Some HexBase Publishing System sites on the Net:
FOCUS Online is the most visited Web site in Germany according to the official pageview ranking. The site is published using HPS as an editorial environment.
At FOCUS Travel-Center, you can search through over 390.000 last-second itineraries. HexBase AirGate provides a live connection to the computer reservation system. AirGate is the first travel information gateway from the newly grounded HexMac Connectivity Division. Gateways to other computer reservation systems are under development at this very moment. HexBase SSL is used for secure travel booking over the Internet.
Credit Card Ranking is a service from FOCUS Online. In this HexBase solution you can rank credit cards, you can find out which card is the best for you. Focus magazine has tested and ranked 82 credit cards after different criteria, annual fees, interest rates a.s.o. The user can find the most suitable card fast and easy using this solution.
For companies like CNN there is one thing that is the key element in news delivery: The actuality. To be able to delive news as it happen, an online service needs a scalable and reliable system. CNN Site in Norway is produced in co-operation with the largest newspaper in Norway, "Verdens Gang".
Hundreds of stories are written with HexBase Publishing System every week, the editors use HexPad Applet for the text entry.
Norway is the second country in the world to get their own CNN Web site.
The site contains news in different categories, such as economy, sport, technics and the world wide weather.
The site has access to the news data from 3500 journalists from all over the world.
With a circulation of 5 million paper copies a day, "BILD" is the largest daily newspaper in Europe. Several services on this site are using HexBase Publishing System.
Check out The Movie Database. BILD is offering here a cool service for cinema fans: An information service about movies. In this solution, you can easily get overview about movies that are playing in Germany at the moment and in the future. The actual charts is also offered.
Visit Sound Studio and get the latest news from the pop music market, chat with megastars such as Supertramp and read interwiews with top artists.This site is an absolute must for all music fans. 20.000 DM in cash prizes are to be won every week online in the new SUPER TRAINER and SUPER MANAGER games. In these new games, you can be a german soccer league coach or a Manager, gather your dream team and follow the whole saison, trying to be the number one trainer in the league.
View-Shop is an Online-Shopping System of the latest generation. "We have looked at the systems that are out there for e-commerce for a while, and are the opinion, that the systems do not offer optimal shopping experience" says Dieter Pfenning, Technical Director of HexMac Software Systems. "Therefore we are proud to present the new BADER Trend Shop with the View-Shop" System.
The difference to the e-commerce systems of the older generation is, that the products are visually presented just like in a catalog, showing all available product variations and colours in a new way. The slogan is: "See what you get".
View Shop contains all necessary functions for a professional e-commerce system: Shopping carts with images, Data Interchange with the SAP system of BADER and of course the high-availability database system of HPS.
Direkt Anlage Bank is offering a unique free service for the analysis and management of investment funds. The system allows the user to set up up to 15 personal portfolios, which are re-calculated as the prices change.
The system also offers charts, news and portraits of previous and current developments. The data is imported to the system from various financial systems. Every night, a server-sided import script gets the fund information and graphs from several locations
The connection to the e-commece system of the bank allows the user to purchase the Funds of his choice directly online.
The german giant software company SAP is offering its customers and users a business site, where the users can read all actual news about SAP and their software, plus actual business news of all categories. The site is administrated with HPS, the content is edited within Web browsers and saved direct into the HPS database system, which updates the stories on the fly. Forums, Chat and other interactive services are underlining this great concept.
For a company with such a great image as SAP, it is important to maintain a professional Web site, which gives the users the information they need in a compact and no-nonsense form. HexBase Publishing System gives the tools to do just that.
HexMac has started a huge e-commerce project for travel booking in germany together with its partner BestData. "We have built the largest lastminute travel database with almost one million departures", says Martin Falkmeier, CEO of BestData. "With our system, travel agencies and publishers can offer the best travel booking technology right on their home pages".
The high-speed database system of HPS guarantees the continuous availability of the service, while the AirGate module continuously updates the availability and the prices of the content. The built-in GIATA Hotelguide is offering ove 30.000 hotel descriptions and photos to allow the user to compare the offerings of the most important tour operators.
NET-Investor is the shooting star of the Internet magazines in Germany. The Publisher NET-Investor Verlag chose HexBase Publishing System because of the flexibility and speed of HPS. The new JAVA-based Text editor HexPad gives the writers a comfortable way to edit articles and check them into the system over the Internet. The use of Dynamic Fonts enables the user to view the articles in the same look and feel as in the printed magazine.
