Drupal - the things that it does well
July 20, 2015

Drupal - the things that it does well

Antonio Estevez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

7

Overall Satisfaction with Drupal

Our entire business is not centered around Drupal support; DOOR3 has made a considerable commitment to Drupal development but we use other platforms as specific to the needs of our clients' business needs.

Functionality that Drupal excels with:
  • Analytics
  • Localization / translation
  • Commerce
  • Publishing
  • Customized Workflows
  • Social network integration
  • Content feeds
  • Workflow: Drupal's permission system is very effective. That, in conjunction with Workbench moderation and organic groups can handle most workflow needs; from the most basic to the very complicated. There is also a distribution available that helps with this (Open Atrium).
  • Analytics: Drupal's robust, field-able taxonomy terms can readily implement any number of tags to help your business understand what your viewers are doing and how to help them do it better.
  • Developer workflow: Pushing configurations to environments, better diff tools.
  • Lower development costs
  • Better maintainability of existing sites
Drupal has a better developer community, more modules, more vendor support and no license fee.
  • How many stakeholders are in the Business Analysis process?
  • How long do you need the website to run (is it a short term marketing site or a true web presence)?
  • What does your internal development like like (if they even have one)?
  • Who is the web host?

Drupal Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
8
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
7
Page templates
8
Library of website themes
9
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9
Publishing workflow
10
Form generator
9
Content taxonomy
9
SEO support
8
Bulk management
5
Availability / breadth of extensions
10
Community / comment management
10
API
8
Internationalization / multi-language
9
Role-based user permissions
8