Industry pioneers, Enterprise integration

Drupal – ready for the enterprise

> 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

> Harvard (several depts)

> 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

> White House

“To some, the White House shift to

Drupal from a proprietary software

package represented a serious

seal of approval for open-source

software” ~ NY Times

“White House isn't putting much

stock in the argument that

collaboratively-built software isn't

stable or secure enough for

government use” ~ Tech President

> 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

> 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

“Drupal has better tools for helping

companies quickly change their websites to

match consumer interests. There is no

longer a unidirectional flow of information

when it comes to managing your brand.

Today, it’s a very interactive process and

requires very fast reaction times” ~ Acquia /

NYTimes

Why are they choosing Drupal?

“Customers were unhappy with “relevance

of search results”. Integration with Apache

SOLR – an enterprise search system with

faceted search – solved this” ~ Economist

● Drupal is free, flexible, robust

● Constantly being improved by hundreds of

thousands of passionate people from all

over the world

● Lower TCO including during maintenance

term; no vendor lock-in

● Integrates with 3rd party proprietary and

open source systems such as SAP,

Sharepoint, Alfresco,

● SEO ready

● Thousands of ready-to-use contributed

modules

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Srijan > Technologies we work in

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

About Srijan > Clients across the world

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

Way we our organised