CoreMedia GmbH

In 2023, we were able to support our long-standing product partner CoreMedia in a project for the first time. In addition, this allowed us to prove ourselves on an international level. Together with CoreMedia’s developers, we supported an international team based in the United Kingdom in managing the online shops of two well-known fashion labels. Here, we truly came into our own and, in addition to managing and advancing the CoreMedia CMS, we extensively supported the editorial team and provided new insights into the operation of the cloud platform:

Technical interface between clients and developers

As part of the project, we acted as the technical interface between the editorial team and the developers. Our main task was to ensure that the editorial team’s requirements were correctly understood and implemented by the developers. Based on the descriptions provided by the editorial team, we worked on new architectural approaches, designed a new content model for CoreMedia, and revised and defined the requirements with the distributed development team. The tasks that emerged from this process were documented in Jira as epics, stories, and tasks, and then implemented within the SCRUM process.

Management and enhancement of the infrastructure.

The management and enhancement of deployment- and performance-related infrastructure have been another focal point of our work in the project. Through continuous analysis and optimization, we were able to ensure that the infrastructure met the project’s requirements and maintained a high level of performance. The implementation of sustainable logging and monitoring has led to the resolution of issues during live operation, enabling the editorial team to work more efficiently and allowing for further development of the online shop with reduced efforts.

Management and advancement of the CoreMedia shop integration

The project consisted of a CoreMedia CMS system responsible for delivering the content and an HCL Commerce system. On the CoreMedia side, the data from the Commerce system was consumed and synchronized with the data from the CMS before being delivered. The data from both systems was merged in a headless fashion in JSON format within a central interface and then passed to the frontend. The challenges in the project were therefore of different natures: On one hand, synchronization was required among the editorial, frontend, and backend teams; on the other hand, it was necessary to ensure that the delivered data from both systems were synchronized and available within an acceptable timeframe.