The Business Case for Drupal in Vietnam

Tomo Huynh Twitter: @tomosaigon http://www.saigonist.com

Target Audience

A. Outsourcing houses How to attract customers Addressing customers’ main concerns

B. In-house development, independent devs Choosing your web technology stack Website quality

C. Single brochure site, one-offs Available resources vs. core competency

A. Outsource: Selling to clients Speak a language your customers understand

and want – Drupal Never ever roll your own CMS (t.b.c.) Clients refer clients – or not Appear more competent to clients Drupal much more in-demand overseas

Don’t just think Vietnam’s market! Stand out from the crowd

Drupal projects are priced higher Move up value chain More money for your company

A. Overseas client concerns

Open source Concern about stealing their IP *All Drupal modules are freely licensed, no

worries about pirated modules Security, Maturity, Scalability Be vendor agnostic Be there in the future Drupal is a brand name Professional, enterprise services are available Acquia partners

B. For in-house development Developer-friendly Free, open source, licensing Time-efficient Can build more sites, more quickly Easy to find LAMP developers More possibilities than WordPress Advantages over Joomla

Drupal Training

Any developer can learn Drupal Drupal takes advantage of WAMP

knowledge Books, blogs, forums, drupal.org Well-documented code that makes sense Free online training material Drupal training finally available in

Vietnam!

Why a PHP framework?

Nobody knows RoR Python is also hard to find Everyone knows .Net and/or PHP PHP runs on developer’s Windows laptop

and Linux server Books in Vietnamese All 3 major CMSs are PHP

Why use a CMS?

Why use a framework? Joomla is well-known More features, faster Re-inventing the wheel Community lacks enough knowledge to

implement new technology alone: mobile, HTML5, REST, single sign-on

Why choose Drupal?

Localization: Drupal is translated into Vietnamese already

Local community Tons of modules means features Tested Performance is well understood Any good developer can learn Drupal Developers become more valuable

Never roll your own CMS

No community No support No “free” updates and bug fixes Nearly no documentation Dependence on a few developers Developer turnover too high It’s crazy. Just don’t do it.

C. Drupal means business

Web development is your core business If not, outsource to a web shop Efficiency of your web developers is

important Not (necessarily) for companies without

a dedicated web developer If WordPress can build your site, use it WordPress community in Vietnam?

Conclusion

Helps you get more overseas customers Meet demand for Drupal Addresses common client concerns Get better, bigger projects

Helps you build more sites, more features, faster Get more out of developer time Future-proof

Focus on your strengths

Thanks!

I am Tomo Huynh CTO at VEO Media (Alehap.vn) –

tomo@veo.vn Twitter: @tomosaigon Blog: http://www.saigonist.com