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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
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sist
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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 !
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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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Regions Market x Market y Market z
The complexity was significant…
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Busin
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Markets
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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"
Personalization"
Content"
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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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User Experience"
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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.
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