To build great sites and digital experiences, teams require easy to use tools focused on key capabilities: Rapid development tools, radically simple page building components, drag-and-drop widgets to manage and use rich media and content assets, and intuitive tools to review, approve and publish quickly. Acquia Lightning, a Drupal 8 open source distribution from the Drupal experts at Acquia, is the content management foundation that provides these capabilities and more to developers and experience teams in thousands of organizations worldwide. Join this webinar, led by Drupal Project Lead and Acquia CTO Dries Buytaert, and Jeff Beeman, Acquia Lighting Product Manager, to discover how Lightning is the best content management foundation for developers and next-generation experience builders. Attend this webinar to: - Learn about Acquia Lightning and how to make it the best starting point for your Drupal projects - Discover Lightning’s benefits and learn how developers are reducing development time by 30% while creating better, more usable sites - Understand through demos how Lightning makes it easier for experience builders to create page layouts, embed rich media, create, approve and publish content more easily to engage with audiences faster - Discover why Lightning, on Acquia Cloud, is the secret to building better, faster, and delivering more engaging sites that drive engagement and outcomes.

1. December 15, 2018
ZERO TO DRUPAL IN 60
DAYS WITH ACQUIA
LIGHTNING

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Jeff Beeman
Senior Director
Product Management
Acquia
jeff.beeman@acquia.com
Dries Buytaert
Drupal Project Lead and
Chief Technology Officer
Acquia
dries@acquia.com

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5. Media & Entertainment Public Sector Higher Education CPG / Retail
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6. Technology Life Sciences Financial Services Others
Customers

7. AGENDA
Zero to Drupal in 60 Days With Acquia Lightning
– Digital experience mandate requires more speed
– Drupal 8 core and Drupal distributions
– What is Acquia Lightning?
– Key capabilities of Lightning
– How to jump in and use Lightning
– Example users of Lightning

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The challenge
Developers need to build new sites and
applications faster, and deliver capabilities
that efficiently support experience
builders.

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Experience builders need to work fast
Their requirements and demands:
– Create & deploy applications rapidly
– Meet evolving experience expectations
– Deliver content-rich experiences across
web and other channels
– Streamline content creation and approval
efforts
– Utilize rich media and other assets with
ease, without technical help
“Application development and
delivery leaders feel pressure from
both customers and competitors to
accelerate the pace of software
innovation.”
-Forrester Research

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The growth of experience builders
Multiple roles need tools to do their jobs today:
– Developers (develop/assemble experiences)
– Page builders (layouts)
– Content creators (content/media assets)
– Editors and publishers (workflow and approvals)
Shared goal: Easily build rich experiences with tools that work
out of the box and don’t require heavy developer help

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How will you meet these user expectations?
Usable tools are ‘must-have’.
They’re demanded by your
experience builders, who expect:
– Intuitive, visual tools
– Drag and drop for everything
– More configuration, less coding
– Fast adoption that requires
little-to-no technical help

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Drupal ecosystem: rich and vast
Selecting the right Drupal modules
requires time, effort, and analysis.
– 2,100+ contributed projects
extend Drupal 8’s capabilities
– Features & functionality
– Integrations
– Themes and UX
improvements
– Nearly 6,000 projects under
development

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Drupal distributions help developers move quickly
Distributions package up Drupal
core plus additional projects such as
themes, modules, and libraries.
Many distributions exist:
– Some are full featured solutions to
specific use cases:
– Commerce
– Government
– Education
– Some are starting points for
developers and site builders

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An open source Drupal 8 distribution
to rapidly develop applications and
empower experience builders.

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Why Acquia created the Lightning distribution
Based on our work with partners,
customers, and the Drupal community,
we knew we needed to provide a
strong starting point for Drupal 8
projects:
– Address capabilities not yet present in
Drupal core
– Accelerate developer and site builder
experiences
– Support modern developer workflows
– Make it work great on Acquia Cloud

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Lightning
personas Developer
Site Builder Content AuthorSite Designer

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Build faster with Acquia Lightning
Development teams use Lightning because it
helps them get started faster.
– Lightning is opinionated, removing
guesswork and accelerating evaluation
and setup time
– Key modules are pre-selected and
included in Lightning
– Basic site building and delivery
capabilities are pre-configured with best
practices

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Acquia Lightning
Capabilities & Key Components

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Lightning capabilities via Drupal core
✓ Easy authoring
✓ WYSIWYG editor
✓ Layout builder
✓ Media management
✓ Workflow
✓ Multilingual
✓ Taxonomy
✓ SEO tools
✓ Flexible content modeling
✓ Multichannel delivery
✓ Secure
✓ Fast performance
✓ Accessible
✓ Multisite
✓ Responsive design
✓ Modern development stack
✓ Highly extensible
✓ Thousands of modules
✓ Rich partner ecosystem

20. Opinionated module selection, default configuration, best practices
New capabilities Patches
API Layout Media Workflow

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Component: Lightning Layout
What developers want: Ability to
provide layout-driven page creation to
their authors that allows them to quickly
and easily publish pages without code.
What Lightning provides: Drag and
drop, layout-driven page creation and
page building components for
developers or site builders.

