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Arasan Chip Systems Inc. is a leading provider of Total Semiconductor IP Solutions with international offices all over the world. We were approached for revamping its corporate website which would help them manage their vast content easily. Initially there were lots of discussion as to what cms was to be used. Finally we decided to build it using Drupal looking at the flexibility and the modular approach that Drupal provides.
Challenges faced
The old website of Arasan was using MSSQL as the database. We had to migrate about 9500 users into the new website with the profile information, their newsletter subscriptons along with the records related to their interest of the products. We had to write custom scripts to finish this task.
The other challenging task of this project was the integration between the Drupal and the NetSuite CRM used by Arasan. We would be soon releasing a module which was built to achieve integration for NetSuite CRM. This custom built module would capture leads from the website and the push them into the CRM which is one of the primary requirements of the client. We are in the process of cleaning up this module and will release it once it is done.
Modules Used
The list contains all the awesome modules such as cck, views, admin_menu etc. apart from the core modules. Workflow was used for collaborating in publishing of content on the website from various offices of Arasan all over the world.
CCK
Views
admin_menu
Date/Time
Devel (during the development phase)
Drupal For Firebug (during the development phase)
Image
Mime Mail
Backup & Migrate
WorkFlow (For establishing a workflow for the publishing of the content in the website.)
Beauty Tips (This was extensively used for providing help to the editor, approver and the publisher in the website)
CKEditor
GTranslate
Path Redirect (For handling the broken links that the search engine sent the users to of the old website)
Path Auto
QuickTabs
SignWriter
Token
User Registration Notification (This was customized to integrate with custom module built for CRM)
WebForms
Rules
WebFM
XML SiteMap
Due to the heavy traffic coming to the website we are tweaking the website for better performance
