A board discussion by:
Lisa Marsocci - Senior Product Lead, Johnson & Johnson
David Insley - Global Product Owner, Johnson & Johnson
Joe Rammelsburg - Engagement Manager, Acquia
Mark Sakurada - Technical Architect , Acquia

Real world anecdotes, stories, successes and challenges in developing a Drupal platform architecture at Johnson & Johnson, Consumer Products.

J&J Consumer division includes 48 brands, which are sold globally, and presented digitally via over 750 websites worldwide. Prior to the creation and release of the solutions platform, each brand and global region had the autonomy to build and host their website(s) independent of any coding or branding standards – the result of which is a portfolio of brand websites that are disparate from one another, and costly to maintain. The objective of the OPEN Solutions Platform was to standardize the J&J Brand websites onto a best in class reference architecture, built on Drupal 7. Goals of the platform include governance standards, ability to maintain a single platform with regional feature set(s), automated testing and a rich feature set which cares for 95% of the use cases for the J&J Brand websites globally.

Johnson & Johnson worked with teams of vendor partners to design, develop, enhance and extend its platform. Developing integrations with a number of web services and technologies J&J is sponsoring development of modules and practices which are in process of being released back to the community.