drupal for enterprises and internation organizations

8/6/2019 Drupal for Enterprises and Internation Organizations

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/drupal-for-enterprises-and-internation-organizations 1/25

Drupal Solutions for Enterprises and

International OrganizationsConsider Enterprise-ready Open Source and Drupal 7 for

reducing TCO

Presented by:[email protected]

CIGNEX Technologies

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



What Does CIGNEX Do?

2

In the last 10 years, CIGNEX helped clients save

over US$ 500 Million by adopting CommercialOpen Source Software across 200+

implementations

CIGNEX Confidential

Saving

T i m e

Founded in 2000; Offices globally Pure Play Open Source SI

Solutions co-exist with proprietary

Thought leaders: 8 Books on Open Source

with 400+ experts



Introduction to Open Source



Journey of Open Source Software

Open Source Solutions are less expensive, more flexible, and easier to manage than alternatives offered, by

proprietary application vendors. The cost savings not only dramatically improve ROI, but also allow organizations

to redirect IT dollars to revenue -generating business functions.

Collaborative

work in 1960s led

to birth of

Internet

Inception of GNU

Project & Free

Software Foundation

on East Coast to

develop a new free

OS

Birth of Linux Kernel

in Finland. Linux

Kernel with GNU

Applications coveredby GPL

Stability achieved

on Linux. Evolutions

of this include

Redhat, SUSE,

Mandrake, Debian,

Slackware,…. Evolution of

Apache, Perl,Mozilla, etc.

Public acceptance

gained by Linux &

BSD

Birth of “Commercial

Open Source” to

differentiate with

Free software

(Community)

Birth of Internet

1960’s 1970’s

Efforts in UC,

Berkley - BSD Unix Freed BSD Unix

from copyrighted

AT&T Licenses – roll

out of 386 BSD

Early 1990’s Mid 1990’s Late 1990’s 2000’s

Stability on

386BSD. Evolutions

include NetBSD,

FreeBSD, Open BSD

The term “Open

Source” coined.

2005 –

Onwards

Widespread

Adoption

Geneva 2005:

POLICIES OF UNITEDNATIONS SYSTEM

ORGANIZATIONS

TOWARDS THE USE

OF OPEN SOURCE

SOFTWARE (OSS)

FOR DEVELOPMENT

Report:

www.unjiu.org/da

ta/reports/2005/e

n2005_7.pdf



According to Analysts…

By 2016, Open Source Software (OSS) will be

included in mission-critical software portfolios

within 99% of Global 2000 enterprises, up from 75%

in 2010

The IT benefits of Open Source are driven by a

confluence

of cost optimization, flexibility and innovation whenmanaged properly.

By 2014, organizations with effective, open-source

community participation will deliver high returns

from their open-source investments

By 2016, 50% of leading non-IT organizations will use

OSS as a business strategy to gain competitive advantage

Source: World’s Leading IT Research & Advisory Company Predicts 2011: Open Source Software, the Power Behind the Throne, 23rd Nov, 2010



International OrganizationsChallenges faced & Benefits of Adopting Open Source



Typical Challenges faced by International Organizations

Multi-Lingual

» All sites and other applications need to be

in 6 official languages

IT Budgets

» Funding of new applications is a challenge

• Upfront Licenses, AMC

• Implementation & Customization

» Cost of Maintaining existing software not

coming down

• AMC, Support team

Global Audience

» Solution that can work for masses, at a

minimal cost

Policy

» Guidance/Mandates compliance

Lack of Flexibility

» Vendor lock-in & Dependency

• Costly upgrade process due to Product end-of-life

» Fear of Vendor sustainability

• At the mercy of licensing policy of major ISVs

• Limited say in product road-map development



Benefits using Open Source

Meets the expectations of Enterprise Class

solution» Performance, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Release Cycle

Provides additional Flexibility over proprietary

» Access to Source Code ensures true “ownership” of the

software

» Customizations required can be easily done via community

contributions or faster change management process

Better Risk Mitigation with Open Source

» Open Standards

» No End of Life issues in Open Source

• Access to code & service providers willing to support

code base – not possible with proprietary solutions

» Freedom from

• Control of a Single source

• Licensing management (and associated Audit &

Litigation)

