Migration of EUROBAUSTOFF’s extranet to TYPO3

Keeping the 492 shareholder companies of the largest specialized trade cooperation in Europe up to date has top priority for EUROBAUSTOFF Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. Therefore, an extranet serves as central communication platform for the member companies at all 1,250 locations. On the platform, more than 16,000 users can find current information about conditions, products and marketing activities. On the one hand, the platform thus replaces internal paper mailings – in analogue times, cooperation between the member companies produced six to eight million pages per year. On the other hand, the headquarters is able to make information quickly and easily available via the extranet.

Numerous other applications were running on the same technical basis as the extranet. For the relaunch of the information platform, however, the whole system had to be replaced. Moreover, EUROBAUSTOFF protected its confidential contents with a complex three-layer access and authorization concept, which was supposed to be available in its previous form after the relaunch as well. Another requirement was a special type of user administration: based on the respective region and the partnership status, specialized dealers were supposed to be able to pass user rights on to their employees independently. Having the headquarters administrating users was not an option. Alongside, it was also necessary to migrate the supplier information system. Since this concerned a proprietary solution, it did not offer access for the necessary migration. Accordingly, the complete supplier information system had to be redeveloped.