Future of Drupal
Updated December 05, 2014
Future of Drupal
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Drupal
Currently we are using Drupal in the development of the internal application that all Ericsson employees use for accessing company policy and documents. It also has a news and events section where employees can read important information about news or events related to the company. As well we have developed an internal tool for managing employee questions and answers.
Pros
- High-Performance, Scalability and Reliability
- Huge OpenSource Community
- A great tool for Developers, Site-Builders and Content Managers
Cons
- Use of Object-oriented programming practices (fixed in Drupal 8)
- Improve front-end with clean markup and mobile friendly (fixed in Drupal 8)
- Easy Multilingual support (fixed in Drupal 8)
- Improve UX and content editing (fixed in Drupal 8)
- Easy configuration deploy from development to live (fixed in Drupal 8)
- Migration tool for older Drupal versions and other content management systems (fixed in Drupal 8)
- Drupal offers free knowledge and training of best programming practices in most actual technologies.
- Drupal has hundreds of thousands developers around the world working in security issues and improvements for free, because it's OpenSource.
- You can find free support about Drupal in different ways, like drupal.org, IRC, stackoverflow.com even in social networks like Twitter.
As mostly all Drupal fellows says: "I came for the code quality and stayed for the Community". Drupal has a huge community that cares about the code quality, testing and engage developers to follow best programming practices. This improves both Drupal quality and your programming skills. Also Drupal Community is like a huge family.
Using Drupal
160000 - Users, content editors, content managers, developers...
20 - Front-end developers, Back-end Developers and Dev-Ops.
- Content Management
- Content Search
- Knowledge database
- Content migration
- Centralized users
- Third-party systems integration
- Migrate old platforms
Evaluating Drupal and Competitors
Yes - Old custom platforms.
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
Good code quality and huge OpenSource Community.
No change.
Drupal Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - Development - Acceptance - Live
- Deployment
- Performance
- Third-party systems integration
Drupal Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
No - You don't need it.
Yes - Absolutely!
Everytime you open an issue for Drupal core or contributed module you get immediate feedback from one of the developers that are working on it.
Using Drupal
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Site building
- Content management
- Extend drupal features using contrib modules
- Back-end development
- Multilingual support (fixed in Drupal 8)
Yes - Drupal 8 will be fully responsive so it could be used in mobile devices easily.
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