Drupal Webinar: Ignite and Accelerate Your Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 Migration For many businesses, the process of migrating a website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 can be extensive and expensive. But by adopting the right processes and tools, businesses can streamline and accelerate this task - allowing for more time to be dedicated to auditing, testing and website improvements. On June 17th, Sylvain Reiter (Client Services Officer) and Liza Koroleva (Project Manager) from Cyber-Duck, and Dave Thomas (Senior Solutions Engineer) from Acquia, discussed how developers can implement a more advanced upgrade strategy for Drupal websites.

1. Drupal Webinar:
Ignite and accelerate your Drupal 7
to Drupal 9 migration
Presented by
#DrupalDuck
June 2021

2. #DrupalDuck
House rules
Meet the experts / intro to Cyber-Duck
Presentation 1: Your Future with Drupal
Presentation 2: Building Your Toolkit With Acquia
Presentation 3: DevOps & Hosting
Presentation 4: Things to Consider Before Upgrading
Summary
Q&A
Agenda

3. • The webinar will run for 1 hour.
• The webinar is streaming on Zoom.
• There will be time at the end for Q&A session.
House Rules
#DrupalDuck

4. House Rules
To submit a questions:
Open the Q&A window by clicking the Q&A button located at the
bottom of your screen
You can also post questions on Twitter after the webinar using the
hashtag #DrupalDuck
#DrupalDuck

5. Sylvain Reiter
Client Services Officer
Dave Thomas
Senior Solutions
Engineer
Liza Koroleva
Project Manager
Meet the Speakers
#DrupalDuck

6. Together, we transform digital
For over 15 years, clients have trusted us to transform complex websites, content
and applications. Our ISO certified UX and Web & Mobile Development
methodology includes user research and change management. We also undertake
data and technology auditing and strategy. Established in the UK, our remote-first
team gives us unlimited scale, breadth and depth.
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7. Technology and Engineering
We’re technology agnostic at Cyber-Duck. Our experience and partnerships span
many CMSs, such as SilverStripe, WordPress, Umbraco, Sitecore and other cloud-
based options (Contentful, Prismic.)…
We do, however, favour the Drupal open-source CMS, especially when powered by
Acquia, for its flexibility and customisation. Since 2006, Cyber-Duck’s Drupal
development services have been utilised by global brands including Sport England,
College of Policing and the Commonwealth.
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8. #DrupalDuck

9. #DrupalDuck

10. #DrupalDuck
Drupal Assets
and Expertise

11. Sylvain Reiter (Cyber-Duck)
Your Future with Drupal
#DrupalDuck

12. #DrupalDuck
Setting the scene
The majority of Drupal
websites are using an
outdated version of the
CMS
12%
28%
60%
Websites that are
on Drupal 7 or below
Websites on Drupal 9
Websites on Drupal 8

13. #DrupalDuck
Start with WHY?
• D7 is old
• D7 will become insecure
• D7 is not efficient for your team

14. #DrupalDuck
The light at the end of the tunnel
• D9 is the future
• D9 has the latest modules
• D10 will revolutionise future upgrades

15. #DrupalDuck
How do I migrate to D9?
Drupal 7 Drupal 8 Drupal 9
“Months” of work
Data migration
Content migration
Modules incompatibility
New theme
“Days” of work
Mostly automated
Minor server spec
changes
Module compatibility

16. #DrupalDuck
It’s not only a technical story
• Review UX
• Data cleanup
• Impact on SEO
• Business process
• Accessibility needs
• Frontend performance

17. #DrupalDuck
How do I upgrade to D9?
• Make sure D7 is up to date
• Migrate content
• Rebuild the theme
• … more

18. Dave Thomas (Acquia)
Building Your Toolkit With Acquia
#DrupalDuck

19. 94%
Customer
Satisfaction
Rating
Built on
Drupal,
the Largest
Open Source
Community
4,000+
customers
world-wide
300+ Gov
customer
40% of the
Fortune 100
Founded in
2007
1,000+
Employees
Global
Partner
Program
We provide the world’s most ambitious brands with technology that allows
them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At
Acquia, we believe in the power of community — giving our customers the
freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.
THE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
PLATFORM FOR DRUPAL
Acquia Overview
#DrupalDuck

20. Dev-ops Data Import Biz Logic Presentation
Analysis & Planning
30%
20%
5%
25% 20%
Time/Cost
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Drupal 7 Migrations are expensive

21. Up to -15 -10 -20 -10 -25 -80%
MIGRATE
UP TO
80%
FASTER!
50-75% FASTER
w/ Acquia Migrate
Accelerate
100% FASTER
w/ Acquia Migrate
Accelerate
25-100% FASTER
w/ Acquia Migrate
Accelerate
25-50% FASTER
w/ Cloud IDEs
50-80% FASTER
w/ Site Studio
Before With Acquia
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Dedicated Migration Environment

