A MAP for accelerating Drupal 8 adoption
Contributed modules in Drupal deliver the functionality and innovation proprietary content management solutions simply can't match. With every new version of Drupal comes the need to quickly move modules forward from the previous version. For users of Drupal, it's crucial to know they can depend... More
By Dries Buytaert Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2016
State of Drupal 2016 survey
I've been writing a lot about what I believe is important for the future of Drupal, but now it is your turn. After every major release of Drupal I do a "product management survey" to get your ideas... More
Posted on
Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Choosing the Right Framework for Your Personalization Ideas
This is part four of a five-part blog series on personalization.
If you’ve made it this far in the series, you should now have a... More
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Tuesday, Mar 29, 2016
by Dave Ingram
Tuesday, Mar 29, 2016
by Dave Ingram
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Thunder, a Drupal distribution for publishers
Earlier this month, the international media group Hubert Burda Media (about 2.5 billion annual revenue, more than 10,000 employees, and more than 300 titles) released its Drupal 8 distribution, Thunder. Thunder includes custom modules specifically tailored to the needs of professional publishers.
This is great news for three reasons: (1) I've long been a believer in Drupal distributions, (2) I believe that publishers shouldn't compete through CMS... More
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Friday, April 8, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Friday, April 8, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
The Challenge of Keeping Software Up to Date, and What Happens if You Don't
The public release of client records hacked from a Panamanian law firm’s web site have led to headline revelations that heads of state and public figures allegedly took advantage of Panama’s banking secrecy laws to hide their assets. According to a report published at Forbes.com, the law firm’s site alleged to be the source of the leaked information, ran on Drupal -- specifically a site running an old, unsecured version of Drupal 7 (any version prior to 7.32.) The... More
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Thursday, April 7, 2016
by Al Nugent
Thursday, April 7, 2016
by Al Nugent
Improving Drupal's content workflow
At DrupalCon Mumbai I sat down for several hours with the Drupal team at Pfizer to understand the work they have been doing on improving Drupal content management features. They built a set of foundational modules that help advance Drupal's content workflow capabilities; from content staging, to multi-site content staging, to better auditability, offline support, and several key user experience improvements like full-site preview, and more. In this post, I want to point a spotlight on some of Pfizer's modules, and... More
Posted on
Monday, April 4, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Monday, April 4, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Agile Research Methods for Personalization
This is part five of a five part series.
While having a general framework for coming up with new personalization ideas can be extremely helpful, it will never replace rolling up your sleeves and doing the research and data analysis. Once your personalization program is off to the races though, it’s time to move beyond initial ideas and pure instinct, and take a data driven approach. This can take many forms, from analytics and experimentation, to more in-depth research methods such as... More
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Monday, April 4, 2016
by Dave Ingram
Monday, April 4, 2016
by Dave Ingram
Drupal 8 Module of the Week Recap: Paragraphs, Linkit and Search API
The latest Drupal 8 modules to be covered on the Acquia Developer Center are Paragraphs, Linkit, and Search API. Each makes working with Drupal 8 a little easier for developers in some way; by making it easier to make sites responsive, by improving the usability in WYSIWYG editors for content authors, and by providing a toolset for... More
Posted on
Friday, April 1, 2016
by Reena Leone
Friday, April 1, 2016
by Reena Leone
Research Focus: Digital Transformation in Local Authorities
In today’s post I’m continuing my series about the results and conclusions from a research project that we commissioned Vanson Bourne to run. From consumer attitudes to technology devices and the way that ‘buyer behaviour’ is transforming the purchase journey online, to the impact of technological advancements in the retail financial services industry, it was an extensive piece of work. Part of the scope of the project involved canvassing opinions from the public about the digital services that their local authority provides and what should change about them.
Within the constraints of the... More
Posted on
Friday, April 1, 2016
by Martyn Eley
Friday, April 1, 2016
by Martyn Eley
The Evolution of Media Company CMS Platforms: Big Bets on Custom CMS
In our series on media company CMS platforms, we’ve looked at the landscape evolution over the last 5-6 years, from how companies make CMS decisions, to the types of CMSs that companies are using, to the overall industry consolidation. Today we’ll wrap up this series with a greater focus on custom CMSs, and a look towards the future, and burgeoning open source adoption.
