Cloud-based provider Acquia, has been selected as the web hosting provider for the University’s implementation of the Drupal web content management system (CMS).
Founded by the original creator and project lead of the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform, Acquia contributes to the advancement of the core technology and offers products, services and technical support to simplify the deployment and management of Drupal websites. Learn more about Acquia’s background at http://acquia.com/about-us.
Acquia will partner with Drupal developers, Palantir, to provide the University with the appropriate products, services, and technical support for the University’s Drupal implementation.
Other project updates:
The University implementation team is working with Palantir to develop user stories, as well as a strategy to migrate existing sites from UMContent to Drupal.
Drupal pilot availability is expected by this November
UMContent is expected to be decommissioned by approximately November 2014
Learn more about the project at http://www.oit.umn.edu/drupal, or join the CMS Google Group at http://z.umn.edu/cmsinitiative.
On behalf of the University web content management team,
John Starr - Business Analyst
Steve Nguyen - Service Owner, Collaboration & Web Content Services