This article introduces the FORGE product and provides a brief overview of its ecosystem.
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What is FORGE?
FORGE is Deltatre's digital experience platform used for creating, organizing, and delivering digital content for sports and entertainment organizations.
FORGE is made up of:
- FORGE Presentation: For producers delivering content across multiple channels (desktop browser, mobile browser, mobile app, etc).
- FORGE Content: For editors creating, organizing, and publishing content.
FORGE Content and FORGE Presentation are decoupled, allowing editorial teams to independently organize the content and presentation tasks.
FORGE ecosystem
The diagram below details how FORGE Presentation, FORGE Content, and the FORGE front-end work together.
What is FORGE Presentation?
FORGE Presentation helps producers design the structure of digital content. It includes FORGE Page Builder and other apps that help organize content for websites and mobile apps.
FORGE Presentation provides three apps to define how to present content:
- Visual Site Manager (legacy): The legacy app for defining the content's presentation.
- Page Builder: The app for defining the content's presentation.
- Vocabulary Tool: The app for authoring and publishing microcopy (UI copy).
Visit The Presentation Manager basics section for more information.
What is FORGE Content?
FORGE Content consists of FORGE Back Office and other supporting apps, providing producers and editors tools for authoring and publishing content.
FORGE Content addresses two types of content, each through a dedicated app:
- FORGE Back Office: The app for authoring and publishing content other than live blogging.
- LIVE BLOGGING: The app for blogging live events, for example, covering a football match.
- Graphic Asset Dashboard (GAD): The app for managing visuals.
Visit The Content Manager basics section for more information.
FORGE Personas explained
At the architectural level, FORGE manages the presentation using FORGE Page Builder, and the content using FORGE Back Office. These are fully decoupled from the rendering engines that build the front-end, which is shown in the browser or app to end users.
Dedicated API layers work as a bridge toward the front-end:
- FORGE Distribution API, for distributing content
- FORGE Front-End API, for distributing the presentation description
The API layers feed the built-in FORGE rendering engine as well as a fully bespoke one. In turn, the rendering engine feeds the delivery channel: browser, app, etc.
Editors create and post content using FORGE Back Office. Producers design the presentation using the FORGE Page Builder. FORGE administrators support the producers.