A presentation at the just concluded DrupalCamp Nigeria 2017

1. INTRODUCTION TO
DRUPAL & THE FUTURE
OF DRUPAL
Presented by /
Company /
A Digital Solutions Provider based in Lagos, Nigeria,
Phone: 081 7608 4053 Email: tony@icelark.com
Strategic Partner of the Future Digital Business Leaders, for their Digital Platforms, Products and
Experiences
Tony N. Ogbonna (CEO/Developer Icelark Projects) @togbonna
Icelark Projects (www.icelark.com) @icelarkProjects

2. WHAT IS DRUPAL?
Drupal is an open source content management platform
powering millions of websites and applications.
It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse
community of people around the world.
Motto: Come for the so ware, stay for the community.
Official Websites: |www.drupal.org www.drupal.com

3. WHAT IS DRUPAL?
Further...
A content management system (CMS) and a web application
development framework.
So, what is a CMS?
A piece of so ware used to organize, update and present
websites. A type of online web application.

4. WHAT IS A CMS?
A computer program that allows for the publishing, editing
and modifying of content as well as maintenance from a
central interface.
Are o en used to run websites containing blogs, news,
shopping, etc. Many corporate and marketing websites use
CMSs.
typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding and running
websites manually.

5. BUT DRUPAL IS MUCH MORE THAN A
CMS...
It is a Web Experience Management system:
1. Content Management
2. Community Management
3. Commerce Management
4. Much more...
Drupal is designed to make it easy for non-technical users to
add, edit and manage different varieties of websites or web
applications.

6. DRUPAL AS AN APPLICATION
FRAMEWORK...
A piece of so ware with which you can build other
application so ware. Can be what you want it to be.
As a result, Drupal is usually described as...
Powerful, flexible
Extensible, reliable, configurable
Scalable, stable and secure

7. HISTORY: SO WHERE DID DRUPAL
COME FROM?
Dries Buytaert 2000, a student of the University of Antwerp,
Belgium at that time.
Built a web blog to communicate with his friends.
A er graduation he release the code as open source.
Fast-forward to today, Drupal is maintained by one of the
largest open source community in the world.

8. DRUPAL IN PERSPECTIVE
To date Drupal has...
...8 core versions and the core code base is updated at least
once every month.
As a result your website will always be up to date in terms of
security and web standards.

9. To date Drupal has...
...over 32, 000 extension modules, over 2, 000 themes and
close to 1000 distributions.
These represents various functionality with which you can
create almost any type of website or web application you
can imagine.
Most likely, a module exists for your every need.

10. To date Drupal has...
...over 1.2 Million people in 228 countries (including Nigeria)
speaking 181 languages power Drupal.
2% of websites in the entire Internet runs on Drupal.
6% of the top 1 million websites runs on Drupal.
9% of the top 100k websites runs on Drupal.
As a result Drupal is well tested, robust and very secure.

11. WHAT IS DRUPAL 8?
The latest version of Drupal, released in November, 2015.
Officially: Drupal 8 is the new standard for creating
incredible digital experiences—for small businesses, global
enterprises, and everything in between.
DIGITAL EXPERIENCES, not website experiences.

12. Drupal 8 in particular, offers many additions and upgrades
that will help bring your digital business boldly into todays
age of the customer.
Drupal 8 is an engine for digital innovation, beyond just
building websites and web pages.
It is built with the recognition that digital is more than just
marketing; that in todays world, digital is your business.
Accelerating your path towards becoming a digital business
(digitization) is at the heart of Drupal 8 capabilities.

13. THE FUTURE OF DRUPAL

14. SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION

15. DRUPAL VS WORDPRESS
COMPARISON
Security 4.5 | 3
Ease of Use 3 | 4.5
Affordability 4 | 4.5
SEO 4 | 4
Customizability 4.5 | 4
Performance 4 | 3.5

16. THE MISTAKE ABOUT DRUPAL VS
WORDPRESS COMPARISON
Most comparisons assumes that Drupal is competing against
WordPress for the websites marketplace
The truth is that Drupal is competing in the Digital
Experience marketplace
Of which the website market is just a small part

17. DRUPAL'S COMPETITORS
1. So ware As A Service Builders
Single blogs, brochure and portfolio websites are best
served by these SaaS tools
2. WordPress-Class Competitors
3. Enterprise Digital Experience platforms: Sitecore, Adobe
Web Experience Manager
Enterprise solutions has moved beyond CMS and are
competing on marketing capabilities

18. DRUPAL'S ADVANTAGES AND
FUTURE FOCUS
Some background info
The technolgy stack is expanding
Some other technologies that are competing against CMSs
in some form:
NodeJS, Angular, Symfony, ReactJS, Laravel, Vue.js, etc

19. DRUPAL'S ADVANTAGES AND
FUTURE FOCUS
API-First
Content-centric architecture
Decoupled, Headless CMSs
Instead of fighting against these competing technologies,
Drupal is corporating, complementing and empowering
them,

20. DRUPAL'S FUTURE
Drupal is for Ambitious Digital Experiences
Can scale from small to large websites and applications
Can integrate with numerous external systems to create
complex digial ecosystems
Is ready now for technologies yet to be invented

21. DRUPAL IS READY FOR THE FUTURE

22. THANK YOU!

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