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Free Up IT’s Time with !Acquia Cloud Site Factory &!

Tackle 3 Cool IT Projects in 2014!

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About Us!

Gary Wu Product Manager

Acquia Cloud Site Factory

Barbara Solomon Senior Vertical

Marketing Manager

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Today’s Agenda!

•  Free Up IT’s Time with Acquia Cloud Site Factory

•  3 Cool IT Project Ideas to Tackle in 2014

•  Q & A

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Free Up IT’s Time With "Acquia Cloud Site Factory

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Demand for New Digital Experiences !Outpacing Capacity to Deliver!

!PACE OF DIGITAL MARKETING INITIATIVES ACCELERATING!

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MANAGING MULTISITE DEPLOYMENTS AT SCALE !IS DIFFICULT!

Major Impact on IT Teams!

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The Site Factory Opportunity!

custom brand experiences

bespoke build & deployment approach

custom brand experiences

repeatable deployment methodology

standardized brand experiences

bespoke build & deployment approach

standardized brand experiences

repeatable deployment approach

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standardized brand experiences

bespoke build & deployment approach

The Site Factory Opportunity!

custom brand experiences

bespoke build & deployment approach

custom brand experiences

repeatable deployment methodology

standardized brand experiences

repeatable deployment approach

# of websites few many

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f web

site

con

sist

ency

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high

Point at which the bespoke approach

breaks down

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standardized brand experiences

bespoke build & deployment approach

The Site Factory Opportunity!

custom brand experiences

bespoke build & deployment approach

custom brand experiences

repeatable deployment methodology

standardized brand experiences

repeatable deployment approach

# of websites few many

degr

ee o

f web

site

con

sist

ency

lo

w

high

Point at which the bespoke approach

breaks down

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Achieve Engaging Experiences That Deliver the Best of Both Worlds!

GIVE MARKETERS AGILITY AND FREEDOM TO CONNECT WITH DIGITAL CONSUMERS !

+!

SCALE TO MEET NEEDS OF THE IT ORGANIZATION!

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Acquia Cloud Site Factory!

Acquia empowers digital business leaders to: •  Build large numbers of engaging social sites •  Enable self-service site creation and content

updates Resulting in new site delivery within days!•  via a delivery platform that enables a repeatable,

predictable site / brand governance workflow and multisite management tools

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Acquia Cloud Site Factory!

Build Deliver Manage

Fully-Integrated Site Platform!

•  Accelerate delivery of unique, branded experiences

•  Simplify operational management and improve efficiency

•  Reduce the cost to manage large multisite deployments

•  Eliminate risk through a managed service

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Site Factory to Build and Manage Thousands of Websites!

+ +

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Launch websites by the hundreds, with

minimal effort

Rapidly create new site templates

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Templates"1 Select website template

2 Configure site-specific settings

Information architecture Page layouts

Roles & permissions Content types & display

Pre-defined themes

3 Add design & site content

Rapidly Deploy Sites Without Coding!

http://www.[customdomain].com"Done.

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14 DAYS

Time to new site launch, based on a standardized multisite platform approach

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300+ Warner Music Group artist "websites, 3 site templates, "total creative freedom

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22 Hospital campuses integrated into one digital platform

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What would you do with your new found time?

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3 Cool IT Project Ideas To Tackle in 2014

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Idea #1.!Get Closer To Your Customers

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A major multinational music corporation achieved a deeper understanding of their artists’ fans…

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Which allowed them to send personalized content & offers to the fans…

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Increase in Open Rates

Total Conversions

Direct-to-Consumer Revenue

The Result: Music to Their Ears

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Idea #2.!Reduce Time To Market

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A large multinational pharmaceutical company needed to take control of their digital properties…

Small

Large

Microsite

Brand

Portal

Lifestyle Site

Intranet Com-munity

Event Brand

Microsite

Product

Webinar

Brand

Brand

Product

Event Webinar Brand

Brand Facebook

app

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Busin

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Regions Market x Market y Market z

The complexity was significant…

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Busin

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Regions Market x Market y Market z

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Busin

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Regions Market x Market y Market z

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…Arising from a global business

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Predictable Patterns for Digital Lifecycle Management!

