Acquia Case Studies

Roger Williams University

kfogarty — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:17:15 +0000

Roger Williams University modernizes web presence with Acquia and OHO Interactive

So when the Bristol, Rhode Island university, whose 42 academic programs combine liberal arts and education for the professions, took on upgrading its site’s outmoded design and architecture, the number-one objective was clear: to build a site that won’t go down. “If prospective students or parents are looking for information, the site simply has to be online and available at that moment,” said Chief Information Officer Suzanne Barnes.

SEMI

kfogarty — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:57:38 +0000

SEMI gain cost efficiencies with Drupal and Acquia’s Managed Cloud

During the recent economic downturn, SEMI went through several rounds of layoffs and started looking to gain cost efficiencies in their IT investments – specifically finding areas they could move to the cloud. The first target was the website infrastructure. SEMI was constrained by a legacy CMS system that required significant investment in maintenance costs for their 26 different sites. In addition, SEMI had a collocation data storage investment totaling $11,000 per month and they were fast approaching their yearly renewal.

Environment America

kfogarty — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:37:04 +0000

Environment America wins big for its members with Palantir.net and Acquia

Littlewood is the Web Director at Public Interest GRFX, a group that handles web presence for many not-for-profit organizations. Each in its individual silo, the two sites for each of 29 states plus two national sites had become too costly and difficult to maintain.

Littlewood explains, “We knew we needed the ability to share content from federal to state in a push pull system, easily updatable in one installation. The killer app for Drupal was the fact that considerably more sites in the wild had correctly working multi-site installations.”

Bassmaster

kfogarty — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:43:59 +0000

Bassmaster hooks new fishing site with Drupal and Acquia Managed Cloud

The new owners had to re-launch the entire site on new publishing and hosting technology as well as migrate nearly ten years of content, all on a tight budget and in just six months. During these changes, it was critical for the team not to interfere with ongoing user access and to preserve the site’s high Google Page Rank. And most importantly the site had to be ready within days of the re-launch for a high-user-demand weekend event.

KSF Media

kfogarty — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:21:07 +0000

KSF Media Engages Next Generation of Readership with Drupal

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VeteranCentral.com

kfogarty — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:53:36 +0000

VeteranCentral.com serves underserved Veterans with help from Acquia

Armed with research showing an underserved veteran population would greatly benefit from a centralized support network, such as an online portal, Jonathon Lunardi set out to build a solution. He knew Drupal was the best platform for VeteranCentral.com from research and previous experience. “We looked at other platforms, but in the end, Drupal won out. I’ve been involved with Drupal since 2000, and I know it has everything: a large developer community, maturity, security, scalability. What more could you want?”

NYSE Euronext

kfogarty — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:32:10 +0000

NYSE Euronext

With approximately 8,000 listed issues, NYSE Euronext's equities markets - the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca - represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500.

When Kerner arrived, NYSE Euronext was using a lot of legacy content management systems (CMS) that were not adequate or easy to use.

The King Center

kfogarty — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:44:52 +0000

The King Center presents precious history with help from Acquia and Palantir.net

As part of an initiative to update and revitalize, the center partnered with JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) through the Technology for Social Good program. The goal was highly ambitious: to digitize hundreds of thousands of the more than 1,000,000 items in the center’s collection, and to make these primary source materials available to the world through the Internet for the first time. In the collection are documents and images from the life and work of Dr. King, such as drafts of the “I Have a Dream” speech, as well as items from the wider Civil Rights Movement.

Maxim

kfogarty — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:36:11 +0000

Maxim gains business agility with Drupal re-platform, cost efficiency with Acquia Cloud

Even the changes that should be easy to implement were extremely difficult. “We had no organizational agility,” Michael said.

This negatively impacted not only the website experience, but also advertising sales. Maxim operates similar to a creative agency through selling unique advertising packages, and then delivering the functionality and execution. But there was significant delay in terms of time-to-market, which impacted their ability to sell more and execute quickly.

BRIT Awards

kfogarty — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:28:04 +0000

BRIT Awards amplifies their Drupal website with Acquia Cloud

The BRIT Awards 2012 with MasterCard will be the 32nd BRIT Awards, which has raised more than £14 million for The BRIT Trust charity, whose main beneficiaries are the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology www.brit.croydon.sch.uk and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk.