Sector(s)

Team Members

h_habbous, intervalle

Project Team

Organizations involved

Hachette Livre: Customer, Infrastructure and domain teams.

Dropteam: Drupal expertise, architecture, and consulting.

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Organizations Involved

  • Context: Hachette Livre managed a fleet of over 100 sites on obsolete technology, leading to high maintenance costs and a lack of autonomy for marketing teams.
  • Goals: Regain control, optimize maintenance and evolution costs (MCO), guarantee brand consistency for each publishing house, and accelerate Time-to-Market.
  • Outcome: A powerful tool allowing the creation of new custom sites in record time.

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Goals and Requirements

The project aimed to transform a fragmented infrastructure into a modern site factory. Key requirements included security, performance, and the autonomy of the MarCom (Marketing & Communication) teams.

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Approach, solution and technical specifications

  • Architecture: Use of a Drupal 9+ Headless core coupled with a JAMstack architecture hosted on Amazon AWS.
  • Design System: Creation of a system with over 80 components to ensure graphic harmony while preserving the uniqueness of each publishing house.
  • Methodology: Infrastructure support, technical consulting, and CI/CD deployment.
  • Technical Stack: Headless Drupal, AWS, ETL, PIM, CDP.
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Results Achieved

The transition to this Drupal/JAMstack solution generated significant benefits:

  • Hosting Costs: Reduced to 33% of initial costs (a 67% saving).
  • Time-to-Market: Accelerated by 80% (reduced to 20% of previous time).
  • Maintenance: Preventive and corrective maintenance costs divided by four (-75%).
  • Security & Environment: 99% reduction in cybercrime risks and 80% reduction in server energy consumption.
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Why Drupal was chosen

Drupal was selected to serve as a unique and centralized Back-Office capable of managing over 700,000 published contents for multiple sites (Headless approach). It meets the following needs:

  • Complex multi-site management.
  • Autonomy for over 200 content contributors.
  • Seamless integration into a modern ETL / PIM / CDP architecture.
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Technical Specifications

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