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The  [Open  Alternative]  Social  Business  Software  

Hernâni  Borges  de  Freitas  Technical  Consultant  hernani@acquia.com  @hernanibf  

Sevilla,  1st  October,  2011  

Sorry  for  the  language  

About  me  

•  .PT  •  Acquia  Europe  •  Technical  Consultant  •  Drupal*  many  things  

•  Passionate  about  web  and  communities  

•  Travel  lover  

About  us  Drupal  &  open  source  expertise  

•  Dries  Buytaert,  Drupal  founder  •  Gabor  Hojtsy,  D6  •  Angie  Byron,  D7  •  Many  leading  community  

contributors  in  engineering,  support,  and  consulting.  

Software  industry  experience  •  Cloud  site  deployment  •  Professional  technical  support  •  Services  delivery  

Drupal  For  Everyone  

Acquia  Network  •  Communicate with Acquia Support

•  Access network services

•  Automate operations

•  Optimized Drupal hosting

•  Dev Cloud

•  Managed Cloud

Helping  Drupal  Adoption  

¿  Commons  ?  

Social  Nature  

blogs / wikis

forums / comments

ratings

tagging

users

social networks

workflow

taxonomy

search

RSS

content

analytics

Content Mgmt

Systems

Social Software

Tools

Our  core  is  also  social  

  675 000 Community Members

  12 000 Modules

  1000 contributors to Drupal 7

Government  

Government  

Government  

Media  

Media  

Media  

Universities  

Universities  

Universities  

Communities  

Communities  

Communities  

Features  Are  Common  Across  Community  Sites  “Core  features  are  now  table  stakes.”  Melissa  Parrish,  Forrester.  

Drupal.org Intel

UK Gov

Symantec Blogs Wiki

Profiles Friending

Commenting Status updates Event calendar

Forums Ratings

Reputations Polling Groups

File sharing Tagging

SEO Analytics

Registration etc…

Packaged  into  Rapid  Deployment  Package  

Nvidia

Drupal.org Intel

UK Gov

Symantec

Commons

Site-­‐building  work  can  focus  on  your  unique  needs  -­‐  not  on  the  basics  

•   Drupal  6  Core  •   ~  60  contributed  modules  

•  Set  of  optional  features  that  provide  Enterprise  2.0  sauce.  

•   No  customizations,  meaning  default  plug  and  play  Drupal  behavior.  

Commons  Behind  the  scenes  

Groups  Flock  together.  •  Private  and  public.  •  Features  that  promote  

sharing  among  group  members  (activity  streams,  blogs,  documents).  

•  Features  configuration  per  group.  

•  Wikis,  blogs,  discussions,  groups,  friends,  event  calendars,  and  more  

Profiles  Be  yourself.  

•  Customized  profiles.  

•  Customized  fields.  

•  User  badges  and  clear  identification.  

•  Interests  sharing  and  matching.  

•  Facebook  status  updates.  

Share  And  learn.  

•  Follow  users  in  groups  and  in  the  community.  

•  Share  activity  and  your  feelings.  •  Learn  with  others  activity  and  

find  new  people.  

•  Collaborate  in  common  issues  and  discussions.  

Enough talk. Show me the gold!

What  Makes  Commons  Unique?  

•   Built  by  a  global  community,  for  communities  •   Administrators  -­‐  better  manage  users  and  groups  

•   Content  Contributors  -­‐  efficiently  manage  content  and  collaboration  

•   Members  -­‐  create  unique  personalized  experiences  

•   Community  Managers  -­‐  easily  make  changes  and  produce  analytics  

•   Developers  -­‐  innovate  new  social  business  processes  

Administrators  Can  Create  Custom  Roles    

Administrator Anonymous Users

Authenticated Users

Roles Groups of like users

Create Page Edit Page

authors editors

Permissions Operations allowed by role

Views Determined by permissions My Posts All Posts

Unlimited custom roles, permissions & views

Contributors  Get  Flexibility  of  Drupal  CMS  

•  No  need  for  separate  CMS  &  integration  

•  Preset,  and  configurable  content  types  

•  Self-­‐organizing  or  managed  groups  

•  Pre-­‐defined  content  views  

•  Free  tagging  and  pre-­‐defined  vocabularies  

Members  Can  Create  Personalized  Experiences  

• Personal  &  group  dashboards  

• Social  bookmarking  

• Curated  content  • Subscriptions  to  content  &  discussions  

Users work the way they want with dashboards

Community  Managers  Track  &  Analyze  Results  

•  Participation  &  engagement  metrics  

•  New  Users  

•  Content  •  Comments  

•  Group  joins  •  Variable  date  ranges  

•  Complements  Google  Analytics  

Developers  Have  Freedom  to  Innovate  •  Extend  Commons  with  10k+  modules    

•  Open  standards  support:  •  Document  management    

•  Application  integration  

•  User  access  &  authentication  

There’s  a  module  for  that!  

•  Directory  integration  •   Ldap  /  CAS  /  Shibolleth  /  Google  Apps  support    

•  Integration  with  other  platforms    •  Salesforce  /  CMIS  /  File  Depot  

•  Import/Export  information    •  Node  Import  /  Views  Data  Source  /  Feeds  

•  More  granular  control  on  groups  •  OG  User  Roles  /  Content  Access  

•  Better  control  on  worflows    •  Workflow  /  rules  

Commons Examples

More Examples Symantec

http://symantec.com/connect Novell

http://novell.com/communities GSA

http://interact.gsa.gov/ World Economic Forum

https://www.welcom.org/login?destination=home Nvidia

http://developer.nvidia.com/ Red Hat

http://opensource.com/ PSCU Financial Services

http://www.riskbuzz.com/ Mitt Romney Campaign http://mittromney.com/

Seventh Generation http://www.seventhgeneration.com/

Social Media Today http://socialmediatoday.com/

More case studies at: http://showcase.acquia.com/taxonomy/term/916

Helping  Your  Community  

Hosting Acquia Managed Cloud

Implementation Acquia JumpStart

Support & Maintenance Acquia Network

Training Acquia Training

Innovation Drupal Community Modules 10k+

Strategy Acquia Commons Partner

Upgrades & Releases Acquia Remote Administration

So,  before  your  questions.  I  do  have  a  question.  

So,  before  your  questions.  I  do  have  a  question.  

Would  you  like  to  join  Acquia?  

So,  before  your  questions.  I  do  have  a  question.  

Would  you  like  to  join  Acquia?  

We are hiring EVERYWHERE!

So,  before  your  questions.  I  do  have  a  question.  

Would  you  like  to  join  Acquia?  

We are hiring EVERYWHERE! •  Consultants •  Support •  Sales •  Engineering

QUESTIONS  ?