Enterprise 2.0 Conference: A Drupal Perspective
This week we sponsored and attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference here in Boston. It was a useful week that produced several interesting insights about how Web 2.0 patterns are being applied inside large organizations.
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Bryan House
It is that phase of my life! I'm just turning 30 in a month, working with Drupal for 7 years and just had my third Acquia anniversary a week ago. Time to look back and evaluate how things went, all the good and bad things; even better if the wisdom can be shared with others. This was part of my thinking when I submitted the session titled "Come for the software, stay for the community" for Drupalcon Copenhagen.
Gábor Hojtsy
It sounded like a really simple request: "Is it easy to add a search filter for 'My posts'?". In other words, add a search result facet for posts by the current (logged in) user through the Apache Solr Search Integration module APIs?
But then the wheels start turning - we want not just one blind link, but a real facet link that tells us how many results we'll get. Also, if we are filtering by 'My posts' then we probably have an equal use case for the opposite filter 'Posts not by me'. So we really need a facet block with two links and facets counts.
Peter Wolanin
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Bryan Ruby
Drupal needs its Toyota!
Drupal needs its Toyota!
I recall a time when I didn't take Linux that seriously. Sure it was nice to have a few Linux boxes but could an open source operating system really replace our Unix servers in operations or our Windows PCs on the administrative side? Back then, I had doubts about Linux. Then the stories of how Toyota was utilizing Red Hat Linux started to become known. Suddenly, everyone started saying to themselves that if Toyota could use Linux to meet their business needs, why couldn't Linux work for me too?
In my opinion, the defining moment for Acquia/Drupal will be when we (the potential customers) understand not what Drupal can do for us, but more importantly when we come to understand what we can do with Drupal.
In one form or another, I've been involved on both sides of the firewall in my organization. Ten years ago it was a huge challenge for organizations and businesses to figure out how best to utilize the Internet to meet their business needs. As challenging as I saw it for my own organization, I'm convinced that meeting the challenges on the intranet side is much more difficult. For the most part, we all can see what others are doing with their Internet Web servers, but few of us get to see what other organizations do with Enterprise 2.0 behind their firewall. It's very easy to find examples of "success" on the Web, but it is rare to get a peek of what goes on behind the closed door.
I think in order for specific Enterprise 2.0 applications to succeed, organizations need to see a blueprint for how other enterprises have successfully implemented those applications. In other words, what I think customers need most is to see the blueprint for how Acquia/Drupal can be implemented within organizations similar to their own. I'm not talking about needing to see the feature list but more importantly the strategic "how-to" list. I know what Drupal does, but show me and my coworkers examples of what we can accomplish with Drupal on our Intranet! This in my opinion is the path that will determine whether Acquia succeed as an Enterprise 2.0 application.
Bryan Ruby
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Good point about the need
Good point about the need for more documented Enterprise 2.0 case studies.