Drupal for Business

Usually People are not sure of using Drupal for Enterprise....Should They be or Should They be not? This is a very usual question that strikes corporates while making the decision.
In our session, we will show how Drupal is Enterprise ready and its integration with existing systems like MSCRM would add social features and interaction between users.
Drupal has :-
* Modular Architecture
* Community Support
* Rapid Business Sector Support
* No Vendor Lock-in
* Scalability

What is open source? A religion? A Communist conspiracy? A childish fantasy? Nay!

Open source has been around for centuries … in science, in law, in farming. But now it has hit business and a revolution is happening. Liberty is on the rise — not because of changes in government, but rather because of changes in the commons.

Most people think of famine, war, disease, hopelessness and big bucketloads of sand when Africa is mentioned. That's a shame really because Africa is, in many respects, a continent on the move.

This talk will take us through a number of often cited problems which we really see as opportunities where Drupal can (and often already does) play a big remedying role: lack of formal education, illiteracy, unconnected rural regions, the Aid Industry Gone Wild (TM) and lack of transparency in governments and organizations. To name but a few.

First, a base definition and discussion will be had about the differences between an install profile for internal / multi-site use and a full blown Drupal distribution, and the shades of grey in between.

Then we'll dive into the business reasons and opportunities around building a Drupal product.

• Branding & marketing
• "Drupal inside" - the benefits of building on Drupal
• Product as loss leader
• Hosting?
• Revenue streams!

Enterprise knowledge management has been the focus of many software
products in the last decade. However most of these products have
proven to fail on capturing everyone's inputs and on customizing the
information in order to meet people's constant requirements.

Drupal allows users with different roles to create rich contents
with defined properties. These contents give shape to a big infomation
cloud, in which users can categorize them using either the organization's language
(taxonomy) or their personal one (tags). This categorization

Mid 2009, France Télévisions, the French public national television group, decided to switch to a new CMS that would be able to suit all their internet content publishing needs.

Since France Télévisions hosts more than 1000 sites, it was impossible to migrate all the sites at once. That's why a pilot site was chosen : the sports news site sport.francetv.fr. Of course, the CMS also had to be able to handle the others sites that would be migrated later.

What we want to tell you is the story of this successful Drupal project .

We will cover the following topics :

As more of our lives move online, a struggle is being waged behind the scenes over who owns our digital identity, our community and the digital trail we leave behind. From our medical records, to search history, from Facebook, to Google Streetview, web firms now hold tremendous amounts of data of varying value about their users and the public at large. What are the responsibilities of these entities in handling this data?

Over the past two years the Drupal user base has grown to include large corporations. This talk presents experiences learnt from various projects introducing Drupal and Open Source Technologies into corporations with pre-existing environments. This discussion will be aimed at:

Christian Edwertz (business developer) and Odd Råberg (web editor) at the daily newspaper Värmlands Folkblad (VF) will tell you why they moved their on-line edition - VF.se - from the .NET based EPiServer to the Drupal based NodeStream. You will also see NodeStream demonstrated; and how seamless it can be integrated with a third-party editorial system.

Why VF.se chose NodeStream/Drupal

In recent years media related organisations have expressed strong interest in Drupal. This session aims to encourage more media organisations switch to Drupal. From pure player to dead tree press, not forgetting Radio and TV more and more media are choosing Drupal, Why?

This non-technical session is designed primarily for people working in the media industry to help visualise using Drupal for their business model, it will be of interest to both internal dev teams and independent Drupal shops in this domain.

Why has Drupal gained such momentum in the publishing and media world?