Case Studies
Learn firsthand how organizations are using Drupal and working with Acquia to power their social publishing websites.
Suncorp’s Bold Step into Open-source Content Management
Acquia helps a major financial services group make the move from proprietary systems to open source
Suncorp’s acquisition of the Promina Group in 2007 meant the financial services group had a range of brands to represent online, supported by a disparate range of systems and processes. Suncorp’s senior leadership quickly realised that to maximise efficiency and maintain site security and reliability, a new approach to control all their web properties and workflow was needed.
MTA successfully moves its emergency/weather website to the cloud
MTA increases functionality, resiliency, and service levels with Drupal, Acquia Cloud
Early in 2012, the MTA was facing a required upgrade of its website infrastructure. The increasing popularity of mta.info, its richer site content, and its growing importance to the MTA’s ability to communicate with customers meant that significant infrastructure investments were needed to keep pace during normal, every-day traffic—but more importantly to handle the three-fold increase in traffic during emergency and severe weather events. Not knowing what public transportation services were running during an event like Superstorm Sandy could put personal safety at risk, especially for citizens of the NY Metropolitan region who are dependent on public transportation.
Sapienza University of Rome Building a Collaborative Portal for Students and Faculty
Acquia, Cineca Partner in Developing Portal for Europe’s Largest University
Sapienza University of Rome is the oldest University in Rome and the largest in Europe, with more than 125,000 students, 4,000 professors, and nearly as many administrative and technical staff members. Having created its website using three different content management systems and with an extremely high number of uncoordinated sites, the University faced significant challenges in managing it effectively. Sapienza’s goal was to re-engineer its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) structure to become a highly efficient digital administration, supplying quality systems and services that could be used by a vast and heterogeneous user base.
Saïd Business School Connects Campus, Creates Online Communities
Collaborative development of an innovative online community to support learning, discovery, and problem solving
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford is dedicated to developing a new generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs. The School conducts research not only into the nature of business, but the connections between business and the wider world.
In 2013 the Financial Times ranked The School’s MBA 24th in the world. The School is ranked in the top 10 globally for student diversity, and its executive education programmes are ranked number 1 in the UK and 7th in the world.
VNU Vacature Media and Acquia relaunch online career site Intermediair.nl in record time
VNU builds entire platform, migrates content, and implements a new design in 10 weeks
Teach First Improving Education through Collaboration
Creating community and resource sharing among teachers
Teach First is an independent charity that is working to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment in the UK. Since 2002, Teach First has placed more than 2,520 teachers in schools facing challenging circumstances to work with students to raise their achievement, access, and aspirations.
Belgische website Gentse Feesten optimaal beschikbaar en sneller dan ooit
Acquia neemt Digipolis hosting-zorg uit handen
De Gentse Feesten zijn in hun 160-jarig bestaan uitgegroeid tot één van de grootste festivals van Europa. Tien dagen lang zijn er meer dan duizend evenementen te bezoeken, variërend van theatervoorstellingen en concerten tot markten en kinderprogramma’s.
KPN Corporate Market and Acquia deliver state-of-the-art cloud aggregation platform “Grip”
Acquia Network and Professional Services help KPN assure site performance and security
With the emergence of various cloud services, KPN identified the opportunity to add customer value, by acting as a cloud aggregator between the cloud service and the enterprise customers. This new service, known as Grip, makes the cloud organized and manageable for customers.
Humana and Digital Bungalow design a WEM campaign with Drupal
Drupal’s ability to integrate facilitates Web Experience Management
It was the kind of problem you want to have. The numbers were in on Humana’s long term lead generating campaign, and they were great. The question was, how to build on this success. With a company-wide rebrand in the works, Humana decided to lead with the campaign’s lifestyle website. The Humana sponsor called MarketBridge, their marketing agency managing the program, and asked for ideas.
Selventa promotes personalized healthcare with Drupal Gardens
Drupal Gardens enables easy website rebuild and maintenance
Asked to assist with the company’s aging website, William Hayes, Senior Vice President of Platform Development at Selventa, a biomarker discovery company, could see that drastic measures were in order. Because the site was built with a difficult custom CMS, no significant structural changes could be made without the original coders. The site needed to be completely rebuilt.