Full Stream ahead in 8 weeks and beyond

Business Case

• The migration of GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes was nothing less than a digital transformation for the Oil & Gas industry.
• A combination of Brains & Brawn, delivered a truly full stream digital industrial company.
• A new platform that celebrates the brand, pushed the new business and helps to deliver.
• A fully integrated platform across inter- and intranet, that serves the world and their employees by combining the best of both companies .
• Introduction of new best practices and technologies to position the BHGE brand as true future frontier for the industry and beyond.
• Platform to quickly release future satellite websites.

Approach

• How to approach an aggressive timeline and get alignment of many stakeholders from two formerly competitive companies.
• Introduction of our platform process, using a lockstep agile approach.
• Using workshops to gather business requirements and user needs.
• Using parallel work streams of UX, design, development and content creation.
• Delivery of full flexible components in an iterative way to fulfill the content needs of the new company.   

Technical Solution

• Drupal 8 as CMS with a multisite approach.
• One codebase to leverage both the inter- and intranet platform with similar components and content types.
• A combination of Acquia Cloud and Acquia Site Factory for a scalable and affordable platform.
• A powerful faceted Search solution using SOLR.
• A fixed rhythm of seamless DTAP deployments with a best of breed package of CI tools.
• Continuous security testing during development of the first launch and beyond, integrated in the deployment process.
• SSO integration for scalable and user (un-)provisioning.
• Multi-purpose Components
• Acquia Dam integration