Integration into the legacy system
The new platform had to fit cleanly into the grown legacy landscape.
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Success story — Spitzke
A company-wide, multilingual platform.
It replaces a WordPress landscape grown over more than ten years, with TWIG templates and many in-house and third-party developments — built with Svelte and Payload, flexible to maintain and, for the first time, connected via API to the HR software Easysoft.
Location
Großbeeren
Country
Germany
Employees
≈ 2.700
Revenue
688 Mio €
01Challenge
Grown, tangled, hard to maintain.
The website is also a central marketing instrument — especially for HR and the Spitzke Academy. Accordingly, the starting point brought several requirements at once.
Hybrid transition
The switch was to happen step by step, in a temporarily hybrid structure of old and new.
Many companies, one backend
Several companies of the group were to run on a shared backend.
Different editors
Different editorial teams need to maintain content together, but in an orderly way.
Focus points for images
Images need defined focus points so that crops work sensibly in every format.
Maintain corporate design
For all its flexibility, the corporate design must be preserved throughout.
Visible through SEO
As a marketing instrument, the website must be easy to find in search.
High speed
Short loading times are a must — for the user experience as well as for visibility.
02Solution
A platform that grows with you.
We rebuilt the entire landscape: a fast Svelte frontend, backed by Payload as a flexible, headless content system. The editorial team now shapes content more freely while the corporate design is preserved.
The multilingual platform — German, English and French — also bundles the internal area of the Spitzke Academy. Via APIs it is connected to the HR software Easysoft and to the employee app, and it runs in a provided cloud with a matching security concept.
280Hours
6monthsDevelopment time
Payload
Stack03Result
Faster, calmer, economical.
Performance and bug problems are a thing of the past, maintenance is far simpler, and the ongoing development effort has dropped sharply. A maintenance-heavy patchwork has become a sustainable, economical platform.
The editorial team works more flexibly without losing the corporate design, and the HR integration connects processes end to end for the first time.