It’s that time of the quarter again! Join us for 30 minutes (plus Q&A) to hear about all of the new Acquia Platform enhancements and capabilities that have been released in Q1, and are already available to you TODAY.
M.J. Johnson, Acquia’s Sr. Director of Product Marketing, will walk through recent feature updates that will help you:
-Achieve speed and agility by launching and managing sites with minimal time, effort, and code.
-Drive business results by leveraging data and content to connect with audiences.
-Reduce cost of ownership with an efficient, reliable infrastructure that scales.
-Deliver the lowest business risk by adhering to high standards for security and compliance.
Specific discussion topics will include: Improvements to Acquia Cloud, Acquia Developer Tools, Acquia Edge, Acquia Lift, Acquia DAM, Acquia Lightning and much more.
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Acquia Platform Update: New Features and Capabilities
1. David Aponovich
Lightning, Journey
M.J. Johnson
Cloud, Site Factory,
Solution Portfolio
Eric Fullerton
Lift
Stephen Skidmore
DAM, Edge, Commerce
March 14, 2019
For Customers and Partners
Q1 Quarterly Product Update
2. To deliver the universal
platform for the world’s
greatest digital experiences
Acquia’s Vision
5. 2019 Launch Theme and Topics
Value to Customer Objective
Speed & Agility Drive the fastest time-to-market and provide more flexibility than any other provider
Business Results Drive the greatest business results by leveraging data, content, and AI
Cost of Ownership Drive the lowest total cost of ownership than any other provider
Risk Management
Drive the lowest business risk by adhering to high standards for security and
compliance
6. Q1 Features Released
Themes Product Capability
Speed & Agility
Drive the fastest time-to-market and provide more
flexibility than any other provider
Acquia Lightning JSON API 2.0
JSON API 2.1
Dev Desktop Dev Desktop Enhancement Release
Acquia Cloud New Welcome Screens / UI Improvement
Business Results
Drive the greatest business results by leveraging
data, content, and AI
Acquia Lift Acquia Lift V4 Beta
Acquia Content Hub Acquia Content Hub 2.0 Beta
Acquia Edge Argo Smart Routing - Add on
Firebolt - Add on
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - Add on
Cost of Ownership
Drive the lowest total cost of ownership than any
other provider
Acquia Edge Load Balancing - Add on
Subdomain Support - Add on
Acquia Cloud Enterprise Single Sign-on (SSO) Add-On
Risk Management
Drive the lowest business risk by adhering to high
standards for security and compliance
Acquia Cloud Log Forwarding
Acquia Edge Mutual TLS - Add on
Access - Add on
Acquia Cloud FIPS
8. Enterprise Single Sign-on (SSO) Add-On Acquia Cloud (Elite only)
What
Why
For Who
Easily authenticate using SAML. Enforce
your password policies. Easily manage
addition and removal of users
automatically.
InfoSec, Security Teams, Operators
Reduced effort to manage identity
Improved governance across IT managed
systems
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9. FIPS Compliance (140-2) Acquia Cloud
What
Why
For Who
Acquia Cloud is now FIPS-compliant for Federal
customers.
InfoSec, Security Teams, Operators
Allows for highest priority FedRAMP
compliance requirement and
government-approved standard for how to
do encryption
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Federal Information Processing
Standard (FIPS) standard, 140-2, is
a U.S. government standard that
defines cryptographic module
security requirements.
The FIPS 140-2 cryptographic
libraries are designed to protect
data at rest and in transit over the
network.
10. Log Forwarding Acquia Cloud
What
Why
For Who
● Acquia Cloud now provides the built-in, self-service means to securely forward
logs to your organization's SIEM system or log repository.
● Service expanded to support more destinations (2 destinations per
environment).
InfoSec, Security Teams, Operators
● Identify valuable information and parse the noise.
● Pro-actively analyze logs to prevent security incidents before they occur.
● Reduce time to respond to security incidents after they occur.
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11. Cloud UI Onboarding Improvements Acquia Cloud
What
Why
For Who
New Cloud welcome screens to facilitate
new-user onboarding. Simple-to-follow
screens walk a user through setting up the
cloud application for the first time.
Developers, Operators
Simple primer for clients new to Acquia, i.e.
new accounts or new people joining a client
or partner team. (Big benefit to clients
without a TAM.)
