Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.
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TelemetryTV
Score 8.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
TelemetryTV is a digital signage platform built for the modern organization who needs to engage audiences, generate awareness, and give their teams and communities a voice. TelemetryTV allows users to broadcast dynamic content by streaming video, images, social feeds, turnkey apps, and data-driven dashboards to all displays, wherever they are. The vendor states TelemetryTV powers marketing and internal communications at Starbucks, New York Public…
$8
per month per device
Pricing
Drupal
TelemetryTV
Editions & Modules
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Entry
$8 per device /mo
Annual term : No Minimum Devices
Core
$13 per device /mo
Annual term : No Minimum Devices
Elite
$16 per device /mo
Annual term : Minimum 10 Devices Required
Enterprise
$35 per device /mo
Annual term : Minimum 100 Devices Required
Network
starting at $4500 /mo
Annual term : Minimum 500 Devices Required
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Drupal
TelemetryTV
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Higher Volume Discounts Available for Enterprise-Level Customers and Advertising Networks
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Community Pulse
Drupal
TelemetryTV
Features
Drupal
TelemetryTV
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Drupal
7.8
72 Ratings
5% below category average
TelemetryTV
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions
7.872 Ratings
00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Drupal
7.2
67 Ratings
7% below category average
TelemetryTV
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Ratings
API
6.562 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
7.858 Ratings
00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
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Drupal
6.2
76 Ratings
22% below category average
TelemetryTV
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Ratings
WYSIWYG editor
5.769 Ratings
00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
7.973 Ratings
00 Ratings
Admin section
6.276 Ratings
00 Ratings
Page templates
5.575 Ratings
00 Ratings
Library of website themes
5.466 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
6.370 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publishing workflow
6.674 Ratings
00 Ratings
Form generator
5.970 Ratings
00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Overall, I would give my rating of Drupal a 7/10 because there is an easy user experience for those without a website background but there is some technology work required to build more website capabilities that aren't as user-friendly. Drupal is specifically well suited to update content (like changing Relationship Manager cards when there is employee turnover), post announcements (putting up a holiday banner to let our customers know the dates we will be closed over Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., and creating a sophisticated website hierarchy of pages (for our firm, several dropdowns depending on if you're looking for personal banking, business banking, investment banking, about us, etc.).
Setting up in a building where you need TV signage with dynamic content that is simple to modify. Telemetry would be good for this because it is all centrally cloud-managed allowing for quick and easy changes. Telemetry TV can be set up with any TV and Chromebox device which allows for ease of setup as well.
It has excellent security features and consistent updates.
It allows for extensive customization with the integrated themes and core code, especially when you first install it. This allows our dev team to get creative with marketing initiatives.
There is a large online community of Drupal users that consistently help answer any questions and issues
Security and new release notifications are a hassle as they happen too often
Allowing them to write PHP modules is a big advantage, but sometimes integrating them is a small challenge due to the version the developer is working on.
The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
As a team, we found Drupal to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing our development team to go to great lengths to develop desired functionalities. It can be used as a solution for all types of web projects. It comes with a robust admin interface that provides greater flexibility once the user gets acquainted with the system.
Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required. For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
Each time I have called with a problem, I have gotten a prompt and courteous reply. And, my problem is always solved and followed up on. I honestly don't get this type of response from any other support group I am involved with. Thanks so much for such an outstanding staff.
I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, Drupal can be an amazing asset to have at hand.
Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
