EurActiv

EurActiv is an independent specialised European Union affairs portal for EU policy professionals with nearly 600,000 unique visitors per month.

EurActiv is the leader in its market and has been covering EU institutions for 10 years.

The mission of the Web A-Team consisted in migrating the existing content (60,000 articles in three languages), the existing site structure and the editorial workflow to Drupal.

Challenge

Replacing a multilingual proprietary CMS with custom features with Drupal in a 6 months timeframe.

HighLight

Migration are always very tricky. In this case, moving from a proprietary CMS with all content stored in an XML database required extensive knowledge of XML, XSL and Mysql.

Through a 2 step process (XML/XSL transformation, creation of an intermediate database) and the use of the mighty Migrate module, we managed to migrate 60,000 articles in 3 languages as a breeze.