1. 1 Xykon March 2 nd, 2010 Drupal + CiviCRM

2. 2 Who We Are… Application Development Server implementations Consulting Bangalore, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC 8(a)certifed firm

3. 3 We Communicate… Scheduled updates Know when you’ll hear from us. Frequent deliverables/milestones Know that the project is on schedule. Plain speak Know what we’re talking about. So that you know what we are doing. How We Work…

4. 4 We listen and understand Company vision Short-term goals Business processes Time constraints Technical and financial resources, AND Your Preferences – after all this is for you. To craft the optimal solution for you. How We Work…

5. 5 What We Do… Consulting and Application Development Web Application Development Custom Software Application Development Linux Server Consulting

6. 6 Linux-based networking and security solutions SMS Application Development/Consulting Single Sign-On Service Oriented Architecture Hosting and Support Solutions What We Do…

7. 7 Expertise Programming Expertise: –Visual Basic (VBA for Exchange and Access) –J2EE (Sun SSO/Portal, Liferay) –PHP

8. 8 Web Development Document Management Systems Intranets, Brochure Sites and Portals Customer Relationship Management tools Online community sites

9. 9 Web Development Technologies –Drupal, CiviCRM, SugarCRM, CiviNode –Joomla Methodologies: –Unique to Customer Traditional Approach POC Hybrid –Heavy focus on Usablity

10. 10 What is Drupal? CMS: Create dynamic websites and web applications instead of using individual hand-crafted files for each web page. –Discussion Forums –Advanced Search –Social Networking –Content Tagging –Donations –CRM Integration –User Profiles –Blogs –Image galleries –Forms –Multimedia –Document Management

11. 11 Why Drupal? Features –SEO-friendly –Advanced URL Control (pathauto, global redirect) –Custom Content Types and Views (no programming) –Revision Control –Taxonomy (combine with content types and views) –User Management (access roles, groups) –Page titles and Meta tags –Community: ( documentation, training, feedback, security)

12. 12 Drupal Sites The United Nations Warner Brothers Records The Discovery Channel Forbes The Grateful Dead AOL Yahoo Lime.com The New York Observer The Onion Aaron Wall's SEObook.com World Bank

13. 13 Traditional approach: GMT www.greenmediatoolshed.org Provides media (newsletters, reports, artwork, training) consulting for non profits Complex website which includes ‘create your own website’ functionality, integration with external applications like’ Vocus media library’ and ‘Mantis bug tracker’ among others

14. 14 Traditional approach: iKnow www.iknowpolitics.org One of our highest traffic websites Multilingual Thousands of subscribers to taxonomies and groups Vast resource library Globalaudience

15. 15 Traditional approach: Rethinkmedia www.rethinkmedia.org Intranet section integrates with Sharepoint Fully integrated with Salesforce Fully integrated with ConstantContact

16. 16 Traditional approach : NDI www.ndi.org Simple, but powerful site Makes extensive use of ‘nodes’ Integrates with CiviCRM

17. 17 Proof of Concept approach: Red Partidos www.redpartidos.org Site developed using basic high level requirements Several LAC countries participated Iterative development of new features

18. 18 Hybrid approach: CHF NPEC Flexible page display Searchable PDF library Menu based approach