“This demonstrates what is possible if the iranian whatsapp power and flexibility of Ibexa DXP is leveraged by a technology partner with deep system knowledge,” Karaś adds.
UNICEF Poland has been working with Kaliop/Ibexa for many years. “The UNICEF website is more than just content management,” says Karaś. “You can also buy products and donate money with one-off or recurring payments. For now, this is done through an integration with a Polish payment gateway.”
Kaliop Poland is about to complete a massive upgrade project for leading accounting firm Mazars. “We are upgrading them from eZ Publish to Ibexa 4.5+,” explains Karaś, “a massive undertaking that has taken 600 man-days of effort. This is a multilingual site, with over 100 countries and a significant repository of content and users. What made the migration so complex is that we had to keep all the legacy content and permissions, but also convert a lot of the old content to Ibexa’s more modern tools, such as Page Builder, as well as add new modules and customizations.”
Karaś does not have a commercial background, but he knows that there is huge potential for Ibexa DXP implementations in Poland and the rest of Europe.
"What we love about Ibexa is its fast and efficient prototyping. In a couple of hours, you can put together an informal content test of how the platform could meet a potential customer's requirements. You can quickly and explicitly show how Ibexa DXP would help them solve their problems."
One of the joys of the Ibexa partner ecosystem is not only that we help each other sell more, but also that together we optimize the platform's capabilities. Over the years, Kaliop Poland and Karaś personally have created many innovative features and/or modifications to Ibexa.
“We built a generic engine to define and use sophisticated validation rules for Page Builder- based pages or forms with Form Builder ,” says Karaś. “We also saw the need to adjust the Ibexa core to control language prioritization in the admin UI based on context or publisher demand, allowing them to see the names of translated content based on their time-based needs.”
Kaliop has also developed and refined a unique approach to creating site factories, where individual sites or groups of sites talk to their dedicated database and storage. This allows for much reduced code and feature complexity, makes it easier to decouple sites, and reduces a variety of risks.
"It's a great feeling to use Ibexa DXP to make our customers happy, but also to contribute to the system itself, and perhaps even influence its evolution. We are actively proposing certain changes around the permission system and translations, for which we have experienced a need in the market. And what I like is that Ibexa is willing to maintain such a dialogue.
