CASE STUDY: A WEB PORTAL FOR SONY ENTERTAINMENT

CASE STUDY: A WEB PORTAL FOR
SONY ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK
www.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com is the place to go for people
who want to get the latest films, music or PlayStation offerings. Sony
Entertainment Network bundles all of Sony’s digital services. With “Music
Unlimited” Sony Entertainment Network offers a personal library that
can hold over ten million songs, with no advertising or downloads. “Video
Unlimited” offers films for sale or rent. The site is also linked to the
PlayStation network. Customers can access it by Smartphone, Tablet,
Sony TV, PlayStation or PC. For the conversion of the existing portal, Sony
Entertainment Network tapped Open Source expert AOE.
With AOE’s fast reaction
time and unusual integration
support, Sony Entertainment
Network was able to migrate
its formerly static websites
into a fully functional TYPO3
environment within just six
weeks!“
John Dawson
Web Team Leader,
Sony Entertainment
Network
The Challenge
Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) commissioned AOE to transfer the
existing static site for the on-demand delivery of videos, games and music
to the enterprise web content management system TYPO3 in its entirety,
in 14 languages for 57 countries. In 17 cases this meant migrating the
complete website; the remaining versions contain only country-specific
Games Service Policies, important legal information for customers. Twice a
week, SEN publishes new content to the portals, and this continued during
the migration to TYPO3. This meant that AOE always had to keep changes to
the current static site synchronised with the new system. The relaunch also
had to be kept invisible from users.
The Solution
The migration to TYPO3 was successfully concluded after just six weeks.
Up to 12 AOE developers and project managers worked on the project so
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that the site could go live on schedule. AOE used synchronised content to
make sure the site remained available at all times, even while changes
were being published. In addition, for 19 countries there is also a complete
mobile version at m.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com.
The Technical Features
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AOE developed TYPO3 modules for automatically updating music,
video and game content, all with age verification, which had
previously been updated statically.
The portal is GEO-IP-sensitive and automatically sends visitors to
the appropriate country version.
The AOE Redirect Management Module was massively expanded
to provide convenient editing of over 2,000 redirects directly in
TYPO3. Prior to this the redirects had been done via the server
configuration, which meant enormous extra effort for SEN.
The special scraper feature automatically indexes legal information
from SEN headquarters in Japan and publishes it to the site in all
languages.
About Sony
Entertainment Network
Sony is a global
manufacturer of audio,
video, communications and
information technology
products for consumer and
professional markets. With
its music, pictures, game
and online businesses,
the company is uniquely
positioned to be one of the
world’s leading
digital entertainment
brands, offering an
outstanding portfolio of
exciting multimedia content.
Link
http://www.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com
Summary
Sony Entertainment Network bundles all of Sony’s digital services –
all offerings for all devices. With the migration to TYPO3, Sony
Entertainment Network has full control of its global sites for the first
time, with low dependency on its IT department. AOE’s automated
deployment process replaced manual deployments which were highly
exposed to errors.
Address
Sony Entertainment
Network International LLC
6080 Center Drive,
10th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90045
United States of America
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