DrupalCon London 2011 - business

DrupalCon London Presents: Drupal Business Day

ikos — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:10:53 +0000

DrupalCon Chicago had a very successful Business Day during the conference in March. The idea was to provide business owners and those expressing an early interest in Drupal an opportunity to come and find out what it was all about and meet some of the community.

For DrupalCon London, we are extending this concept with a full Drupal Evaluators' Day hosted at the Grange St. Paul's Hotel in London on the Monday of DrupalCon week (22nd August). The day is aimed at "switchers" or anyone in a decision making position considering Drupal on their shortlist.

Why Drupal Projects Fail: Breaking Down Barriers to Successful Drupal Adoption

cpliakas — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:48:03 +0000

Chris Pliakas

Drupal is a flexible, feature rich web application platform that many thriving companies leverage as their cornerstone technology. Why, then, do some companies fail horribly when adopting Drupal? Are you having trouble meeting deadlines? Are your developers pounding their keyboards claiming that Drupal is garbage? Are your project managers running for the hills? If so, this session will identify common barriers that companies experience when first adopting Drupal and provide solutions on how to overcome them.

Intended Audience:

This presentation is intended for business owners, project managers, technical leads / architects, and sales managers. There will be little technical discussion other than high level concepts, as most of the reasons why Drupal projects fail have little to do with the low level technology.

Questions answered by this session:

Why are my Drupal projects failing when so many other organizations are having success?

What are the common barriers that other companies are experiencing?

How have other organizations broken through those barriers?

How can I set my project up for success?

What can I do to set my development / design up for success with Drupal?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 17:00 - 18:00

Room:

Ashcroft Theatre

Slides:

why-drupal-projects-fail.pdf

Drupal Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances

segments — Sun, 15 May 2011 06:07:52 +0000

Ivo Radulovski

Robert Douglass

PLAIS

Karen Borchert

Drupal is a growing and maturing industry. The typical Drupal business is no longer just a small sole proprietor, trying to make ends meet. There is now a wide range of businesses working with Drupal, from well established large integrators, to well funded venture-backed startups seeking to revolutionize the way websites are built. Mergers and acquisitions in such a landscape are to be expected, and recent history shows that consolidation is already happening.

Intended Audience:

The intended audience for this session are Drupal shops (small & big ones), business leaders, Drupal experts, project owners, business evaluators, strategy planners, business consultants, & Drupal start-up companies

Questions answered by this session:

Which successful examples exist and what are the motives behind Drupal Mergers & Acquisitions?

How can I profit from a Merger, Acquisition or Acq-Hire?

How Drupal companies benefit from economies of scale?

How to create synergy through mergers/acquisition or alliances that makes the value of the combined companies greater than the sum of the two parts?

When is the right time to merge, acquire or form an alliance?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 14:15 - 15:15

Room:

Fairfield Room

Aegir-Based Business Models

ergonlogic — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:43:42 +0000

Christopher Gervais

Aegir is a distributed provisioning system for Drupal that allows you to manage thousands of sites across as many concurrent instances of Drupal on as many servers as you need. At Koumbit Networks, a lead development shop behind the Aegir project, we are developing or already have in place several distinct business models, largely enabled by our Aegir infrastructure and expertise.

Intended Audience:

Anyone building a business on Drupal: Freelancers, Business owners, Drupal developers, site builders, system administrators

Questions answered by this session:

What is Aegir, and how can it ease my dev/test/staging/prod workflow?

What is SaaS, and how does it allow me to leverage my existing Drupal portfolio?

What is IaaS, and how do Aegir .deb's make it possible?

What is PaaS, and what interesting reseller opportunities might it open up?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 13:00 - 14:00

Room:

Fairfield Room

Slides:

DrupalCon London 2011 -- Aegir Based Business Models.pdf