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Software Product Development for Schibsted: A Media Corporation's Digital Transformation

Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
  • Sensors - Temperature Sensors
Applicable Industries
  • Cement
  • Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
  • Maintenance
  • Product Research & Development
Use Cases
  • Experimentation Automation
  • Time Sensitive Networking
Services
  • System Integration
  • Testing & Certification
The Challenge

Schibsted, an international media corporation, was faced with the challenge of extending their development capabilities to build new solutions and modernize existing media products. The company needed to integrate multiple websites, CMSs, and services into a single platform and introduce new efficient technologies. The task was to migrate four existing websites into one, which included database migration, UI/UX redesign, and adding new functionality. The challenge also involved developing and supporting the system infrastructure, providing high load system support, and migrating all of the company’s existing products to a newly created environment. Furthermore, they needed to integrate Neo4j graph DB with Elasticsearch Engine and introduce a Recommendation Engine.

About The Customer

Schibsted is an international media corporation with over 7,300 employees across 22 countries. The company offers a wide range of media services, from newspapers and multimedia content to online classified marketplaces and media houses. Schibsted needed to extend their technological capabilities for increased software development speed and greater business agility. They aimed to deliver new smart services that would meet the ever-changing customer demands, while supporting and modernizing the existing solutions. The company also wanted to introduce the latest technologies and engines into existing operations, minimize production downtime, and create an efficient testing framework and environment.

The Solution

N-iX, a software development company, provided a comprehensive solution to Schibsted's challenges. They developed three responsive high-load websites with over 60,000 unique daily visitors and migrated four different websites into one, including database migration. The team used AWS, Redis, Kubernetes, Nginx, Jenkins, GIT, and other technologies to migrate all the supported products to a newly created environment. They also worked on the integration of Neo4j graph DB with Elasticsearch Engine and introduced the Recommendation Engine into current operations. Additionally, N-iX developed cross-platform mobile applications for a seamless user experience. The team demonstrated great flexibility and responded quickly to all urgent requests from the customer, facilitating product maintenance and minimizing production downtime.

Operational Impact
  • The collaboration with N-iX resulted in the successful design, development, testing, and support of Schibsted’s multiple software products. The team introduced a lot of new features and wide functionality, modernized the tech stack, and performed a number of integrations and migrations to guarantee the smooth performance of all the client’s websites. They established effective communication with the client and detailed planning of every project stage, meeting the customer’s expectations. The team developed high loaded web-projects with responsive design and cross-platform mobile applications that made Schibsted media content easily accessible on mobile devices. N-iX specialists were also responsible for continuous support and modernization of current websites and their integration with the latest technological advancements.

Quantitative Benefit
  • Developed three high-load websites with over 60,000 unique daily visitors

  • Migrated four different websites into one, including database migration

  • Developed cross-platform mobile applications for seamless user experience

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