Case Study

Portal O TEMPO

Context, challenges, architecture and outcomes

Enterprise migration to Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service for one of Brazil's largest digital news platforms.

Modernizing a Large-Scale Digital News Platform with Adobe Experience Manager

Overview

O TEMPO is one of Brazil’s leading digital newspapers, publishing thousands of articles every day across multiple editorial sections.

The project aimed to modernize the entire digital publishing platform by migrating to Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, providing journalists and editors with a modern authoring experience while improving platform scalability, maintainability and long-term evolution.

Client

Grupo O TEMPO

Industry: Media

Company

Netbiis

My Role

Software Architect
Tech Lead
Systems Analyst

I was responsible for the technical architecture, solution design, engineering leadership and coordination of the implementation throughout the project lifecycle.

Business Challenge

The project involved much more than replacing a CMS.

The platform needed to:

Migrate nearly two million existing articles.
Preserve historical content and metadata.
Support a high-volume publishing operation.
Improve the editorial workflow.
Adapt Adobe Experience Manager to the newsroom’s daily processes.
Integrate with existing publishing services.
Maintain high availability and performance.

Solution

A new enterprise platform was designed using Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service as the foundation for the digital publishing ecosystem.

The solution included:

Modern authoring experience.
Cloud-native architecture.
Content migration strategy.
Content modeling.
Integration services.
Performance optimization.
CI/CD pipelines.
Monitoring and operational support.

Technologies

Adobe

Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service
Adobe Edge Delivery Services
Universal Editor
AEM Assets
Content Fragments
Experience Fragments
GraphQL
Cloud Manager
Adobe App Builder
Adobe I/O

Engineering

Java
HTL
Sling Models
OSGi
Oak Indexes
Lucene
Maven
Git
CI/CD

Architecture Responsibilities

My responsibilities included:

Solution Architecture
Technical Leadership
Requirements Analysis
System Design
Integration Architecture
Code Review
Development Standards
Performance Analysis
Deployment Strategy
Technical Support

Key Challenges

One of the most significant challenges was migrating nearly two million articles while preserving their structure, metadata and relationships.

Another major challenge was adapting Adobe Experience Manager to the newsroom workflow, ensuring editors could work efficiently without compromising governance or content quality.

The project also required balancing performance, scalability and maintainability while supporting a continuously evolving publishing operation.

Results

The project successfully delivered:

Migration of nearly 2 million articles.
Modern Adobe Experience Manager Cloud platform.
Improved editorial workflow.
Centralized content management.
High-performance publishing platform.
Scalable cloud architecture.
Long-term maintainability.

The new platform provided a strong foundation for the continuous evolution of O TEMPO’s digital ecosystem.

Engineering Takeaways

Large enterprise migrations are not simply technology replacement projects.

Success depends on understanding business processes, content architecture, operational workflows and long-term platform evolution.

Technology is only one part of the solution.

Adobe Experience Manager
Adobe Experience Cloud
Adobe Edge Delivery Services
Cloud Architecture
Software Architecture
Technical Leadership

Adobe Experience Cloud
Software Architecture
Digital Experience Platforms

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