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13. Dev Desktop Enhancement Release Developer Tools
What
Why
For Who
Addresses PHP version incompatibilities,
improves Windows compatibility, and
improves installation & startup experience
across systems.
Developers
We continue to listen to customers to improve
Dev Desktop. This enhancement makes it
easier to use by addressing specific
problems, based on customer feedback.
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15. Lightning JSON:API 2.0, 2.1 Lightning
What
Why
For Who
Upgraded Lightning API to use JSON:API 2.0 & 2.1 industry
standard; it’s backwards compatible with JSON:API 1.x. We’re
the ONLY WCM to support the JSON:API spec 100% for better
compatibility with JSON libraries (i.e. Node) providing more
confidence building decoupled applications
Developers
Helps devs build decoupled apps, using JSON:API standard,
which enables an ecosystem of front-end development tools
(i.e. REACT, Angular). Helps streamline decoupled
development efforts.
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18. EDGE Mutual TLS Acquia EDGE
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What
Why
For Who
Cert for IoT devices signed by company’s
root CA certificate when connecting
between a client and Acquia Cloud Edge.
Operators
As part of the Edge eco-system, there is
no need to work with 3'rd party vender,
eliminating integration issues, reducing
costs, providing a central admin console.
19. EDGE Access Acquia EDGE
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What
Why
For Who
Authentication that centrally manages
access using popular Identity Providers,
and provides security policies and logging.
Operators
Greatly reduces management hassles of
providing secure connections.
20. EDGE Argo Smart Routing Acquia EDGE
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What
Why
For Who
Routes traffic across the fastest paths
available, and maintains open, secure
connections to eliminate latency imposed
by connection setup and improves SEO.
Operators
Reduces Internet latency on average by
35% and connection errors by 27%
21. EDGE Load Balancing Acquia EDGE
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What
Why
For Who
Distributed traffic loads globally and locally
with failover.
Operators
Provides resiliency to DDoS attacks.
Americas
Asia
Europe
22. EDGE Subdomain Support Acquia EDGE
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What
Why
For Who
Treat any subdomain like it is a top-level
domain with independent settings,
organizations and members.
Operators
For more flexibility in managing &
customizing subdomains
23. EDGE Firebolt Acquia EDGE
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What
Why
For Who
Optimizes ad content on desktop and
mobile devices to increase ad delivery
speed and branding to non-Google ad
networks.
Operators & Marketers
Make online ads 5X (or more) faster
Deliver display ads with greater certainty
24. EDGE Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Acquia EDGE
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What
Why
For Who
AMP-enabled pages are cached across
165 data centers, in 75 countries with strict
AMP HTML validation rules, and are
checked for potential security risks.
Operators & Marketers
3X faster loading time compared to
traditional mobile content.
26. Content Hub 2.0 Beta Acquia Lift/Content Hub
What
Why
For Who
New version of Content Hub to improve
stability of content syndication.
Architecture rewrite to make it compatible
with widest range of Drupal 8 applications.
Marketers, Business Owners, Technical
Users
Increase stability of Content Hub to
improve reliability for customers
syndicating content
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CALL TO ACTION
Customers currently using
Content Hub interested in
participating in the Beta should
reach out to their account
manager.
27. Acquia Lift V4 Beta Acquia Lift
What
Why
For Who
Lift beta delivered to production for
internal testing
Marketers, Business Owners, Technical
Users
Make Lift an easier to use tool so
customers can unlock powerful features,
increase time to value of personalization,
and see success more quickly.
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30. ϟ Develop: Powerful and Flexible Tools to supercharge building your DX
○ Remote Development Environments
○ Local Development Powerhouse
○ Self Service Node.js
○ Command Line API
ϟ Workflow: Best in Class Hub for Code Management and Developer Flow
○ OOTB Purpose built CICD and 3rd party integrations
ϟ Services: Smart Automations and Insights on your DX
○ Automation Services
NEW & IMPROVED DEV TOOLS
31. ϟ Newly redesigned Admin experience
ϟ Radically simpler page building
ϟ Out-of-the-box page building components
ϟ Streamlined developer experience
ϟ Quick connectors to all Acquia products
ACQUIA LIGHTNING 4.0
32. David Aponovich
Lightning, Journey
M.J. Johnson
Cloud, Site Factory,
Solution Portfolio
Eric Fullerton
Lift
Stephen Skidmore
DAM, Edge, Commerce
Q1 Quarterly Product Update
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