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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