Name: Best Practice Series: WebOps with Quicksilver
Start: 2024-03-06T11:46:00Z
End: 2024-03-06T11:46:35.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 2

Pantheon is the platform for websites that deliver extraordinary performance, running sites in the cloud for customers including Okta, Google, Home Depot, Pernod Ricard and Doctors Without Borders. Modern organizations choose Pantheon to empower their digital teams to continuously optimize and innovate to deliver more engaging digital experiences. Using Pantheon’s WebOps platform, developers, marketers and IT are empowered to work together to develop, test, and release website changes quickly and reliably, knowing their sites will remain stable and secure – even during the biggest traffic spikes.

As one of the first 600 websites ever to grace the internet, the Exploratorium had 30 years of content to organize and archive. Over the years, innumerable content editors and developers had built their own sections of the site, finding ‘creative’ solutions to accomplish this — including Drupal 7, static websites, and even some lingering Flash! It was a true ‘Frankensite’, desperately crying out for an upgrade. Tune in and hear the process of creating a new Exploratorium site, whose sleek new design was just the beginning. It also delivers a streamlined content administration experience that's both organized and seamless for users, with fast performance and speed on both desktop and mobile.

Exploratorium.edu: Modernizing One of the Web’s Oldest Sites with Kanopi

What You’ll Learn:
- Traditional DXPs vs Composable: Discover how a composable stack differs from traditional monolithic DXP solutions, and why it's gaining traction among enterprise companies.
- How to Unlock Innovation: Get the keys to putting your resources where they’re going to make the biggest difference, instead of reinventing the wheel. 
-How Composable Saves Money: Learn how embracing composable architecture significantly reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
- Real-World Examples: Learn from companies that have already embraced composable and analyzed its impact on their businesses.

Unlocking Innovation: Defining Composable to Leverage Digital Success

Why do only 40% of organizations who attempt to bring digital initiatives to scale succeed? Join our experts from Pantheon and FFW Agency as we share the secrets to successfully achieving digital impact that scales.

You'll learn how digitally ambitious brands create the teams, tools, and a culture of excellence to deliver digital experiences that scale with the demands of your business, exceed expectations, and deliver results. 

- Why more than half of organizations who seek digital scalability fail, including the most common misconceptions and challenges to achieving scale. 
- How and why digitally-ambitious brands outperform and deliver well beyond their competitors.
- The secrets and power of aligning your teams and tools to deliver digital experiences that exceed expectations and grow with the constantly evolving demands of your business and audiences.

Three Secrets to Scaling Digital Experiences that Deliver Impact

As a Pantheon Channel customer managing a portfolio of sites, you are undoubtedly spending several hours a month dealing with on-site maintenance. Sites with out-of-date code do not have the most recent security updates and performance optimizations. As a result, they are less stable, less secure, and at greater risk of experiencing downtime.

Discover how Autopilot, included in all Gold+ accounts, allows partners to focus on innovation, rather than site maintenance.

- How to save 30 min/site/month on site maintenance
- How channel partners can proactively approach site maintenance and security
- Billable hours, product/pricing strategy, etc.
- Using Visual Regression Testing (VRT) to intelligently detect site changes
- Setting up and configuring Pantheon’s Autopilot

Automating Site Updates: Give Customers More While You Do Less

Looking to ramp up your web team’s productivity when it comes to time-consuming tasks like updating your CMS? Then Pantheon’s Autopilot is the solution for you. In this webinar, we’ll highlight how utilizing Autopilot frees up developers’ time from focusing on maintenance to innovating and building awesome site features and content. 

Join Luke Probasco, Product Marketing Manager, and Dennis Corbran, Customer Success Manager, to learn how Autopilot accelerates productivity. After this webinar, you’ll understand how Autopilot brings new levels of automation to website management, security, AND how to configure the tool in your environment with a live demo. 

- How to turbo-boost activity through automated efficiency and automate security with updates
- The ability to intelligently detect visual and content changes through visual regression testing tools
- Ways to stay online, while staying up-to-date and well-tested
- How to focus on innovation with improved efficiencies and reduced costs

5 Ways to Be More Productive with Pantheon's Autopilot

Pantheon recently expanded access to Front-End Sites, our decoupled solution for building modern Javascript front ends together with WordPress and Drupal. We’re committed to making sure our top agency partners have access to our starter kits and receive the support that their teams need for a successful decoupled journey. Josh Koenig will share  our Front-End Sites roadmap and why decoupled is an important strategic investment for Pantheon .

Strategic partner Digital Polygon recently launched a new decoupled site for their agency using Front-End Sites. CEO John Doyle will explain why he decided to add decoupled as an agency capability and why Pantheon is his platform of choice. He’ll also share his insights about the time and cost impacts of building and maintaining decoupled sites, along with guidance on how to build your own decoupled practice.

