Join Acquia Director of Marketing Bryan House for this one-hour introduction to Acquia's open source social publishing offerings. This Webinar describes how you can take advantage of Acquia Drupal and the Acquia Network to build communities on the web, to maximize the return on your web site investments and to leverage new social media technologies.

1. The Business Mandate for Open Source Social Publishing
Bryan House, Marketing Director. June 11th, 2009

2. Agenda
Business case for open source social publishing
Drupal - social publishing platform of choice
Acquia - your Drupal guide
Next steps
Questions

3. Businesses Focused on Cutting Costs

4. Balanced with Need to Innovate

5. Considering an Open-Source Web Platform?
Opportunity
Zero software licensing costs
Freedom from vendor lock-in
Global community

6. Considering an Open-Source Web Platform?
Top Concerns
What’s the right technology?
Will we save money?
Who do we call for help?
Are we sacrificing security?
Where to get started?

7. 2010 Future of Open Source Survey
Up & coming
Popular open source projects
open source companies
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2010 FOOS Survey @ http://futureofopensource.drupalgardens.com

8. 2010 Future of Open Source Survey
Up & coming
Popular open source projects
open source companies
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2010 FOOS Survey @ http://futureofopensource.drupalgardens.com

9. Achieving Social Publishing Success
+
Net

10. Choosing the Right Technology
A Social Publishing Platform
Drupal “… is as much a Social Software platform
as it is a web content management system.”
content users
CMS Watch, The Web CMS Report 2009
blogs /
workflow wikis
forums /
taxonomy comments
Content Social
Mgmt Software
semantic Systems Tools social
ranking
web
social
RSS tagging
social
analytics
networks

11. Business Imperative for Social Publishing
Your customers
are talking. Are
you responding?

12. Go Where People Connect
Experimentation
Participation
Transparency
Engagement

13. Bring People to Your Community
Nvidia

14. Bring People to Your Community
Intel

15. Bring People to Your Community
Sony Ericsson

16. Bring People to Your Community
Intuit

17. Enterprise Communities with Drupal
Reduce costs
– Zero $$ software licensing
– Reduced maintenance costs
Deploy capabilities faster
– Modular architecture
– Configurable, not custom
Address enterprise needs
– Performance
– Security
– Innovation

18. Harness Drupal’s Momentum
Market Innovation Community
400k 4000+ 600k
sites modules members

19. Improve Your Web Team’s Productivity
architects
Multisite architecture
Centralized infrastructure
Decentralized site administration

20. Improve Your Web Team’s Productivity
developers
Extensive API library
Modular platform
Powerful configuration options

21. Improve Your Web Team’s Productivity
contributors
End user site administration
Configurable page templates
Flexible publishing workflows
Communities, social networks and UGC

22. Acquia is Your Enterprise Drupal Guide
What modules
should we install?
Where do we get
professional
support?
How do we keep
our site up-to-date?
...Where do we start?

23. Packaged Collection of Drupal Essentials
On-ramp to Drupal
Create new sites fast
FREE
Drupal stack installers
Acquia Drupal
– Mac
– Windows
– Microsoft Web Platform
– Ubuntu/Debian

24. Acquia Network Subscription
Response Diagnostics Fitness

25. 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

26. Rapid Response to Security Issues
7 Acquia employees Security
Stuff about Drupal on
Drupal security team
Stuff about Drupal Security
Core and module Security
Stuff about Drupal
updates included in each
Stuff about Drupal Security
Acquia Drupal release
Help customers define
rapid response processes

27. The Acquia Big Picture
spam blocking
support
search
Network
diagnostics
hosting
fitness

28. Drupal + Acquia = Customer Success
The Drupal Advantage The Acquia Advantage
Rapid assembly approach Full lifecycle technical support
reduces custom programming Best practices advisory support
Modular, extensible architecture Drupal essentials, conveniently
optimized for social publishing packaged
Thriving development Fitness & diagnostics via the
community Acquia Network
Vast module library Optimized Drupal hosting
Zero software acquisition cost Extend sites with cloud-based
Industry standard LAMP stack services
Strong security track record Confidence from an enterprise
partner

29. Benefits
Engage your audience
Accomplish more with less
Harness community-driven innovation

30. Next Steps...
Acquia social publishing workshop
Acquia JumpStart training for Drupal
Connect with an Acquia partner

31. Questions
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– http://acquia.com
– http://twitter.com/acquia
Contact us:
– sales@acquia.com Recording of today’s event and slides
will be posted at:
– 888.9.ACQUIA http://acquia.com/community/resources/
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