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DrupalCon Sydney: Drupal as a Platform: SBS’ journey from bespoke CMS to Drupal

by Owen Lansbury /

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Hear how and why PreviousNext's client, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), deployed Drupal with a centralised, decoupled Content Repository to power the digital network into the future

 

SBS, as a broadcaster has had many iterations of content management systems. The bespoke, in-house developed CMS while successfully powering the SBS network of websites, mobile apps, and deployments connected TVs and game consoles, had been moulded and twisted to the point where it had become a maintenance liability, difficult to systematically deploy features, and also offered a poor user experience for the content editors. In addition, content was siloed away, largely undiscoverable nearly impossible to repurpose across the different content verticals experiences. Something had to change.