{"id":5530,"date":"2012-04-23T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomreach.com\/hippo-cms-is-good-policy-for-the-netherlands-ministry-of-foreign-affairs"},"modified":"2024-09-12T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:16:41","slug":"hippo-cms-is-good-policy-for-the-netherlands-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/en\/news\/2012\/hippo-cms-is-good-policy-for-the-netherlands-ministry-of-foreign-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippo CMS is Good Policy for the Netherland\u2019s Ministry Of Foreign Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hippo, the company setting new standards for how Commercial Open Source Enterprise Web Content Management can empower audiences and change the way organizations manage Web content is pleased to announce that The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs has selected Hippo CMS to power their main website at http:\/\/www.minbuza.nl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs promotes the interests of the Kingdom abroad. The Ministry coordinates and carries out Dutch foreign policy at its headquarters in The Hague and through its missions abroad. It is likewise the channel through which the Dutch Government communicates with foreign governments and international organisations.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands is committed to building a safe, stable and prosperous world. In The Hague, and at more than 150 embassies and consulates worldwide, staff are actively involved in addressing issues such as poverty reduction, climate change, respect for human rights and the rule of law and eliminating conflict.  The Ministry\u2019s expert staff serves Dutch citizens, businesses and institutions in over 150 cities all over the world and in The Hague.<\/p>\n

The ministry\u2019s web presence is one of its primary communication vehicles and is an incredibly important part of its overall mission. The ministry has recently consolidated and migrated their web content platform onto Hippo CMS.  <\/p>\n

A Big Challenge \u2013 Consolidate Multiple Sites While Improving Performance<\/h3>\n

The Ministry faced a large challenge. With more than 150 embassy and consulate web-sites each in a variety of five different languages (Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish) \u2013 the organization required a solution that would help consolidate these sites under a single web content management solution. Additionally, the Ministry required a solution that would allow them to expand their web content into other languages including Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. And finally, because 150 sites would be consolidated, the government organization highly desired a solution that would improve their existing navigational methods \u2013 as well as improve their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts.<\/p>\n

The Solution \u2013 Simpler Infrastructure & Much Improved Performance<\/h3>\n

Hippo CMS and the advantage of its Context Aware Server was the key to The Ministry\u2019s success. The Hippo services team worked with The Ministry to accomplish a complete solution for the new web content platform.<\/p>\n

\u2013  From 150 embassy and consulate web sites \u2013 to 1 site<\/strong>. The team migrated all of the different and multi-lingual web sites and more than 25,000 documents into a singular web content platform \u2013 that saves tremendous costs on rolling out new languages, designs and effort for content management.   <\/p>\n

\u2013 Added new languages to the platform<\/strong>. 15 new languages are now included across the site, including non-western character-based languages such as Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.<\/p>\n

\u2013 New navigational framework and faceted search<\/strong>. Using Hippos Context Aware server \u2013 the navigation now automatically optimizes based on traffic into the site \u2013 including a faceted search that helps keep the navigation consistent across the entire scope of the website.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Doubled speed of the site \u2013 SEO optimized<\/strong>. In a \u201cbefore-and-after\u201d snapshot of the website \u2013 adding Hippo CMS and optimizing the content through Hippo\u2019s delivery platform has more than doubled the speed of the site.<\/p>\n

Great Results \u2013 Less Costs & Better Performance<\/h3>\n

The results have been tremendously helpful for the Ministry in their effort to both save expense, and optimize their results. \u201cOur mission is to represent and serve the Dutch citizens, businesses and institutions in more than 150 cities all across the world.  Our website is a direct reflection of that mission,\u201d said Gerco Broekstra, Webcoordinator of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. \u201cMoving to Hippo CMS has enabled us to both double the performance of our site for search engines, while consolidating it into one easy-to-use system. This helps us communicate faster and much more efficiently. We\u2019re very happy to have standardized on the Hippo CMS platform.\u201d  <\/p>\n

The overall results include a much more expanded web presence in new languages. This gives the Ministry a much greater global reach than it had previously with their old web content management system.  Additionally, the new Hippo CMS more than doubled the speed of the web site, resulting in the Ministry\u2019s site now appearing on the front page of Google for many of their top keywords and key phrases. The new faceted navigation optimizes the experience for the user no matter if they come in from a de-centralized access point (e.g. a consulate site) or from the highest level of the main site.  The new CMS is also much easier and, for the first time ever, a single system supports their large 185-strong web team. And because it\u2019s consolidated on one system \u2013 not only have their training and ongoing management decreased, but the infrastructure they need to serve their new consolidated platform has a reduced footprint as well.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Hippo CMS has become good policy for the Ministry\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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