Drupal User Experience platform"

Analytics"

Features"

User Experience"

Creative"

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Operating System"

Database"

Redundancy / Scalability"

Performance / Availability Monitoring"

Content Delivery Network"

Multisite Management Tools"

Time to Market

Cost

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Drupal User Experience platform"

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Time to Market

Cost $$$

Bespoke

Predictable Patterns for Digital Lifecycle Management!

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Predictable Patterns for Digital Lifecycle Management!

Drupal User Experience platform"

Analytics"

Features"

User Experience"

Creative"

Personalization"

Content"

App

licat

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Pres

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Web Server"

Clo

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Database"

Redundancy / Scalability"

Performance / Availability Monitoring"

Content Delivery Network"

Multisite Management Tools"

Time to Market

Cost $$$ $$

Bespoke

     

PaaS

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Predictable Patterns for Digital Lifecycle Management!

Drupal User Experience platform"

Analytics"

Features"

User Experience"

Creative"

Personalization"

Content"

App

licat

ion!

Pres

enta

tion!

Web Server"

Clo

ud P

latfo

rm!

Operating System"

Database"

Redundancy / Scalability"

Performance / Availability Monitoring"

Content Delivery Network"

Multisite Management Tools"

Time to Market

Cost $$$ $$ $

Bespoke

     

             PaaS SaaS

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Decreasein Time

to Market

Reduction in Costs

The Result: Just What the Doctor Ordered

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Idea #3.!Upgrade Their Brand

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One of the largest healthcare providers in the US wanted to take control of their brand.

Intranet

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site Web

Site

Web Site

Event

Event

Event

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Micro Site Web

Site Web Site

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And Leverage their Digital Properties to Provide a better User Experience

Intranet

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

Web Site

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Leading IT to “In-Source” by Consolidating on One Platform:

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The Result:!

Total Visitors

Total Conversions

Mobile Conversions

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Acquia Cloud Site Factory!

Digital Experiences as a Service!!

–  Turnkey site creation and deployment

–  Flexibility to customize and extend

–  Scales to meet your greatest demand

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Acquia Cloud Site Factory !allows IT to re-focus their time on delivering strategic value to the business.

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Thank You.

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Acquia Cloud Site Factory Makes It Easy!

• Focus on digital business results, offload non-core operations Business Owners!

• Large-scale multisite platform for simplified application management

Platform Administrators!

• Efficiently create unique branded experiences that fit seamlessly into broader digital objectives Digital Marketers!

• Powerful platform to develop, configure, theme, extend sites with ease

Developers & Site Builders!

• Proven Drupal-tuned application platform ensures reliability, scalability, elasticity and security 24x7x365

DevOps / SysAdmins!

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Build Engaging Online Experiences!

Feature-Rich Site Building Platform

•  Use the most popular Drupal site building capabilities from the community, including views, web forms, media embeds and more!

•  Create an infinite range of compelling visual experiences through client-side theming options

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Push Out Changes at Scale!Automation for Managing Hundreds or Thousands of Sites •  Keep all of your sites in sync

to reduce maintenance headaches

•  Apply new Drupal configurations across any number of sites with a push of a button

•  Minimal to no downtime during updates depending on the type of change deployed

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Customize with Confidence!Continuous Integration Workflow Reduces Customization Risk

•  Extend the base Drupal distribution through a shared codebase applied to all sites

•  Validate production-readiness of your custom code

•  Test customizations in a sandbox and deploy to all production sites when ready

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Scale To Meet Your Hosting Needs!

Count on Acquia Cloud to Deliver

•  Scale up or down at any time – Create, deliver and manage as many online experiences as you need

•  Proven world-class Drupal hosting in the Acquia Cloud, with burstable, elastic resources to respond to any traffic conditions

•  99.95% uptime SLA ensures your digital experiences are delivered consistently to customers

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•  World class team of Drupalists: •  Global team of support

professionals •  SLA ticket resolution •  Proactive advisory support •  10,000+ Drupal commits &

patches from Acquia/year •  Automated site monitoring •  Remote Administration, backup and

disaster recovery services

Acquia Support!Drupal support that has your back

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Diversity of Offerings Supports !Unique Customer Needs!

Convenience! Control!

SaaS Edition! SaaS+ Edition! PaaS Edition!Rich out-of-the-box

Site Factory for quickly configuring and theming sites.

Extend your Site Factory with site

customizations certified through Acquia

Professional Services.

Premier Site Factory platform that supports all of your Drupal site customization needs.