Scaling Microsites for the Enterprise with Drupal Gardens

Bryan HouseSr. Director, MarketingAcquia@bryanhouse

Scaling Microsites for the Enterprise with Drupal Gardens

Drupal Gardens: Drupal-as-a-ServiceCreate site in secondsThemeBuilderRapid prototypingSite duplicationHassle / worry freeSite exportBuilt on Drupal 7

Until Now, Drupal is DIY

One path to create & operate Drupal sites– Download binary– Set up LAMP stack– Install Drupal– Find contrib modules to meet requirements– Install contrib modules– Build Drupal site– Theme Drupal site– Tune LAMP stack for performance– Update Drupal application and LAMP stack

Drupal can sometimes seem like this

But many reallyjust to choose

wheels, color, & interior

Enterprise Web Infrastructure

Corp Site

Departmental Sites

Marketing MicrositesCommunity sites

Collaboration Intranet

External Websites

Internal Websites

Product sites

Other sites

When should you use Drupal Gardens?

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Rapid deploymentHosted, managed service

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Many microsites

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Consistent design elements

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Perishable sites

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Start small and grow

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Most importantly...

You need a service with:nothing to installno servers to update or manage

Who will use Drupal Gardens?

Turnkey, Template-Based Microsites

Corp Site

Departmental Sites

MicrositesCommunity sites

Collaboration Intranet

Product sites

Other sites

External Websites

Internal Websites

Enterprises, Large and Small

Product launchesMarketing campaigns

Event promotion

Media & Entertainment Companies

Artist sitesPromotional campaigns

Government Agencies, Non-Profit

Political campaignsRapid response

Higher Education Institutions

Departments, projects,faculty sites

Let’s build a microsite

On the Horizon

Webforms

Views

Manage site collections

Themes across sites

Analytics

Drupal Gardens: Drupal-as-a-Serviceenterprise

Launch tens / hundreds of sitesMulti-site managementTheme & template librariesTurnkey site deployment

Template-Driven Process for Site Rollout

Promotion Template 1

Promotion Template 2

EventTemplate

Special CampaignTemplate

Template-Driven Process for Site Rollout

Promotion Template 1

Promotion Template 2

EventTemplate

Special CampaignTemplate

Repeatable, pre-configured site templates

Push content creation to sales & marketing teams

Create QA process prior to pushing live

• Power of Drupal 7

• Fully managed, hosted social publishing service

• Enterprise microsites, campaigns, events and more

Fully managed Drupal service, with an open source attitude

freedom: you own the data

freedom: you own the content

freedom: you own the users

freedom: you own the code!

the business value you demand.

the freedom you need.

Drupal Gardens: Drupal-as-a-Service

Simple to useEnterprise micrositesTurnkey deploymentHassle / worry freeOpenSaaS