Beck-online is Germany's leading legal information platform. With over 55 million documents in around 420 modules, lawyers, tax consultants and auditors are provided with the information they need anytime, anywhere, efficiently and with legal certainty. The content is continuously updated and expanded. The Munich-based publisher C.H.Beck recognized the opportunities and necessity of digitization at an early stage and was the first in Germany to make legal content available online with beck-online in 2001 and is still the market leader today. Due to the increased requirements of the complex beck-online platform in terms of infrastructure and service model, the publisher C.H.Beck was looking for a new partner. It was important for C.H.Beck to work with a local company. With DATAGROUP, a specialist partner was found in the immediate vicinity of the Munich location.
Partnership with a home bonus
The publishing house has its own professional IT development department, but its focus should be on its core business. C.H.Beck therefore opted for DATAGROUP as an external service provider to carry out the relocation of the systems and continue to support them. In the planning phase and during the transition, DATAGROUP and the customer's own IT employees met weekly to monitor the progress of the project. For complex issues in particular, they used the close proximity for on-site meetings.
Comprehensive service package for unique requirements
In order to best meet the customer's dynamic needs, a flexible and secure cloud-based service model (cloud services) was chosen. Furthermore, DATAGROUP takes over all tasks related to the data center, monitoring of the server systems, managed storage, backup & recovery and hardware support as part of a managed database service.
Advantageously packaged applications
C.H.Beck was already working with container solutions before the move. This simplified both the move and the distribution of all applications to the various cloud services. With this managed Kubernetes cluster, the publishing house also benefits from a wide range of advantages, including no downtime for application updates, securely separated applications and flexibility in the event of changes and new requirements.
Security for important content
The security of data and systems is particularly important to the customer. In the area of security services, DATAGROUP offers the customer services according to the highest security standards in order to protect all applications and data from unauthorized access. In addition to many other measures, this includes the monitoring of components with IDS and IPS, micro-segmentation as well as "immutable" backups for further protection against blackmail.
Teamwork with future viability
Service orientation, flexibility and transparency - C.H.Beck was looking for a partner at eye level who understands its needs and speaks the same language - metaphorically and literally. In DATAGROUP, the publishing house has found this partner and together they have ensured legal research around the clock.
"DATAGROUP quickly recognized our wishes and implemented them directly. Communication is always at eye level, so we know the status of our systems at all times. The quality of service is very good."
About the publishing house C.H.Beck
Carl Gottlob Beck founded the publishing house on September 9, 1763 and expanded his print shop in Nördlingen to include a bookshop. Beck published Nördlingen's first newspaper and compendiums on medicine and natural history, economics and education as well as religious instruction. The publishing house bears its current name after Carl Gottlob's son Carl Heinrich Beck. Under Oscar Beck, the publishing house moved to Munich-Schwabing in 1889, where the headquarters are still located today.
The publishing house owes its privileged position in the market for legal literature to the loose-leaf law collections Habersack (formerly Schönfelder) and Sartorius, which for several decades were the only aids permitted in state law examinations. The publishing house publishes around 85 legal journals such as Neue Juristische Wochenschrift and Juristische Schulung, as well as a number of economics journals.
With around 9,000 available works, around 85 specialist journals and an annual production of up to 1,500 publications, the publishing house is one of the largest German book and journal publishers.
