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by Zachary Reiss-Davis and Shaheen Parks, February 14, 2013
Two of the most common questions we receive from B2B marketers are “How do I know if it’s worth having a community?” and “How can I prove to my executives that my community is worth their investment?” In this report, we present an ROI framework with a reference model based on Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology that you can use to either show the potential value of a community that you are planning or estimate the current ROI of your existing B2B community.
To survive and prosper in the Digital Age, your business must be ready to excel in a highly competitive marketplace. To keep pace with the consumer, and remain ahead of the competition, you no longer can rely on a CMS that is tied to a proprietary vendor's feature roadmap, rather than your immediate business requirements. Built on open source Drupal, the next generation CMS supports continuous innovation, market agility and the freedom to put the needs of your business first.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a multifaceted security standard that is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data.
PCI Compliance applies to any organization that stores, transmits, or transacts credit card data. Failure to become PCI compliant may expose your businesses to legal and financial liabilities. This white paper summarizes roles and responsibilities regarding PCI compliance for Acquia Cloud hosted websites.
Security and Compliance
The Acquia Cloud leverages a shared responsibility model for security in the cloud. At the infrastructure layer Acquia Cloud is built within Amazon’s AWS cloud environment and leverages Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Block Store (EBS) technology. As such Acquia Cloud leverages Amazon’s certifications and accreditations for the infrastructure, network and physical security layers of the environment. Amazon personnel have no logical access to Acquia Cloud hosts or applications.
On July 1, 2012, European Union (EU) data protection regulators provided guidelines for service providers processing personal data in the cloud for client organizations. The opinion describes associated risks and provides recommendations for best practices. This brief white paper explains why Acquia Cloud is aligned with the guidance provided by the EU data protection regulators ensuring that the transfer of EU personal data to cloud service providers such as Acquia may take place lawfully under EU law.
The Future of Web Content Management
What is driving the success of Acquia and the phenomenon of open source Drupal? How is the transition from traditional marketing creating new opportunities as enterprise businesses seek to create extraordinary digital experiences? Acquia CEO Tom Erickson answers these and other questions as part of MGI Research’s series on technology industry leaders.
We are at an inflection point in history. The digital revolution has given consumers an unprecedented level of control and choice as they spend more time researching, socializ- ing and buying online. To connect with these consumers and to influence their purchasing behaviors, marketers are now forced to deal with dozens of channels and engagement methods. Managing all of this is incredibly complex and time consuming, and is easier to get wrong than to get right.
Find Out If Open Source Is The Right Fit For You
This thought leadership paper titled " Is it time to Consider Open Source WCM for Digital Experience?" a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Acquia. uncovers the results of a survey of 160 Enterprise Web Content Management buyers. You will learn why now is an optimal time to consider Open Source solutions like Drupal as these buyers highlight their growing satisfaction rates and confirm the market has shifted towards unique Digital Marketing requirements.
Doing the Public’s Business
In the current era of open government and tight budgets, Federal agencies must focus on doing the public’s business as transparently and as cost effectively as possible. For Federal IT managers, OMB’s Cloud First strategy holds great promise: on-demand access to shared computing services, provisioned on a scalable basis, and the ability to deliver solutions faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost than custom-developed systems.
Drupal and Acquia support Cloud First initiatives across the Federal government.
Bolster Your Marketing Strategy With Focused Site Factory Development
When it comes to building a brand through digital marketing, launching websites is one of the most effective methods for promoting products or services to segmented audience groups. According to research by Dynamic Logic, 7.8 percent of visitors to a microsite are likely to be impacted by the brand messaging versus just 2.3 percent of prospects exposed to display ads.1 For marketers, investing in the deployment of frequent website campaigns can serve to drive substantial brand awareness, while enabling companies to collect detailed analytical data about their visitors.
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by Zachary Reiss-Davis and Shaheen Parks, February 14, 2013
Two of the most common questions we receive from B2B marketers are “How do I know if it’s worth having a community?” and “How can I prove to my executives that my community is worth their investment?” In this report, we present an ROI framework with a reference model based on Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology that you can use to either show the potential value of a community that you are planning or estimate the current ROI of your existing B2B community.
