NZ Parliament - CMS Replatform

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Terabyte offers a good mix of technical and design proficiency, and most importantly, a real commitment in listening to us coupled with their care and understanding about the kind of business we are in. – Peter Carr, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives

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The Project:

We won the original New Zealand Parliament website project in late 2004 with it going live on 24th August 2006 (a date etched in my memory as I project managed it personally - Doug Hanna, CEO).

It was awarded a Webby Honouree in 2007 and has been subsequently recognised as a best practice reference for Parliament websites globally. We have been supporting, servicing and attending to enhancements of the website since 2006.

In 2011 NZ Parliament went to market requesting tenders to re-platform the website off the now unsupported Microsoft MCMS 2002 platform onto a new modern platform.

Against vigorous competition from some of the bigger IT services companies, Terabyte successfully won the contract and are utilising Umbraco as the controlling CMS.

The large development project began in November 2011. With over 500,000 pages of content, many incoming XML streams of content, replicated servers for publishing and DR, Google search hardware, a complex public select committee submissions sub-system, it's a really exciting challenge for our development team.

The project concludes with the development of automated test scripts to facilitate largely automated regression testing to support the efficient on-going development and testing of the website.

We'll update this profile page when the re-platformed website is live in early 2013.

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