The editorial department can produce the online publication simultaniously with the print publication. The daily news are updated in minutes after the writing. In this solution, HexBase Web database keeps actually track of the whole site.
Marco Polo is propably the most known publisher of city and travel guide books in Germany. 27 of these books are now on the Net, full searchable for the Web user.
The whole site is generated dynamically with HexBase Publishing System, using Web browser as the tool to feed articles and images into the database.
The editors can enter the latest news from any location, just by logging into the system. After the article is written, it is published to the right page automatically. This site is presenting how flexible HPS can be.
ELLE, the world-famous fashion magazine represents the best of their 30 paper editions from around the world on several international sites.
This German edition is having both international and german content. There are no geographical boundaries on the Internet. The hottest trends from London, Milan, Paris and New York are presented with a good overview.
If you are interested in fashion, beauty, fitness or culture, you might find what you are looking for on this site. The editorial staff is using HexBase Publishing System for the content management.
This bank Web site uses HPS for the editorial work for various customer target groups. The content is splitted to match the needs of dentists, veterinars, and doctors in general.
To create a multi-use content, the articles are written with HexPad, the JAVA Text editor and directly published on the pages the article belongs to.
A marketplace gives the Web users the possiblility to buy and sell their stuff, the classified ads can be inserted through the Web browser.
Weidmüller Interfaces is an international company which is producing components for electronic industry. They are located all over the world, and have a multi-language Internet and Intranet site, where many parts are handled with HexBase Publishing System.
The editors from all over the world can edit new news and PR articles using HexPad, the editor in charge can publish the articles as they come.
A Job market, Newsletter and many other services give the customers of Weidmüller Interfaces a good way to get in dialog with the manufacturer.
NET-PIN is a new german site for Macintosh users and fans. The site provides comprehensive information about the Macintosh and around the publishing industry.
There are catalogs about manufacturers and dealers, you can search after products and prices to find the bargains...
As a highlight, NET-PIN provides every 2 weeks a Live Auction, which is made using the new EventCaster technology from HexMac. EventCaster is a CORBA-Based real-time collaboration system, which makes it possible to have hundreds of users in a simultanious event. This system is far superior to old-fashioned "page-refresh" systems.
The two Publisher, TV TODAY and SPORTS have joined forces to publish one of the largest and detailed sport services in Germany. The Web user can get the latest news from various sports arts. A calender gives overview about sport happenings in the near future, another database gives detailed information about your favourite athletes.
As the basic engine for this service is HexBase Web Database, which guarantees fast access to the latest information, and handles the complicated Frame-parameters. Go and take a lokk at the beautiful user-interface!
"Freundin" from BURDA Verlag is publishing on the Net the latest news from fashion world and about everything that is interesting for the readers of this women�s magazine.
To keep the information accurate, Freundin is using HPS system for the data entry and organization. The editorial people can, instead of having to learn how to write HTML, fully concentrate on the content of this popular Web site.
TV TODAY, a major TV magazine from Gruner & Jahr in Germany, is presenting an AD SYSTEM, where the ads are inserted in HexBase® using a Web browser. When inserting an ad, the customer gets an ad number and a password, which he can use for administrating his ad. It is also possible to use the anonymous mode, where the customer gets a "post box" in the database, where the answers are sent to.
With the password the user can see how many times his ad has been called, and whether he has any answers to his ad, when he has used the anonymous mode.
The editorial department has full control of the ads, can change the database structure just by using a Web browser, give ads free for public, delete ads, change categories a.s.o.
SPORT BILD, the largest weekly sports magazine in Europe builds an interactive Web site based on HexBase. Due to the amount of daily results from Football, Icehockey, Tennis, Volleyball and other sports arts, the way to create static HTML pages would be far too slow. In this solution, all results are inserted direct to the database using HexBase input forms. The Editor can be located everywhere in the world, and update the results and stories from there.
In the interactive Forums, HexBase works as a "Chat" machine. People can start discussions for example about the last games, or tell their opinion about players in the German Soccer League.
Other Web Users can then join the discussion and thell their opinion to the theme. A nice detail is that the users can use icons to show their "mood" about the theme.
