Drupal’s advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they fear loss of assets now managed by their current site’s platform, or expect the procedure to transfer those assets to be prohibitively difficult. Read full article »

Get a Grip on Hosting Costs for Your High Volume Website

Improve performance, scalability and availability, while reducing business risk and costs with the Drupal Open Source social publishing platform and Acquia Hosting services.

If you're looking to delive dynamic, highly interactive "social" websites, and handle volumes of millions of page views per month and up, this paper is a must read. With Acquia Hosting you are able to do so with high performance, 100% availability, at a fraction of the cost most companies are paying today. Read full article »

A CMO’s guide to achieving breakthrough marketing results with social publishing from Drupal and Acquia

Marketing has undergone dramatic change in the last ten years. While the objective remains the same, changes in technology and in buyer behavior have thoroughly transformed marketing teams, tactics and tools. Read full article »

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Acquia and Zend have jointly released a white paper entitled:
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Building Social Businesses on the Web with a Framework for Content and Community

Social publishing combines groomed and authoritative content, produced by an organization and emphasizing its core messages, with user-generated content that customers contribute via blogs, wikis, and social media tools. Drupal is an example of a social publishing platform, developed and maintained as an open source project, and delivered at an affordable cost. Read full article »

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Executive Summary

The explicit purpose of the OGD is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the directive will require significant website innovation for many departments and agencies. Many public sector sites today are based on legacy, static web technologies. What content is available is often out of date, and citizens have limited, if any, ability to interact. Read full article »

Executive Summary

More and more, Open Source presents not only a cost alternative, but an innovation alternative, to proprietary enterprise software products.

This paper compares the total cost of ownership of the Open Source Social Publishing Drupal solution to various proprietary Content Management systems, Social Business Software alternatives, and other community building software platforms. Our analysis shows that combined license and support charges come in at 2% to 11% of the costs of proprietary alternatives. If you are about to make a decision on a Social Publishing or social business software platform, read this paper first. Get the facts and compare the alternatives. Read full article »

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This free 30-page guide offered by Mediacurrent and Acquia provides practical advice on how to approach a Drupal web site project and hands-on planning tools. The document goes into granularity about how an organization can proactively position and scope their Drupal based initiative for long-term success. Download the Guide today and you will learn the steps required to plan your Drupal site and launch for long term success. Key takeaways include how to: Read full article »

How “simple” and “extensible” equate to high levels of community involvement for open source

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Open Source, Drupal and Acquia
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Executive Summary

Social technologies on the web have changed forever how organizations interact with their communities. Companies, government bodies, schools and universities are rethinking the possibilities and relationships they share with customers, constituents, students and faculty. Read full article »