How and why Drupal is a perfect application framework, for business applications in particular, was presented at the #2 Drupal Café in Lübeck. This presentation covers some use cases far away from the classical CMS functionality and shows how to reuse existing modules and distributions to build flexible business applications with Drupal spending less and less time with basic features such as CRM , quotes, orders and invoices. ERPAL Platform is part of the presentation as a base distribution to build a SaaS business or fully integrated business applications.

1. Drupal Business Applications
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2. About me
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Dipl. Inf. Manuel Pistner
CEO
Bright Solutions GmbH
in Darmstadt
Fouded in 2006
21 team members
#Business-innovation
#Technology
#Drupal

3. Why Drupal ???
Flexibility, Integration, Configuration, Reliability

4. All that web-apps need !
Modul A Modul B
Plugin 1 Plugin 2
Configuration layer
Use-Case
App components
Data structure
Data query
Data display
Data integration
Business logic

5. Business applications ?

6. Business Applications ?
+ Lots of existing and new contrib modules

7. Business Applications ?
+ Drupal entities
+ Contrib integration (rules, views, feeds, wsclient etc.)
+ The Drupal tools you know !

8. ERPAL is ...
c.5mn websites (2.5%)
1mn registered members
1,049 most visited site
Content
Workflow
Graphics
User
Generated
Content
Scalability
Security
Social
SEO
Products
Search
Cart
Checkout
Pricing
Currencies
Taxes
Sales &
Promotions
Analytics
Real-time
Monitoring
PCI
Shipment
Cross-sell
/ Up-sell
33k websites
c.2k net monthly additions
Languages
/ Locales
Relation
CRM Core
Invoice
order
bundle
Payment
modality
Quote
order
bundle
Contact
CRM Core
Activity
CRM Core
Revenue
Line item
bundle
Resource
ERPAL core
entity
Budget
ERPAL core
entity
Output
ERPAL core
entity

9. Industry use-case
Mobile app sending scanned object shapes to Drupal (services module)

10. Industry use-case
Product configurator (AngularJS) using Drupal as backend (services module)

11. Industry use-case
Optional: Quote
(Entity + PDF)
Configure individual
(commerce) product
Checkout
Contact to CRM
(CRM core contact)
Submit order
(Entity + PDF)
Generate invoice
(Entity + PDF)
Send order-data
to ERP
Start manufacturing
process
Submit file for
individual product
Prices and availability
from ERP
Seamless integration with Drupal's open service layer

12. Industry use-case

13. Build a SaaS business
Your Drupal App
as customer instance

14. ERPAL Platform
● Tool-Kit for business applications
● 100% Drupal (free Distribution)
● Pre-configured modules
● Best-Practises
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15. What next?
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1) Take some ideas
home
2) Think of new use-
cases
3) Help Drupal as
application framework

16. Q&A?
pistner@brightsolutions.de
brightsolutions.de/newsletter
brightsolutions.de
@ManuelPistner
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Questions? Critics? Discussion?
Always welcome!