Today’s technology landscape is riddled with constantly evolving web platforms, exciting new technologies, and stubborn legacy systems. It’s easy for your business counterparts, who are rapidly creating content for these many sites and channels, to lose sight of what content is created and where it lives.
As a result, data and content are locked in back-end systems across your organization. And because it’s difficult and expensive to connect technologies, you and your team end up wasting time and resources in efforts to publish that content on the web.</p>
In our upcoming webinar, we’ll show you how Acquia Content Hub:
-Integrates with different technologies and legacy systems with our Rest API
-Normalizes content across systems through our CDF format
-Empowers Drupal developers to extend our Drupal modules for additional Drupal functionality
-Increases efficiencies, so your team can spend more time innovating, rather than searching and re-creating content
-Speeds your time to market with content rich sites
3. Today’s enterprise landscape is evolving.
Company C
Company A
Company B
→ Multiple legacy systems
Company AC
→ Acquisitions
→ Mergers
→ New technologies
4. Content gets locked away in silos...
… across different teams and technologies.
5. Acquia Content Hub
SyndicationDiscovery
Robust content discovery tools
Full faceted search
Automatic subscription updates
Saved, customizable filters
Bi-directional content
distribution
Automatic and curated re-
publishing to any endpoint
Centralized or distributed
content models
Aggregation
Secure, cloud-based content
repository
Integration into existing
technology footprint
Connectors and robust APIs
Acquia Content Hub enables customers to author, search and share content,
to deliver engaging customer experiences across a complex network of sites
and channels.
6. Integration
Approach &
Open API
No need to rip and replace
No need to change business models
Decrease implementation risk
Separation of
Content &
Presentation
Reuse content across diverse sites
Integrate into existing Drupal environment workflow
Acquia Content Hub Differentiation
Drupal
7. Acquia Content Hub Data Flow
Drupal
→ Write operations are asynchronous (eventually consistent)
→ Expect syndication to happen within 5 seconds, usually under 2 seconds
→ Publish subscriber model, enabled by webhooks
→ Common model in most modern distributed services, e.g. AWS
→ Facilitates better scale and performance, although slightly more complex
→ Live example, with explanation
11. Chris Pliakas
Director, Content Services Engineering
Ken DeBlois
Product Manager, Content Hub & Search
John Dolce
Solutions Architect
March 31, 2016
Thank You
13. Acquia Content Hub vs. Custom Builds
Significantly faster time to market
Significantly lower cost to build, maintain and
upgrade
Access to Content Hub API, to easily connect
to multiple technologies and content sources
Acquia Professional Services best practices
14. There is an unprecedented growth of new channels
and markets.
“Our survey reveals that, on average, enterprises manage 268 customer-facing
websites…Delivering great experiences across every device a customer wants
fuels complexity.”
-Forrester Research, The State of Digital Experience Delivery, 2015, April 2015
15.
16. Enterprises struggle to integrate deeply rooted
legacy systems with newer technologies.
“In 2014, digital experience technology decision-makers cited integration with
back-end systems as the biggest hurdle they faced in delivering great digital
experiences. In 2015, ease of back-end integration tops the priority list when
buying new DX software.”
-Forrester Research, Digital Experience Technology Integration: Go Beyond
Just A Basket Of Solutions, August 2015
19. There is a Massive Content Explosion
Happening Today
20. Everyone is a content creator and content publisher.
“Between the time the world was born and 2003, a total of 5 exabytes had been
created. In 2013, 5 exabytes of content was created every day! Today, Google
alone processes over 20 petabytes of information every day!”
-Newstex, Digital Content in Real Time, January 2015
21. Big content comes with a big cost, mainly time spent
searching for content.
“In 2013, content searches cost companies over $14,000 per worker and nearly
500 hours per worker.”
-Newstex, The Data Explosion in 2014, July 2014
22. Enterprises struggle to integrate deeply rooted
legacy systems with newer technologies.
“Most organizations overinvest in features and underinvest in integration… Yet
customers don’t care about these legacy issues. They want easy, convenient,
enjoyable experiences on any device or interaction with your brand. Digital
experience demands a new strategy.”
-Forrester Research, Digital Experience Technology Integration: Go Beyond
Just A Basket Of Solutions, August 2015
23. Takeaways from Forrester Research
Digital Experience Technology Integration: Go Beyond Just A Basket Of Solutions, August 2015
→Avoid one-off, point-to-point integrations
▪ Do not scale for future integration needs
▪ Result in multiple, incompatible versions
▪ Increases need for ongoing maintenance
▪ Adopt extension philosophy (ie. APIs) and code philosophy instead
→Be weary of monolithic applications and “all-in-one” platforms
▪ Inhibit evolution of your technology footprint
▪ Not practical – legacy systems, limited budgets, business changes (ie. mergers,
acquisitions)
25. Content Discovery
Full faceted search Date, source and tag filters
Automatic
subscription
updates
Saved,
customizable
filters
26. Customer Use Cases
→Share and discover content bi-directionally (Ivy League Medical University)
▪ Share relevant content across diverse departments, sites, teams - ie. physician
profiles, medical publications
→Keep site experiences up-to-date (Global Financial Services Company)
▪ Information on latest news and product updates
→Launch new sites faster and more efficiently (Global Financial Services Company)
▪ Spinning up new client and agent sites frequently
▪ Need rich content to efficiently populate new sites
27. Customer Use Cases (cont)
→Migrate content away from legacy systems (Higher Education Services Company)
▪ Enable migration to new Drupal sites
→Cross promote and share content (Big Three Music Publishing)
▪ Cross-sell products across diverse content sources - ie. merchandise, albums,
artist sites
“Clearly reducing time and cost by half at a minimum...”
“Tremendous amount of time saved, but also money saved...”
31. Acquia Content Hub Roadmap
→D8 Support
→Client-side API
→Content Hub authoring experience
→“Packaged” connectors & client libraries
→Audit trail
32. Acquia Content Hub Differentiators
→ Integration approach (platform agnostic)
▪ No need to rip and replace technologies
▪ No need to change business model
▪ Decrease time to value
▪ Decrease risk of implementation
→ Separation of content and presentation
→ Drupal customers can integrate into existing Drupal environment and workflow
33. Competition: Custom Build
→Costly maintenance burden.
▪ Difficult to maintain
▪ Require dedicated internal support and resources
→More content sources, more problems.
▪ Will require custom integration between content source and CMS
▪ Content Hub both Drupal-based and open API, so can easily integrate with any solution OOTB
▪ Content Hub’s open marketing approach and flexibility is necessary in today’s world of
increasing devices, opportunities, channels, and sites
→Slow pace of change.
▪ No single organization can match pace and scale of feature delivery that technology
organizations can
▪ Custom platforms require all custom feature development, restricted by budget and resources.
