Case Study: Bentley University reduces web costs and boosts site engagement with Acquia and Drupal

Bentley University Powers Higher Education with Acquia and Drupal

Bentley University, a leading business school serving over 5,000 students and managing some 75,000 web pages, faced slow, manual content updates and high development costs tied to a legacy ColdFusion/proprietary CMS. A small web team struggled to keep content current, add new features, and scale editing across campus without compromising brand or site functionality.

Bentley chose Drupal with Acquia support and design partnership from Palantir, migrating sites department by department to create a repeatable process. The move enabled 150+ campus editors, cut web resources to about one quarter of prior ColdFusion/Oracle costs, and boosted traffic and time on site through better search, semantics, and more frequent content updates; the university is now preparing to adopt Drupal 8 for improved mobile responsiveness.

Bentley University

Skadi Gidionsen

Manager of Digital Engagement