This document discusses how several prominent organizations such as MIT, Harvard, the White House, and The Economist use Drupal. It provides examples of how these organizations built websites, communities, and tools using Drupal. It also outlines the benefits of using Drupal, such as flexibility, robustness, and integration with other systems. Finally, it discusses potential use cases for an educational institution to implement Drupal.

1. Drupal – ready for the enterprise
Industry pioneers, Enterprise integration

2. > MIT (several depts)
[a VoIP project with Drupal built - http://voipdrupal.org/]
Group includes the 'father of the internet', Tim Berners Lee
Note: Click on images to see the respective websites

3. > Harvard (several depts)

4. > Harvard > Drupal products, Adoption
● Harvard even built this product – a Drupal
distribution pre-built for higher education
institutes
● Discussion forum for increasing adoption of
Drupal at Harvard
● Participants – academics, students, admin
department

5. > White House
“To some, the White House shift to “White House isn't putting much
Drupal from a proprietary software stock in the argument that
package represented a serious collaboratively-built software isn't
seal of approval for open-source stable or secure enough for
software” ~ NY Times government use” ~ Tech President

6. > White House > Enabling adoption
● The IT Dashboard is a management tool for
the United States federal government CIOs
to use in overseeing their IT spending.
● Built in Drupal; contributed back to the
community by the White House

7. > The Economist
● 20-30 million page views; 3-4 million unique
visitors per month
● Evaluated OpenCMS, Alfresco, Joomla; met
with other newspapers; considered building a
custom system, and even buying a
proprietary system
● Found Drupal as a “strategic fit”
● Migrated 3 million registered users and
articles from a Coldfusion based system to
Drupal
● Went onto build other group websites in
Drupal as well

8. Why are they choosing Drupal?
“Drupal has better tools for helping ● Drupal is free, flexible, robust
companies quickly change their websites to ● Constantly being improved by hundreds of
match consumer interests. There is no
thousands of passionate people from all
longer a unidirectional flow of information
over the world
when it comes to managing your brand.
Today, it’s a very interactive process and
● Lower TCO including during maintenance
requires very fast reaction times” ~ Acquia / term; no vendor lock-in
NYTimes ●
Integrates with 3rd party proprietary and
open source systems such as SAP,
“Customers were unhappy with “relevance
Sharepoint, Alfresco,
of search results”. Integration with Apache
SOLR – an enterprise search system with
● SEO ready
faceted search – solved this” ~ Economist ● Thousands of ready-to-use contributed
modules

9. Use case for using Drupal
● Flexibility in implementing complex themes (expect complex designs with Itu
Chaudhuri Design)
● Out of the box social collaboration modules – Sign-in and Registration using
Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter/Gmail, Disqus (for commenting), Share with Friend,
Facebook “Like”
● Community engagement – rapidly build and deploy build communities of students,
professors/academics, alumni

10. Use case for using Drupal
● Maintain user-profiles and dashboards – integrate with Facebook/LinkedIn profiles
● Enable Blogs for students, academics and industry professionals; moderate
content before publishing; Publishing workflows available
● Event management and registration
● Setup campaign based micro-sites on-the-fly
● Publish videos directly or integrate with YouTube, Kaltura, Vimeo channels

11. Use case for using Drupal
● SEO ready – all pages will automatically have semantic URLs that correspond with the
page's title; add meta keywords, description
● Pluggable modules available for Mobile integration - http://drupal.org/project/mobile ;
enable clean display of website content on mobile devices
● Frameworks available for integrating iPhone and Android apps with Drupal websites

12. Use case for using Drupal
● Content aggregation – from internal Blogs or through connects with external systems
(Sharepoint)
● Powerful Search using Apache SOLR
● Publish timed content; display/hide in various sections of the website based on pre-
configured time settings
● Build and quickly deploy ISB magazine website using OpenPublish – free Drupal
distribution for online magazine publishing

13. Use case for using Drupal > Open Scholar
● Setup unlimited student and professor websites out of a single install base
● Publish research papers
● Manage personal Calendar; integrate with Google Calendar
● Theme picker; tens of themes to choose from (more getting added)
● Pluggable modules : choose from tens of modules available
● Test out an OpenScholar Sandbox at: http://isb.codespry.com

14. Use case for Drupal integration with Sharepoint
● Continue using Sharepoint on Intranet (Intranet has “Classroom management” and
“Courses management” apart from a range of content publishing); Build website using
Drupal
● Use Sharepoint for document authoring, MS-Office document workflow and
versioning, Metadata entries
● Use Drupal for web content publishing, brand communication, and social tools
integration;
● Drupal to consume articles (selected by admin) with meta information from
Sharepoint and publish on external website
● Drupal “may” be required to push edited content from Drupal to Sharepoint

15. Level of Drupal integration available with Sharepoint
● Drupal-Sharepoint integration module available at: http://drupal.org/project/sharepoint
● Integrates with SharePoint through the SharePoint SOAP Web Services
● Consumes Sharepoint data available in “Sharepoint Lists” into publishes to “Feeds”
and “Views” modules of Drupal; one-off batched imports, on-going content
aggregation from external sources; RSS/Atom/CSV files aggregation

16. About Srijan > Technologies we work in

17. About Srijan > Values and Culture
● Winner of WorldBlu's Most Democratic Workplaces
award for 2009 and 2010
● Open Salaries culture : Everyone knows everyone
else's salaries including the promoters and
executives
● Financial Transparency : All project values are
known everyone. Profits of each quarter is known to
everyone

18. About Srijan > Clients across the world

19. Partnerships and Alliances
● Acquia Silver Partners : For Drupal development
and Drupal Training
● Design partnerships with Itu Chaudhuri Design and
Dolka Innovations
● Datacenter partnership with Colocube in USA

20. Way we our organised