Crafter case:European Bank

Piergiorgio LucidiOpen Source ECM SpecialistCertified Alfresco Instructor and EngineerAlfresco Wiki Gardener and Forum Moderator

Summary

• Background• Goals• Challenges• High level architecture• Results

Background - The bank

• European Bank• Accounts• Credit Cards• Mortgages• Savings• Insurances• Promoters

Background – The problem• Different CMS without any

orchestration

• Many vertical applications for each domain of interest that must exchange data in the same way

Background – What they have• New websites requirements• Responsive• Domain Model

• components• images (constraints: desktop, mobile, tablet)• metadata• sections• associations• search requirements

– relevance– advanced search– suggester

Goals

• Introduce a new WCM infrastructure• Public websites• Internal websites and applications• Other needs related to publishing

contents

Goals

• A central WCM system for all the distributed systems• Heterogeneous

• Portals• Java applications• Apps based on other technologies

• Redundancy management• different apps can host the same content without copies• track where each content is deployed

Goals

• High level of customization• Very specific page types and

components• Content Modeling

• Crafter modeling (WCM side)• Alfresco modeling (Repository side)

• High reuse of page templates• Integration / delivery with external

applications• Apps retrieve contents• Contents are delivered by Crafter Engine

Challenges

• Avoid the fragmentation of contents• Tracking of deployed contents

• Allow editors to use a unique UI• Contents pushed on different targets /

apps

• Simplify the architecture• Hardware• Software

High level architecture

• Back-end• Alfresco Cluster (2 nodes)• Crafter Studio• Crafter Preview (2 Delivery Node)

• Front-end• Crafter Delivery Node (4 nodes)

• Crafter Engine• Apache Solr• MongoDB (social features)

High level architecture - BE

DB

Alfresco Alfresco

Lucene Index

Lucene Index

Load Balancer

Crafter Studio

Crafter Studio

Load Balancer

Crafter Preview

Crafter Preview

Crafter Delivery 3

Crafter Delivery 2

High level architecture - FE

Load Balancer

Crafter Delivery 1

Crafter Delivery 4

Back End (BE)Alfresco / Crafter

Push contents

Crafter Delivery 3

Crafter Delivery 2

High level architecture - FE

Load Balancer

Crafter Delivery 1

Crafter Delivery 4

MongoDB

User generated contents (UGC)

Results

• Integration with Enterprises• CMIS• Spring bean injection• Groovy templates• Alfresco rules

• scripting• actions

• TinyMCE customization• REST calls for creating custom contents

Results

• Great load test results• very complex pages loaded in 1,3

seconds (!!!)

• Refined content management• content types• components• metadata• associations

• Refined advanced search

Thank you for your attention!

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