Welcome!

Hi, I'm Robert Douglass, Senior Drupal Advisor at Acquia, and I'm speaking at the Digital Marketing First 09 conference in Brussels on October 22, 2009. This is my Drupal-powered microsite. It demonstrates how useful Drupal can be for reaching targeted audiences.

Visit the business directory that lists the companies on the trade show floor.

Read the case studies of how this site was built:

Acquia Removes the Complexity and Cost of Drupal Site Maintenance

Remote Update and Maintenance Service Ensures Security and Peace of Mind

Andover, MA – September 9, 2009-- Acquia, the enterprise guide to social publishing, today announced the availability of Remote Administration services for enterprise customers. Providing a single contact point for expert Drupal support and application administration, this latest addition to the Acquia Network allows businesses to outsource routine updates and maintenance on their Drupal servers and focus their Web development resources on high priority, business-oriented projects.

Acquia Search - Faceted Search for the Enterprise

Search is important. The content on your site remains hidden unless people have a way to find it. Acquia offers Drupal sites enterprise-grade search as a hosted SaaS (Software as a Service) solution. You can test the faceted search on this site to see it in action.

The features available include:

Beyond Social Business Software: The Social Publishing Platform with Open Source Drupal

Woburn, MA – October 30, 2009 – One of the most hotly debated questions among marketers and company executives is “What does it mean to be a social business?”Today Acquia, Inc., the enterprise guide to the Drupal social publishing system provides the answer and also reveals what Social Business Software vendors aren’t telling you: your investment in Social Business Software is at risk because it is only a one-sided approach to social business. Social publishing is the technology platform for true social businesses.

Brightcove Seeks Alternative to Traditional Content Management; Turns to Acquia to Support Drupal Build

Leading Online Video Platform Leverages Drupal to Power Corporate Site

Woburn, MA – September 14, 2009-- Acquia, the enterprise guide to the Drupal social publishing system, today announced that leading online video platform, Brightcove, has selected Drupal as its content management solution of choice and is working with Acquia for complete support of the firm’s many Drupal Web properties. Brightcove is leveraging Acquia Drupal, a packaged collection of Drupal essentials, to rollout websites quickly and cost effectively to engage with its community.

Drupal Positioned as a “Visionary” in Leading Analyst Firm’s 2009 Social Software in the Workplace Magic Quadrant

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Woburn, MA, Oct. 29, 2009 – Acquia, the enterprise guide to social publishing, today announced that Drupal has been placed by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries Quadrant of its 2009 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.(1)

ICanLocalize.com - translation services for Drupal

Publishing to the web in many languages is hard work. ICanLocalize.com and Drupal make it much easier, however, by connecting you with an international pool of professional translators, and letting you manage the translation workflow from directly within your Drupal site.

Here's how it works:

  1. Write content.
  2. Choose the target languages for translation.
  3. Translators of your choice get to work translating, using optimized tools provided by ICanLocalize.com so that efficiency remains hign and costs remain low.

Open Calais from Thomson Reuters

The Calais Collection is an integration of the Thomson Reuters' Calais web service into the Drupal platform. The Calais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes your document and finds the entities within it. But, Calais goes well beyond classic entity identification and returns the facts and events hidden within your text as well.