10 reasons why enterprises should use Drupal 8 to improve ROI

Drupal 8 has been completely re engineered to be a true enterprise-grade content management system. Early adopters of the latest version have deployed some amazing websites with Drupal 8. Here are top 10 reasons why enterprises should build their website on Drupal 8 for a better ROI.  
Build out-of-the-box projects
Drupal 8 is a big change compared to how you have been programming so far. Drupal 8 is a full featured enterprise content management system capable of building websites based on structured data. Fastest Drupal 8 is the fastest Drupal ever, out-of-the-box. It modular architecture, unique content, intuitive themes and excellent usability for an exciting portal experience.  
New template system
PHP engine has been replaced with new Twig template system for the theme layer.
Better training
Enterprise Drupal services will need to start ramping up their training now to support the projects they will be undertaking or risk being left unprepared.  
Compatible with Symphony framework
Drupal 8 provides , a new PHP framework as a base layer for Drupal 8. One of the main advantages of Drupal 8's modernization and adoption of many omponents is that it is much easier for developers to jump between Drupal the CMS and Symphony.  
Quicker to build
There has been significant improvements in Drupal 8. These should improve the abilities of the development team to develop sites and diagnose issues. Drupal 8 relies on object-oriented coding principles, with a reusable code and easier debugging, laying a strong foundation for an enterprise architecture.  
Mobile-friendly
Drupal 8's out-of-the-box mobile friendliness with responsive themes creates quite the buzz. Magical on mobile devices, Drupal 8 renders text, images, menu, and columns on different devices or different screen sizes with superior performance and user experience.  
Cost-effective As with previous versions, Drupal 8 will have no license fee so is free to reuse.  
Easy to upgrade If you are previous versions of Drupal, Drupal 8 provides you a seamless migration path. Drupal developers can leverage a series of tools to map content in a Drupal 6 or 7 website to its location within a Drupal 8 website.  
Internationalization Drupal 8 provides multi-language support for 94 languages. The fundamental overhaul of the multilingual system in Drupal 8 means that multilingual sites should always choose the latest update. Drupal 8 delivers better localization experience for users around the world.

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Acquia releases Drupal Gardens 1.0

Acquia, the enterprise guide to drupal, has launched drupal gardens 1.0 with new improvements and pricing plans. The new Views functionality enables drupal gardens to quickly assemble and deploy social sites. Views brings collection of tools for site builders for SaaS. Views can create custom mashups or combinations of content, media, user profiles, and more without writing any code. Site builders can get any information on the site and make dynamic lists, grids, tables, reports, RSS feeds, and navigation. Views can be personalized to show different results for posts that were submitted in the previous month as well as the most popular ones. Drupal Gardens is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from Acquia under Drupal hood that enable to export any information and move into the server using site builders. Drupal Gardens offers new capabilities for drupal developer to build Drupal social websites. A large number of content-rich, dynamic sites were built with drupal Gardens which includes over 40,000 sites created last year.

Mollum Module for Drupal 7 officially released

The Mollom module v1.0 for Drupal 7 has been officially released by the drupal developer. The release for Mollom delineates the changes incorporated in the Drupal 7 module to ensure the functionality under all situations so as to sync with the latest code. The major improvements to core are:

• Making it possible to alter the form validation for handlers during validation. This allows the module to conditionally show a CAPTCHA if its a spam

• Corrected and improved the caching of $form_state in the case of form validation errors, previews, multi-step ("wizard") forms, and other scenarios in which a form is rebuilt or re-rendered, and might have new or updated state information that should be cached. Removed the auto-rebuilding magic of the 'storage' property, to cache most of $form_state when form caching is enabled, and ensured that form constructors can already decide on caching and rebuilding.

The Drupal 7 update for Mollom necessitated to fully remove plenty of code that was previously required to work around limitations and bugs in Drupal's Form API.

Along the way, more than 2,200 test assertions for the Mollom module's automated unit tests were made in order to ensure that its functionality works correctly in almost every possible scenario.  Effectively, Mollom's module tests are quite possibly the most aggressive Form API tests for Drupal, as it uses almost all of its advanced features.

Privatemsg Bulkmail: The new drupal module

Privatemsg Bulkmail module is a Gmail type module by drupal developer for internal notifications. It is meant for site administrators who send out identical private messages to a large user base of more than 100,000. It is commonly used for private message notification to all registered users. The Privatemsg module offers a feature to send messages to roles.

Drupal Features

• Send out private messages from a specific user (instead of the current user)
• Define a dedicated bulk message user and prevent that user from logging in (to prevent performance issues)
• Prevent users from responding to a bulk mail message
• Include AND exclude recipient group of a bulk mail. Example: Send out a bulk mail to all authenticated users that are not site admins
• Restrict the recipient group to users who logged in or signed up after a certain date
• Send an individual test message to a specified user before sending out the bulk mail