Drupal has been recognized for some time as a flexible platform for building lightweight social applications that go beyond “typical” consumer-facing websites, such as intranets for collaborative teams. There have been several projects over the past few years that have been aimed at making this type of Drupal deployment easier and more user-friendly, most notably, the recent Open Atrium release.

Traditionally the main limiting factor of a pure Drupal-based intranet has been a lack of solid integration with a robust ECM (Enterprise Content Management) or DM (Document Management) engine. While there have been a few Drupal projects to offer some integration with Alfresco, KnowledgeTree and a few others, the emergence of the CMIS standard offers the possibility to create a pluggable API for interacting with a variety of ECM systems. With this in mind, Optaros, with help from Alfresco and Acquia, has created a CMIS Drupal module and Alfresco implementation of the API that is now in use by several enterprise businesses.

On September 15, Optaros’ Jeff Potts and Chris Fuller will present a webinar on how using Drupal and Alfresco can solve many of the technical, interface and adoption challenges faced by organizations that want to improve their intranet experience. Please join us to learn more about using these great technologies to build a better intranet. For more information, see http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2009/09/drupal-alfresco-intranet-optaros/ or register for the webinar at http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/webinar_reg.