Ixis worked with Manchester based agency Worship Digital to produce a great multi-media based community site for the legendary Haçienda club brand in Manchester (UK).

The project included the usual News section for promoting upcoming activities and history of the nightclub, and alongside this an events area which allowed pinning an event on the world map using a custom Drupal CCK field.

Microsoft recently approached us to develop a project as a case study of how Drupal can integrate with their technologies, such as IIS and SilverLight. The aim of the case study being to demonstrate how integration can be achieved, and report any rough spots back to the Microsoft development teams, who will use our feedback to identify problems that need to be solved.

We decided to focus the project on the needs of NGOs, and use this as an opportunity to create some features that most third sector organisations need but which are currently missing or very difficult to set up.

Although Microsoft technologies are an important part of this project, it is a basic requirement that all features developed will work without it. For example all modules should work equally well on Apache as on IIS, and where SilverLight is used, such as to make reports and statistics more attractive, users can disable it and see the same content presented in a more basic way.

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