Low Entry barrier

» Easy to test due to lack of upfront licensing fees

» POC costs low enough to written off if required

Faster Deployment

» Typically 1/10th the time required to deploy

Proprietary solutions

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

» 70% - 90% reduction in cost across licenseprocurement, deployment, maintenance, support,

hardware, etc. over proprietary technologies

Global Open Source Adoption Map

Source: redhat, Open Source Activity Map 2008



Open Source adopted by International Organizations

Drupal

World Food Program

Human Rights Watch United Nations Stand Against Poverty Campaign

United Nations End Poverty 2015 Campaign

IFAD (UN)

Liferay Alfresco

Solution Exchange (UN)



Typical Technology stack

Operating System

Unix, IBM AIX, Windows

Database

Oracle, DB2, SQL-Server, Sybase

Middleware, Application Server

Oracle, BEA, Microsoft, IBM

Identity Management

MS, Oracle, IBM

ECM

Documentum

, IBM Filenet,

OpenText,

Oracle,Microsoft

DW & BI

Oracle, BO,

SAP, Cognos,

SAS,

IBM, MS,MicroStr

ERP &

CRM

Oracle,

SAP, MS,

IBM

E-Commerce

ATG, IBM,

Click Com

Sterling Com

BPM

IBM,MS,

Oracle,

SAP

Portals

BEA, IBM, BV, SAP,Oracle, Vignette

WCM

Day, Fatwire,Ektron, MS

Social

Collaboration

Jive, IBM, MS,

Atlassian

Mobile, SMS

MS, Wap2Go,IBM, Oracle

Scanner, Fax,

Devices

Integration

Kofax, eCopy,

EMC, Xerox,

IBM

Dev Tools

Oracle, Jbuilder,

IBM, Microsoft

Visualstudio

Email

Integration

Microsoft, IBM

Lotus Notes

Infrastructure

Virtualization,

Cloud, Clusters

IBM, VMware,

Oracle

Enterprise Application Integration, Service Oriented Architecture

TIBCO,SAP, Microsoft, IBM



Potential to Migrate to Open Source

Operating System

Unix, IBM AIX, Windows

Database

Oracle, DB2, SQL-Server, Sybase


Oracle, BEA, Microsoft, IBM

Identity Management

MS, Oracle, IBM

ECM

Documentum

, IBM Filenet,

OpenText,

Oracle,Microsoft

DW & BI

Oracle, BO,

SAP, Cognos,

SAS,

IBM, MS,MicroStr

ERP &

CRM

Oracle,

SAP, MS,

IBM

E-Commerce

ATG, IBM,

Click Com

Sterling Com

BPM

IBM,MS,

Oracle,

SAP

Portals

BEA, IBM, BV, SAP,Oracle, Vignette

WCM

Day, Fatwire,Ektron, MS

Social

Collaboration

Jive, IBM, MS,

Atlassian

Mobile, SMS

MS, Wap2Go,IBM, Oracle

Scanner, Fax,

Devices

Integration

Kofax, eCopy,

EMC, Xerox,

IBM

Dev Tools

Oracle, Jbuilder,

IBM, Microsoft

Visualstudio

Email

Integration

Microsoft, IBM

Lotus Notes

Infrastructur

e

Virtualization,

Cloud, Clusters

IBM, VMware,

Oracle


TIBCO,SAP, Microsoft, IBM

Identity Management

OpenLDAP, CAS, OpenIAM

Scanner, Fax,

Devices

Integration

Ephesoft

Dev Tools

Eclipse

Email

Integration

Alfresco, Opsera

Infrastructure

Virtualization,

Cloud, Clusters

Redhat,

ZenSource

Operating System

Linux

Database

MySQL, PostGreSQL, Ingress


JBoss, Tomcat

ECM

Alfresco

DW & BI

Pentaho

ERP &

CRM

Compiere

E-Commerce

Magento

BPM

Intalio,

jBPM

Portals

Liferay

Social

Collaboration

Drupal, Liferay

WCM

Drupal, Alfresco,Liferay, Plone

Mobile, SMS

Drupal, Liferay


Apache Service Mix, Mule Source



Successful Open Source Adoption Model

T a r g e t A u d i e n c e

Internal

External

Information oriented

(Non-critical)Transactional /

Mission-critical

Nature of Application

Candidate for Immediate Migration

Confidence in Open Source

Expand Open Source Adoption

Pilot, Test Drive, Migrate

Intranet Portals

Corp. Social Networks

Static websites

/ Extranet Portals

Transactional

CRM

Operational

CRM

BI

ERP

Social Media

Doc. & Rights

Management

CLMS (Contract Lifecycle Management Solutions

Workflow based

applications

Cloud

Core Banking,Internet Banking,

Mfg. Process

Automation, …

Product / CMS

Websites

Web Retail sites

IMS (Invoice Management System)



