#acquia Commons The Open Alternative for Social Business Software Name Title Acquia Month XXth, 2011

Drupal Powers Thousands of Communities

Features Are Common Across Community Sites “Core features are now table stakes.” Melissa Parrish, Forrester. Nascar Drupal.org Intel UK Gov Symantec

Packaged into Rapid Deployment Package Nvidia Drupal.org Intel UK Gov Symantec Commons Site-building work can focus on your unique needs - not on the basics

Packaged Drupal Solutions Pre-configured, ready to use Designed for specific use cases Embedded best practices Open, fully customizable One-click install on Acquia Cloud platforms

What is Commons? Commons is the open alternative to social business software, enabling organizations to quickly build content-rich community web experiences Customer Engagement Employee Enablement Channel & Private External Communities Vertical Use Cases Benefits: 1) Faster Innovation 2) Greater Flexibility 3)Lower TCO Customer Engagement Employee Collaboration Channel & External Communities Vertical Use Cases

What Makes Commons Unique? Built by a global community, for communities Administrators - better manage users and groups Content Contributors - efficiently manage content and collaboration Members - create unique personalized experiences Community Managers - easily make changes and produce analytics Developers - innovate new social business processes

Administrators Can Create Custom Roles Administrator Anonymous Users Authenticated Users Roles Groups of like users Create PageEdit Page authors editors Permissions Operations allowed by role Views Determined by permissions My PostsAll Posts Unlimited custom roles, permissions & views

Contributors Get Flexibility of Drupal CMS No need for separate CMS & integration Preset, and configurable content types Self-organizing or managed groups Pre-defined content views Free tagging and pre-defined vocabularies

Members Can Create Personalized Experiences Personal & group dashboards Social bookmarking Curated content Subscriptions to content & discussions Users work the way they want with dashboards

Community Managers Track & Analyze Results Participation & engagement metrics New Users Content Comments Group joins Variable date ranges Complements Google Analytics

Developers Have Freedom to Innovate Extend Commons with 9k+ modules Open standards support: Document management Application integration User access & authentication

Operate & Extend Sites with Acquia Network Faceted search Content recommendations Automated spam protection Mobile interface design Performance monitoring

Develop A Winning Community Strategy Community assistance beyond technology Ensure success of community manager Develop content strategy and user adoption plans

Commons Purchase Options Social-as-a-Service Commons distribution - free Acquia Managed Cloud 24x7 Support & maintenance Server administration Advisory / Strategy services Run your own Community Commons distribution - free Acquia or third party hosting environment Acquia Network subscription Advisory / Strategy services A la carte services Community strategy Commons Jumpstart services Architecture workshops Developer and end user training

Commons Open Alternative for Social Business Software Deploy pre-configured, community sites quickly Foster self-organizing collaboration across diverse groups Create branded experiences that meet your business needs