Client
National Trade & Export Authority
Global Trade Authority Portal Separation & Migration
A national Trade Authority required the separation and migration of its international trade content from a consolidated Economic Portal into an independent, enterprise grade website. Inexture executed the complete restructuring, content migration, and Liferay DXP 7.4 deployment with zero downtime ensuring regulatory compliance, multilingual support, and a modernized digital presence.
Project Snapshot
Industry
Service Category
Portal Migration, Content Restructuring, Enterprise Software
Platform
Liferay DXP 7.4 Web Portal
Duration
5 Months
Technologies
Liferay DXP · Elasticsearch · SQL Cluster · SSO · REST APIs
Status
Live on independent domain
About the Global Trade Authority Portal Migration
The client oversees international trade regulations, export programs, trade agreements, and business facilitation. Their content was previously hosted inside a centralized Economic Ministry portal creating limitations around autonomy, structure, and accessibility for global partners.
The project required:
- Extraction of 75+ trade-related pages
- Creation of a new independent digital portal
- Bilingual (English/Arabic) content migration
- Modern navigation for exporters & global stakeholders
- Continuity of service access via backend integrations
Client Requirements
- Separate content from a large 400+ page consolidated portal
- Migrate 75+ pages: agreements, programs, reports, legislation
- Fully responsive, bilingual (LTR + RTL) UI
- Rebuild navigation for exporters, SMEs, and global partners
- Preserve shared content elements (About, Legal, FAQ)
- Implement enterprise search with filters
- Maintain backend connectivity to trade e-services
- Full compliance with national accessibility guidelines
- Zero downtime migration with 301 redirects
- Provide CMS access to Trade Authority team
- Update parent portal post-separation
Key Challenges
- Identifying & isolating trade-specific pages from 400+ pages
- Preserving SEO metadata, URLs & document links
- Zero-downtime migration during domain separation
- Creating new UI while maintaining official visual standards
- Implementing scoped search without cross-portal results
- Managing bilingual LTR/RTL layouts
- Validating 100s of internal interlinked pages
Trade Portal - Data & Content Migration Workflow
This workflow explains page extraction, bilingual migration, URL mapping, redirect strategy, content validation, and SEO preservation during the transition.
Our Approach & Solution
Strategic Platform Architecture
- Liferay DXP 7.4 architecture
- Isolated cloud infrastructure
- Dev → Staging → Production pipeline
- Elasticsearch for enterprise search
- CDN-enabled performance
Structured Content Migration
- Full audit and categorization
- Migration of 75+ pages and documents
- 301 redirection map
- Full bilingual content tree (EN/AR)
- Internal link cleanup
UX, Navigation & Information Architecture
- International Trade Agreements
- Export Support Programs
- E-Services
- Data & Publications
- Regulations & Legislation
Enterprise Search Implementation
- Elasticsearch indexing
- Faceted filters
- Predictive suggestions
E-Services Integration
- API-based data pull
- Application workflows
- Status tracking via SSO
Parent Portal Optimization
- Removal of migrated content
- Cleanup of menus and search index
- Redirection mapping
QA, Security & Knowledge Transfer
- RTL testing
- Accessibility testing
- Performance optimization
- Training for internal teams
Trade Authority - Legacy-to-Modern Portal Migration Architecture
A migration blueprint showing how the trade portal was separated from the parent ecosystem and re-launched as an independent, compliant, scalable Liferay platform.
Technology Stack
A robust and scalable technology foundation powering seamless performance and future-ready growth
- HTML5
- Bootstrap
- SQL Database Cluster
- REST APIs
- Elasticsearch
- Liferay DXP 7.4
- JS
- Azure
- AWS Cloud
- CI/CD Pipeline
Post-Migration Trade Portal - System Architecture
A post-launch architecture showing portal services, enterprise search, integrations, security, and scalable hosting supporting continuous growth and e-services.
Project Outcomes
- 75+ pages migrated with zero data loss
- Full bilingual EN/AR support with RTL compliance
- 40% improvement in navigation clarity
- +28% increase in engagement from exporters & partners
- Enterprise-grade security & encrypted workflows
- 100% responsive portal design
- Zero downtime deployment
- SEO preserved with optimized redirects
- Scalable foundation for future trade services
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