Acquia Partner Series: Acquia Cloud

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Here are a few examples of some our projects across  industries that involve Acquia Cloud.

Many are unnamed, as these projects have Master Service Agreements with different agency partners and affiliates. 

Cloud for large universities, nonprofits, and big pharma. 

As an example, regarding SUNY Maritime, with their legacy site on older technology, their site management posed some challenges. Content management wasn’t easy via the original .NET admin user interface. The site also wasn’t responsive, and their target audience, students, was a primarily mobile-focused demographic.

Using Drupal and Acquia Cloud and the simplified, fine-grained development workflow these offer, Axelerant moved their entire website architecture upward. This allowed them to benefit from regular Drupal updates provided by Acquia Cloud. This also provided a Solr integration which was really quick and easy to work with.

Collaboration on government-level projects.

We’ve had the opportunity to work with an independent agency offering advice regarding food-related risks cross-continental. The previous version of their website was built in non-Drupal technology. As they were migrating to Drupal, Acquia Cloud was the obvious choice. Axelerant moved the entire Drupal setup and website architecture to Acquia Cloud. 

Over 30 engagements with Acquia's team.

This product helps to provide good Drupal hosting services, with high availability and excellent uptime. Acquia Cloud also offers high security, a support team, as well as good site monitoring services and tools. As the platform is up-to-date with the latest technology stack, clients don’t have to worry about any outdated versions of PHP or any other non-supported technologies.

Axelerant has a five-plus year history of working with Acquia—on leading projects, working alongside Acquia customers, and improving Acquia products. Our solutions for agencies, domain expertise, global delivery model, and extensive work with Acquia places us in a unique position to leverage their products towards servicing partners. We extensively use Build and Launch Tool (BLT) with an effectiveness that accelerates, but beyond tools and skillsets our values and our work culture fosters symbiotic growth.

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The Challenge

There were two core challenges that needed to be resolved:

  1. Poor Navigation & Visual Hierarchy
    2. The poor navigation and visual hierarchy of the website pages and landing pages made content navigation a challenge for contributors and end-users. The content was tagged with an ever-expanding hierarchy with no streamlined process.
  2. Centralized Publishing

The system lacked decentralized publishing capabilities. Content publishing and management in six official UN languages—English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese—were a challenge due to a lack of templates and content components. A large number of volunteers were using the same account to publish. This made content management complicated.

  • Discovery

Discovery

Extensive joint discovery sessions ensured we had a shared understanding of the requirements to start designing and implementing the solution with Drupal. Together with Blue State, we participated in detailed sessions on content strategy, information architecture, and taxonomy. Six weeks of discovery sessions were held to understand content complexities.

This discovery became the foundation for the migration strategy, the technical requirements, and integrations, followed by feature prioritization.

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