Wind ItaliaA migration project for Wind and Infostrada portals

Since 1997 when it was established as a joint venture between ENEL, France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom, Wind has been one of the players in Italian telephony. It offers integrated mobile, fixed, and Internet services for both consumers and businesses through the Wind and Infostrada brands. In 2015 it reported revenue of 4.4 billion euros, 21.1 million customers, and over 6,800 employees.

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The Project

Wind was looking for a CMS that would allow it to continually update its offerings at both the content and graphic levels, with workflows for reviewing and approving content, as well as multiple staging areas. Additional basic requirements were the possibility of securely and fully migrating content, processes, technology, and SEO to the new CMS, as well as seamlessly integrating with its information systems.
Given the need to ensure high performance due to the volume and concurrency of user accesses, we proposed a solution based on TYPO3. We implemented the new portal by migrating the content, the user base, and the internal procedures used by web editors to update the content. Building a modular layout was particularly important, as it allowed the Wind editors to continually keep the site up to date for both content and layout. An essential part of the project was integrating TYPO3 with other services offered by Wind, such as minutes recharge management, e-commerce, and so forth. The portal was optimized for the Amazon Cloud platform.
The project was carried out in collaboration with and on behalf of TCS Consulting.

Implementation

From a structural point of view the layout constraints were eliminated in order to allow the editors to have greater creative and communicative independence. They can combine micro-structures, as they wish to create the appropriate layout every day as fits the immediate need; these can be evaluated through content staging.