Video: Can we save the open web?
In March, I did a presentation at SxSW that asked the audience a question I've been thinking about a lot lately: "Can we save the open web?".
The web is centralizing around a handful of large companies that control what we see, limit creative freedom, and capture a lot of information about us. I... More
By Dries Buytaert Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016
How a Marketer Built a Drupal 8 site in 1 Day
When I decided I was going to start my own blog of course I wanted to build the site myself. I used to be a pretty technical person previously in my career, but the last time I built a Drupal website... More
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
The Meaning of Content: Just a Utility, not Royalty
In the marketing world, buzzwords reign supreme. Often they are words that have already existed for years that suddenly become trendy, and then are used incessantly throughout the industry until... More
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
by Reena Leone
Thursday, May 5, 2016
by Reena Leone
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Acquia Partner Profile: Avionos
At Acquia, our partners are an incredible part of our success. In this series, we’ll be profiling some of our premier partners; showcasing who they are and what they do, in their own words.
For our first partner profile, we spoke with Dan Neiweem, co-founder and principal of Avionos, responsible for the Acquia partnership, customer success, and growing the Avionos brand. Avionos is a digital consulting and cloud services firm focused on delivering outcomes... More
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
by Reena Leone
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
by Reena Leone
Acquia Asia Pacific Partner Summits 2016: A Recap
Over the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the adoption of enterprise Drupal in Australia. As Acquia continues to expand its presence in the Asia Pacific region, it has become increasingly important to build and maintain relationships with our partners.
The Acquia Sydney Partner Summit brought together more than 75 partners in attendance to learn, network, and engage with colleagues. Attendees represented a diverse group ranging from independent Drupal developers and digital agencies, to network agencies... More
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
by Darren Watkins
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
by Darren Watkins
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
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 and data on what to focus on for future releases of Drupal (8.x/9).
The last time we had such a survey was after the release of Drupal 7, six months into the development of Drupal 8. I presented the results at DrupalCon London in 2011. The results informed the Drupal community at large, but were also the basis for... More
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
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
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Monday, April 4, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Monday, April 4, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Acquia’s FedRAMP ATO: What Does it Mean for You?
On February 19, 2016, Acquia received an Authority To Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and is now a FedRAMPSM Compliant Cloud Service Provider (CSP). For many individuals and organizations operating in the public sector, FedRAMP is a well-known program, but what does FedRAMP compliance really mean?
FedRAMP: What is it?
With a rise in the adoption and proliferation of cloud solutions, finding a way to secure the use of cloud-based IT systems has proven challenging. Historically, the governmental process for risk management was redundant, inconsistent, time consuming,... More
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Monday, April 4, 2016
by Al Nugent
Monday, April 4, 2016
by Al Nugent
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
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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
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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
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
by Chuck Fishman
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
by Chuck Fishman
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 personalization team, alignment on high level business goals and strategic initiatives, and a project that your team is planning to work on. On top of that, you’ve aligned on an approach to personalization that involves quick iteration and small, manageable tasks, which you may or may not refer to as “stories.”... More
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
by Dave Ingram
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
by Dave Ingram
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
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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
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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
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
by Gabe Salzer
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
by Gabe Salzer
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