ONLINE TODAY is a brand new Web site from the publisher of TV TODAY. This site is offering the Web users plenty of links to other fun sites and competitions. The "Lara Croft Lookalike Competition" has already achieved a small cult status.
The actual news cover the latest Internet trends and features. The "1000 Web sites" is a directory of the most interesting sites, reviewed by the editors of ONLINE TODAY.
Due to the dynamic nature of this site, it is logical, that they can not stick to static page production. The site content management is based on the flexible Web publishing system HPS.
BUNTE is a popular fashion and trend publication in Germany, now also available on the NET as a Web magazine.
In this Web solution, BUNTE uses HexBase Publishing System to allow the editors to work virtually from any place, as long as they are connected to the internet.
Actual events and news are published continuously. The VIP database lets the Web user search information about stars and starlets.
Talking about cars, AUTOBILD offers a complete site for car lovers.
The site contains lots of useful information about new models, even scoops from upcoming developments are included. In the interactive part, HexBase Web database is used to create a complete marketplace for used cars.
You can submit your car ad to the database by using an interactive form. Other users can then search after all criteria available.
This Web Site is presented by one of the most popular scientific magazines in germany, Bild Der Wissenschaft. HexBase Web Publishing database is used to create interactive services.
The News Ticker, which gets the actual news from a radio station "Deutschlandradio" keeps users up to date with actual news. The Scientific Agent offers you a terrific new service: You can subscribe articles after themes, and when an article of your interest arrives, a notification is automatically sent to you per email using the HexBase MailBack feature.
In the Job Market you can search and find jobs and job offers in an interactive way. The Forum offers you a discussion panel, where you can change opinions with other people.
Dagens Telecom is the first user of the new editorial system for Internet publishing, called HexBase Publishing System, or HPS. Dagens Telecom Web solution was designed by the leading Swedish Web Company MediaHouse. The whole editorial work flow is based on dynamic database actions.
The editorial staff is writing the articles using special forms, where they can define the look, the publishing date, status, the part of the Web site, where the article should appear, and many other essential facts.
HexBase Publishing System is made for second-generation Web publishing, where everything is dynamic. Site management gets a lot easier, when you do not have to fight against HTML file chaos. Even the files, which are created from QuarkXPress with HexWeb XT, are loaded into the database.
The online version of the JN Sourcebook, the mostcomprehensive and exhaustive compilation of current information ever assembled about the Detroit Jewish community, is created using HexBase Publishing System.
With the click of a mouse or the typing of a word into our search engine, the depth and breadth of the community istruly at your fingertips.
By clicking on a topic, you'll find over 1,200 organizations, congregations, schools, programs, resources, businesses and services. In addition to the listings, the website includes insightful essays written by area writers, a look at Detroit Jewish history and a glimpse of the communities outside of metropolitan Detroit.
Verdens Gang is the largest daily newspaper in Norway. To be the largest on the norwegian Net is a natural target. To be able to handle the enormous flow of articles of a daily newspaper, you need to have a fast and reliable online publishing system. This is why VG chose HPS. An editorial department of 20 people use HexPad, the JAVA text editor, to edit articles. The editor can link to related stories from his current article, bringing deeper information to the Web user.
The editor in-chief has a special interface to see the latest articles, which he can turn to be published all over the site in subhomepages and special resorts. Complete status of all articles is handled, user administration and article- and image archives are included in the system. The size of the virtual editorial network can be scaled up to hundreds of editors, if needed.
HAUS + Garten is offering lots of useful information for everyone who is interested in house building or renovating and gardening.
Due to the huge amount of information, a site like this can be only managed with an efficient and flexible online editorial system. HPS is serving the news articles and several database solutions at this site.
Aftonbladet, Sweden, REAL ESTATE ADS
The largest evening paper in Sweden, circulation over 500.000,00 daily.
The Real Estate ads from the saturday special, "Nytt Hem" are published in the Internet using a special solution made with HexBase. The ads come from a Microsoft Access database and are taken over as DBF files by HexBase. This HexBase is running on Sun OS.
Customers can here create multiple-level queries, such as searching for available listings by number of rooms in a house, location and price class. There is a scroll bar, where you can select the part of the City of Stockholm, where you would be interested to live in.
There are thousand and thousands of houses of different kinds, flats a.s.o. in the database.
