build your best publishing platform with drupal
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As the demand for rich media communications accelerates across all types of organizations, it’s critical for brands to have a powerful publishing and content management platform that provides complete, automated control over the entire lifecycle of all types of media content. Brands that fail to innovate in this way risk falling behind in the market. Instead, your customers will seek out competitors who have mastered the efficient use of highly-targeted content marketing to deliver more dynamic user experiences at each stage of the buyer’s journey. Join Acquia and its Ready Partner, CIGNEX Datamatics, to learn how the Drupal & Alfresco Integrated Platform helps brands achieve speed, simplicity, scalability and a superior user experience. This webinar will cover best practices and a case study highlighting: • Critical elements of a fully integrated solution including workflow, search and publishing • How Drupal delivers flexibility, scalability, and ease-of use for publishing web content • How Alfresco helps you better customize, catalog, archive, secure, share and publish content to your CMS • How the powerful combination of Drupal and Alfresco helps you broadcast critical information live, catalog content for on-demand use, and moreTRANSCRIPT
Building Best Publishing Platform
Alfresco & Drupal Integrated Solution to Achieve Scalability, Speed, Simplicity, and Superior User Experience
Date: December 5, 2013
Rajesh Avatani
Practice Lead - Alfresco
CIGNEX Datamatics
Chirayu Joshi
Senior Consultant - Alfresco
CIGNEX Datamatics
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Agenda
• Content Management & Publishing
• Publishing Platform
– RAPIDO Solution: Integrated DM & WCM
• Business Benefits
• Alfresco & Drupal Integrated Solutions Examples
• Q & A
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Business Unit#1 Content Processing
& Approval
Business Unit#2 Content Processing
& Approval
Content Management & Publishing – - Today
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Internal Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
External Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
System A – Check Content
DB
System B – Modify Content
DB
System C – Amend Content
DB
Print Vendor
Other Channels
Laptop & Desktop
Smartphone & Tablet
Content Layer Presentation Layer
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Current Challenges – Content Mgmt. & Publishing
• Various Disparate Content Management Systems
• Lack of Content Access & Transformation
• Absence of Media & Content Reuse
• Complex Process to follow
• Challenge in Content Packaging & Distribution
• Inefficient Multi-Channel Content Publishing
• Delay in On-Time Delivery of Content
• Expensive Multi License Management
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Optimal Content Mgmt. & Publishing
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Business Unit #1
Business Unit #2
Business Unit #N
Business Unit #3
Internal Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
External Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
Automate
Compliance
Track
Modify
Workflow Engine
Print Vendor
Other Channels
Laptop & Desktop
Smartphone & Tablet
Manage Publish Capture
Content Layer Presentation Layer
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Rapid Automated Powerful Integrated Dynamic Open Source
Content Management & Publishing
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CIGNEX Datamatics’ RAPIDO Content Management & Publishing Solution
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Flexible Robust Backend
Lightweight High Performance
Frontend
Content Layer Presentation Layer
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Alfresco is great at
• Workflow • Collaboration management • Version control • Document management
• Locking, check in/out • Offline briefcase synchronization • Taxonomy and categorization • Search - full text advanced search • Soft deletes and recovery support • Full audit control
• Open protocols(FTP / WebDAV, CIFS)
Alfresco positioned as “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content
Management
RAPIDO: Integrated DM & WCM
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Presentation Layer
Drupal is great at
• Multichannel presentation of content to Mobile, Browsers
• SEO friendly • User friendly interface with
In-context page editing • Collaboration, Social media &
Commerce • Controlled publishing • Analytics • Quick and easy setup • Large active community to support
Capture Publish
Drupal positioned as “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
& Social Software
Manage
Content Layer
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RAPIDO Features - Integrated DM & WCM
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Advanced Search (Taxonomy/Tagging based)
Scalability, Security, Performance
Managed Cloud Hosting (Resilient & Scalable)
Community Collaboration (across stakeholders)
User Management (Roles & Permissions, SSO)
Integration with other Enterprise Applications (Open Source, Legacy, Proprietary)
Microsites, Multilingual
Responsive Theme
Commerce
SEO, Social Media
Analytics
Web Content Management Document Management
Workflow/Rules Engine
Versioning
Categorization
Content Templates/Modeling
Meta Data, External Apps (MSOffice, Google, iWork, Adobe)
Enterprise Content Layer
Content Presentation Layer
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RAPIDO - Integration Flexibility
• PHP CMIS Wrapper
– Written by Richard McKnight
– Contributed to Apache Chemistry
– Used by Drupal, Wordpress, SugarCRM
– http://chemistry.apache.org/php/phpclient.html
• Drupal CMIS API
– Query, Browse & Sync modules
– Good for managing documents in Alfresco and then surfacing them in Drupal
– Ideal platform to build on
– Richard McKnight’s CMIS PHP Wrapper
– Used by 277 sites
– http://drupal.org/project/cmis
• Drupal CMIS Views
– Built for Alfresco Team later extended
– Takes a folder path and returns a PHP object
– Allows blocks of CMIS content to be themed by Drupal
– Built on the Drupal CMIS API
– Used on Alfresco Team, Partners and forthcoming dotcom
– http://drupal.org/project/cmis_views
• Drupal Alfresco Project
– Drupal 6
– Works with Alfresco 2.x & 3.x
– Uses SOAP
– http://drupal.org/project/alfresco
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RAPIDO Content Flow
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Automated Content Management & Publishing Workflow
Intranets, Extranets, Commerce, Partner/Vendor Portals,
Media Publishing Sites, Event Publishing Sites, Mobile Sites
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RAPIDO Benefits