John Doyle will be joined by Josh Koenig, Pantheon’s Chief Strategy Officer and James Rutherford, Director of Partnerships to discuss how to get started with Pantheon Front-End Sites and build your decoupled practice.

- Why Front-End Sites are the next generation of WebOps innovation
- What’s involved in building a decoupled capability for your agency
- How to get started learning and using Pantheon’s Front-End Sites

Pantheon Front-End Sites: The Next Generation of WebOps Innovation

For growth marketers, all roads lead back to the website. The ability to analyze every interaction and make decisions that drive measurable business impact is critical. That’s why it’s ironic that for many organizations, the website isn’t the high-performing growth engine it should be. Instead, it’s the most cumbersome, slowest-moving asset to manage. Pantheon partnered with Hanover Research to survey marketing and IT leaders to figure out why and find a better way forward.

Join Christy Marble, Chief Marketing Officer at Pantheon, as she shares the research findings, with deep dives into the dynamics between marketing and IT teams, the biggest barriers to website agility, and the collaboration strategies and processes that can help bridge the gaps.

- Understand the common challenges both marketers and IT teams face as they drive toward their unique definitions of extraordinary website performance.
- Recognize the impact of ownership and prioritization struggles, as well as the importance of website agility.
- Leverage a roadmap of tips, guidance, and recommendations to tackle these challenges and drive meaningful results for your own organization.

Why Collaboration is the Key to Extraordinary Website Performance

End-of-life sounds so ominous, and it’s meant to grab your attention. But you don’t need to be afraid or shift into panic mode, yet. There is still enough time to develop a thoughtful and achievable Drupal migration strategy that fits your organization’s scale and resources.

Pantheon and Mediacurrent have been at the forefront of advocating for an agile, iterative approach to continuous development and optimization when building sites. Now that thinking can also be applied to large-scale site upgrades and migrations. 

- The amazing Drupal 9 (10 and 11) benefits you can look forward to once you’ve upgraded.
- Several different approaches to upgrading your Drupal 7 sites, including an iterative approach that leverages Pantheon’s Advanced Global CDN. 
- Best practices for planning out your site upgrade(s), whether you’re working with an agency partner or just an internal team.

An Iterative Approach to Migrating to Drupal 9

Get an exclusive first look at Pantheon Front-End Sites in this live demo. 

Pantheon’s Steve Persch, Director of Technical Marketing, introduces best practices for launching decoupled projects on Pantheon. We’ll be joined by Molly Duggan and Erik Cochran from strategic partner Molly Duggan Associates, to share their approach to building a decoupled practice and their experience in Pantheon's Front-End Sites Early Access program.

- Pros and cons of decoupled architectures compared to a monolithic CMS.
- How to quickly create a Front-End Site using Pantheon starter kits.
- Overcoming the challenges of connecting a front-end framework to a headless CMS.
- How Molly Duggan Associates leverages modern front-end tooling for their clients.
- The Pantheon Front-End Sites product roadmap for 2023.

Building Your Decoupled Practice with Pantheon Front-End Sites

WordPress is no longer just a CMS for mom-and-pop-shops, today it is one of the leading open source CMS that big organizations like Time Magazine, Pernod Ricard, and CNN Pressroom are using to create extraordinary digital experiences. 

With WebOps, organizations can leverage WordPress as a framework, allowing them to unleash its full potential in the Enterprise setting. As opposed to those stuck on legacy platforms, organizations getting the most out of WordPress move fast both in terms of delivering content, but also in innovating on design and user-experience. That velocity drives business impact that simply can’t be achieved any other way.

Join Josh Koenig, Pantheon’s Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder and Rob DeChiaro, GOLF.com's Chief Operating Officer, to learn how your organization can leverage WordPress to securely build, manage, and scale your website – so your website can do what it was set out to do: drive innovation and new business.

- Learn how WordPress can help you drive continuous agility, innovation, and business growth across your organization.
- Discover the value of an open source CMS like WordPress in comparison to other legacy platforms.
- Learn how the world’s biggest brands like GOLF.com are using WordPress to scale their brand and innovate on their user experience.

Drive Innovation and New Business with Your Website: WordPress for Enterprise

The proliferation of digital content and the need for companies to compete online has led to some stunning predictions about the market for Web Content Management Systems (WebCMS).

Estimates vary, but the market for CMS was valued in 2018 at approximately USD 36 billion, and some industry watchers are expecting it to generate around USD 123.5 billion by 2026. That's an annual growth rate of nearly 17 percent!

Amid this stunning growth, what might be thought of as a conceptual subset of WebCMS emerged: WebOps, a set of practices that empower web teams to adopt agile practices, facilitate collaboration, and automate processes that improve productivity across traditionally siloed departments.