Online TV makes Internet history. The first time ever you have live access through the Internet to the programs of 20 TV stations. In Online TV, you can select your favourite channel, and view live images, that are sent to you every 5 seconds.
You also have access to the VideoText of all those channels. This is the first step to live TV broadcasting over the Internet. Since the bandwith is getting wider, the frquency of the images can be set tighter in the future, ending up to a vision of TV Streaming in good quality.
HexBase Web Database is used in this solution, where the accurate handling of parameters and Frames is required.
This family magazine offers useful information for housewives and for people who like cooking.
Like it�s sister print magazine, this site is split to many different categories, which allow the user to visit the winelexicon to find out about what wine matces to what food. The tip of the day always presents something special to cook.
The data entry and the workflow is created with HPS.
CourseFinder gives you the possiblility to find all Golf Courses in Michigan. The database gives you the possibility to search by the name of the course or by the location. A graphical search through location maps guarantee the visual overview of the exact location of all courses.
When you have found a suitable golf course, the database gives you all details, such as number of holes, PAR/yardage, fees, special discounts a.s.o.
This service is totally created with HexBase, the data is entered into the database using advanced administration functions.
The Online Educator is a special service for teachers and students in the USA,
which aims to assign research work that requires students to use the Internet as well as their traditional media center tools, and to help them by giving them specific addresses on the World Wide Web that will link them with sites dedicated to their research topics.
With OLE, teachers can search for Web sites with useful contents for eduction. Searches can be made for specific links by grade level, by subject (such as Science, Math,etc.) or through a full-text search. New links can be added to the database using the Admin function.
Every monday, OLE presents the latest and hottest Web sites for teachers.
FORUM is a HexBase-Based electronic marketplace in Denmark. Söndagsavisen, the largest newspaper in Denmark, is known to have powerful online activities.
This site is divided to several interactive sections: Classified Ads, Job Market, Contact Forum, News, Chat and others.
A solution of this size needs a dedicated Web databse server. FORUM is running on SUN hardware, known as a stable platform even under heavy traffic.
TradeBase Shop is an electronic marketplace offering business information services.
TradeBase connects buyers, retailers and other supporting actors on the Swedish and European markets by making business information for offers, orders, invoicing and secure payment available electronically.
Behind this service is TELIA, the Telephone operator of Sweden, also the largest ISP in Sweden. HexBase is controlling the access to the various shops inside TradeBase Shop system. It also makes statistics for invoicing the customer for his used services. With this system, it is possible to add shops with a browser-based admin tool.
At this site, Deutsche Bauzeitung, a magazine for professional architects and engineers, gives out valuable news for professionals.
A discussion forum is made using HexBase, people can "chat" with each other and search previous discussions about interesting themes.
In the calender part of this solution, the latest happenings are listed. A news ticker, based ofcourse, on HexBase technology, informs you about the actual news in the software and other related products.
The Detroit News is giving the online readers a possibility to tell their opinion about the articles they have read, or about any subject, they want to discuss about. Previously, the editorial stuff used to receive emails and then converted them to HTML files.
The advantage of a feedback system based on a HexBase database is the shorter reaction times, the users get their answers on the Web site almost immediately, and the better administration of the stories. The system also archives old discussions, so that users can search with a full-text search aafter keywords.
Aftonbladet has released a new interactive Ad Market. As an Internet Pioneer, the largest paper in Sweden is showing the way to the second round of Internet Publishing.
This HexBase solution has all actual features, which make the Ad Market an exciting place to visit. With ImageUpload, users can add images from their local hard disk to the database, for example to show an image of their car for sale. With MailBack, users can set an Agent to search the database regularly and to inform the customer per email, when the required object is available.
The solution is devided in 4 sections: Job Market, Car Market, Real Estate Market, and Computer Market. More markets are under work right now.
In this solution, the largest weekly newspaper in Denmark, Söndagsavisen, offers the Web readers a great opportunity to search and browse the display ads from the paper online.
An automatic conversion system converts the original eps-ads to gif images. The database gives you search possibilities after the content of the ads, after categories and more.
Familie & Co., a german family magazine has created a great service for sending colourful electronic greeting cards.
You can select your favourite images, backgrounds, text colours and other attributes, and write your greetings.
Your target person receives an email with the greeting card.
To use this service, click the image to the right.