Acquia Platform Updates: New Features and Capabilities - Session 3
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 are already available to you RIGHT NOW, TODAY.
Our platform expert and Sr. Director of Product Marketing, MJ Johnson, will be on hand with product experts to walk you through recent feature updates that will help you achieve:
Simplicity: Helping developers reduce the cost and effort to build and integrate applications.
Reliability: Helping operators reduce the risk and effort to author, manage and secure infrastructure.
Intelligence: Helping marketers automate customer engagement while gaining actionable insight.
Specific discussion topics will include: Improvements to Acquia Cloud, Acquia Lift, Acquia DAM, Acquia Lightning and much more - with a glimpse into innovation coming in 2019.
Acquia Platform Updates: New Features and Capabilities
1. Q4 Quarterly Product Update
David Aponovich
Lightning, Journey
Jenni Lee
Site Factory
M.J. Johnson
Solution Portfolio
Eric Fullerton
Lift
Stephen Skidmore
DAM, Edge
December 12, 2018
For Customers and Partners
2. To deliver the universal
platform for the world’s
greatest digital experiences
Acquia’s Vision
3. 50+ Product Updates to the Platform!
https://www.acquia.com/blog/
2018-product-updates-acquia-
experience-platform
10. Stack Metrics Acquia Cloud
What
Why
For Who
Real-time and historical information about
an application’s performance, health, and
resource use
Developers
View logs and debug in real time
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11. Log Streaming Acquia Cloud
What
Why
For Who
Access a real-time stream of log events
happening across all of your Acquia
Cloud environments and debug in real
time
Developers
Embedded view of logs for debugging in
real time, without a command line
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12. Administrative Control (“IP Whitelisting”) Acquia Cloud
What
Why
For Who
Closes Port 22: Controlling administrative
access with Acquia Cloud Shield by limiting
who can access via SSH the applications
running on their web servers
InfoSec, Security Teams, Operators
Allows Acquia to better meet FedRamp
requirements, reduced risk, increased
peace of mind, greater control over
administrative access
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13. Environment Variables Acquia Cloud
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What
Why
For Who
A set of environment variables that you can use both in your application code and
in Drush commands. These variables make it easier to write code that is
responsive to the environment the code is running in.
Developers
Easier to write environment-specific code,
enabling faster development
Use Case
Developers may wish to change the behavior of a Drupal installation based on
the environment which it is running.
15. Acquia Cloud Edge Workers! Acquia Cloud Edge
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EW
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What
Why
For Who
Lets you apply serverless custom code to
Cloud Flare’s Edge network
Developers
Significantly easier and faster than doing it
without it
On Demand Webinar Available soon!
17. New Moderation Dashboard Acquia Lightning
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What
Why
For Who
Customizable dashboard with pop-out task
bar; shows in one place content needing
review, drafts, recent activity.
Site administrators, content authors
A better, more intuitive experience for
managing sites and content right from the
front-end of the site.
*Shown on mainstage at Acquia Engage
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18. JSON:API Improvements Acquia Lightning
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PRO
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What
Why
For Who
Improved performance and spec
compliance, reading content revisions, and
file upload via JSON:API.
Developer
To make it easier for decoupled Drupal
developers to build applications, preview
content, and upload files via the JSON:API.
20. Remove BLT’s dependence on the Composer Merge plugin. Acquia BLT
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PRO
VED
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What
Why
For Who
Remove Acquia BLT’s (Build and Launch
Tool) dependence on the Composer
Merge plug-in
Developers
To improve developer usability and
increase robustness of Acquia BLT
22. New Commerce Partners Acquia Commerce
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What
Why
For Who
Co-marketing & co-selling ecommerce
solutions
Businesses who do online commerce
To provide a commerce solution for
customer in need of transactional systems
integrated with Acquia
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24. Task view in Brand Connect portal Acquia DAM
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What
Why
For Who
DAM users can track their marketing
requests in the Brand Connect portal
Users of DAM
Users now have visibility into the status of
their marketing requests eliminating
one-on-one status requests to marketing
25. New 1600px renditions in Drupal Acquia DAM
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What
Why
For Who
Allows 1600px rendition images created
from hi-res files
Web content authors & designers
Conform to current web app design
standards
28. 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
COMING SPRING 2019
ACQUIA LIGHTNING 4.0
29. ☁ Multi-site features for everyone
☁ Seamless auto-scaling
☁ Better isolation & site density
☁ Extended Cloud API
☁ Single sign-on & federated login
COMING SPRING 2019
NEXT GENERATION ACQUIA CLOUD
30. COMING Q1 2019
ACQUIA LIFT 4.0
✹ Guided step-by-step personalization
✹ A/B testing & targeting with no code
✹ Campaign-based scheduling
✹ Superior multi-lingual personalization
✹ Real-time dashboards
31. Acquia Lift V4 - Customer Feedback Acquia Lift
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EW
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“Mixed campaigns align
to the strategic way we
do personalization here.
Upper management will
love it.”
“You guys are definitely
making usability
improvements with a unified
UI -- this is more
straightforward. I’m feeling
good about setting up the
campaign process.”
End to end, from build, to
launch, to analytics -- this
is the way we want to do
it.
“When I first saw the new
Lift I was blown away. It’s
really slick, and the
scheduling feature is
going to help us a lot.”
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32. Q4 Quarterly Product Update
David Aponovich
Lightning, Journey
Jenni Lee
Site Factory
M.J. Johnson
Solution Portfolio
Eric Fullerton
Lift
Stephen Skidmore
DAM, Edge
Questions?