- How WebOps differs from WebCMS and allows organizations to transcend silos.
- Nestlé's unique website content management challenges.
- Why the company chose a WebOps solution to address those challenges.
- How it affected the IT and Marketing teams.
- How it impacted the user experience.
- Lessons learned: what worked about that decision, and what didn't.

WebCMS to WebOps: A Conversation with Nestlé's WebCMS Product Manager

Pantheon and Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) are partnering to host a special event with Dennis Corbran, and Britt DeVivo, Pantheon Customer Success Managers, who will discuss how to examine your site traffic, and technical strategies to mitigate unwanted traffic in order to keep your costs contained.

- How Harvard has contained hosting costs by standardizing on Pantheon.
- Unwanted traffic can increase your costs by requiring a higher level plan.
- Learn how Pantheon measures traffic, and how to identify and mitigate unwanted traffic.

Harvard Success Story: Learn About Site Traffic and Keep Costs Contained

Everyone in Higher Ed is being challenged to do more with less, so before undertaking a costly site migration, consider the alternative--investing in a secure, more performant and highly-flexible, decoupled front-end experience.

Many Drupal 7 migrations are being driven by concerns about its eventual end-of-life and the risk of security vulnerabilities once it is no longer supported. With a decoupled front-end, you're content and code are significantly less vulnerable to exploits. Plus, you'll be able to focus on customer-facing experiences that can dramatically improve site outcomes.

Pantheon is excited to welcome Kevin Wall, KWALL's CEO, Anita Melendez, KWALL's COO and Fernando Chavez, VP Solutions & Strategy at KWALL in a conversation with Jeremy Dickens, Pantheon's Senior Sales Engineer, as they discuss why Pantheon's Front-End Sites are a better investment that a site migration

- Learn how decoupling your site keeps it secure
- Discover how the cost of front-end sites compares with a site migration
- We'll walk through the customer-facing benefits of JavaScript-based front-end sites
- Learn how Pantheon's Front-End Sites work and how you can get started

Transform Your Higher Ed Website with a Decoupled Front-End

The public sector faces a unique set of challenges on the web: from a high bar for security to non-negotiable mandates for accessibility. Legacy processes and platforms slow everything down. In a landscape where institutions have existed for decades, overcoming these challenges requires a flexible and innovative approach. Meanwhile, the digital component of public service is only becoming more vital. The demand for online services has grown significantly. 

In light of these developments, Drupal's composable nature emerges as a game-changer for how public service teams can work together, across administrative boundaries and even state lines. Representatives from Pantheon and its strategic agency partner CI&T will share best practices and lessons learned from real-world implementations.

- The difference between composable open source platforms and monoliths, such as Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs)
- How Drupal delivers flexibility and scalability, with no trade-offs
- Why the City of Chattanooga, TN, adopted Drupal

Why Drupal's Composable Approach Works for Government

Let Pantheon show you how to get the most out of the best WebOps platform for building, deploying and hosting Drupal sites. Whether your site is in production on another platform, or still in local development, we'll show you how to migrate it to Pantheon quickly and painlessly.  We will share migration best practices and step by step instructions ensuring you avoid costly and time consuming pitfalls and take full advantage of the platform’s features.

- A clear set of steps to get your existing Drupal website up and running on Pantheon.
- Creating a new site on the Pantheon platform.
- Importing your existing code, database and files to your new Pantheon site.
- Best practices to follow when migrating, so you can take full advantage of Pantheon's platform features.

Migrating your Drupal site to Pantheon

DXP ‘platform suites’ were the thing of 2010. Fast forward to 2023 - the world of DXP has changed! More, generally accepted, acronyms like MACH joined the arena, but where do you stand?!
 
Join our expert panel featuring guest speakers from Forrester, SCALE Consortium, and Sherpera as they guide you through the essential steps to composing the perfect digital experience stack that truly serves your organization.
 
What You’ll Learn:
 
·  The power of customizing your own digital experience stack
·  How an open source solution can play as the foundation for your ideal platform
·  The roadmap to building your own solutions
·  Questions you should be asking vendors and stakeholders

Life After DXP's How to Compose Your Ideal Solution

Why You Can't Afford to Miss This

Unlock operational efficiency like never before! Transform how you manage Drupal and WordPress sites with Quicksilver by Pantheon. Go from managing to mastering your WebOps, all while cutting down deployment time and automating tasks that eat up your day. 
 

Who Is This For?

- Developers, marketers, and decision-makers—anyone looking to elevate their WebOps game will find immense value in this webinar.
- The Quicksilver Edge: Why Quicksilver is the tool you didn't know you needed, but won't be able to live without.
- Practical Know-How: Get hands-on with real-world examples, scripts, hooks, and variables that empower your WebOps
- Creative Inspiration: Discover unique ways to use Quicksilver, designed to spark your creativity and operational innovation.
- Full-Circle Learning: A step-by-step guide to automating your tasks, from code deployment to environment testing.

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