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Data Migration

24. #DrupalDuck
Resolution Recommendations

25. #DrupalDuck
Module Recommendations

26. Acquia Migrate:
Accelerate
Migrate Drupal 7 applications
to Drupal 9 up to 80% faster
on Acquia Cloud
﹣Advanced Migration UI on top of
Drupal's powerful Migrate API.
﹣Lowers the barrier of entry for
performing content migrations
﹣Acquia-provided
migration workspace
﹣Acquia best practice
knowledge baked in

27. Sylvain Reiter (Cyber-Duck)
DevOps & Hosting
#DrupalDuck

28. #DrupalDuck
Is your hosting solution compliant?
• Security best practices?
• Proactive monitoring?
• Resilience and scale?
• Disaster recovery?
• 24/7 support?

29. #DrupalDuck
Acquia hosting benefits
• Enterprise architecture
• Drupal-tuned
• 24/7 SLA
• 99.95% uptime
• Vulnerability management
• Remote administration

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Security & Performance
• Automated security mitigation
• Web application firewall
• CDN for speed
• Cost benefits

31. #DrupalDuck
Liza Koroleva (Cyber-Duck)
Things to Consider Before Upgrading

32. Wrong process
Design
Content Ideation
& Review
Issues Raised &
Troubleshooting
Delayed Launch
Nervous
Weeks
Continue Fixing
Issues
Build &
Development
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8
Launch
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33. Correct process
Research &
Strategy
UX Audit &
Wireframes
User Testing Design
Build &
Development
CMS & Content Migration
Content
Audit
Launch Ongoing Support
& Improvements
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
#DrupalDuck

34. #DrupalDuck
Your team
• Project Manager
• Product Owner
• UX Researcher
• Visual Designers
• Developers (frontend
and backend)
• Content Specialists
(Copywriters, SEO
strategist or Content
marketer)
• Content Managers
• Stakeholders

35. #DrupalDuck
Does it scare you?
Let's look at the benefits

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It’s always a good time to review
your website’s user experience,
content strategy and accessibility

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Why review content so early?
• Saves time of future development
• Improves the user experience
• Prepare team for a migration

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Saves time:
• Develop only the blocks you are going to use
• Merge different components into a smaller
number to reduce technical debt
• Get rid of unnecessary content to reduce
content debt

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Improves UX:
• Do the research and know your customer
• Design clear user journeys
• Remove redundant steps to reach desired
content / functionality

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Improves UX (cont’d):
• Remove duplicated information
• Review the language, tone of voice and
rewrite (if possible)
• Think of accessibility and different format
(PDF, videos…)

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Prepare internal teams:
• Realise how much content you really have
• Make sure it's accessible / language is easy to
understand - Good time to think about new
Content standards!
• Plan approvals by legal team where required

42. #DrupalDuck
Want a free tip?
Be user-first!

43. #DrupalDuck
5 tips to manage content
1. Content first! Don't start design if you are not
sure about your content.
2. Make sure there is a user need. Use Analytics
and Research to validate assumptions.
3. Give users easy access to the content they
need, not the content you think they need.

44. #DrupalDuck
5 tips to manage content (cont’d)
4. Where content cannot be rewritten, add
summaries, structured headers, high quality
tagging, layouts and styles.
5. Re-use consistent design elements, so when a
user arrives on a page they know what to
expect from a particular layout.

45. #DrupalDuck
Other materials
Watch previous Cyber-Duck webinars on
managing the upgrade to Drupal 9.
As well as webinars and resources on managing
user-research, and content & UX audits.
Sign-up to future webinars from Cyber-Duck
and Acquia.

46. #DrupalDuck
Summary

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Key Takeaways
• Don’t delay your upgrade planning
• Migrating to Drupal 9 can be time consuming & expensive
• Acquia Migrate can accelerate this migration process
• Get your team involved in your upgrade strategy
• It’s always a good time to review your website’s user
experience, content strategy and accessibility

48. #DrupalDuck
Learn more about Drupal 9
• Download Cyber-Duck's
“Get Ready for Drupal 9”
eBook
• Download Acquia's
“Ultimate Guide to Drupal 9”
http://cybrd.uk/drupal9ebook

49. Sylvain and our team are available to chat about migrating to
Drupal 9 and any development challenges you may have.
We’d love to discuss them over a virtual coffee ☕.
You can reach us at...
Email: hello@cyber-duck.co.uk
Twitter: @cyberduck_uk
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/cyber-duck
#DrupalDuck
What is your Drupal challenge?

50. Email: hello@cyber-duck.co.uk
Twitter: @cyberduck_uk
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/cyber-duck
#DrupalDuck
Q&A Session
Let’s answer your questions

51. #DrupalDuck
Thank you
Email: hello@cyber-duck.co.uk
Twitter: @cyberduck_uk
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/cyber-duck