Project Profile
A separate CMS based on Umbraco: The Bavarian software house LivingData has implemented one with its website kit "komXcms" for municipalities and districts.
When relaunching the product komXcms – a custom web page builder for municipalities and administrative districts – the AKDB Bavaria subsidiary chose Umbraco as their system and byte5 as their partner. Right now there are more than 50 Bavarian websites running on the cooperatively developed Umbraco-based system.
in form of komXcms
of technically outdated systems
thanks to the Umbraco basis
© LivingData GmbH
Backend von komXcms
With the online world developing continuously, what also changes are the demands that municipalities and administrative districts have for their websites. A development that is most challenging for companies like LivingData, that started in 1997 as a software and system provider facing the standard needs of the public sector. Their portfolio includes tools for address and data organisation as well as a strong solution for website creation.
Until 2015 both of these functions were combined in LivingData’s self-developed software komXpress, which could no longer match modern functionality standards being demanded by public sector customers. A new development focusing on website creation with modern design and usability for public administrators being made editors become necessary. Since an in-house development would have been immensely time-consuming and expensive for the company and the system of choice – Umbraco – was new to most developers, the Munich based system provider decided to ask byte5 for help.
We chose Umbraco because, as a .net-based system, it fit perfectly into our existing environment. We use it as a strong construction kit for basic functions, which we can customize to our customers' requirements thanks to the MIT license.
Alexander Brückner,
Team Lead CM
Living Data
The new development was carried out cooperatively by two LivingData in-house developers and three byte5 experts, one of which became project manager. While the LivingData team concentrated mostly on frontend tasks, the necessary Umbraco backend development was mostly done by byte5 developers.
© LivingData GmbH
Beispiel-Startseite einer mit komXcms erstellen Website
The combination of Umbraco expert knowledge at byte5 and excellent knowledge of customer needs at LivingData helped to achieve the aim to build a system that is easy to be used by public administrators. Since the system’s successful launch, more than 50 web projects have been realised – tendency rising!
After being jump-started by byte5 with certification training and working on the backend, our developers can now easily improve the product themselves.
Alexander Brückner,
Team Lead CM
Living Data
The Customer
LivingData GmbH
LivingData is the leading software and systems house for customers in the public sector throughout Bavaria. In 2014, the CMS team was faced with the challenge of adapting its existing product portfolio to modern requirements in the areas of website content management and web design.
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