WordPress can be used in enterprise environments when more than one person takes responsibility for core competencies like development, maintenance, support, security and governance. Some challenges for WordPress in enterprise include integration, skills gaps, multiple teams, open source trust, and security. Enablers include single sign-on, agile teams, slower upgrades, external support and third party products. Ongoing issues involve shifting costs from the platform to building core competencies while maintaining flexibility, and balancing flexibility with enterprise demands for control. Bridging this gap may involve separate security patches, trusted repositories, and supporting legacy releases similar to Ubuntu's approach.
Most people use WordPress to provide them or their organisation with a web presence. This session takes a look at some examples of how people use WordPress within their organisations, where the intended audience is internal people. Estimated timings: Intro: 5 mins Theme 1: use case examples – 20 mins Theme 2: challenges – 15 mins Theme 3: where next? – 10 mins
