Navigating Cloud Transition with Confidence

ZVV faces the challenge of evolving their digital infrastructure to meet the demands of today’s dynamic business environment. In their strategy planning, they identified the need to approach a strategic partner to professionally guide them through the transformation of transitioning their AEM components into the cloud. Due to our extensive expertise and proficiency within Adobe Experience Manager, N47 perfectly fits the need to supercharge the infrastructure of ZVV for the future.

Challenges with AEM On Premise

• High hardware costs for own server infrastructure
• Complex maintenance of servers and operating systems
• High administrative effort for backups, patches, security
• Long release and update cycles due to complex deployments
• Difficult scaling up and down as needed
• High effort required for migrations to new versions
• Poorer performance due to local server infrastructure

Project Challenges

• Replacement of the legacy platform whose dependencies hinder scaling and flexible expansion
• Complex migration of content from almost a thousand pages and assets
• A future-proof solution built on industry standards and Adobe best practices
• Ensuring knowledge transfer for the new system, UI, and features through employee training

AEM as a Cloud Service

Recognizing the need for a future-aware solution, we collaborated with ZVV to transition their AEM on-premise solution into a Cloud Service. This transition offers comprehensive benefits, ranging from enhanced agility to reduced infrastructure overhead. AEM’s cloud-native architecture empowers ZVV to embrace continuous innovation seamlessly.

Advantages of AEM as a Cloud Service

• Agility: Instant deployment of updates and features, ensuring responsiveness to market changes.
• Scalability: Auto-scaling capabilities to handle varying traffic loads effortlessly.
• Cost-efficiency: Elimination of on-premises infrastructure costs.
• Reliability: Managed services, ensuring high availability and robust performance.

We guided the team at ZVV through the entire project journey, from the initial idea to the final implementation. Together, we developed a solution that integrated ZVV’s established expertise with state-of-the-art AEM capabilities, resulting in a seamless user experience.

Highlights of the transformation

• Speedy development: We follow the Adobe Digital Foundation Blueprint best practices and leverage Adobe’s Core Components as much as possible. Our AEM experts thrive for maximizing the platform’s built-in features. This reduces the development time drastically.
• Content migration: Successful planning and running the migration of several hundert pages.
• Accelerated time-to-market: From zero to go-live in just a few sprints with a fully functional website.

N47 and Adobe nurturing ZVV’s growth

This narrative isn’t just about technology – it’s about transformation. As we stand beside ZVV, their triumph becomes ours. From cloud transition to a feature-rich platform, we play our part in their success story. By placing ZVV’s vision at the forefront, we pave a path for them to navigate the future with confidence.

AEM’s dynamic capabilities empower ZVV to continuously adapt to changing user needs and market demands, propelling their competitive advantage.

Ongoing benefits

• Innovation ecosystem: Seamless integration of emerging technologies for sustained relevance.
• Customer-centric approach: Real-time insights driving personalized user experiences.
• Time-to-market: Swift deployment of new features for quicker service enhancements.

The successful migration to AEM as a Cloud Service has laid a robust foundation for ZVV’s digital future. While the initial transformation focused on infrastructure modernization and operational efficiency, the new cloud-based platform opens doors to numerous possibilities for innovation and enhancement. Although specific plans are yet to be defined, the cloud architecture now enables ZVV to easily implement various advanced features and capabilities when needed.

Enhancements:

• AI-driven customer experience optimization
• Advanced analytics implementation
• Automated content personalization
• Enhanced mobile capabilities

Scaling Possibilities:

• Multi-region deployment capability
• Enhanced performance optimization
• Advanced security features
• Integration capabilities

These potential enhancements can be evaluated and implemented based on ZVV’s evolving business needs and strategic priorities, without the technical limitations that existed in the previous on-premise solution. The cloud infrastructure provides the flexibility and scalability to adopt these technologies at a pace that aligns with ZVV’s business strategy and customer demands.