Drupal on a business perspective
- 1. Drupal on a business perspective Why, who is for, why not
- 2. Purpose โข Share motivations and struggles โข Advantages to both agencies and clients โข Debate when to use or not Drupal Duration: Aprox.10 min presentation
- 3. about me Ricardo Marcelino Omibee co-founder and manager Using Drupal since 2012 (rfmarcelino)
- 5. Working as a graphic designer on a previous job: โWe need to have something on the webโ
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- 7. Short after, an academy asked: โI need a website with a back office and calendar integrationโ
- 9. At around the same time, a hospital asked: โWe need a website and an intranet with service teams and schedulesโ
- 11. A few months later, a toys brand: โWe need a portfolio and online store, with multi language and content adapted for each market.โ
- 13. An University department asked: โWe need to manage publications, scientific production, scholarships, equipments, etc.โ
- 15. Meanwhile, a Business Angels club asked: โCan you fix and maintain our Joomla website?โ โฆ โCan we do it with Drupal instead?โ โฆ It grew up to become a fin-tech platform
- 17. What do we need as a business?
- 18. What do we need as a business? โข Ability to provide high added value to clients โข A flexible set of tools and know how that can be reused โข Robust, flexible and scalable systems
- 19. Why Drupal? For agencies and clients
- 20. Why Drupal For agencies and clients โข A lot out of the box - content management, entity relationships, user and permissions management, SEO friendly, localisation. โข Power to non technical staff - PMโs, content managers, marketing staff โข Open source - Free framework and modules; no lock-in or fees โข Connected - Hundreds of community modules integrating with other services, RESTful in core on D8 โข Security - Weekly updates and an active security team. Highly tested system. โข Flexibility and scalability - Allows to grow on complexity or users.
- 21. You donโt need a bus for 2 passengers
- 22. Who is for? โข Content and workflow intensive โข Media and publishers (The Economist, NBC, Fox, โฆ) โข Universities (Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, โฆ) โข Knowledge bases (Autodesk, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, โฆ) โข Community sites โข NGOโs (Red Cross, Museum of Fine Arts, Rotary International, โฆ) โข Public services (White House, London.gov, australia.gov, โฆ) โข Data exploration โข Dashboards (weather.com, NBA, Rio Olympicsโ16, โฆ) โข Data insights and intranets (RedHat, PBS โข Commerce (Timex, Puma, Royal Mail, ..)
- 23. Who is not for? โข Personal page or simple blogs (Squarspace, Wordpress, Blogger) โข Simple โbrochureโ websites (Adobe Muse, static generators) โข Single or specific purpose apps (node.js, Laravel, Symphony)
- 24. What do you think? Thank you. Ricardo Marcelino | omibee.com