1) Drupal is an open source content management system that powers over 1% of websites and can meet a range of needs from small to large enterprises. 2) Acquia provides training, professional services, hosting, and expert support to help customers deploy Drupal at an enterprise scale from initial development through long-term maintenance and operations. 3) Acquia's managed Drupal platform-as-a-service offering provides a scalable and highly available hosting environment optimized for Drupal performance.

1. Going from Zero to 60 in Drupal with Acquia
[ hint ]
Bryan House
Sr. Director, Marketing
Acquia
@bryanhouse

2. Your Brand Extends Beyond A Single Website
Corporate
Site
Community
Sites
“Marketing”
Sites
H&R sites
your customer
Social media
3rd party
channels
forums
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3. Need Flexible Web Platform to Meet Range of Needs
[scale]
Community
Sites
Corporate Sites
“Marketing”
Sites
[complexity & longevity]
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4. The Solution... Drupal
Open source, social publishing phenomenon.
Drupal powers >1% of the Web.
Market Size [500,000+ sites]
Innovation [7,000+ modules]
Community [800,000+ members]
[ “… is as much a Social Software platform
as it is a web content management system.”
CMS Watch, The Web CMS Report 2009 ]
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5. Because Drupal is...
• Open source GPL technology
• Modular, open architecture
• Content management system
• Community enabled
• Enterprise scalable and secure
... there is a lot of [obvious] goodness!
• Reduce [costs]
• Open [platform]
• Rapid [innovation]
• Scalable [deployments]
• Repeatable [infrastructure]
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6. I
Nvidia
Department of Education
Universal Music
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7. I
NYSenate.gov
ForeignPolicy.com
Florida Hospital
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8. Who ?
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9. The Path is Not Always Clear
How do we get from
here...
[start!]
... to
here? [ enterprise
deployment ]
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10. Acquia Can Help You Navigate The Way
How do we get from
here...
[start!]
... to
here? [ enterprise
deployment ]
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11. Acquia Has Street Cred.
3 [ of the top 20 Drupal 7 contributors ]
7 [employees on the Drupal security team]
130+ [employee-maintained Drupal modules]
upal Support Company
40,000+ [code “commits” to Drupal community modules]
Drupal 6 [co-maintained by Acquia’s Gábor Hojtsy ]
Dries Buytaert [the man who founded Drupal... and Acquia ]
Acquia, the Drupal Support Company webMethods, Accenture, Baan,
Acquia, the Drupal Support Compan
tise
mpany
perience [
IBM, Razorfish,
Enterprise cred DrupalHP, Intuit, Sun, Documentum,
]
Lotus, Mercury Interactive, EMC, Broadvision,
Acquia, the Systinet, Support Company
Silverstream, 170 Systems
s
upal Support Company
! Drupal expertise ! Drupal expertise
! Enterprise experience expertise
! Drupal ! Enterprise experience Inc. All rights reserved.
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12. Acquia [start!]
is Your
Enterprise
Drupal
Guide
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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13. Start Off Right [start!]
Hands-on, classroom training
– For admins, developers, end-users
[Learn]
Rapid prototyping
Learn proven best practices from experts
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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14. 0-60 in Acquia Time [start!]
Deploy faster with purpose-
built Drupal solutions
Go from design to online in
minutes with SaaS Drupal
Gardens [Build]
Build sites faster with Drupal
distributions for industries
and solutions
Connect with our global
partner network
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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15. Drupal Commons Social Business Software
Ready-to-use Drupal solution
Internal and external social,
community websites
Open, extensible architecture
Free download
http://commons.acquia.com

16. Built with Drupal & Community Best Practices
Intuit
Symantec Novell
Intel Nvidia

17. Built with Drupal & Community Best Practices
Intuit
Symantec Novell
Drupal Commons
Intel Nvidia

18. Content - Built on Robust CMS Platform
Support for wide range of
content needs
– Configurable content types
– Free tagging and pre-
defined vocabularies
– Rich media content support
– Faceted search
– Automated
recommendations and
featured content

19. People - Empowering Users
Native support for
collaboration patterns
– Custom roles and
permissions
– Configurable user profiles
– Connect with friends
– Self-organizing and
managed groups
– Discussions and forums
– Ratings
– Activity streams, shout box

20. Personalization Improves Productivity
Users work the
way they want
– Personal & group
dashboards
– Social
bookmarking
– Curated content
– Subscribe to
content and
discussions

21. Integrated Community Analytics
Participation
metrics to track
engagement
– Users
– Content
– Comments
– Groups
– Variable date
ranges

22. Drupal Solutions from Partners
OpenPublish
– Online publications
– Newspaper
– Corporate Communications
– Phase2 Technology
OpenScholar
– Higher Education
– Faculty, student, & research sites
– One-click site deployment
–

23. Beautiful Sites Made Easy
Theme sites without CSS
Multiple page layouts per site
Image & video galleries
Drag and drop file upload
Rapid prototyping
Site duplication
Site export - content, users, & code

24. Drupal Gardens: Drupal-as-a-Service
Built on Drupal 7
Nothing to install
No servers to manage
No updates to apply
Hassle / worry free

26. Enterprise Drupal Gardens
Launch tens / hundreds of sites
Multi-site management
Theme & template libraries
Turnkey site deployment

27. One Stop Shop [start!]
Elastic, on-demand managed Drupal
hosting infrastructure
Improve site performance, security
and reliability
Connect with knowledgable Drupal
support experts
[Deploy ]
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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28. Managed Drupal Platform-as-a-Service
Custom site hosting
Optimized for Drupal
performance
Scalable, highly available
Burstable, elastic
Automated monitoring

29. Managed Drupal Platform-as-a-Service
Hosted on AWS, SAS 70 balancer balancer file
page caching page caching server
certified platform
Highly available
HA file server
Caching & load balancing via
Varnish, Nginx web web
node web node
Opcode caching node
Memcache file
server
Fault-tolerant HA file system synchronous db failover
Nightly offsite backups
active passive
4 hour snapshots db db

30. Expertise To Ensure Flawless Site Launches
Cloud load testing
Site Audit
Performance Audit

31. Open 24x7 [start!]
Extend your sites with cloud based
services
Monitor site activity and
performance with automated
dashboards and alerts
Outsource site administration to
ensure security and stay up-to-date
[Operate]
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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32. Drupal Support, When You Need It
20+ Drupal engineers
on staff
24x7 emergency
availability
Defined SLAs
Ticket tracking until
satisfied resolution
Advisory support
Best practices
Health dashboards

33. Outsource Drupal Administration
Secure, up to date
Routine maintenance
Admin best practices
Developer workflow
setup
Module & core updates
Minor modifications to
content types & views
Minor adjustments to
web stack

34. [start!]
Working
with [Learn]
Partners [Build]
at Every
Step in
Process [Deploy ]
[Operate]
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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35. We are Focused on Customer Success
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36. Acquia in Action with

37. The Acquia Advantage
Training and Education +
Professional Services +
Global Partner Community +
Hosting & Drupal Gardens +
Expert Drupal Support +
Cloud-based Services +
[ A Drupal Sure Thing ]
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