Using Drupal to build your Developer Network

www.cognisync.com Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No Budget for Community Infrastructure? No problem, use open source! (psst – we’re talking about Drupal) Presented by: Andrew Kelly Cognisync, Inc March 16, 2009

www.cognisync.com Agenda About Cognisync ISV Communities – Our View of the World Infrastructure Must-haves Drupal Introduction Case Study Q&A Look Who Else is on Drupal (time permitting) Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

www.cognisync.com About Cognisync, Inc. Formed in February 2007 Developer Network Solution Provider Corporate Developer Networks General Developer Communities Full-service provider (implementation services, infrastructure, hosting/support, ongoing community services) Clients include… Informatica Corporation ( technet.informatica.com ) The Linux Foundation ( ldn.linux-foundation.org ) Time Warner Cable ( www.oedn.net ) Our product - the “Technology Community Platform”, a Drupal-based solution for technology communities Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

www.cognisync.com Infrastructure Must-haves Must be a flexible web design platform Must have role-based access Must support sub-groups Must be modular with an open architecture Must support social networking/interaction Must support content categorization Must have active release schedule Must be inexpensive (service-heavy endeavor) Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

www.cognisync.com Must-have Solution? “ Drupal” means “Drop” in Dutch Started in 2000 by Dries Buytaert A Leading Open Source Web Content Management System Platform of choice for interactive web communities Strong Community (2 nd to MySQL in project hits) Modular Architecture, Open API Thousands of Contributed Modules Project Site: www.drupal.org Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

www.cognisync.com Informatica at a Glance Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Founded: 1993 Headquarters: Redwood City, CA Employees: 1,300+ Offices: N. & S. America, Europe, Asia Pacific Revenue: $391 million (2007) 3-year Compound Annual Growth Rate: 21% per year Market share leader (Gartner Dataquest) Customers: 2,950+ 91 of Fortune 100 80%+ of Dow Jones Government organizations in 20 countries Partners : Over 400 major SI, ISV, OEM and On Demand Singular focus on Data Integration Products and Services

www.cognisync.com Informatica TechNet History Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Launched in 2001 targeting “ISV Partners” Grow the ecosystem via tools and extensions Activity quickly spread to users (customers, solution partners) Early Competitive Advantage Large Informatica consultant community Expanded Charter in 2007 Migrated site to WCMS (Drupal) Re-branded to TechNet Implemented Community Strategy Results are coming in… 100% increase in monthly hits Membership increasing at an increasing rate CGC on an upward trend

www.cognisync.com More Drupal Bells & Whistles RSS Syndication/News Aggregator Multimedia Capability Search WYSIWYG Editor Blogs Built-in Reporting Friendly URLs Discussion Forums Drupal “Book” (wiki-like hierarchical content type) Web Services (want to update a code sample from your IDE?) Newsletters > 2000 modules and growing… Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

www.cognisync.com What else is on the horizon? Software Collaboration Capability Working with CollabNet to bring distributed software development projects into the mix (CollabNet/Drupal Integration). Exercising the Open API Salesforce.com Integration (CRM System) Eclipse Plugin (direct access/publishing of content to/from the IDE!) Other Possibilities/Incubating Integrations Alfresco (ECM – WCM data flow) Other IDE Integrations (Netbeans) Helpdesk/Knowledgebase Integrations With Open Source, the Possibilities are Endless and DOABLE… Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

www.cognisync.com Wrap Up…Questions/Comments? If you’d like to learn more about how your organization can turn its community into a strategic asset, please contact me directly at: [email_address] Thank you! Andrew Kelly President & CEO Cognisync, Inc. Copyright © 2009 Cognisync, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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