1. Crafter case: European Bank
Piergiorgio Lucidi
Open Source ECM Specialist
Certified Alfresco Instructor and Engineer
Alfresco Wiki Gardener and Forum Moderator

2. Summary
Background
Goals
Challenges
High level architecture
Results

3. Background - The bank European Bank Accounts Credit Cards Mortgages
Savings
Insurances
Promoters

4. Background – The problem
Different CMS without any orchestration
Many vertical applications for each domain of interest that must exchange data in the same way

5. 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

6. Goals Introduce a new WCM infrastructure Public websites
Internal websites and applications
Other needs related to publishing contents

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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)

11. High level architecture - BE
Load Balancer
Crafter Preview
Crafter Studio
Crafter Studio
Crafter Preview
Load Balancer
Alfresco
Alfresco
Lucene Index
Lucene Index DB

12. High level architecture - FE
Load Balancer
Crafter Delivery 1
Crafter Delivery 2
Crafter Delivery 3
Crafter Delivery 4
Push contents
Back End (BE)
Alfresco / Crafter

13. High level architecture - FE
Load Balancer
Crafter Delivery 1
Crafter Delivery 2
Crafter Delivery 3
Crafter Delivery 4
User generated contents (UGC)
MongoDB

14. Results Integration with Enterprises CMIS Spring bean injection
Groovy templates
Alfresco rules
scripting
actions
TinyMCE customization
REST calls for creating custom contents

15. Results Great load test results Refined content management
very complex pages loaded in 1,3 seconds (!!!)
Refined content management
content types
components
metadata
associations
Refined advanced search

16. Thank you for your attention!