White papers
Content And Commerce: The Odd Couple Or The Power Couple?
Forrester Research, Inc.
Forrester Research analysts Stephen Powers and Peter Sheldon have taken on the challenge of integrating content & commerce in a new report, “Content And Commerce: The Odd Couple Or The Power Couple?” We’ve licensed this report to make it available to the world at larg
Is It Time To Consider Open Source WCM For Digital Experience?
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.
20 Questions: Industry Thought Leader Interview
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?
Open WEM: Flexibility & Freedom
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.
Drupal Security White Paper
This paper provides an analysis of the current state of Drupal security. Decision makers evaluating Drupal for use as a content management system or framework solution are encouraged to use this document in their decision process. The analysis includes historical vulnerability data with respect to mitigation techniques, common and critical security risks, and the community-driven procedures unique to Drupal.
Take Control of Your Digital Properties with Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Acquia Cloud site factory enables digital business leaders to efficiently and effectively deliver large numbers of unique, branded web experiences while maintaining control of the process. Time to market becomes days instead of weeks or months. With Acquia Cloud site factory, you’ll be able to control website production with a repeatable, scalable, well managed platform that lowers costs and facilitates creativity and innovation.
Content And Commerce: The Odd Couple Or The Power Couple?
Forrester Research, Inc.
Forrester Research analysts Stephen Powers and Peter Sheldon have taken on the challenge of integrating content & commerce in a new report, “Content And Commerce: The Odd Couple Or The Power Couple?” We’ve licensed this report to make it available to the world at large because they do an excellent job of capturing the issue, the end result, and why a better solution is warranted.
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The results are in! Acquia Named a Leader in "Social Depth Platforms" Wave™
Forrester Research, Inc. “Social Depth Platforms” Forrester Wave, Q3 2013
According to Forrester, Drupal Commons "provides the best integration options of all the vendors we evaluated," and "customers touted Acquia Drupal Commons for its flexibility, ease of use, and high return on investment." But, don't just take our word for it!
10 Layers of PaaS
Building Success on Acquia Cloud Builder’s Guide
A great digital experience is essential for success in today’s digital marketplace. Not only is building, deploying, hosting, and scaling web applications complicated, but leaving resources available that allow for continuing innovation is crucial to ongoing success.
This whitepaper provides an overview of the 10 layers of PaaS that application builders and managers should consider when evaluating PaaS providers.
When Media and Entertainment Firms Go Digital
To thrive in the digital age, media and entertainment firms must nurture profitable relationships between content and customers. They build brand and buzz behind popular tunes, episodes, and entertaining personalities. Successful firms foster friction-free networks, channel valuable content that flows through them, and build engaging communities around them. Along the way, they squarely face the future and digitize their most promising revenue streams.
The ROI Of “Owner” Communities
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.
Building the Business Case for the Next-Generation CMS
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.
Achieving PCI Compliance for Your Site in Acquia Cloud
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.
Acquia Cloud
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.
Acquia Comments on EU Recommendations for Data Processing in the Cloud
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.
20 Questions: Industry Thought Leader Interview
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.
Open WEM: Flexibility & Freedom
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.
Is It Time To Consider Open Source WCM For Digital Experience?
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.
Cloud First with Drupal and Acquia
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.
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Drupal Security White Paper
This paper provides an analysis of the current state of Drupal security. Decision makers evaluating Drupal for use as a content management system or framework solution are encouraged to use this document in their decision process. The analysis includes historical vulnerability data with respect to mitigation techniques, common and critical security risks, and the community-driven procedures unique to Drupal.
Take Control of Your Digital Properties with Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Acquia Cloud site factory enables digital business leaders to efficiently and effectively deliver large numbers of unique, branded web experiences while maintaining control of the process. Time to market becomes days instead of weeks or months. With Acquia Cloud site factory, you’ll be able to control website production with a repeatable, scalable, well managed platform that lowers costs and facilitates creativity and innovation.
Content And Commerce: The Odd Couple Or The Power Couple?
Forrester Research, Inc.
Forrester Research analysts Stephen Powers and Peter Sheldon have taken on the challenge of integrating content & commerce in a new report, “Content And Commerce: The Odd Couple Or The Power Couple?” We’ve licensed this report to make it available to the world at large because they do an excellent job of capturing the issue, the end result, and why a better solution is warranted.