To survive and prosper in the Digital Age, your business must be ready to excel in a highly competitive marketplace. To keep pace with the consumer, and remain ahead of the competition, you no longer can rely on a CMS that is tied to a proprietary vendor's feature roadmap, rather than your immediate business requirements. Built on open source Drupal, the next generation CMS supports continuous innovation, market agility and the freedom to put the needs of your business first.
On July 1, 2012, European Union (EU) data protection regulators provided guidelines for service providers processing personal data in the cloud for client organizations. The opinion describes associated risks and provides recommendations for best practices. This brief white paper explains why Acquia Cloud is aligned with the guidance provided by the EU data protection regulators ensuring that the transfer of EU personal data to cloud service providers such as Acquia may take place lawfully under EU law.
The Future of Web Content Management
What is driving the success of Acquia and the phenomenon of open source Drupal? How is the transition from traditional marketing creating new opportunities as enterprise businesses seek to create extraordinary digital experiences? Acquia CEO Tom Erickson answers these and other questions as part of MGI Research’s series on technology industry leaders.
We are at an inflection point in history. The digital revolution has given consumers an unprecedented level of control and choice as they spend more time researching, socializ- ing and buying online. To connect with these consumers and to influence their purchasing behaviors, marketers are now forced to deal with dozens of channels and engagement methods. Managing all of this is incredibly complex and time consuming, and is easier to get wrong than to get right.
Find Out If Open Source Is The Right Fit For You
This thought leadership paper titled " Is it time to Consider Open Source WCM for Digital Experience?" a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Acquia. uncovers the results of a survey of 160 Enterprise Web Content Management buyers. You will learn why now is an optimal time to consider Open Source solutions like Drupal as these buyers highlight their growing satisfaction rates and confirm the market has shifted towards unique Digital Marketing requirements.
Learn How Acquia Delivers Effective Solutions
In the current era of open government, any agency must focus on doing the public’s business as transparently and as cost-effectively as possible. Whether an agency is working at the Federal, state, or local level, serving constituents and stakeholders is its first order of business.
Citizens, communities, and businesses need to:
Find relevant information about immediate topics of interest
Share insights about important issues
Communicate with agency staff members
A report for the UK Cabinet Office supported by OpenForum Europe
Governments across the world want to save money, indeed they need to save money. At the same time they seek to achieve urgent transformation and reform in their organisational structures - a process that often requires new information systems and data infrastructures.
In this white paper you will learn how Drupal is used to develop mobile applications for the enterprise. Between mobile web apps and native mobile apps, Drupal is already a capable platform for assembling mobile experiences.
Four Ways Cloud Platform As A Service Offerings Can Improve Performance While Reducing Operational Costs
This paper explains what Platform as a Service (PaaS) is and the benefits of moving to the cloud.
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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a multifaceted security standard that is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data.
PCI Compliance applies to any organization that stores, transmits, or transacts credit card data. Failure to become PCI compliant may expose your businesses to legal and financial liabilities. This white paper summarizes roles and responsibilities regarding PCI compliance for Acquia Cloud hosted websites.
Security and Compliance
The Acquia Cloud leverages a shared responsibility model for security in the cloud. At the infrastructure layer Acquia Cloud is built within Amazon’s AWS cloud environment and leverages Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Block Store (EBS) technology. As such Acquia Cloud leverages Amazon’s certifications and accreditations for the infrastructure, network and physical security layers of the environment. Amazon personnel have no logical access to Acquia Cloud hosts or applications.
Delivering Extraordinary Web Experiences without Extraordinary Burdens
The Drupal-Powered Enterprise identifies three ways to capitalize on Drupal as a unified platform for low-cost, central management of multiple websites.
Smoothly Transfer Content, Users, Interface, and Metadata
This paper examines scenarios for migrating from other content-management systems (CMSes) such as Vignette, Jive, FatWire, ColdFusion, and Joomla. It evaluates reasons for migration, describes migration methods and tools, and suggests best practices.
Improve performance, scalability and availability, while reducing business risk and costs with the Drupal Open Source social publishing platform and Acquia Hosting services
In this paper you will understand how website hosting can cost you a lot of money and how Acquia hosting can help eliminate those additional costs while reducing business risk.
This paper presents the results of performance benchmarks for comparing several common PHP runtime environments and configurations. The application used for benchmarking is Drupal, the open source social publishing platform.
A Beautiful Architecture for Social Publishing
How “simple” and “extensible” equate to high levels of community involvement for open source
Flexibility and participation