• Scalability
– Integrated DM & WCM
– Managed Cloud Hosting
– Integration Flexibility with MSOffice, iWork, Google, Adobe
• Speed
– High Performance
– Faster Content Approval Process
– Faster Search
• Simplicity
– Content Categorization & Versioning
– Advanced Security
• Superior User Experience
– Faster Page Load Time
– Easy to Find Content
– Multi-lingual Support
– Mobile-ready Sites
– Usage Statistics
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Success Stories
Business Benefits through Alfresco + Drupal Adoption
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Publishing Platform - Integrated DM & WCM
• Client Overview – An event and marketing services company that serves business
professionals and consumers in the Fashion, Licensing, Life Sciences industries with its portfolio of 130 events, 30 publications, over 180 electronic products and Web sites, as well as educational and direct marketing products and services
• Challenges – Stability & Performance - Need for zero downtime
– Flexibility -
• Legacy media sites built using JSP Servlets causing dependency on IT team for content publication
– Distributed content causing redundancy
– Absence of structured workflow
– Security
• Missing field level security based on profile
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Publishing Platform - Integrated DM & WCM
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Share Configuration
Micro Sites
Themes
Analytics
Site Administrators, External Users
Content Authors,
Internal Users
Visitors
Integration
Workflow Interface
BPM Engine
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Architecture - Integrated DM & WCM
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Publishing Platform - Integrated DM & WCM
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Demo of Publishing Platform
Integrated Solution – Alfresco + Drupal
Alfresco – Dashboard, Bulk Action, Workflow, Metadata Security, Advanced Search
Drupal – SEO, Theme, Publishing
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Realizing Benefits
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Scalability
• Integrated DM & WCM – 50+ site migration planned
– Managing 500,000 legacy articles
• Managed Cloud Hosting – Move various sites and domains to cloud
• Integration Flexibility – MSOffice, iWork, Google, Adobe
– Analytics
• Google Analytics
• SiteCatalyst
– SEO & Social Media
– 12+ KickApps components
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Speed
• Faster Search – Content/Article
– Authors/Publishers
• Performance – Page load time: From 6 sec to 2 sec
• Content Approval & Publishing – Across various domains & microsites
– Advanced BPM workflows
• Content Management – Automated 3
rd party RSS publishing
– Content tagging using Open Calais
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Simplicity
• Content Categorization & Versioning
– Domain/Site
– User/Publisher
• Security
– Meta-data level (i.e. field level)
– User roles & permission
• Ease of Creation
– Articles/Forms
– Authors/Publishers
– Content reusability
• 35+ publishing templates
• Reports
– Most viewed
– Most accessed
• Commodity Hardware
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Superior User Experience
• Visitor – Faster page load time
– Easy to find content
– Multi-lingual support
– Community collaboration
– Mobile-ready sites
• Admin – Easy to manage all sites through a single window
– Field level/meta data level security
• Authors – Structured workflow & publishing process
– Smart tag generation using Open Calais
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About CIGNEX Datamatics
A subsidiary of Datamatics Global Services Limited
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What Does CIGNEX Datamatics Do?
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Since 2000, delivering Open Source
solutions for the enterprise through
adoption and integration to:
• Address business goals
• Increase business velocity
• Lower the cost of doing business
• Reduce TCO
• Gain competitive advantage
Portal Solutions Content
Solutions
Big Data Analytics Solutions
400+ Open Source Solutions
450+ Open Source Experts
200+ Open Source Integrations
12+ Books on Open Source
5000+ Community Contributions
Offices : America | India | UK | Europe | Singapore | Australia
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Where We Can Help You
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SOLUTIONS
Managed Cloud Services Develop • Deploy • Manage
VAR/Annual Product Subscription Liferay • Alfresco • Cloudera Hadoop • MongoDB
Extended Development Center Center of Excellence
UI • Development • Integration • Customization • Migration • Testing • Training • Support (24*7)
User eXperience Platform
Portals Liferay, Drupal, JBoss,
ZK, HTML5,
MuleSoft
• Intranet • Extranet • EAI • SOA
• Social Collaboration
• Big Data Portal • Mobile Portal
Enterprise Content Management
Content Alfresco, Adobe CQ,
Drupal, Magento,
JBoss, Moodle, Ephesoft,
Liferay
• WCM • DM • RM • CMS • DAM
• e-Commerce • e-Learning • ERP • Imaging Solutions
SERVICES Making Data Work
Big Data Analytics
Hadoop Ecosystem,
MongoDB, Neo4j, Pentaho,
Talend, Solr, Jaspersoft
• Data Integration
• Information Delivery
• Data Analysis
• Enterprise Search
Enterprise Mobility Strategy • Mobile UX • App Development • MEAP/MDM
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Alfresco & Drupal Practice
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Team Size : 100+ Projects : 115+
• Alfresco Platinum Partner (US) & Gold Partner (RoW)
• Acquia “Ready” partner
• Alfresco Recognition
• 2010 - Alfresco Partner of the Year Award
• 2008 - Best North American implementation of
the year
• 2007 - WCM implementation of the year
• Community contributions, Accelerators
• Alfresco based Toolkit: Migration from Documentum
• Contract Management Solution (Alfresco)
• Smart Document Processing Solution (Alfresco)
• Drupal Themes
• CQUAD – Drupal Magento Connector for e-commerce
website
• Drupal-MongoDB Connector
Brief Snapshot
Alfresco APAC Partner of the Year, 2010
Alfresco North America Partner of the Year, 2010
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Free Assessment Offer
• This assessment enables companies to maximize existing IT assets and build a roadmap of the vetted Open Source technology options to: – Reduce software costs up-to 70%
– Help generate opportunities for growth and service
• The FREE Assessment Offer Includes: – Situation Analysis
– Gap Analysis
– Recommendations/Roadmap
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Visit: www.cignex.com/freeassessment or Email: [email protected]
For any questions please contact : [email protected]
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