Download this report to learn:
10 Layers of PaaS
Building Success on Acquia Cloud Builder’s Guide
A great digital experience is essential for success in today’s digital marketplace. Not only is building, deploying, hosting, and scaling web applications complicated, but leaving resources available that allow for continuing innovation is crucial to ongoing success.
This whitepaper provides an overview of the 10 layers of PaaS that application builders and managers should consider when evaluating PaaS providers.
Achieving PCI Compliance for Your Site in Acquia Cloud
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.
Acquia Cloud
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.
Acquia Comments on EU Recommendations for Data Processing in the Cloud
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.
Cloud First with Drupal and Acquia
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.
The Payoffs of PaaS
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.
White paper: Lower Social Business TCO with Commons (summary)
This paper compares the total cost of ownership of the Open Source Social Publishing Drupal solution to various proprietary Content Management systems, Social Business Software alternatives, and other community building software platforms. Our analysis shows that combined license and support charges come in at 2% to 11% of the costs of proprietary alternatives.
White paper: Get a Grip on Hosting Costs for Your High Volume Website
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.
White paper: Building Enterprise Social Communities with Drupal
This white paper provides a brief introduction about why social-style software is important to organizations, and why open source Drupal is the best enterprise social business software solution.
White paper: TCO for Open Source Social Publishing
Going Beyond Social Business Software
This paper compares the total cost of ownership of the Open Source Social Publishing Drupal solution to various proprietary Content Management systems, Social Business Software alternatives, and other community building software platforms.
White paper: The Surest Path to Social Publishing
Open Source, Drupal and Acquia
Social technologies on the web have changed forever how organizations interact with their communities. Companies, government bodies, schools and universities are rethinking the possibilities and relationships they share with customers, constituents, students and faculty.
When Media and Entertainment Firms Go Digital
To thrive in the digital age, media and entertainment firms must nurture profitable relationships between content and customers. They build brand and buzz behind popular tunes, episodes, and entertaining personalities. Successful firms foster friction-free networks, channel valuable content that flows through them, and build engaging communities around them. Along the way, they squarely face the future and digitize their most promising revenue streams.
How Drupal and Acquia Contribute to Shared Services Initiatives
Innovating with Less
As they streamline their connections with the public using digital technologies, Federal agencies are increasing their investments in shared services. “To make the most use of our resources and ‘innovate with less,’ we need to share more effectively, both within the government and with the public,” OMB states in its roadmap Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People.
How Drupal Supports the New IT Roadmap for Digital Government
With the release in May 2012 of its new IT roadmap, Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People, the Federal Government is embarking on an ambitious effort to streamline connections with the public using digital technologies.1 “New expectations require the Federal Government to be ready to deliver and receive digital information and services anytime, anywhere, and on any device.”
When Publishers Go Digital
Publishing for the Digital Age
Long accustomed to print-driven publishing cycles, publishers must now adapt to the digital revolution just to stay in business. They can no longer simply supplement their print publications with related web sites. A growing number of readers are replacing their hard copy newspapers and magazines with digital ones, and expect to read stories on their smartphones, tablets, and e-readers before they appear in print.
When High Tech Firms Go Digital
When Speed, Flexibility, and Agility Matter
High tech firms rely on the web to promote products and services, generate leads, and cement relationships with customers and partners. Savvy firms use the
web to rapidly develop leading-edge applications that expedite sales, transform business processes, and deliver profitable results. Smart firms realize how to exploit their digital channels and maximize the returns on their investments.
When Higher Education Goes Digital
Staying Abreast of Changing Web Technologies
Back when the web was new, colleges and universities were among the most enthusiastic early adopters. Faculty, staff, and students launched their own web sites to support research projects and educational activities using the innovative development tools of the day. A few even invented new technologies in their labs and dorm rooms. For example, Dries Buytaert, co-founder and CTO of Acquia, started the Drupal project in 2001 while a student at the University of Ghent.
When Government Goes Digital with Drupal
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
White paper: The Open Government Directive and Open Source Social Publishing
How Drupal Empowers Citizen Participation Through Online Innovation
The explicit purpose of the OGD is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the directive will require significant website innovation for many departments and agencies. Many public sector sites today are based on legacy, static web technologies. What content is available is often out of date, and citizens have limited, if any, ability to interact.