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

The King Center presents precious history with help from Acquia and Palantir.net

Living memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. thrives on Drupal

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change was founded in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King as a living memorial and education center to continue the work of her husband.

Maxim gains business agility with Drupal re-platform, cost efficiency with Acquia Cloud

How a new CTO affected organizational transformation

When Michael Le Du joined Maxim as their Chief Technology Officer in spring of 2011, he realized their proprietary CMS was negatively impacting their online business. The website wasn’t modern, the design was clunky, and the CMS was inflexible.

BRIT Awards amplifies their Drupal website with Acquia Cloud

Acquia Cloud scales to meet 400% increase in site visitors

The BRIT Awards, organised by the British recorded music industry association (BPI), is the UK’s biggest Music Awards ceremony.

Appnovation Technologies, Acquia and Alfresco partner for Canopy

Acquia supplies a crucial piece of the open source puzzle

Founded in 2007 by Arnold Leung as a Drupal shop, Appnovation Technologies has grown into a comprehensive IT services company focusing on open source solutions. Responding to client demands, the company’s offerings include web, mobile and intranet development services.

National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society Moves to Drupal and the Acquia Cloud

The National Audubon Society is a more-than–a-century-old organization that connects people with birds, nature and the environment. The organization has a national network of community-based nature centers, nearly 500 local chapters, and scientific, education, and advocacy programs that engage millions of people in conservation action to protect and restore the natural world.

DJO Global and MJD Interactive further rehabilitation with Acquia Cloud

Acquia supports global web presence for intelligent medical devices firm.

When DJO Global, a billion dollar company providing intelligent medical devices and services, needed to update and streamline their web presence, they chose MJD Interactive as their digital agency of record. With an approach that includes in-depth analysis and an integrated partnering model, MJD Interactive was uniquely qualified to take on the enormous task.

Daimler creates an award-winning market research site with Commons

Drupal Commons speeds launch, while Acquia Cloud keeps it running

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.

Multnomah County discovers savings and usability with Drupal

Open-source Drupal proves a worthy replacement for proprietary software

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.

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

Acquia Cloud sustains crush of page views

The anxiously awaited website explodes with over 1.5 million assets being downloaded from the content distribution network alone.

Tietronix and NASA launch kids into fitness with help from Acquia

Acquia hosts international website to get kids motivated and moving

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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