Case Studies

Learn firsthand how organizations are using Drupal and working with Acquia to power their social publishing websites.

Daimler creates an award-winning market research site for Mercedes-Benz with Commons

Daimler broke new ground to gain valuable insights into the needs and desires of one of its most important customer target groups, 20- to 45-year-old compact car drivers. With little precedent to rely on, Daimler decided that the best way to understand their target group was a social community website.

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Multnomah County discovers savings and usability with Drupal

In 2009, Multnomah County (Oregon) began a series of substantial upgrades to Vignette, the proprietary content-management system (CMS) that ran its websites. But problems with the upgrade and uncertainty about Vignette’s future led it to discover the flexibility and freedom of Drupal.

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JimmyPage.com

JimmyPage.com delivers “All things Jimmy Page” with Acquia Managed Cloud.

14 July 2011—JimmyPage.com Launches. The anxiously awaited website explodes with over 1.5 million assets being downloaded from the content distribution network alone.

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Tietronix and NASA

Tietronix and NASA launch kids into fitness with help from Acquia.

When the Education and Outreach division of the NASA Space Life Sciences Directorate at Johnson Space Center needed a website for a new pilot outreach program, they tapped long-time partner Stuart Engelhardt at Tietronix. Having built websites for this group for the last six years, Engelhardt had already researched and chosen Drupal as Tietronix’s content management system of the future.

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Blink Reaction partners with Acquia

Blink Reaction partners with Acquia to create exceptional Drupal websites

Case study on the company Blink Reaction and how it partnered with Acquia to maximize ability to create websites.

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ChrisRock.com and SuperStar Media deliver the laughs with Acquia Dev Cloud

When celebrity Chris Rock’s managers wanted to replace his old, Flash-based website, they turned to SuperStar Media to create a new, Drupal-based ChrisRock.com. The new site, which could better accommodate such crucial content as concert videos, was further strengthened by its deployment on Acquia Dev Cloud, a Drupal-optimized platform with multiple staging environments.

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Commons: Summary of case studies

Check out Acquia clients who are seeing results from the open alternative for social business software.

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Ipswich Ale Brewery - Case Study

How Ipswich Ale Brewery Reinvigorated its Online Presence with Acquia’s Easy to Use Drupal Gardens Software-as-a-Service

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IBM Global Services & Acquia deliver Drupal E-Commerce

Acquia is currently supporting an innovative utilities delivery company. The differentiating factor for this client is the utilization of technology to reduce operating costs, increase efficiency, and pass significant savings onto their customers. As a result, this Acquia customer is creating a new business model, where users can order heating oil and manage their account easily online, while saving money through fully optimized delivery.

Read this Case Study to learn how the client's 3 tier-solution of:

Drupal front end
custom middleware

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Sunshine State News

How Acquia and Blink Reaction Partnered to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Drupal Performance

Sunshine State News is an online media start-up with a unique approach to news. Combining the immediacy of rich media reporting with the relevancy of local reporting, Sunshine State News is playing a vital role in Florida’s news coverage of business and political events.

This case study examines Sunshine State News' migration to Drupal and highlights how Acquia Hosting was able to scale at the drop of a hat to accommodate 50,000 unexpected unique visitors in one day.

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