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Component: Lightning Media
What developers want: Out of the box
media management tools
What Lightning provides: A
pre-selected and -configured collection
of modules to provide a rich,
searchable media library, bulk media
upload, WYSIWYG integration, and
support for common external media
services.

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Component: Lightning Workflow
What developers want: Tools to set-up
and manage content publication
workflows for review and approval of
content.
What Lightning provides: Out of the box,
customizable workflow configurations
using best practices to support the most
common use cases; editorial experience
improvements through the moderation
dashboard and sidebar.

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Component: Lightning API
What developers want: Tools that help
them rapidly build API-driven applications.
What Lightning provides: An opinionated
selection of tools for rapidly creating APIs
for your Drupal application (JSON API, UIs
for browsing APIs, and Open API
capabilities to make your APIs
discoverable)
API
Decoupled application
Application

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Additional Acquia Lightning capabilities
SEO
– Opinionated modules selection
– Preconfigured settings for
descriptive URLs and metadata
Security
– Closely follows Drupal core and
contrib security advisories
– Preconfigured with granular
permissions
Developer tools
Lightning assumes you may want to use
common development tools and
workflows.
Designed to work with:
– Git
– Composer
– Drush
– Drupal configuration management

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Acquia Lightning helps you build
better projects, faster.

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Publishing content with Lightning
– Review via moderation
dashboard
– Publish w/ sidebar
– Schedule publication

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Page building with Lightning
Use drag-and-drop tools to
quickly build a page with:
– Banner block
– Side-by-side articles
– Map

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Decoupled with Lightning
– Enable decoupled apps
by configuring JSON
API in under 30
seconds
– View dynamically
generated API
documentation

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Lightning Optimized to Run on Acquia Cloud
Acquia Connector Module
Baseline configuration for performance
Designed for Acquia product compatibility
– Developer tools:
– Dev Desktop
– BLT
– Pipelines
– Marketing-related tools:
– Acquia Lift for personalization
– Acquia Journey for omnichannel
experience orchestration
– Acquia DAM for digital asset
management

31. Experience
Factory
Marketing
Hub Acquia
DAM
Profile
Manager
Acquia
Lift
Acquia
Journey
Acquia
Commerce
Manager
Drupal (Acquia Lightning)
Acquia Edge Acquia Insight Acquia Search
Acquia Cloud Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Dev Tools Acquia Dev Desktop / Acquia Cloud CD / Acquia Pipelines
Onboarding,
Troubleshooting
&
Support
Services
IntegrationAPI
End User Outputs (Web, Mobile, etc)
3rdPartyServices
Acquia Experience Platform

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Acquia Lightning 4.0
– Redesigned admin experience
– Radically simpler page building
– More OOTB page building
components
– Re-imagined developer workflow
– Effortless updates
– Scheduled content publication
– Crop images in media library
– Upload videos to media library
– Page building components: maps,
media, slideshows
– Major content moderation UX
improvements
– Moderation dashboard
– Improved OOTB SEO
– Extended security coverage
– Non-reusable custom blocks
– ...and so much more
What we delivered in 2018 Where we’re going in 2019

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Getting Started
With Acquia Lightning
How to use Lighting for your next project

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Three other ways to get Acquia Lightning

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Who’s using Lightning?
– Complete site redesign on
Drupal 8 in 4 months
– Running on Acquia Cloud
– Acquia Lightning gave AMD
a 4-week jumpstart
– By the numbers:
– 300 landing pages
– 40 product pages
– Shopping conversion up 200%
– Customer satisfaction up 12%

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Who’s using Lightning?
– Princeton on Drupal since
2011
– Built new Drupal 8 site with
Lightning on Acquia Cloud
– Focus more on user needs,
less on technology
– Faster implementation in key
areas:
– Layout
– Media management
– Workflow

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Who’s using Lightning?
– Digital agencies
– Drupal development shops
– Acquia Professional Services
team

39. THANK YOU AND Q&A