subject: Scaling Microsites With Enterprise Drupal Gardens [print this page] An Enterprise drupal garden provides web hosting, development, and security enabling customers to create websites using a web browser. It offers benefits similar to software-as-a-service (SaaS) model but deployed on Enterprise CMS, the open source drupal content management system, which offers flexibility to customers who are used to SaaS system. The new OpenSaaS platform makes installation of software, and managing servers redundant, and allows the freedom to export the open source Drupal sites at any time for website owners.
Warner Music Group has adopted the enterprise drupal Gardens customizing the platform according to WMG's business requirements. Other artists' sites which have incorporated the platform include Cody Simpson, T.I., B.o.B, Portugal. The Man, Stevie Nicks, Iron & Wine, Surfer Blood, JaneDear girls and Gloriana. Drupal websites to soon follow the bandwagon includes Jason Derulo, Waka Flocka Flame, Shinedown, Paramore, Wiz Khalifa and Trey Songz. The artists will be offered the best service aimed to improve their popularity, career growth and commercial success for the long term. The strategy of the artists is to produce high quality and get socially connected with their fan following. Acquia and Drupal are simply driving innovation, efficiency and expertise to achieve this mission.
OpenSaaS and enterprise drupal gardens have come together to provide low cost means to build out of the box web experiences and proved to be a game changer. If you choose open source or Saas, it involves huge investments, expensive migrations or switching partners. Open source involves installation, configuration, customization, hosting, scaling, security, enhancements, and upgrades.
WMG example shows how you can reduce enterprise CMS costs, risks and hassles with Drupal apart from providing the leeway to create amazing websites with unfettered access. There are over 100,000 websites developed on drupal gardens platform. Soon Acquia will design enterprise mobile solutions in the Drupal platform with tools like Analytics, video, marketing and more. With Acquias Enterprise Drupal Gardens you can build content-rich, social and business websites. Enterprise Drupal Gardens offers the following benefits including:
Powerful Drupal CMS capabilities - Create dynamic content mashups, photo and video galleries, custom content, forms and surveys, and social web experiences.
WYSIWYG tools: Simple tools aimed to style pages and theme designing along with tools that provide complete history of CSS changes.
Social logins: Log-in to drupal sites via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social networks.
Multimedia: Add video, images, RSS items and article previews from over 200 sources, by just pasting a URL.
Dashboard: Access websites from a single dashboard powered by analytics tool.
Templates: Use guidelines including information architecture, page layout, content types, navigation, roles and permissions.
Duplicate a site: Create a new site from a pre-defined template, or duplicate an existing site, with a single click.
Third party Integration: Include Javascript libraries or connect and share data with third party data and analytics systems.
