- Acquia is a software company founded by Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal, to provide products and services for developing websites using Drupal.
- It has over 220 employees and 2000+ customers, and has raised $38.5 million in capital.
- Acquia offers professional services, training, hosting infrastructure, and tools to help organizations develop, deploy and maintain Drupal-powered websites and web applications.
6. “ We are now in the
5th major technology cycle of
”
the past half century
Mary Meeker
Kleiner
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7. “ We are now in the
5th major technology cycle of
”
the past half century
Mary Meeker
Kleiner
Mainframe Mini-computer Desktop Internet Mobile
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18. Mobile
25X growth
over next 5 years!
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19. Drupal is the Largest
Open Source Community in the World
Open source, web phenomenon
Market Presence 1,500,000+ sites
Global Adoption 228 countries
Extensive Capabilities 16,000+ modules
Broad Community 800,000+ members
Active Development 17,000+ developers
2X the size of Linux developer community
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL - do not redistribute
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21. Content-Rich Web Experiences
Profiles &
Content
Friends
(Micro) Rich
Blogging Media
UGC Social Template
Analytics Workflow
Groups Mobile
Social
Menu / IA
Tagging
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22. Assembled Web Experiences
Architecture to rapidly “assemble” experiences from
building-blocks instead of code sites from scratch.
Drupal core Drupal + recommended Solution
modules Distributions
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24. Inside many large
organizations,
the web is broken
• Duplication of content
• Disparate sources
• Disconnected reporting
• Islands of excellence
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35. Acquia Tools
• Acquia Insight provides real-time
analysis and proactive alerts for issues
with your Drupal code and configuration.
• Acquia SEO Grader helps you
increase traffic from organic search by
identifying areas for improvement in how
your site is rendered by Drupal.
• Acquia Search gives you a rich,
faceted search engine (Powered by Solr/
Lucene) that you can have up and
running on your site in minutes.
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36. Acquia Insight
• Dynamic scoring: On demand scoring
(0-100) based on site code & config
• Drupal code analysis: Identify module
code modifications to quickly identify and
resolve issues
• Configuration monitoring: Monitors
more than 80 configuration, performance
and security settings
• Proactive alerts & recommendations:
Configurable email alerts and practical
‘Help Me Fix’ recommendations.
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49. Examples 2 - Websites Without Boundaries
Grow your site in
Drupal Gardens
Acquia manages
Drupal stack & hosting
Grow your site with:
•Custom modules
•Custom code, plugins
•Integration with 3rd party API’s
Acquia manages code,
Drupal stack & hosting
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50. Examples 2 - Websites Without Boundaries
Grow your site in
Drupal Gardens
Acquia manages
Drupal stack & hosting
Grow your site with:
•Custom modules
•Custom code, plugins
•Integration with 3rd party API’s
Acquia manages code,
Drupal stack & hosting
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105. Symfony benefits
A robust, modern toolkit for today's web
Well-tested, open source code
A healthy, welcoming community behind it
"It's like when we adopted
jQuery, but for the backend!"
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106. Authors
Great
mobile
experience
Site visitors Developers
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107. In 2000 all traffic came from desktop browsers
Desktop
100% Mobile
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108. In 2010, 3% of all traffic came from mobile
3%
Desktop
Mobile
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109. By 2015, mobile traffic will increase 25x
Desktop
Mobile
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110. Mobile traffic will consist of 2 types
Desktop
Mobile
Native applications Mobile browser
(iOS, Android)
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111. Drupal in the 5th technology cycle
HTML 5, Desktop
responsive Mobile
RESTful design
web services,
SDKs?
Native applications Mobile browser
(iOS, Android)
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112. We need to embrace the mobile culture!
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113. Authors
Great
authoring
tools
Site visitors Developers
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114. Drupal wins the technical decision ...
Sitecore Technical strength
8
7
Open Text 6
CQ5
5
4
3
2
1
Drupal 0 Plone
Joomla Squiz
Wordpress
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115. ... but lags in authoring experience
Sitecore Technical strength
8
7
Authoring experience
Open Text 6
CQ5
5
4
3
2
1
Drupal 0 Plone
Joomla Squiz
Wordpress
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116. Drupal experience
In-line editing Ideal Pro
10 Ideal product Drupal
9
8
7
Mobile authoring 6 Workflow
5
4
3
2
1
0
Localization Content staging
Media
Layouts
management
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118. Making content authoring easier
Put “more in core”
• More in-line editing
• Improved content
administration tools
• Better media support
• Page and layout
building tools
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119. Making content authoring easier
Put “more in core” Embrace distributions
• More in-line editing • Better promote
distributions on
• Improved content Drupal.org
administration tools
• Better media support • Grow community
around distributions
• Page and layout
• Figure out revenue
building tools model
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120. Drupal 8 is targeted for August 2013
2012 2013
Feature freeze Code freeze Release
We are here
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121. Drupal 8 is targeted for August 2013
2012 2013
Dec 1 Feb 1 Aug
Feature freeze Code freeze Release
We are here
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122. Drupal 8 initiative status
Analysis Design Development
Config Mgmt
Web services
Layouts
Multilingual
HTML 5
Mobile
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123. Time to kick ass
with Drupal 8!
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130. Finance: Reduce time to deployment
Before:
• 2 year project to replace 60+ websites
• Was shut down 2 weeks before launch
• 0 sites went online
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132. Finance: Reduce time to deployment
After:
• Migrating 60+ sites to Drupal
• Launching 2-3 sites per month
• Broad-based wins for all
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136. Media: Cloud scalability
• IT wins:
• Can now scale up dynamically within
minutes based on demand
• Architecture includes global failover
• Marketing / business wins:
• Live on-site reporting & blogging
• 20x traffic spikes
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141. High Tech: Social community
• 243,000+ community members
• 95% of all content created by
members
• Motivated by recognitions and
rewards
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142. High Tech: Social community
• 243,000+ community members
• 95% of all content created by
members
• Motivated by recognitions and
rewards
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152. Media: Global
French
German
Dutch
Spain
• Localized text strings and
content
• Shared themes, site structures
• Flash menus driven through
Drupal
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