Resources
Migrating a Web Site to Drupal
Drupal’s advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they fear loss of assets now managed by their current site’s platform, or expect the procedure to transfer those assets to be prohibitively difficult.
Security and Data Protection for Online Document Management
This paper explores security elements that you should consider as you investigate cloud-based document management.
Building Enterprise Social Communities with Open Source Drupal
This white paper provides a brief introduction about why social-style software is important to organizations, and why open source Drupal is the best enterprise social software solution. If, in addition to this, you ‘re looking for information on the cost and value of Social Publishing, please get and read Acquia’s white paper entitled “TCO for Open Source Social Publishing"
Optimizing Drupal Performance
This paper presents the results of performance benchmarks for comparing several common PHP runtime environments and configurations. The application used for benchmarking is Drupal, the open source social publishing platform. Tested runtime environments included plain PHP, Zend Server (www.zend.com/products/server), and opensource optimizers, such as APC and WinCache.
For the purpose of this benchmark, a simple Drupal-based website was set up and tested in various commonly
used Windows and Linux configurations.
The Open Government Directive: A Formula for Open Source
(Social Publishing + Document Management + Records
Management) x Open Source = Government 2.0
Web 2.0 Best Practices for ECM
This white paper explains the significance of Web 2.0 in the context of Enterprise Content Management and how it will change the face of business.
Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Content Management
Discover how to cut through the complexity of the ECM technology stack, avoid proprietary lock-ins and significantly reduce costs by using Open Source ECM software.
Records Management within a Governance, Retention and Compliance Strategy
Discover how an Open Source Records Management solution can help to ensure compliance with corporate Governance, Retention and Compliance procedures.
TCO for Open Source Social Publishing
More and more, Open Source presents not only a cost alternative, but an innovation alternative, to proprietary enterprise software products.
The Open Government Directive and Open Source Social Publishing
The explicit purpose of the OGD is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the directive will require significant website innovation for many departments and agencies. Many public sector sites today are based on legacy, static web technologies. What content is available is often out of date, and citizens have limited, if any, ability to interact.
Enterprises Need an Open Alternative to SharePoint
This white paper explores the key issues with SharePoint - such as vendor lock-in to a complete Microsoft stack, the burden and high cost of CALS, the high TCO due to the inability to reuse existing hardware, software and skills and how scalability is causing companies to seek more cost-effective and open alternatives.
Knowledge Tree Case Study: Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
As part of the UK National Health Service, Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust provides inpatient and residential services for a local population of nearly 300,000. In addition to an administrative headquarters, the Trust has 30 sites spread across the borough, including hospitals and clinics. The Trust employs approximately 1,200 staff, including
psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, support staff, family therapists and social workers.





