Digital transformation puts the customer at the center of everything. With the ability to increase innovation, scalability, and agility, digital transformation enhances customer experience and operational excellence. However, the implementation of these solutions can often stall due the inherent complexities of the government environment and ability to integrate new technology into existing business processes.
Join experts from CTAC and Acquia as we use real case studies from the Commodities Futures Trading Commision (CFTC) and General Services Administration (GSA) to discuss how Acquia and Drupal make the digital transformation easier.
In this webinar, we will discuss how leveraging Drupal 8 & Acquia solutions will improve:
- Customer Experience/Ease of Use (or Usability)
- User Centered Design
- Quick Iteration and Development
- Seamless integration with other systems
- Getting to ATO (Authorization to Operate)
3. CTAC is an expert delivering open source content
management solutions, enabling our customers to
collaborate and communicate more effectively to
continually develop new ways to reach their end-users.
Who is CTAC?
7. Experience
Factory
Marketing
Hub
Acquia Edge Acquia Insight Acquia Search
Dev Tools Acquia Dev Desktop / Acquia Cloud CD / Acquia Pipelines
Onboarding,
Troubleshooting
& Support
Services
IntegrationAPI
End User Outputs (Web, Mobile, etc)
3rdPartyServices
Drupal (Acquia Lightning)
Acquia Cloud Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Acquia
DAM
Profile
Manager
Acquia
Lift
Acquia
Journey
Acquia
Commerce
Manager
The Acquia Platform
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8. “The stakes for federal IT executives have never been greater.
Their growing ability to digitally transform government can
empower their agencies to deliver upon the immense
expectations of the ... public. And while the enabling tools and
capabilities that they need are now more accessible, they also
face familiar constraints around budget and talent that will force
prioritization.”
Tom Greiner
Accenture Federal Services Technology Lead
10. The 5 Success Factors:
1. Open Source and Open Architecture
2. Security
3. User Centered Design & Content First
Approach
4. Simplified Content Management
5. Team Expertise
12. Open Source Model
Removing Data Silos -
CFTC has been able to
leverage mostly out of the
box modules for features
used every day on the
CFTC website and by CFTC
staff.
● Thousands of published modules and themes
○ Often do not need to develop all from
scratch
○ There are often multiple approaches that
suit your needs
● Massive amount of material available across
the web for learning and reference
● Large pool of capable developers,
consultants versed in technology
○ Prevents vendor lock-in
16. Acquia Enterprise Cloud (ACE) Environment
● ACE Framework
○ ACE was built with security in mind
● FedRAMP Compliant
○ Simplifies ATO process with Acquia
FedRAMP compliant solution
● Issues and bugs caught early with Acquia
Monitoring, Remediation
● CDN services as part of the platform ensure
the service is always available
17. Drupal
● Granular Permissions - Role based access control - Right access to
the right people
● Frequent Patching
● Drupal 8 meets security standards for most Federal government
websites
20. Design with the User in Mind
● Quick and easy to test and deploy new features and designs
● Content first approach has allowed us to quickly get content
in front of users and perform testing and iterations
● Rapid user feedback to modify and enhance user interfaces
and improve user experience
Leveraging Drupal and Acquia
Cloud Enterprise has allowed
CFTC to replace legacy systems
and processes more quickly,
moving from timelines that were
measured in months to timelines
measured in weeks.
21. Rapid Prototyping & Feedback
Drupal 8 Theming & Module systems makes it
easier to go from mockup and wireframe to
feature in test.
– Clients have seen feature requests being
measured in months to weeks or even days
– Ability to create content using WYSIWYG
(what you see is what you get) editors have
reduced necessity for some pages to require
code changes at all
22. Multiple Content Channels
– Headless Drupal / API based content allows publishing on
multiple sites and platforms
– Publishing to multiple locations and formats simultaneously
– Editors focus on content
24. ● Every team has the access they need
○ Role based access control limits teams to only
the content they should be editing
● Enforced Standards to Content
○ Can limit what each team has the ability to
manipulate
28. Training & Certification
● Working with stakeholders, editors, and integrated teams to train
on Drupal features
● Spend time familiarizing users with features
○ At CFTC we had training sessions beginning well before initial
roll out to ensure editing staff was familiar with the interface
and had input on functionality
● Acquia Drupal Certifications ensure your team will be able to
implement the features needed
30. Collaborative Partnership
● CTAC and Acquia are a proven joint-solution
● CTAC has Acquia-certified developers on staff
● Acquia’s platform in existence for 40+ federal agencies
● CTAC is a leading Drupal solution provider for highly visible
projects and Acquia Preferred Partner
● Together we have the expertise to deliver
31. The 5 Success Factors:
1. Open Source and Open Architecture
2. Security
3. User-Centered Design & Content First
Approach
4. Simplified Content Management
5. Team Expertise
35. The US Federal Government’s more
than 23,000 different forms lead to
more than 11.4 billion hours of
paperwork annually, and many
provide a poor user experience.
Source: President’s Management Agenda: Improving Customer Experience with Federal Services (Q12018)
36. “Government agencies that seek to … build a holistic view of
the customer experience are most effective when they follow
three basic steps: putting themselves in the shoes of their
customers, understanding their end-to-end customer journeys
with the service, and isolating the moments that
disproportionately shape their experience along the way.”
-McKinsey & Company