Open Enterprise is an extended distribution of Drupal designed for building enterprise-class Web 2.0 style websites. It comes in a single download that includes Drupal core, over 60 contributed modules and several additional custom feature modules in a pre-configured installation profile.
The primary purpose of Open Enterprise is to make the true power of Drupal accessible to all. Drupal is unmatched in the open source world in flexibility and extensibility. However, this power comes at a cost; a significant learning curve. It is our hope that the Open Enterprise distribution will greatly shorten the learning curve and guide people towards using enhanced and interactive websites.
The Essentials profile is ideal for websites in need of a brochureware section and want to integrate Web 2.0 portal features. In addition to standard pages, it comes with variety of customized content types and sections:
- Blog - Standard Drupal blog with some add on blocks to get more of a WordPress experience.
- News Room - Includes Press Release and News Article content types with reverse chronological views and RSS feeds for both. The newsroom includes a featured article and a listing of both press releases and news articles in a single dashboard page.
- Events - Tell the world about important your events and show them off in the multidimensional events calendar. (modules: Date, Calendar)
- Articles - Nodes that paginate on inline headers to create search optimized table of contents.
- Portal Home - A dashboard view of most recent posts to your blogs, wiki, articles and comments that can easily be reconfigured to support any content type.
More Essentials Features:
- Content Construction Kit - Extend any content type with virtually any kind of field. (modules: CCK, Date, FileField, ImageField, GetID3, Link)
- Views - Create a wide variety of listings. We have even added a few of our own helpful view definitions. (modules: Views, View Tagadelic, Calendar)
- Panels - Need to divide your page content into multiple sections? Panels is the way to go. We have added two panel pages, newsroom and portal home, to get you started.
- Taxonomy - Drupal comes stock with an advanced taxonomy system. We have added a few things to help you get the most out of it. For starters you can't be Web 2.0 without tagging, so we pre-configured free tagging and enabled easy tag cloud integration. Most of the included views have been configured for filtering by taxonomies. (modules: L10 Views, Tagadelic, Views Tagadelic)
- Interactivity - A veritable content interaction bonanza at your fingertips. You can comment, tag, rate, syndicate, email, flag, subscribe, social bookmark, trackback, pingback and print any site content. Typical options per content type have been pre-configured for you. (modules: AddThis, FiveStar, Messaging, Notifications, Print, Trackback)
- Social - People want to interact too. We have included several optional modules to enable user interaction. You can limit permissions to internal staff to form an instant intranet or enable them publicly to create a social media style site. (modules: Organic Groups, Private Message, User Relationships)
- WYSIWYG Editor - TinyMCE is integrated to enable word processor like content styling tools. The tools are configured to provide popular options while enforcing a standard style guide so your author's "styling creativity" doesn't detract from your site's esthetics. You can even create different tool profiles for different users. We have pre-installed two for you, one for staff and one for the community.
- Image & File Management - A dual mode, stand alone and WYSIWYG editor integrated, file manager has been included to enable users to upload, organize and display images and files in their posts. The Image Cache module enables powerful automated thumbnail creation to assure your photo accents always look their best. (modules: IMCE, ImageAPI, Upload, FileField, ImageField, Image Cache)
- Site Search - Most CMS's internal site search leave a lot to be desired when compared with the likes of Google. A powerful stemming add on helps elevate Drupal's game. SiteSearchStats keeps you informed on what your visitors are looking for. (modules: PortStemmer, SiteSearchStats)
- Forms - Build your own web forms from the simple to advanced, even multipage, without a programmer. You can email or save the data into the database to review later or export into Excel. We include a sample contact us form to get your started. (modules: WebForm)
- Roles & Permissions - Drupal's role based permissions are great, but can be a little overwhelming. We preconfigured a standard set of custom roles and set all permissions - so you don't have to keep checking all those little boxes.
- Search Engine Optimized - People need to find your better mousetrap. We have added several tweaks to Drupal's already search friendly architecture to enable you to dominate the rankings (modules: Page Titles, Meta Tags, Global Redirect, XML Sitemap, Path Auto)
- Spam Control - Email harvesting, comment spamming and malicious behavior – spammers are relentless. While no solution is perfect, we equip you with the tools you need to fight back and win most the battles. (modules: Captcha, Spam Span, Re-Captcha, Uncaptchalous)
- JavaScript - JavaScript plugins gives your site that Web 2.0 wow. Drupal comes with a few out of the box, we have added several more. (modules: JS Tools, LightBox2, jQuery Plugin)
- Themeing – Zen has become the defacto starting place for a great optimized site theme. Its included with a few modifications to assure all Essentials modules are properly supported. (modules: Custom Breadcrumbs, Zen)
- Administration - Enhanced admin navigation, help, database and content management – these modules will make you a super admin. (modules: Admin Menu, Advanced Help, Backup & Migrate, Node Export)
- Dev - Hopefully with the Essentials you won't have to do any programming. If you do, we have included several modules that will help out tremendously. (modules: Coder, DB Tools, Demo, Devel, Schema, Token)
- Analytics - The Essentials is setup for easy integration with Google Analytics. We have even configured it so you can track all your goals upon web form conversions. (modules: Google Analytics)