CeRDT Three Portals

Centre de Promotion de la Recherche & Développement et de la Valorisation des Technologies en Hainaut

URL: http://www.dixite.com/references/web-site/

Website: http://www.cerdt.be/

Clients: CeRDT

Categories: Web Portal, AfterCare

Business Challenge

CeRDT is THE actor of innovation in the Hainaut. They help companies by informing and accompanying them through the process of developing their technological innovation.

Business Objectives

  • Get entreprises think: Innovation equals CeRDT
  • Improve heavily on qualified prospect being capable of technological innovation offerings in Hainaut, Belgium
  • Becoming an essential contact point for companies searching assistance for their technological projects
  • Provide quality advisory information on topics related to innovation including intellectual property

Technical Goals

  • Interface and Business logic separation: the platform should allow to modify the look and feel of the sites without touching the business logic;
  • Re-usability: components developped for one site should be re-usable for another one;
  • Accessibility: the portal should be accessible to people with visual deficiencies;
  • Ease of maintenance: portal should be administrated by non-computer litterate staff members;
  • Evolutive: the technologies supporting the sites should allow evolutive maintenance at a low cost;
  • Performant: the portal platform should be robust and allow for optimisation;

Solutions Applied

In order ensure a professional development nevertheless the strict time constraints, Dixite developed the Web Portal solution using eXtreme programming techniques based on a URD. A few releases of the system were issued until the final acceptance by the customer.

Methodologies

Technologies

  • LAMP
  • W3C Standards
  • Reusable PHP Components (PEAR)
  • Template/Presentation Framework for PHP (SMARTY)