For CIO’s

FEATURE DEVELOPMENT API COMPLETION RELEASE

DEVELOPMENTOPENSMarch 2011

FEATUREFREEZEDEC 2012

FEATURECOMPLETEFEB 2013

APIFREEZEJULY 2013

ALPHASDEV SNAPSHOTS

BETASMAJOR APIsLOCKEDDOWN

RCsAPI ANDFEATURECOMPLETE

WE AREHERE

DRUPAL 8.0WHENIT’SREADY

I need to maintain or improve profit margins - ensuring the projects we work on deliver against our wider business strategy

I need to ensure that as a company have the right technical tools, skills, resources, people and processes to enable us all to do our jobs as best we can

I need to be constantly assessing and minimising risk of technical failure

I need to introduce new technologies and practices to keep us ahead of the curve

Large-scale, enterprise-level sites cost money to maintain. Am I getting my money’s worth in licensing and support fees?

Our development team is expanding. We need to invest in training to bring them up to speed.

We have an increasing mobile and international reach. We need a content management systems (CMS) that has a meaningful technical offering in these two areas

We need a CMS that is open source, sustainable, and ‘future proof’

With Drupal 8, there are no licensing costs. It’s open source, which means you can spend your budget on developing great sites, not expensive contracts

Drupal has a community like no other: hundreds of thousands of people working on developingand maintaining the platform and contributed software - which means peace of mind for you

By aligning more closely with industry standards, Drupal 8 decreases the need for specialized Drupal knowledge. Growing a Drupal team means you won’t face the expense of additional training

Drupal 8 is mobile and fully responsive - so your content will work on any device, anywhere

It’s never been easier to develop international solutions: easily translate anything on your site with built-in user interfaces - and relax, because Drupal 8 has automatic software translation updates

Drupal is here for the long-haul: from governments to multi-nationals, it is the CMS of choice for secure, large scale organizations. And will be for years to come

With #Drupal8 there are no licensing costs: spend your budget on developing great sites, not expensive contracts

Built-in multilingual capabilitymeans that with #Drupal8, CIOs can deliver powerful, large, international sites

No more steep curves: developquickly, simply and easily with#Drupal8

Drupal 8 integrates: Make it a hub for your services #SOA

#Drupal - built by thousands.Used by millions

MY NEEDS MY PAIN HOW DRUPAL 8 WILL HELP FAST FACTS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUPALJANUARY 2001 DRIES BUYTAERT

RELEASES DRUPALMARCH 2001

DRUPAL 2AUGUST 2001

DRUPAL 3JUNE 2002 DRUPAL 4

JANUARY 2007 DRUPAL 5

FEBRUARY 2008 DRUPAL 6

JANUARY 2011 DRUPAL 7

I want to deliver cutting edge, world-class enterprise-level sites to help grow our business internationally year-on-year.

THE DRUPAL 8 TIMELINE

Drupal : Something for everyone to love

WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE?

The defining principle of open source is that you can sell the services and products created with the software, but not the software itself. So zero licensing costs!

WHAT IS DRUPAL?

Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of hundreds of thousands of users and developers. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or “GPL”), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others.

WHAT MAKES DRUPAL GREAT?

Put simply, it’s the community: hundreds of thousands of people working on developing and maintaining the Drupal platform and contributed software - every second of every day. This makes for an incredibly powerful cutting-edge content management system (CMS). But it’s not just us that thinks that - there are over 1 million sites built with Drupal. And that number grows every day.

WHAT IS DRUPAL 8?

Drupal 8 is the latest release on the Drupal journey - one that will take your site to a whole new level. It will set a new standard for ease of use, and has new ways to tailor and deploy your content - which will look great on any device. We’ve built it with you in mind, which is why there’s something for everyone to love in Drupal 8.

Key benefits of Drupal 8 for CIO’s:

Drupal : Something for everyone to love

DRUPAL IS EVERYWHERE• Robust and secure enough to run large

scale sites including:• White House• The Economist • NBC Universal

GREATER EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY

• Sites spun up in minutes• Content deployed and edited in seconds

LESS RELIANCE ON ‘TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE’

• Aligns more closely with industry standards• Decreases need for specialized Drupal

knowledge: wider dev talent pool

MULTILINGUAL CAPABILITIES• Translate anything in the system• Built-in user interfaces • Language filtering• Automatic software translation updates

ENDLESS FLEXIBILITY, CUSTOMIZATION • Adaptable: Use and extend Drupal the way you want• No licensing costs• No contracts• No limitations