Due to escalating costs and scaling development issues, it’s my belief that custom CMS platforms only last a handful of years before they become obsolete, and the efforts to maintain them are terminated. We can see an example... More
Posted on
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
by Chuck Fishman
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
by Chuck Fishman
Putting Agile Personalization Into Practice
This is part three of a five-part blog series on personalization.
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Author Benjamin Erwin once said, “Building a robot that works involves building a robot that doesn’t work and then figuring out what is wrong with it.” The software world has used terms like agile and lean for this approach for some time. Fast forward to today and... More
Posted on
Thursday, March 17, 2016
by Dave Ingram
Thursday, March 17, 2016
by Dave Ingram
SDL Abandons "All-In-One" Customer Experience Cloud Strategy
UK customer experience company SDL, in a preliminary filing of its 2015 financial results, attributed recent losses to bad strategy; trying to sell an integrated cloud to marketers who preferred to pick and choose their own solutions rather than an “all-in-one” suite.
In the Executive Chairman’s review of the results, the company stated: “Whilst considerable progress has been made we have been... More
Posted on
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
by David Mennie
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
by David Mennie
The State of Multi-site: A High Level View of CMS Multi-site Capabilities
Enterprise organizations maintain an average of 268 web domains. Entities allocate time and money to ensure these websites remain up-to-date from a technology and content standpoint - resources that otherwise would have been utilized elsewhere in the organization. Multi-site alleviates these inefficiencies by providing a web-platform in which a central team can manage remote sites - eliminating redundant systems, unifying appearance, and streamlining content and software updates. Multi-site accelerates management processes and cuts costs.
Users’ demand for multi-site capabilities, regardless... More
Posted on
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
by Gabe Salzer
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
by Gabe Salzer
Drupal 8 Module of the Week Recap: Honeypot, Drupal Console and Coder
More and more modules continue to be migrated over from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. This time we’re looking at Honeypot, Drupal Console, and Coder. Technically, only one of these is a true module but the others represent significant contributions to the Drupal community and are important enough to Drupal 8 to be profiled on the Acquia Developer... More
Posted on
Thursday, March 10, 2016
by Reena Leone
Thursday, March 10, 2016
by Reena Leone
Elevated Third: How to Make Content Personalization a Dream
It’s been said over and over; both content and personalization are critical to digital success. So it stands to reason that content personalization is super important. For businesses struggling to meet the demands of their audience, this can be a scary time. Part of the fear comes from not knowing where to start. Should you just start creating various forms of content and see what resonates with your audience, or do you start with audience segments and personalization and then produce content to support them?
There’s no definitive answer, no one step solution to solve all your content... More
Posted on
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
by Reena Leone
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
by Reena Leone
Drupal 8 Module of the Week Recap: Admin Toolbar, Devel and Metatag
The Drupal community is still working fast and furiously to improve module availability for Drupal 8. We continue to see their brilliant work with each Drupal 7 module successfully migrated over to Drupal 8.
We’re back with three more freshly-migrated D8 modules that we’ve profiled over on the Acquia Developer Center: Admin Toolbar, Devel, and Metatag.
Admin Toolbar
Maintainers: Mohamed Anis (matio89 on Drupal.org) and Wilfrid Roze (... More
Posted on
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
by Reena Leone
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
by Reena Leone
How Financial Services Consumers are Managing their Products and Services
In my last blog post I revealed the findings from a piece of research that we commissioned Vanson Bourne to conduct. We set out to shine a light into how the latest smart devices are being used and how they’re impacting and influencing the ‘research’, ‘purchase’ and ‘recommend and share’ parts of the customer journey.
As part of that project, Vanson Bourne examined how... More
Posted on
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
by Martyn Eley
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
by Martyn Eley
When traffic skyrockets your site shouldn't go down
This week's Grammy Awards is one of the best examples of the high traffic events websites that Acquia is so well known for. This marks the fourth time we hosted the Grammys' website. We saw close to 5 million unique visitors requesting nearly 20 million pages on the day of the awards and the day after. From television's Emmys to Superbowl advertisers' sites, Acquia has earned its reputation for keeping their Drupal sites humming during the most crushing peaks of traffic.
These "super spikes"... More
Posted on
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
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