Acquia Commons

#acquia

The [Open Alternative] Social Business Software

Hernâni Borges de Freitas Technical Consultant [email protected] @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

Universities

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.


Would you like to join Acquia?



We are hiring EVERYWHERE!



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

QUESTIONS ?

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