Sophora

With Sophora, editorial teams create, connect, curate and publish relevant stories. We develop Sophora CMS together with leading media houses.

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Featured

Featured Sophora modules and features.

Sophora AI

Sophora AI

Sophora AI adds AI features to Sophora.
Sophora Web

Sophora Web

Sophora Web ensures easy access for editors to Sophora.
Breaking News

Breaking News

Breaking News offers a workflow simplification for fast publishing.
Sophora AVTool

Sophora AVTool

Publish, update and depublish audios and videos on streaming servers and YouTube with Sophora.

Seven Content Management Success Stories

Reach More Than One Billion Page Impressions A Month With Pure News Content

Sophora meets the high standards of tagesschau.de, including timeliness, quality, and reach – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Tagesschau.de Makes Headlines with Sophora

Build the Television of the Future

Reach new audiences with on demand videos plus background information. ZDFmediathek and ZDF.de Run with Sophora

Create The Most Successful and Controversial German News App

Tagesschau’s app was downloaded over 4,8 million times (as of November 2012) and held the lead for most downloaded apps for several weeks. Thanks to Sophora, content for mobile device users is published without further editorial overhead. Sophora CMS Powers Tagesschau App

Keep Your Editors Happy

If your content really is “king”, then you must give your editors a tool to support them in efficiently creating good stories. As the features are similar among all high-end CMS, it is becoming increasingly important how these features are implemented. For more and more professional editors, Sophora is therefore the first choice due to its user-friendly structure. Sophora Modules & Features

Consolidate The Online Infrastructure Of Your Organizations

At the WDR, there was an entire zoo of content management systems, including TeamSite, Typo3, and a proprietary CMS. With the introduction of Sophora, as the central CMS, the structures were more clearly defined, reducing costs and awakening the dormant potential synergies of their editorial teams. Feel the Harmony of the Entire WDR with Sophora

Keeping The Focus On The Content

Sophora brings a proven editorial concept that was developed in collaboration with some of the most successful Germany online editors. Furthermore the program is in a constant state of development and improvement to meet new marketplace demands.

Successfully Implement A New Brand Strategy

Since the NDR consolidated from 11 websites to 1 with Sophora, viewer traffic has only increased. The Fastest Website in the North - NDR Website

Content Management for Media Organizations

Sophora DeskClient
Sophora Web on Tablet
Sophora Web: Image Editor for Creating Image Variants
Sophora Curator: Managing Teaser Components in the DeskClient
Sophora Curator: Publishing Planner for Components of a Homepage in the DeskClient

Sophora At Work

WDR 1LIVE website

Music and culture for Germany’s youth listeners

Hip Hop or soccer? Pop or Politics? WDR’s youth radio station broadcasts online with Sophora.

1LIVE
SWR website

SWR Creates a Comprehensive Platform with Sophora

Multimedia-based, responsive and application-oriented; since 2017, SWR has switched all its websites to run on Sophora.

SWR
SWR 3 website

SWR3: A radio champion is online via Sophora

SWR3 delivers a web-radio app, including an alarm clock and personal playlist.

SWR 3
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Testimonials

Stefan Moll, WDR, Director of Online Programming
The technical standardization within the WDR is crucial for the development of our online content. Sophora is the basis for the harmonization of the entire WDR online presence, since it can integrate various digital formats, and is very user friendly.
— Stefan Moll, WDR, Director of Online Programming
Uwe Charissé, SWR, Head of Production and Creation
The CMS Sophora offers a modern platform for the strategic development of SWR's online services. In cooperation with subshell, we are already developing innovations, such as the new MobileClient.
— Uwe Charissé, SWR, Head of Production and Creation
Tobias Rahn, Das Erste, At the ARD program directorate responsible for project and system support
For us it was important to keep the CMS as lean and flexible, and to be able to react more quickly to new requirements in the future. subshell has implemented this optimally.
— Tobias Rahn, Das Erste, At the ARD program directorate responsible for project and system support
Alina Schröder, SWR, Program Director of DASDING
We are happy about the new design and the modern CMS. As the first SWR portal to switch to subshell CMS, we emphasize the innovative character of DASDING.
— Alina Schröder, SWR, Program Director of DASDING

How is Sophora Different?

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Usability in the Newsroom and On-the-go

Desktop and mobile editing clients with excellent usability.

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True Multichannel Publishing

Multichannel capability with no restrictions on editor creativity.

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Rock Solid

Robust, standards-based architecture with independent delivery servers to ensure greater performance, scalability and fail-safe operation with reduced risk.

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Rapid Implementation

Rapid implementation thanks to comprehensive straight-out-of-the-box functions for simple and flexible configuration.

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Worth Every Penny

Optimal price/performance ratio due to a simple licensing model without processor lock-in and with minimal infrastructure requirements.

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Recommended by Clients

Clients recommend Sophora. Sophora has been slowly replacing "analyst recommended", "market leading" and "headless" CMS. And our clients stick with us.

Editing: Sophora Web

Sophora's web client and modules and features that are helpful for editors.

