Acquia, the digital experience company, today announced the launch of Acquia Lightning, a freely available open source distribution of Drupal that accelerates Drupal 8 development, streamlines authoring for business users, and make it easy for non-technical users to manage content and experiences. It serves as the perfect starter kit for Drupal 8, bringing together critical functionality for enterprise-scale delivery of digital experiences. The Acquia Lightning distribution is available on Acquia Cloud Free, where developers can start building with Drupal 8 today.
Lightning helps organizations quickly build and customize four key components of digital experience delivery that all marketing and editorial teams require:
Drag-and-drop Layout: Create flexible, responsive layouts so everyone can be a site builder and create pages and experiences without developer intervention
Media Management: Create, upload, embed, and manage social media and digital assets
Content Workflow: Configure content workflows to streamline review and ensure editorial quality and add governance and control for publishing
Experience Preview: Conduct a comprehensive review before publishing content, campaigns, and cross-channel experiences
Agencies use Acquia Lightning as the starting point for Drupal 8 projects. It provides a ready best practice for launching new initiatives, reduces complexity and speeds time to market.
Acquia Lightning brings together key modules that together support the four functional areas of layout, media management, content workflow, and experience preview. Members of the Drupal community build and maintain the modules that extend core Drupal functionality. Several Lightning modules were developed under the support of Acquia's Module Acceleration Program, which coordinates and funds initiatives to accelerate development across the Drupal 8 ecosystem. Lightning is the most installed Drupal 8 distribution, according to Drupal.org.
Courtesy of MarketWired
