Today, the explosion in content creation is more than ever before with its growing role in marketing strategy & analysis, tapping new opportunities and reaching new prospects. Now, the way content is generated for different platforms for better web experiences is, obviously, bringing new challenges for enterprises in terms of quick content delivery with proper quality, and at preferably lower cost. To be consistent with these challenges, everyday companies take new approaches.

1. Today, the explosion in content creation is more than ever before with its growing
role in marketing strategy & analysis, tapping new opportunities and reaching new
prospects. Now, the way content is generated for different platforms for better web
experiences is, obviously, bringing new challenges for enterprises in terms of quick
content delivery with proper quality, and at preferably lower cost. To be consistent
with these challenges, everyday companies take new approaches.
But, building websites with features that speed-up content delivery process,
integrate seamlessly with third-party apps for content sharing, replicate content
on several DBs to keep new content in sync, as well as give better capability to
handle traffic surges… come with unique challenges. And when you work at bigger
scale, the question of having a robust system do arises. If you are a non-tech
savvy person, what irks you most in managing your website: coding new pages
from a template, copying the file to the FTP server, manually linking to other
pages and much more. And, if you have to update content frequently, definitely
it is going to be a big hassle. Such hassles are driving businesses to adopt a
content management solution that would increase efficiency, improve control
of information, and reduce the overall cost of information management for the
enterprise.
Open source CMS Frameworks like Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla are quite popular
in their own terms, but if you want more than just a ‘Blog’ site, there is almost
no boundary to what you can build with Drupal. The growth of Drupal for last
many years has been phenomenal at many fronts. The nice thing about Drupal is
the way it enables us to build simple, reliable and secure web sites. The biggest
adoption point for Drupal is its flexibility of customization, limitless expansion
hooks, a huge library of modules, and powerful tools for code-free construction. It
enables you add functionality and features such as e-commerce, forums, media,
search, geographic data, dates, workflow, messaging, forms, social networking.
Beyond that you can customize the interface using templates, CSS, etc. Drupal as a
standalone has also done some awesome work at enterprise level.
If we have to evaluate any CMS’s capability at enterprise-level, majorly the
following factors are benchmark and Drupal is good enough to address them.
Scalability: Drupal’s scalability has been tested by many enterprises and you
can deploy this open source CMS on a single server or across a load-balanced,
distributed server cluster to tackle huge traffic surges. The Economist website
which is built with Drupal, is a good example which has over 3 million registered
users and 30 million page views per month.

2. Independent and Reliable: Drupal is Platform, Web Server and Database
independent. While the standard install configuration is on Linux, Apache and
MySQL or PostgreSQL, you can also easily install on Windows servers running IIS
and Microsoft SQL Server, Solaris, BSD or Mac OS X as per your needs. Drupal is
ideally deployed on a LAMP stack using the Linux OS, Apache web server, MySQL
database and PHP programming language.
Security: Drupal’s core modules are quite robust to avert common security
vulnerabilities defined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). A
special Drupal security team is continuously monitoring and addressing security
vulnerability with Drupal core.
Extendibility and Interoperability: You can extend Drupal the way you want
and it can easily integrate with other web applications such as Payment Services,
CRM, Social Networks, ERP, GeoLocation tools and many more through open
standards and web services like XML, REST and JSON.
Localization and Multi-Lingual: Drupal’s capabilities allow translating the user
interface into different languages and creating different date formats for each
language.
Community Strength: A community of 630,000+ users and developers across
the globe constantly develops and maintains Drupal. Drupal developers have
been the major force behind its roaring success, in extending its ability as well as
keeping this platform up to date with the latest technology.

3. The below screen shows Drupal’s awesomeness and its adoption in government
sector.
However, as with growing web experiences, new models are rapidly evolving
that leave us with room for more customization and optimization. Drupal is quite
flexible and robust (used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites
worldwide) as your CMS of choice for content, products, groups, images, users,
videos and other large scale work. But before you start ‘gluing’ and ‘crafting’
together an amazing website on any CMS, it is important to define your needs and
objectives of website. And, if you find hard in choosing a better CMS platform, we,
at DrupalCube, are just one step away.
We are also attending DrupalCon Portland 2013, so if you are in and around
Portland…come and meet us for networking, informal conversations, and more.