1. Getting Started with Acquia Drupal and the Acquia Network Bryan House Marketing Director, Acquia © 2009 Acquia, Inc.

2. Drupal Gaining Market Momentum

3. Choosing the Right Technology A Social Publishing Platform Drupal “… is as much a Social Software platform as it is a web content management system.” CMS Watch, The Web CMS Report 2009 users content blogs / wikis workflow forums / comments taxonomy Content Mgmt Systems Social Software Tools social ranking semantic web social tagging RSS social networks analytics

4. Node 4 Node 6 Node 5 Node 7 Node 9 Node 8 Node 1 Node 3 Node 2 Drupal Basics: Nodes Nodes are data Pieces of content stored within Drupal Text Images MP3s more © 2009 Acquia, Inc.

5. Drupal Basics: Content Types Define the data components within a node Fields, images, integers, date, reference, etc Configurable out of the box Unlimited flexibility No programming required © 2009 Acquia, Inc.

6. © 2009 Acquia, Inc. Drupal Basics: Modules Plugins that extend Drupal functionality More than 4,000 community modules available Often controlled by role-based permissions

7. © 2009 Acquia, Inc. Drupal Basics: Views Controls content display Nodes, comments, users, taxonomy, and more Smart query builder for lists of information Table, grid, list, custom Sorting, filtering Define relationships Create pages, blocks and RSS feeds

8. © 2009 Acquia, Inc. Drupal Basics: Profiles Connect users and assign roles Configure information capture Build social networks OpenID support

9. © 2009 Acquia, Inc. Drupal Basics: Security, Roles & Permissions Define custom roles Set granular access controls by role Task / object-based Configure user behavior: Registration Email Profiles Pictures

10. © 2009 Acquia, Inc. Drupal Basics: Themes Content presentation layer Separate from data Defines how content is displayed Flexible, customizable Components include CSS files & PHP files with HTML Can be displayed by user role Supports sub-themes

11. Drupal Basics: Multisite Configuration Share modules and themes across many sites site1.com site2.com site3.com Simplify site rollout with reusable site components Turn on/off modules and themes at site level

12. Drupal Basics: Availability Architecture Load Balancer1 Load Balancer2 Web1 Web2 Web3 DB Master DB Master Load balancers for higher availability & hardware efficiency Multiple web servers increase page serving capacity, memory sharing Master/master or master/slave DB configuration for high availability © 2009 Acquia, Inc.

13. Acquia is Your Drupal Guide What modules should we install? Where do we get professional support? How do we keep our site up-to-date? ...Where do we start?

14. Acquia, the Drupal Support Company Enterprise & Drupal expertise Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder Many leading community contributors in engineering, support, and consulting Executive experience @ IBM, webMethods, Broadvision, EMC, HP, Baan, Documentum, Interleaf, Mercury 40 employees $15M in capital Closed $8M Series B in Q2 09

15. Supporting Customers, Not Modules Full Drupal 6.x support All modules, themes, & custom code

16. Packaged Collection of Drupal Essentials On-ramp to Drupal Essential modules Create new sites fast FREE

17. Operate and Extend Drupal Sites

18. Unlocking Content with Acquia Search Built on Apache Solr Faceted navigation Content recommendations No server infrastructure

21. 300 millisecond page load speedQuery result time: 1.5 - 7.7 seconds Query result time: < 500 milliseconds Performance gain with Acquia Search 3x - 16x faster

22. Drupal Optimized Cloud-based Hosting High availability shared clusters Tuned for high performance Integrated with developer workflows

23. one-stop shopDrupal hosting + application support

24. Drupal + Acquia = Customer Success The Drupal Advantage Rapid assembly approach reduces custom programming Modular, extensible architecture optimized for social publishing Thriving development community Vast module library Zero software acquisition cost Industry standard LAMP stack Strong security track record The Acquia Advantage Full lifecycle technical support Best practices advisory support Drupal essentials, conveniently packaged Fitness & diagnostics via the Acquia Network Optimized Drupal hosting Extend sites with cloud-based services Confidence from an enterprise partner

25. Benefits Accomplish more with less Harness community-driven innovation Reduce costs with turnkey infrastructure Engage your audience