 RedDot Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise content management solutions, announces that Bertelsmann Online (www.bol.de), Bertelsmann AG's German Internet, media and entertainment store, has integrated RedDot's Content Management Server (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ) 4.1, into the site management system. In addition to managing the redesign, service provider EINSTEINet also integrated the RedDot system into the Intershop Enfinity electronic trade platform and developed and integrated a continuous content deployment process. RedDot CMS replaced another well-known enterprise content management system. BOL.de customers can browse nearly 900,000 books, 200,000 music CDs, 6,500 videos and 2,400 DVDs, as well as more than 3,000 software programs and computer games. The virtual media store opened in February 1999. BOL.de is joined by local sites in UK, NL, and CH. The BOL site comprises approximately 20,000 pages per country, of which100 pages are created or updated every day by 100 editors in three countries. RedDot CMS 4.1 is used to administer the sites in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the UK. A key challenge for e-tailers is managing editorial texts (product descriptions, product teaser teaser an animal used to sexually tease but not to impregnate the members of the opposite sex. Usually males and they may be surgically prepared to ensure that they cannot mate or are not fertile. texts etc.) since the shop system does not itself include a user interface for editors. The goal was to create a content management system that could process content and smoothly integrate it into the e-store. BOL.de needed an interface between the content management system and the e-store system that editors could easily use. RedDot CMS takes the newly entered content (such as book reviews, interviews, etc.) and transforms it into files containing all the necessary meta-information for the Intershop system. An interface developed by EINSTEINet then translates the files into Intershop format and distributes them among the various destination systems. Intershop then exports the pages to the customer's browser, adding user-specific data and information for ordering purposes. Editors can now simply and intuitively administer content using RedDot's SmartEdit technology without any technical expertise. To facilitate their work, the site interface was copied in RedDot to give editors the feel of working directly in the site itself. In addition, the solution developed by EINSTEINet enables editors to clearly identify and edit specific catalogue pages, e.g., product websites or category pages, and add new freely defined pages. The shop system identifies these processes and transforms the content into the appropriate Intershop cue. Pages created are continuously checked in a preview environment that mirrors the live environment before the content is published. Another challenge was to transfer existing data from other databases - a total of 20,000 to 50,000 data records per country Web site - to the RedDot Content Management Server. EINSTEINet's developers based their tools on the RedDot Query Language A generalized language that allows a user to select records from a database. It uses a command language, menu-driven method or a query by example (QBE) format for expressing the matching condition. (RQL RQL Reddot Query Language RQL Rejectable Quality Level RQL Query Language for Rdf Schema ) application interface. It took only six weeks to successfully complete the entire project. It serves as a further joint reference project for RedDot and EINSTEINet, who have already collaborated on implementing other major RedDot projects. RedDot Solutions RedDot Solutions Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise content management solutions. RedDot empowers online content contributors with solutions renown for ease-of-use, rapid implementation, scalability, flexible workflow and personalization to efficiently manage complex content needs. Built on open industry standards, RedDot's XML-enabled, browser-based technology offers the most intuitive content management solution in the industry. With more than 700 customers worldwide, including Federal Express, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, March of Dimes
New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with offices in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Toronto and Europe. For more information visit http://www.RedDotSolutions.com. EINSTEINet EINSTEINet is Germany's first application service provider (ASP) to provide customers with secure, high-availability broadband IT applications via its own fiber optic network and computer centers. The company has invested around 300 million EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. in establishing networks, data centers, and services. In addition to application service providing ("IT as service"), EINSTEINet supplies a wide range of services including IT consulting, system integration, support, service, and training for comprehensive IT and e-business solutions ("IT as concept"). EINSTEINet, founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky Martin Varsavsky is an Argentinian/Spanish telecommunications and new media entrepreneur. Born in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1960, to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school. with prestigious investors (Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. , JP Morgan Chase, Dresdner Kleinwort Capital, etc.), has around 400 employees and achieved sales of 62.9 million EUR in 2000. Intershop Intershop Communications AG (Nasdaq: ISHP ISHP Inspektoriati Shtetëror I Punës (Albanian: State Inspectorate of Labour) ; Neuer Markt: ISH ISH In Situ Hybridization ISH Isolated Systolic Hypertension ISH Irish Sport Horse ISH Intermediate System Hello ISH International Society of Hypnosis ISH Information Super Highway ISH International Superhits (Green Day album) ) is a leading provider of standard e-business software for globally operating customers, who use the Internet for trading and manage several business areas centrally from a single trading platform. The Intershop Enfinity electronic trade platform combines with proven flexible, tailored, and cross-functional solutions to enable companies to optimize their customer relationships and improve the efficiency of their trading activity, while lowering costs and improving profit margins. Optimizing business processes enables companies to deliver a higher return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) at lower overall project costs (Total Cost of Ownership - TCO Total Cost Of Ownership - TCO In general, the purchase price of an asset plus the additional costs of operation. Notes: For example, the total cost of ownership of a car is not just the purchase price, but also expenses incurred through use, such as repairs, insurance, ), and improve the value and quality of their partner and customer relationships. Intershop has over 2,000 customers worldwide in a variety of industries, from trade and production to media and telecommunication or financial services. Customers, including Bertelsmann, Motorola, Swarovski, Otto, and BOSCH, decided on Intershop Enfinity as the basis of their global e-commerce strategy. Find out more about Intershop on the Internet at http://www.intershop.de. BOL.de Bertelsmann Online (www.bol.de) is Bertelsmann AG's German Internet, media and entertainment store. BOL.de customers can browse nearly 900,000 books, 200,000 music CDs, 6,500 videos and 2,400 DVDs, as well as more than 3,000 software programs and computer games. The virtual media store opened in February 1999. BOL.de is joined by local sites in UK, NL, and CH. |
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