Digital in Higher Education

A Drupal Perspective

March 2015

Agenda

→ Introductions

→ Digital in Higher Education: Recent Trends and Best Practices

→ Digital at Stanford: A Discussion

→ Additional Examples from Around the Industry

→ Some New Things to Think About

→ Q&A

Presenters

Chris Hartigan

VP Higher Education

Acquia

Zach Chandler

Technology Strategist

Stanford

A few words: Acquia is The Digital Experience Company

→ 3800+ customers

→ 600+ employees

→ Privately held, backed by New Enterprise

Associates (NEA), North Bridge Venture Partners,

Sigma Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Amazon.com

→ Canada:

→Employees: 3 (FY14) 21 (FY15)

→R&D Lab / Sales / Marketing

→Key customers: Empire Life / ADM / Bombardier /

Ottawa / D+H / Enercare

Partners

Customers

Awards

Acquia customer DNA

Traditional Information Technology

Siloed teams with different solutions

delivering disjointed experiences

Disciplined (slow) processes for

building and deploying digital experiences

Proprietary solutions whose technology

evolves too slow

On-premise infrastructure with rigid &

costly capital expenses

New Business Technology

Integrated teams with a shared solution

delivering unified experiences

Agile (fast) process for building and

deploying digital experiences

Open Source solutions that evolve at the

speed of the web

Cloud-based infrastructure with flexible

and lower cost operational expenses

How has your institution’s attitude towards digital

changed in recent years?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

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How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Open Source is:

→ Scalable / Extensible?

→ Secure?

→ Accessible?

→ Interoperable?

→ Affordable?

→ Supportable?

Open Source Driving Best Practices

EDU Websites Need to be:

→ Scalable / Extensible?

→ Secure?

→ Accessible?

→ Interoperable?

→ Affordable?

→ Supportable?

Open Source Driving Best Practices

Open Source Drupal is:

→ Scalable / Extensible?

→ Secure?

→ Accessible?

→ Interoperable?

→ Affordable?

→ Supportable?

Open Source Driving Best Practices

Drupal is:

→ Scalable / Extensible?

→ Secure?

→ Accessible?

→ Interoperable?

→ Affordable?

→ Supportable?

The Emergence of Shared Web Services, For Real

Shared Web Services

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Finally Able to Solve This Problem

A = Faculty / Student?

B = Department /

College?

C = Flagship /

Admissions?

D = Athletics? Events?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Very Strategic!

Digital at Stanford: A Discussion

Zach Chandler

Technology Strategist

Stanford

Digital at Stanford: A Discussion

Some Other Examples

Many Different Flavors

~50 >4,000

How Many Sites?

$0 ~$500

Chargeback?

Days Months

SLA?

Cloud Cloud

Delivery?

Digital in Higher Education: A New Appreciation?

199x 2000 2008 2015

How Strategic is

the Web in

EDU?

Some Other Things to Think About?

Some Other Things to Think About?

→ Design?

Some Other Things to Think About?

→ Virtual

Tour?

Some Other Things to Think About?

→ Personalizatio

n

Thank You!

Questions?

Digital in Higher Education

A Drupal Perspective

March 2015