New National Tourism, Recreation and Culture Databank and Content Management System for VVV Nederland

VVV Nederland has asked Ferranti Computer Systems to supply a shared back-end system for the National Tourism, Recreation and Culture Databank and a generic Content Management System. The National Databank is focused on the central and integral collection, management, enhancement and publication of digital data relating to tourism, recreation and culture in the Netherlands. The web content management system is based on Sitecore technology.

As an organisation linked to several local and regional organisations VVV Nederland is faced with an historic diversity of solutions and developments for a common problem, i.e. the management and supply of information on recreation, culture and tourism.

In order to provide an optimum service to customers, particularly in this sector, the accuracy and completeness of information is of vital importance. Centralisation of the data, using a central management and quality assurance system, guarantees that the data supplied to users of the system is of superior quality.

The order comprises a database for the central storage of data and the relevant management application, input and output via both files and services and a Content Management System to facilitate frontend access to data stored in a central system and to make the system visually attractive to the public.