Emap Selects MySource Matrix Open Source CMS for New Emap Networks Web Site Publishing Platform
London, September 16th 2009
New ‘Web Site Foundry’ Publishing System from Squiz Enables ‘White Label’ Sites to be Rolled Out in as Little as 2 Hours at a Substantial Cost Saving
Squiz UK today announced the successful delivery of a new ‘Web Site Foundry’ publishing system for Emap, based on its market leading Open Source Enterprise Web CMS, MySource Matrix. The system, built for Emap’s new ‘Networks’ service, is a super scalable platform that allows Emap to publish new events-based web properties in as little as 2 hours by applying a common base of brand, content and functionality assets to a series of standard design templates. The sites built using the new system are due to go live at the end of September.
The new ‘Networks’ platform enables Emap to handle the publishing and promotion of new events with maximum agility and flexibility. Production is strictly template-based, meaning the Emap marketing and events team can quickly roll out new sites from a simple (non-technical) user interface, using a common store of brand assets. As a result, the new system delivers a substantial cost saving on a per-site basis compared to the company’s previous web CMS architecture and has so far delivered over 100 new sites in under 3 weeks. Since MySource Matrix is open source, Emap can introduce new sites at will without incurring additional software licence fees, so they are able to focus their savings on higher value, people-based assets such as custom development and product design. The new system follows Squiz’s ‘Web Site Publishing Foundry’ offering.
All of the sites delivered via the new MySource Matrix platform have e-commerce capabilities built in at source, and all of them are tightly integrated with Emap’s SBClient online events management system. This application bridge was created by Squiz as part of the build and is based on an open API to enable Emap to add functionality to the system in the future. In practice, this means that new sites can be published via Matrix from a standard set of content assets that are managed by the company’s events team on the SBClient platform.
“Going the Open Source route with MySource Matrix has brought a sea change in our web production efforts,” said Jonathan Ferro, Web Director at Emap. “In the first instance, our cost base has changed for the better. We’re now spending our cash on development services rather than licences. Secondly, we have total freedom to deliver new sites, whenever we like. And thirdly, the Matrix Foundry platform means that we can do all of this rapidly.”
“We’re delighted with the success of the new Emap Networks system,” said Stephen Morgan, MD at Squiz UK. “It’s a great example of our Open Source CMS Web Site Foundry platform. We’re now delivering an array of high performance sites in as little as two hours each, and with very little overhead. Ultimately, we’ve given control of web production and promotion back to Emap’s marketing and events team. No technical smarts are required, which means that they can take new events to market in record speeds.”
About Squiz and the MySource Matrix Open Source Content Management System
Squiz is a Supported Open Source software company which was founded in Australia in 1998 and now has offices all around the world, including New Zealand, UK, Australia and Poland – with other additions imminent. Squiz’s Open Source Content Management System, MySource Matrix, is used by many leading companies including EMAP, Boots and Oxford University.
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