Sophora Web

Sophora Web

Sophora Web ensures easy access for editors to Sophora.
Liveblogs

Liveblogs

With "Liveblogs", editors can jointly create and publish liveblogs together.
SoQL (Sophora Query Language)

SoQL (Sophora Query Language)

SoQL offers a standardized approach to formulating queries for Sophora Documents.
SEO Check

SEO Check

The "SEO Check" module supports the editorial team in the on-page content optimization.
Taxo

Taxo

With Taxo, documents can be classified even more effectively and in a more uniform fashion.
Sophora AI

Sophora AI

Sophora AI adds AI features to Sophora.
Sophora IPTC

Sophora IPTC

The module extracts meta data from images and can save meta data in JPGs .
Social Media Quote

Social Media Quote

Social Media Quote allows to comfortably quote Social Media contents in the CMS Sophora.
Sophora Linkchecker

Sophora Linkchecker

With the Linkchecker, “dead” links are a thing of the past.

Editing: Sophora DeskClient

Sophora's desktop client and modules and features that are helpful for editors.

DeskClient

DeskClient

The DeskClient brings pro content management to your desktop.
Liveblogs

Liveblogs

With "Liveblogs", editors can jointly create and publish liveblogs together.
Maps

Maps

Use Maps to create interactive stories or to locate content.
EPG

EPG

EPG, for convenient processing and enrichment of program data in the CMS Sophora.
SEO Check

SEO Check

The "SEO Check" module supports the editorial team in the on-page content optimization.
FeedManager

FeedManager

With the FeedManager you can easily curate and import content from external sources in Sophora CMS.
Taxo

Taxo

With Taxo, documents can be classified even more effectively and in a more uniform fashion.
Sophora AI

Sophora AI

Sophora AI adds AI features to Sophora.
Social Media Quote

Social Media Quote

Social Media Quote allows to comfortably quote Social Media contents in the CMS Sophora.
Sophora IPTC

Sophora IPTC

The module extracts meta data from images and can save meta data in JPGs .
Breaking News

Breaking News

Breaking News offers a workflow simplification for fast publishing.
Sophora Linkchecker

Sophora Linkchecker

With the Linkchecker, “dead” links are a thing of the past.
Date Search

Date Search

Date Search for searching programs, events and other contents in which dates play a major role.
TableStar

TableStar

TableStar takes sports results from various sources, calculates a variety of tables and delivers them centrally.
Teletext

Teletext

Create, edit and publish teletext pages with Sophora.

Administrating

Modules and features for administrating Sophora.

DeskClient

DeskClient

The DeskClient brings pro content management to your desktop.
Sophora Schema Docs

Sophora Schema Docs

The module Sophora Schema Docs generates a documentation of the document model of your Sophora Repository.
Multisite Plus

Multisite Plus

Multisite Plus goes far beyond the multi-site capability included in the standard scope of Sophora.
Data Model Editor

Data Model Editor

Document types can be flexibly configured in the DeskClient.
Admin Dashboard

Admin Dashboard

The Dashboard is a flexible, easily configurable graphic monitoring application.

Developing

Modules and features for customizing and extending Sophora.

Sophora SDK

Sophora SDK

Our Java-based SDK helps you develop web apps, apps, APIs and other solutions.
Importer

Importer

Flexible integration of existing systems with the Sophora importer.
Scripts

Scripts

Extend Sophora's server and clients with your own scripts.
SoQL (Sophora Query Language)

SoQL (Sophora Query Language)

SoQL offers a standardized approach to formulating queries for Sophora Documents.
Repo Exporter

Repo Exporter

With „Repo-Exporter“ you can create consistent test systems based on productive Sophora systems.

Infrastructure

Core modules and features of Sophora.

Server

Server

The Sophora Server is the heart of the Sophora CMS.
Sophora Indexing Service

Sophora Indexing Service

Connect a central search cluster with SolrCloud to Sophora.
Cluster

Cluster

With Cluster nightly updates are a thing of the past. Editors can work uninterrupted.
Cloud Binary Store

Cloud Binary Store

Unified cloud image storage.
Sophora Image Service

Sophora Image Service

Central service for the generation of image variants.
Sophora Docker Images

Sophora Docker Images

The official Sophora Docker images are container images created and optimized by subshell.

Integrations and specials

Modules and features for integrating other systems or adding specific features.

Sophora AVTool

Sophora AVTool

Publish, update and depublish audios and videos on streaming servers and YouTube with Sophora.
Sophora Media Finder

Sophora Media Finder

The Sophora Media Finder (SMF) provides ARD-Sophora users with the ability to search for and select specific videos and audio files in the ARD Mediathek and Audiothek, allowing them to integrate these directly into their applications.
Sophora Metadata Supplier

Sophora Metadata Supplier

The Sophora Metadata Supplier enables a standardized delivery of metadata for the ARD Mediathek/Audiothek.
UGC

UGC

Let user comment and rate your content. Run quizzes and polls. Let users send their own content.

Sophora Resources

Training, Tech Specs, Documentation, and Covered Issues.

Sophora Tech Specs

Technical specifications and requirements for your Sophora CMS.

Sophora Documentation

Comprehensive documentation for subshell's content management system Sophora. Links to all versions.

Sophora Changelog

Covered issues for Sophora.

Learn Sophora

Learn more about our training options and certificates.

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