Salzburg AG

eggs unimedia was commissioned to implement a customer portal based on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). With this portal, Salzburg AG can offer its private and business customers a central platform to view and manage products and services they purchase from Salzburg AG. Within the scope of the customer portal project, the previously separate customer portals BusinessPortal, OnlineService and CableLink ServiceCenter, were to be consolidated.

The main objective of the project was to focus on the customer and maximize user-friendliness by means of a clear and uniform design of the interfaces and intuitive operation. The creation of self-service functionalities for the customer should ultimately also reduce internal customer service efforts.

The project implementation was initially planned as a "waterfall model". In the further course of the project the procedure was changed to the agile software development methodology Scrum. Agility was finally also the key to success. Because the agile approach meant that the project participants of Salzburg AG and eggs unimedia were in even closer contact. Dailys, Estimation Meetings, Sprint Planning and Refinements, in which the requirements were analysed and refined once again, were now part of the project procedure. All participants were able to focus 100% on the project.

The customer portal was designed as an expandable platform so that it can grow both in terms of content and functionality. This makes it easy to implement future functions and to realize sales potentials, such as the implementation of cross-selling campaigns.

• Definition of requirements at the beginning of the project
• Project duration and changing project clients and project teams
• Complexity due to different requirements of the departments
• Changeover from a waterfall project to an agile project during the course of the project
• The technical challenge was the close integration with third-party systems, since this is a portal application in which customers can view all the data relevant to them
• Security is a major issue, as sensitive customer data can be viewed. No data is stored in AEM itself.
• Use of a SAML authentication handler, extension of the login process
• High technical complexity due to the self-service possibilities by the user
• Compliance with the DSGVO guidelines in the complete process (consent, collection, processing)

• Creation of a modern and responsive design with simple usability
• Complete technical implementation, development of templates and components as well as templates into components
• Integration of third-party systems via an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  • SAP CRM / SAP IS-U
  • NeoTel (management of telephony data)
  • Cablelink
  • User database (e.g. energy diary)
  • Infonova (telephony data)
  • ZAMM (management and play of upsell opportunities for existing customers)
• Special emphasis was placed on "clean code", i.e. a reusable, durable and stable code. 
• Special feature: The focus in this project was on the publisher, since the editorial effort for a content author on the authoring system is low. Most of the data is supplied from backend systems.
• To increase performance a server-side caching was built in