People want intranets that are fun and easy to use, full of compelling content relevant to their job, and enabled with social and community features to help them discover connections with other teams, projects, and colleagues. IT wants something that’s lightweight and flexible enough to respond to the needs of the business that won’t cost a fortune.

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.

Alfresco makes a great compliment to Drupal because it brings robust robust ECM (Enterprise Content Management),  DM (Document Management) and workflow capabilities to the table. With the the emergence of the CMIS standard we now have the glue to put these two greate applications together in a very flexible way. As a result, Optaros, with help from Acquia and Alfresco, has created a CMIS Drupal module and Alfresco implementation of the API that is now in use by several enterprise businesses, including Activision.

On November 12, Optaros’ Jeff Potts and Chris Fuller, in conjunction with Acquia, 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 register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/612744906 and join us to learn more about using these great technologies to build a better intranet.