1. When Higher Education Goes Digital Creating Compelling Website, E-learning and Social Experiences, Affordably

2. Staying Abreast of Changing Web Technologies IT: Maintaining existing infrastructure, delivering innovative digital experiences and managing content  Decentralized hosting  Legacy servers  Obsolete development tools  Tight budgets Risk due to outdated infrastructure Rising student, faculty and staff expectations 2

3. Staying Abreast of Changing Web Technologies Faculty, staff, students: Need engaging, interactive web, e-learning and social environments Reliant on IT to develop and maintain content Must remain innovative to attract students and supporters 3

4. Solution = Drupal + Acquia Create compelling web sites, e-learning and social experiences - affordably Deliver rich media content to web, social, and mobile channels Reduce operating costs Reduce IT workload Reduce risk Increase educational results Support students, staff, and faculty Build connections with off-campus supporters and sponsors 4

5. Solution = Drupal + Acquia 71 out of the top 100 universities use Drupal Drupal in Education spans all 50 states and the globe MIT, Oxford and every Ivy League School, uses Drupal 26% of all Education sites worldwide use Drupal, double the nearest competitor 5

6. Drupal Faculty and educational staff develop and maintain sites they want; IT provides centralized hosting and support Application development environment for assembling EDU solutions oriented around content and community Tailor content delivery to meet the objectives of informational campaigns  Content flows seamlessly across web, social, and mobile channels, on demand and as required Users begin with a rich set of content and community-enabled modules Worldwide Drupal community for sharing experiences and driving innovation Easy to retire legacy infrastructure and build next-generation solutions Readily integrate with other on-campus systems and applications 6

7. Acquia Expertly curated versions of Drupal for assembling educational applications, managing multiple web sites from a single source across a campus, building social sites, distributing mobile content, and deploying learning solutions Hosts Drupal environments for campus-wide deployments optimized for high performance and designed to adapt to highly variable network traffic, such as when students return to campus and are enrolling in classes Provides training, site planning and professional services essential for campuses to build their Drupal expertise  Technical expertise to help solve complex integration tasks, such as incorporating very large legacy databases into a Drupal-powered site  Supports campus developers with a hosted development environment, a range of developer tools, and a community-driven knowledge base School only pays for the systems and network resources it consumes 7

8. What Does This Mean for Users? Users easily develop and maintain engaging educational, social and e-learning sites  Deliver online courseware – combining video and audio tracks with lesson plans, lecture notes, and links to reading assignments and tests  Blend published information with user-generated content Maintain autonomy, control/manage content, and easily launch own sites within the context of the campus environment, eliminating reliance on IT assistance Raise awareness about academic, social, and scientific activities Forge deep connections with off-campus supporters and sponsors Cut costs  No software licensing fees  Only pay for IT services used Non-technical users can get out of the hardware and infrastructure support business 8

9. What Does This Mean for IT? Modernize web infrastructure Efficiently support multiple educational activities and web sites of faculty and staff Cut costs, risk and workload while increasing productivity Ensure consistent look and feel for university web sites Share design, best practices, code snippets, and functional modules through the open source community 9

10. Modernizing Campus Web Infrastructure Drupal provides flexibility and extensibility Engaging sites and educational experiences  Content- and community-centric  Incorporate structured and unstructured data sources  Blend published information with user-generated content Reduce time, effort spent on application development  Users begin with rich set of modules  Quickly assemble applications from building blocks  Extend modules for additional functionality or develop new modules for new functionality Global Drupal community for sharing experiences, driving innovation; reach out to colleagues at other institutions for help  16,000 active developers and nearly 800,000 users 10

11. Modernizing Campus Web Infrastructure 11 University of Colorado, Boulder Challenges:  Operating decentralized environment with 600+ servers  Producing static content with outdated tools  Storing information in discrete databases  No way to deliver web, mobile, social experiences Results:  Centralized IT  Single, campus-wide CMS  Delivers engaging, current web experiences and new educational activities  Consistent look and feel for campus sites  Information architecture for categorizing content into well-recognized categories  Migrating legacy content into single infrastructure

12. Multiple Faculty, Research, Student and Administrative Sites Drupal enables numerous sites from common core  Self-service options to quickly, easily create/maintain their own customized sites  Eliminates reliance on IT Reduce investments, staffing and costs; only pay for IT resources used Acquia training and technical expertise, including  Supporting existing single sign-on services  Integrating Drupal with federated ID and authentication services  Encapsulating legacy databases within Drupal site 12

13. Multiple Faculty, Research, Student and Administrative Sites 13 Bentley University Challenges:  Manual approach to publishing workflow  Difficult and expensive to retain developers  Static, inflexible functionality  Slow performance and lower content visibility  CMS product no longer supported Results:  Consolidate and centrally manage content; content unique to respective areas and shared across subdomains easily and dynamically  Reduced resource demands  Migration direct and reliable  Search and page load performance improved  Content created more easily and frequently  Information is more accessible  Cut costs

14. Create and Maintain Social Sites and E-Learning Environments Drupal offers social networking and community-building modules Users design sites by choosing from modules or distributions of packaged modules Enables structured learning with rich media content 14

15. Create and Maintain Social Sites and E-Learning Environments 15 Penn State (ELMS) Challenges:  Extend web from passive online resource into active, engaging learning environment  Support teaching across campus Results:  Drupal ELMS, blending rich media with text  Faculty manage course content and activities  Students collaborate; share projects  New capabilities added as requirements change Easily modify access controls to certain courses to benefit global student community (Open Educational Resources (OER))

16. Promote Web Experiences Proactively engage sponsors/funders Target content delivery to stakeholders  Tailor messages for email campaigns  Leverage social media  Syndicate content to web, social and mobile sites supporters visit Track results Manage relationships with key supporters 16

17. Next-Generation Digital Experiences Drupal: Flexible, open source platform enabling non-technical users to quickly and easily create and maintain compelling sites, affordably Acquia:  Enterprise-grade support, training, hosting, development ensuring success with Drupal  Drupal Solutions engage student, staff, faculty across web and best serve constituencies/stakeholder s Acquia Drupal: fast, easy web publishing Drupal Commons: building/hosting collaborative web sites Enterprise Drupal Gardens: creating/managing large numbers of web sites OpenScholar: creating turnkey faculty sites (developed at Harvard) Open Academy: creating departmental sites (developed at Stanford and U California, Berkley) ELMS: online learning and assignments Acquia Managed Cloud: hosting high-traffic sites requiring enterprise-level support; customers no longer maintain hardware, OS, etc. 17

18. Drupal in EDU: Australian National University Boston University Brown University California Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Chinese University of Hong Kong Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne École Normale Supérieure de Paris École Polytechnique de Paris Erasmus Universiteit Harvard University Heidelberg University Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Imperial College London Johns Hopkins University Katholieke Universiteit Leuven King’s College London Kyoto University 18 Mass Institute of Technology McGill University Monash University Nanyang Technological University National Taiwan University National University of Singapore New York University Northwestern University Penn State University Princeton University Purdue University Stanford University Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology Trinity College Dublin Tsinghua University University of Alberta University of Amsterdam University of British Columbia University of Alberta University of Amsterdam University of British Columbia University of California, Berkeley, LA, San Diego University of Cambridge University of Chicago University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Helsinki University of Illinois University of Melbourne University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of New South Wales University of North Carolina University of Oxford University of Pennsylvania University of Queensland University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of St. Andrews University of Sydney University of Texas University of Toronto University of Warwick University of Wisconsin University of Western Australia University of Wisconsin Uppsala University Washington University in St. Louis Yale University