Online portal for Stuttgart's trade fair professionals
How do you unite more than 50 trade fair presentations under the umbrella of an online portal for Messe Stuttgart? The +Pluswerk creatives solved this brainteaser by developing a common graphic bracket: clear, straightforward and modern. With a navigation concept that is immediately accessible to the visitor. The migration of the overall appearance was carried out step by step, gently introducing the visitor to the new look and feel of the trade fair presence.
Highlights
- Concept, design and TYPO3 implementation from a single source
- Continuous consulting and content support
- Automatic deployment
- High scalability and maintainability
- Flexible expansion options
- Connection to Product Information Management PIMCore
About Messe Stuttgart
With award-winning architecture and event halls that are among the largest and most modern in Europe, Messe Stuttgart offers an ideal platform for industry giants and hidden champions - and not just from the Stuttgart metropolitan region.
The area in the direct vicinity of the international airport is growing continuously and, with around 1.2 million visitors a year, the demands on the digital infrastructure are also increasing. This must ensure that digital services and platforms are always available with high performance, even at peak times.
Messe Stuttgart is meeting these growing challenges with the large-scale optimization and restructuring of central IT solutions. At the heart of this is a central marketing database that distributes and controls content as a digital content hub.
Concept & Design
As a modern supra-regional player, Messe Stuttgart is responding to the demands of digitalization. +Pluswerk takes this requirement into account and creates a tailor-made look for the client's more than 50 events. Using an agile approach based on Scrum, the agency transferred the existing website to a new technical platform in just 16 months. The basis is TYPO3 8.7 LTS. With intelligent caching solutions and cache warm-up, +Pluswerk meets the requirements for more performance - even with high user numbers. The result is a significant increase in speed.
But that's not all: as an expert in digital solutions, +Pluswerk is supporting the trade fair in a visionary project with R&D character that is scheduled to run for four years. The core of the initiative is the restructuring and optimization of the IT structure that has grown over the years and the implementation of innovative new services. The basis for this is the MKDB marketing database, which distributes and organizes content as a "central nervous system".
Solution and technical implementation
- one TYPO3 instance per trade fair presence
- fully automatic deployment of new features across all instances
- significant increase in performance through caching/varnish solution
- fast page delivery thanks to cache warming
- over 50 trade fair appearances in only 16 months - realized agile according to Scrum