DrupalCompelling Proposition for International Organizations



Drupal

Open Source Content Management powering

millions of websites and applications

25,000,000 downloads of Drupal

616,526 people in 228 countries* speaking 182 languages

power Drupal

Empowering 400,000 global websites

Over 10,500 Free Modules Open Source alternative to IBM Lotus WCM, OpenText Web

Experience Mgmt, Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe

ColdFusion…many more

*Acquia whitepaper – TCO for Open Source Social Publishing: Going beyond Social Business Software



Gartner MQ – Drupal positioned as Visionary

Drupal has

maintained

a balance in

vision and

execution

capabilities



Why choose Drupal over Proprietary?

• Dramatic reduction in Total Cost of Ownership

$3,000,000

$900,000

$720,000

$540,000

$325,000 $295,000 $270,000 $270,000 $216,000

$40,000

LiveWorld Mzinga Vignette Tell igent Crown Peak Jive Percuss ion Tridi on Fatwire Drupal

5-Year cost 1st Year License

Acquia Drupal

can save up to

98% costs

over a period

of 5 years

Acquia (Drupal) Network Enterprise

1st Year support cost $ 8,000

5-Year Cost $ 40,000

Acquia-Drupal beats proprietary solutions on

license, support, and professional services costs.



Drupal 7

Web 2.0 Support

Social Media

Multi-lingual Capability

Donation and E-commerce

module (integration with

payment gateways- PayPal)

Easy Navigation

Swift Page Load Time

Ability to host large number of

files

Contextual Linking

W3C Compliance

Portals

PortableDevicesSocial

Collaboration

Integration

E-commerce

Donations

Web Content

Management(WCM)



Drupal – Architecture

Open & modular Architecture

Standards-based

Low resource hosting

Scalable

Extensible by modules

Drupal 7 Technical Requirements

• Web Server

» Apache or Microsoft IIS

• PHP» 5.2 or higher

• Database Server

» MySQL - 5.0 or higher, PostgreSQL - 8.3 or higher, or SQLite

• OS

» Independent of OS



Case Studies



Client

Drupal Portal - International Sports Meet

Challenges Faced

» Prestigious Event with representatives from 71 countries

» Stable, robust, secure and compliant website

» Aggressive schedule of 6 weeks

Our Solution

» Single site with 4 sub-themes and navigation with rich media, real

time updates

» Secure code passed by Government audit from IBM’s AppScan®

tool

Benefits

» Robust portal - over 45 million visitors

» Secure - over 300,000 attempted cyber attacks thwarted

» Low Total Cost of Ownership

A sports organization hosting multi-sport event involving athletes from various

countries. The Games are overseen by this Federation, which also controls the

sporting programme and selects the host cities.



e-Governance Portal – Alfresco & Drupal

Challenges Faced

» Existing portal was expensive in maintenance due to non-uniform

platform and content changes took huge turnaround time

Our Solution

» Feature-rich city website (e-governance portal) with a collaborative

community features

» Easy customization & management for System Admin and community

moderator

Benefits

» Increased visibility & online transactions

» Cost reduction over 50% on infrastructure alone through single

hosting and consolidation of sub-websites into a single portal

Client

A leading City Council in the USA. A coastal city on the west coast of USA with a

population of 109000 residents, many small & medium businesses and quite popular

among visitors/tourists.



Where We can Help you

Portals

Intranets

Extranets

Content Management

Social Collaboration

Mobile Apps

Business Intelligence

e-Commerce

Integration & ESB

Contract Management

Document Management

Records Management

Digital Asset Management

Business Process/Workflow

SAP services and more …

Open Source Extended Delivery Center (EDC)



The Drupal Practice

Close working relationship since 2009

» Conduct Drupal training worldwide

Certified Partner

» Deployed over 15 enterprise solutions on

Drupal

» Over 30 PHP consultants

Achievements

» Integrated Drupal with various back-end

systems (Alfresco and .NET based CMS)

» Contributed many Drupal Themes

» Contributed CQUAD to Drupal community• CQUAD – Captures the best of Drupal and

Magento with complete package for an e-

commerce website

d



Are you ready to migrate?

Interested to learn how Open Source can reduce your Total Cost of

Ownership compared to Proprietary Technologies?

CIGNEX makes Open Source

work, for you!

[email protected]

THANK YOU!

25

drupal for enterprises and internation organizations

Documents