artnology GmbH

eCommerce - shop systems

Springer global website

artnology designed and implemented the global website for Springer Publishing Company, with integrated CRM, CMS and shop system.

www.springer.com

Client

Client
Springer

Springer is one of the most renowned international scientific publishing companies, with branches and representative offices world-wide. Its publication spectrum ranges from medicine and all scientific fields through to mathematics and technology. With 70 publishing houses, 700 specialist magazines and more than 4,000 new book titles per year, Springer Science+Business Media international is one of the leading publishing houses for scientific and business publications. More than 5.000 employees in 16 countries contribute to this success.

Requirement

Requirement
Springer Global Entry PageZoom (12KB)

Consolidation of the websites of all of the individual international publishing houses in Germany, USA and England, as well as more than 60 theme-specific websites into one international website, with consistent presentation on a central, multilingual platform.

Springer Home PageZoom (245KB)

The availability of all product groups, including magazines, books, book series and software, in a high performance, scalable shop system, and maintainability using a standard CMS and CRM system. In addition to completely configurable price and rebate calculation, cross-service user administration, Multichannel orders and a comprehensive administration front end, the specification particularly called for the fully automated integration of several Springer ERP systems.

Solution

Solution
Springer Channel PageZoom (192KB)

artnology GmbH supported Springer through all phases of the project, from the concept to implementation and operation of the Springer Global Website. In close co-operation, all relevant business processes were analysed and used to develop and implement the system architecture in conjunction with the detailed technical concept.

Springer Shopping CartZoom (120KB)

The entire technical concept and almost all of the software development were carried out by artnology GmbH. Comprehensive support and professional consulting allowed artnology GmbH to win a loyal customer, whose satisfaction is reflected in the constant demand for further developments and consulting.

Technology and Concepts

Technology and Concepts
  • Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
  • abaXX Enterprise Portal
  • Weblogic Application Server Cluster
  • Vignette Storyserver Content Suite
  • Oracle DBMS-Cluster
  • 3 layer Model-View-Controller architecture using Struts Framework
  • Generic product core components, enriched with data from several Springer back end systems using an XML import interface
  • Configurable cross-service user and registration components
  • Automated verification of product and user data from several Springer back end system
  • Fully configurable price calculation and rebate components to present different pricing algorithms (dependent on regional pricing policies)
  • Multichannel order components, communicating with different Springer back end systems depending on product types and sales areas
  • Comprehensive front end administration for users, groups, product rebate groups, TAN, price calculation configuration, etc.
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