MegaCard.at – Bank Austria UniCredit

Project description

Bank Austria UniCredit is one of the mayor Austrian banks, with numerous subsidiaries across South and Eastern Europe. Since 2008, Bank Austria is a part of UniCredit, one of the mayor bank consortium based in European Union.
  
MegaCard.at is advertising and promotion website of Bank Austria UniCredit, the biggest bank group in Austria. The purpose of MegaCard.at is to inform and promote the special bank saving program, MegaCard. Through MegaCard program (that targets mostly younger public) bank customers enjoy also benefits and discounts when buying tickets for concerts, festivals, movie premiers and sport events.  MontenaSoft provided the Drupal development and consultancy for this exciting project.
  
MegaCard web site was developed in cooperation with brainacs, an innovative marketing agency from Vienna, Austria. The marketing campaign for MegaCard is based on slogan "Alt wirst du noch früh genug" (in a free translation, something like "You’ll get older soon enough") On MegaCard.at website, the bank customers should have the opportunity to give their feedback on sponsored events and be animated in numerous ways to write their reviews of event.

MegaCard was a project that has shown very clearly the benefits of the use of Open Source software – and most notably, the benefits of Drupal community web framework. Besides changing the web site from information based to community based architecture, there were a lot of smaller changes behind the scene that brainacs wanted to introduce. The number of changes needed to be performed was the reason why brainacs contacted MontenaSoft after previous positive experiences with Drupal development of StarEvents.cc website. Our role was the migration of existing functionality to Drupal and development of new Web 2.0 elements. 

Except of course theming (implementing of graphic design), most of the web site structure could be easily created by the Drupal and existing Drupal modules. Some extra tweaking has been done with template.php, since brainiacs wanted to have automated menu links in primary menu including menu with parents and children of the same node ID. Without the open and clean architecture of Drupal, we could be stack at this point for weeks, which was clearly unacceptable for our client.

The architecture of Drupal also provided us easily accessible ways to change the default behaviour of the system whenever it was necessary to fulfill the requirements.  The number of encountered bugs during the testing phase was very small comparing it with the size of the project.

Drupal performed always as we expected and the project was delivered in timely manner. We were very pleased with the outcome of our cooperation with brainacs and we plan to support brainacs continuously in future web-centric projects.