This group provides an area to share information about Drupal in the enterprise. Areas for discussion might include the integration of Drupal with traditional enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM; the use of Drupal as an enterprise web content framework; Drupal's place within the enterprise architecture; or even the use of Drupal as an enterprise architecture tool.
Other Drupal groups of interest to the enterprise include High Performance and Best Practices in Security.
Drupal process meetup Amsterdam
January 27-28-29 I'm organizing a follow up of the Drupal CXO days in Amsterdam. The event will again be sponsored by Microsoft (special thanks go to Michaela Kraft who organized the venue and the budget for the meetup).
This meetup aims to facilitate peer-to-peer learning about business processes between leadership of Drupal shops. What are the best practices? What kind of processes do you need? How do you grow from a entrepreneur centered culture to a process driven culture?
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VoIP Drupal Beta 5 is out! Now with "deep SMS integration"!
Hello all,
We are happy to announce the release of VoIP Drupal Beta 5!
The main goal of this release is to extend VoIP Drupal's SMS capabilities by
a) integrating VoIP Drupal with Drupal's SMS Framework and, with that, compensate for the lack SMS support provided by major VoIP services (such as Tropo or Twilio) outside of the North American market;
b) providing ways for users to carry conversations over SMS (or any other text-based network such as IM, email, Twitter, etc.);
c) enabling the creation of calls that combine text and voice channels in some very interesting ways.
Master - Slave Solution
Hi,
Please bear with me if i am creating this question in the wrong place i am new to Drupal groups.
I manage an enterprise solution for 4 drupal sites very high transactional and with high traffic.
i use pressflow on 6 web servers with memcached and a master slave replication, they seem to be fine but i want to reduce the load on the master so i want to make 2 slave part of the solution, since i am using pressflow with supports master-slave replication solution.
Inactive IBM group - to be merged
This IBM group appears to be inactive. It will be merged with http://groups.drupal.org/enterprise in one week unless there is a good reason not to.
Read more1st release of the VoIP Drupal platform!
Hello all,
It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the first release of the VoIP Drupal platform: http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal!
VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites.
VoIP Drupal can be used to build hybrid applications that combine regular touchtone phones, web, SMS, Twitter, IM and other communication tools in a variety of ways, including:
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Multilingual D7 Session for DrupalCon Chicago 2011
Support for multilingual D7 is not ready yet, but it certainly be until DrupalCon Chicago in March. We're so committed to it that we proposed a session on about just that:
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/drupal-7-s-multilingual-system
Once you register to this DrupalCon (which I'm sure you're going to), remember to check out this session proposal and vote for it.
It's going to be fun.
You'll be hearing about how Drupal manages translations, how to build a multilingual theme and how to get existing translations for Drupal core and contributed modules.
Until the session, you can view the status in our multilingual D7 progress page.
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Ingres
I just wanted to make everyone aware that Drupal on Ingres is maturing. I did some testing with it and worked with some folks at Ingres to move the yardsticks a bit. My experience with it is documented here:
http://community.ingres.com/forum/php/12353-drupal-ingres-10-0-a.html
http://community.ingres.com/forum/php/12361-drupal-client-ingres-db-serv...
http://community.ingres.com/forum/php/12599-maintaining-own-drupal-proje...
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A beginner's guide to using Hudson for continuous integration with Drupal
Shameless plug, I just wrote up a beginner's guide to getting Hudson up and running for continuous integration. Huge shout out to Steve Merrill. Couldn't have figured any of this out without following his work.
http://thinkshout.com/blog/2010/09/sean/beginners-guide-using-hudson-con...
Love to get some feedback. Please consider retweeting if helpful:
http://twitter.com/#!/sean_larkin/status/25914260515
Excited to spread the word about continuous integration!!
Sean Larkin
ThinkShout.com
http://twitter.com/sean_larkin
Translation Management Module
We've just released the first (working) version of the Translation Management module.
The purpose of this module is to create a systematic process for translating large Drupal sites.
Highlights
- Dedicated Translator Role - translators have language pairs and can translate only in them.
- One Translation Dashboard page - shows everything that needs translation including nodes, blocks, CCK, strings and what-have-you.
- Translation Jobs Queue for translators - each translator sees the jobs waiting for him/her.
- Unified Translation Editor - no matter what you're translating, you're always doing it from the same page.
Who is Translating?
Right now, translators can be Drupal users. You can give Translator privileges to existing users or create new users for translators.
In the very near future, we're also working on an API for interfacing to translation services. This API would be open and any translation service is invited to create a connector for itself.
The Module Itself
The module is now released and working. You can get it from:
http://drupal.org/project/translation_management
There's no official guide yet, but this blog post should be a good place to start:
http://drupal-translation.com/content/translation-management-alive
This kind of thing is an enabling feature for using Drupal on enterprise Drupal sites. Managing translation work can be a huge task and we hope that this helps.
Feedback? Ideas? Comments?
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Change the scope of this group?
