Wissen.de
Project Description
The multi-award-winning online portal of DirectGroup Bertelsmann,
wissen.de, is held as Europe’s
leading knowledge platform. The portal links facts, background information, experiences and
opinions from all relevant areas of knowledge, thus providing dependable orientation through today’s
jungle of information. An encyclopaedia with more than 150 000 headwords, renowned dictionaries
with more than 1.5 million headwords, and a chronicle with over one million database entries are
all available to serve the online inquiries. Nionex created the fundament for the customer portal.
Thanks to scalable hardware architecture, wissen.de can react to the increased number of queries
made to the portal. With a redundant hardware layout, Nionex ensures that wissen.de is up and
running 24/7.
