Relaunch of the NürnbergMesse web portal

An important milestone has been reached in the project to redesign and upgrade NürnbergMesse's CMS. On October 22, the NürnbergMesse parent website (www.nuernbergmesse.de) as well as the websites of the new ACS trade fair (www.american-coatings-show.com) and Messe+Co (www.messe-co.de) went online with the new product version 5 of the Noxum Publishing Studio.

Würzburg, Dezember 07, 2007 - Noxum GmbH, the specialist for content management and editorial systems, has been looking after NürnbergMesse's systems since 2001. Noxum has been operating the more than 45 multilingual websites of the NürnbergMesse web portal (with numerous integrated external systems and databases) since 2002.

In December 2006, NürnbergMesse decided to completely relaunch its extensive web portal on the basis of the current product version 5 of the Noxum Publishing Studio. The fact that NürnbergMesse was so satisfied with Noxum GmbH's content management system and services, coupled with the prospect of functional upgrades and improvements in usability, prompted this decision.

Given that both the design and the technologies of the web front end were still based on the previous relaunch in 2002, NürnbergMesse enlisted an external agency to come up with a new visual concept. On the basis of this concept and the latest web technologies such as ASP.NET 2.0 and CSS, Noxum devised a contemporary web front end which uses imported XML data from version 3 of the Noxum Publishing Studio.

A completely new integration concept developed by the specialists at Noxum GmbH also allows state-of-the-art content syndication. This means that parts of externally hosted websites are made accessible via the same Internet address. This is advantageous in that search machines find hits under the Internet address of the portal, e.g. during searches for content in the externally hosted press area. The new integration concept also allows particularly economical solutions. Any changes which are made to the layout automatically take effect in all external systems. This option of seamless integration is of particular interest to companies with a heterogeneous system environment.

"Our working relationship with the new media department at NürnbergMesse was smooth and highly efficient. Thanks to the perfect interaction of conception, quick decisions and immediate implementation, we were able to keep to a very tight schedule," said Kevin Johnson, the Senior Project Manager at Noxum GmbH responsible for the project, summing up its success.

With each milestone that was reached, Noxum GmbH once again demonstrated its flexibility and great professionalism. "Noxum GmbH's project management won us over once again. We went online according to plan and without any problems. Noxum really did look after my team well. We are now convinced that upgrading the remaining websites is merely a routine job and that we will soon be able to take full advantage of the obvious improvements which have been made in the maintenance process," said Ms Weinzierl, head of the new media department at NürnbergMesse, commenting on the course of the project to date.

During the next four to five months, the intention is to switch between five and eight websites each month until the relaunch project is finally completed in March 2008. From then on, the CMS of the NürnbergMesse portal will be running completely on the Noxum Publishing Studio 5.

NürnbergMesse is one of the fastest-growing trade-fair companies in Europe. It is one of the 15 largest trade-fair companies anywhere in the world. Its broad range of trade fairs and congresses is not restricted to Germany - NürnbergMesse is active throughout the world. Through its 100% subsidiary Nürnberg Global Fairs, NürnbergMesse North America and NürnbergMesse China, the company has established specialist trade fairs for businesses and sectors worldwide. Over the last few years, NürnbergMesse has become a specialist in a number of different areas. With its current program of over 70 specialist trade fairs and congresses for various sectors, NürnbergMesse offers a dynamic and extensive range of private, partner and guest events.