Drupal for Enterprises
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This document discusses how several prominent organizations such as MIT, Harvard, the White House, and The Economist use Drupal. It provides examples of how these organizations built websites, communities, and tools using Drupal. It also outlines the benefits of using Drupal, such as flexibility, robustness, and integration with other systems. Finally, it discusses potential use cases for an educational institution to implement Drupal.
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Drupal for Enterprises
- 1. Drupal – ready for the enterprise Industry pioneers, Enterprise integration
- 2. > MIT (several depts) [a VoIP project with Drupal built - http://voipdrupal.org/] Group includes the 'father of the internet', Tim Berners Lee Note: Click on images to see the respective websites
- 3. > Harvard (several depts)
- 4. > Harvard > Drupal products, Adoption ● Harvard even built this product – a Drupal distribution pre-built for higher education institutes ● Discussion forum for increasing adoption of Drupal at Harvard ● Participants – academics, students, admin department
- 5. > White House “To some, the White House shift to “White House isn't putting much Drupal from a proprietary software stock in the argument that package represented a serious collaboratively-built software isn't seal of approval for open-source stable or secure enough for software” ~ NY Times government use” ~ Tech President
- 6. > White House > Enabling adoption ● The IT Dashboard is a management tool for the United States federal government CIOs to use in overseeing their IT spending. ● Built in Drupal; contributed back to the community by the White House
- 7. > The Economist ● 20-30 million page views; 3-4 million unique visitors per month ● Evaluated OpenCMS, Alfresco, Joomla; met with other newspapers; considered building a custom system, and even buying a proprietary system ● Found Drupal as a “strategic fit” ● Migrated 3 million registered users and articles from a Coldfusion based system to Drupal ● Went onto build other group websites in Drupal as well
- 8. Why are they choosing Drupal? “Drupal has better tools for helping ● Drupal is free, flexible, robust companies quickly change their websites to ● Constantly being improved by hundreds of match consumer interests. There is no thousands of passionate people from all longer a unidirectional flow of information over the world when it comes to managing your brand. Today, it’s a very interactive process and ● Lower TCO including during maintenance requires very fast reaction times” ~ Acquia / term; no vendor lock-in NYTimes ● Integrates with 3rd party proprietary and open source systems such as SAP, “Customers were unhappy with “relevance Sharepoint, Alfresco, of search results”. Integration with Apache SOLR – an enterprise search system with ● SEO ready faceted search – solved this” ~ Economist ● Thousands of ready-to-use contributed modules
- 9. Use case for using Drupal ● Flexibility in implementing complex themes (expect complex designs with Itu Chaudhuri Design) ● Out of the box social collaboration modules – Sign-in and Registration using Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter/Gmail, Disqus (for commenting), Share with Friend, Facebook “Like” ● Community engagement – rapidly build and deploy build communities of students, professors/academics, alumni
- 10. Use case for using Drupal ● Maintain user-profiles and dashboards – integrate with Facebook/LinkedIn profiles ● Enable Blogs for students, academics and industry professionals; moderate content before publishing; Publishing workflows available ● Event management and registration ● Setup campaign based micro-sites on-the-fly ● Publish videos directly or integrate with YouTube, Kaltura, Vimeo channels
- 11. Use case for using Drupal ● SEO ready – all pages will automatically have semantic URLs that correspond with the page's title; add meta keywords, description ● Pluggable modules available for Mobile integration - http://drupal.org/project/mobile ; enable clean display of website content on mobile devices ● Frameworks available for integrating iPhone and Android apps with Drupal websites
- 12. Use case for using Drupal ● Content aggregation – from internal Blogs or through connects with external systems (Sharepoint) ● Powerful Search using Apache SOLR ● Publish timed content; display/hide in various sections of the website based on pre- configured time settings ● Build and quickly deploy ISB magazine website using OpenPublish – free Drupal distribution for online magazine publishing
- 13. Use case for using Drupal > Open Scholar ● Setup unlimited student and professor websites out of a single install base ● Publish research papers ● Manage personal Calendar; integrate with Google Calendar ● Theme picker; tens of themes to choose from (more getting added) ● Pluggable modules : choose from tens of modules available ● Test out an OpenScholar Sandbox at: http://isb.codespry.com
- 14. Use case for Drupal integration with Sharepoint ● Continue using Sharepoint on Intranet (Intranet has “Classroom management” and “Courses management” apart from a range of content publishing); Build website using Drupal ● Use Sharepoint for document authoring, MS-Office document workflow and versioning, Metadata entries ● Use Drupal for web content publishing, brand communication, and social tools integration; ● Drupal to consume articles (selected by admin) with meta information from Sharepoint and publish on external website ● Drupal “may” be required to push edited content from Drupal to Sharepoint
- 15. Level of Drupal integration available with Sharepoint ● Drupal-Sharepoint integration module available at: http://drupal.org/project/sharepoint ● Integrates with SharePoint through the SharePoint SOAP Web Services ● Consumes Sharepoint data available in “Sharepoint Lists” into publishes to “Feeds” and “Views” modules of Drupal; one-off batched imports, on-going content aggregation from external sources; RSS/Atom/CSV files aggregation
- 16. About Srijan > Technologies we work in
- 17. About Srijan > Values and Culture ● Winner of WorldBlu's Most Democratic Workplaces award for 2009 and 2010 ● Open Salaries culture : Everyone knows everyone else's salaries including the promoters and executives ● Financial Transparency : All project values are known everyone. Profits of each quarter is known to everyone
- 18. About Srijan > Clients across the world
- 19. Partnerships and Alliances ● Acquia Silver Partners : For Drupal development and Drupal Training ● Design partnerships with Itu Chaudhuri Design and Dolka Innovations ● Datacenter partnership with Colocube in USA
- 20. Way we our organised