Customer Success Story – Toronto Star
A Powerful Publishing Solution Delivering A Superb User Experience
A Complete Overhaul Of The Star Digital Publishing Infrastructure
Innovexa was selected to help drive the redesign and implementation of Toronto Start flagship product thestar.com on the new Adobe Experience Manager platform. A key requirement was the implementation of a flexible content management system that provides editors with a lot of power and control over content creation and publishing while delivering a superior user experience to readers.
The Star’s requirements included:
Instant publishing of news, editorial, and commercial content.
Complete overhaul of thestar.com infrastructure.
Full integration with mobile and tablet platforms.
Extensive analytical and measurement reporting.
An Adobe Powered Publishing Solution For The Toronto Star
This effort included migration of historical content and building new functionality for The Star users. The new Toronto Star digital platform implementation covered a wide range of capabilities:
- Implementation of Adobe Experience Manager
- Custom AEM components development
- Custom AEM back-end services development
- Integration of editorial workflow and instant publishing of news, editorial and commercial content
- News feeds implementation using different formats
- Integration with Toronto Star mobile and tablet platforms
- Implementation of commenting modules
- Integration of external 3rd party providers such as weather, horoscopes and sports
- Integration of The Star personalized content experience
- Video content integration
- Implementation of AEM Communities to power The Star blogs
"A highly customized solution that provides editors the power they need in a publishing solution while enabling Toronto Star to offer a superb user experience for its readers."
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