I've made a couple of attempts at proposing an Enterprise Architecture group on GDO but the admins feel that since there's already this group called "Enterprise", that it would be a duplication of effort. My response to them was that the stated purpose of this group is expressly limited to the integration of Drupal with third party products. From my point of view, that really doesn't accommodate Enterprise Architecture, since EA is much, much broader and at a much higher level.
Wikipedia describes EA like this:
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Drupal Focus On Enterprise
MySQL and the UK Drupal community are pleased to invite you to a half day event in London focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in your business.
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Internal IBM Drupal Users Group
There is an internal IBM Drupal Users Group you may want to join -
http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/NVN
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Mercury 1.0 Released
It's been nine months and over a thousand developer hours, but it's finally here: Project Mercury has gone 1.0. Thanks to everyone for making this possible, and to my colleague Greg for doing so much leg-work over the past month to get things ready.
Help us spread the word on the twitter and if you're so inclined, take a short user survey. Install instructions below the fold.
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Leveraging Drupal for your business Drupalcon session submissions close tomorrow
Tomorrow is the last day to submit your session for the Leveraging Drupal for your business track!
We're looking for engaging presenters with deep experiences in leveraging Drupal for marketing and business. We'd like to see:
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ERP project
Just a quick note to let people know that the erp project is nearing the launch of beta3, and has had a huge amount of development in the last four months.
If you are interested, now is a good time to check it out. There are certainly rough edges, and things not implemented fully, but we are using it to run our business, so there is a lot in there, and we are improving and finalising things every day.
Expect beta3 early next week, but for now, grab the dev release to try it out.
Read moreNew Mercury Performance Metrics: Logged-in Users
While Mercury has previously demonstrated the raw power of Varnish to radically accelerate the delivery of cached pages with Pressflow, that's only part of the battle for high performance Drupal. Cached pages need to be generated at least once, and logged in users will be bypassing Varnish when making requests. While it's nice to know you're covered for massive traffic spikes, what about baseline load?
Well, we want to answer that question too. Keep in mind that depending on your module/theme stack, your mileage may vary. A lot. Performance tuning a complex Drupal site for logged-in traffic requires sustained diligence at the application level — code profiling, slow query log review, innovative app-specific caches, etc — as well as hardware and system optimization. However, to set some baseline expectations, we used Jacob Singh's greate starter test suite and checked out a Mercury install on a 512MB Slicehost VPS. The results are quite encouraging.
Read moreNew 0.51 Mercury AMIs: Many Fixes and 64bit!
I just wanted to post an announcement that we've finally gotten out a point-update of the Project Mercury AMI. Just in case you were wondering if this project would continue, it will! I've been really excited and encouraged by all the positive feedback so far, so keep your ideas and questions coming. The 0.51-Alpha release includes a number of bugfixes and improvements, most notably it:
- Is based on the latest Pressflow including Drupal Core 6.14 and Simpletest 2.9
- Fixes the self-update process to merge correctly and pull from Pressflow's lovely new VCS home on Launchpad
- Includes the rc1 version of cacherouter
- Fixes postfix and s3 metadata issues so there's now a working MTA out of the box
Most importantly for people considering this stack for production deployments, we're now bundling 64-bit images with every release. The quickest way to find the AMIs is to keyword search for "mercury" in your favorite EC2 console. More information and AMI ids are below the fold. Let me know what you think, and what you'd like to see next!
Read morePANTHEON/Mercury BoF Friday at DrupalCon Paris
Just a quick note: we're going to hold a BoF for people interested in Project Mercury (and other packages from PANTHEON) in Paris! It will be after lunch on Friday at 2:50.
Looking forward to talking to those of you who are here at DrupalCon.
Read moreCompanies using Drupal for business-critical functions?
Hi everyone,
My company is in the process of choosing a solution for replatforming our main site, which is going to be a pretty big project. We're using Drupal for a smaller, simpler publishing site, and Drupal is now on the table for the main site. Some of the other stakeholders have asked what I think is a perfectly valid question that I don't have a ready answer for, so I'm hoping some of you can help me with this one: Are there any medium- to large-sized businesses using Drupal for their main revenue-producing sites?
Read moreProject Mercury Benchmarks: 2000+ Requests Per Second!
While working through some issues this weekend and preparing another blog post, I finally got around to doing some comprehensive benchmarking on Project Mercury. In the process, I discovered that the first bottleneck I hit running tests from my desktop was the local (last-mile) internet connection, so I switched to running the tests from another EC2 instance. This means that network is not a factor in my results, giving us a real sense of the raw power behind this stack.
For all these tests, I used the Mercury Alpha4 release on a small ec2 instance, loading a staging copy of Mission Bicycles, which is a good "heavy" example in that it has a lot of modules loaded, including Ubercart and Panels. My goal was to measure throughput and response times under various caching configurations, angling for the best results in terms of pages served per second, and delivery time.
I started by cutting things all the way back to nothing, and then added each layer of the caching infrastructure, running benchmarks at each point. The results are quite eye-opening. Can you say 2000+ requests per second? Read on for the full story.
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