NobelStar's team, headed up by Program Manager Mayank Joshi, was charged with helping ebookers efficiently manage the content currently being produced and published across Europe. After reviewing a number of custom-developed and packaged options, Joshi's team recommended a complete Content Infrastructure system based on Interwoven TeamSite and OpenDeploy. The Interwoven platform met all of eBookers' selection criteria, according to Joshi. Version controls and locking mechanisms are a critical consideration, as we have a lot of risk, in terms of losing or overwriting content. We also have a huge number of documents that share the same presentation, so the use of templates is extremely important.
Templates save our developers from doing lots of repetitive tasks.
But the most crucial requirement, according to Joshi, was that eBookers' new Content Infrastructure system would easily integrate with the company's existing Web application servers and file-system infrastructure. The Web applications resided on proprietary, in-house developed systems. In addition, all Web assets were archived in local desktop file-systems, as opposed to a central database repository. After taking all of these requirements into consideration, Joshi says the choice was clear. Two, even though we had these proprietary application servers, TeamSite integrates seamlessly.