RIA Novosti News Portal
- Unified robust news portal with enhanced editorial tools for managing frequently updated dynamic web content
- Consistent user experience powered by portal’s high performance
- Powerful content localization capabilities for fast and convenient media data extraction for publishing on the portal
The world’s well-known news agency RIA Novosti contacted Iflexion with a request to completely refactor the web portal delivering up-to-date information and analytics about politics, economics and culture to a worldwide audience.
11
Duration
Months
12
Efforts
Person-months
Solution
Iflexion team performed a complete overhaul of the web portal with rich back-end functionality for editors and content-centric frontend. The solution boasts the following features:
- Highly scalable architecture. Iflexion designed a highly scalable multi-tier architecture with Oracle database cluster supplying data for multiple application and front-end servers with effective load balancing applied. Sphinx search server is utilized
- Tailored web CMS. Iflexion provided a tailored web CMS that includes enhanced editorial tools and comprehensive content management functionality. The solution is integrated with the Customer’s media repository.
- Rich media libraries. Media content storage was added to the portal to provide the audience with access to the audio and visual materials, including pictures, video clips, interviews, audio tracks, etc.
- New user subscription module. Each user can become a registered member of the RIA Novosti community and select a suitable subscription plan.
