SeeD is an Agency specialized in Drupal based in Bogotá, Manizales and Miami and today we want to talk to you about why some of the largest and most attractive companies in the world use Drupal to create their digital ecosystems. Companies such as The Grammy's, MTV, The Inter-American Development Bank, Grupo Éxito de Colombia, The Economist, NASA, The Weather Channel, Johnson & Johnson, Tesla, Harvard University, to name a few, are Drupal users. .
Drupal is essentially an open source content management platform (CMS), but at the same time it is a development framework, totally suitable for any type of digital project, with a great focus on customization, adaptation to a a wide variety of business rules and an enviable layer of integrations, which allows a fluid conversation with any type of third-party tools, such as CRM, inventory systems, resource planning systems and all types of payment gateways.
We all agree that today digital presence is essential in building the future of business; a solid digital strategy must be accompanied by robust and well-built websites and it is a fact that Drupal is an excellent option for creating business-level sites.
These are the Drupal features that technical and business users fall in love with:
Drupal es “SEO friendly”
We all want to appear well indexed in search engines and for that we need a CMS that is user-friendly and Drupal is for 3 fundamental reasons: You have control over the structure of the URLs, also, custom creation of content and additional control of titles and meta tags.
It is a flexible tool
One of Drupal's greatest strengths is its flexibility: You can create entirely new types of content - content pages, blog posts, articles, polls, etc. - all with complete control over where and how the content is displayed.
Drupal manages a system of roles and permission sets that facilitates management in entities where a large number of people are responsible for the content, such as universities.
Drupal is scalable
As Drupal is constantly evolving and is used and supported by an active and diverse community of people all over the world, there are a huge number of modules to choose from. If after you have finished building your site, you want to add a feature to your site, there is a high chance that you can find a module for that, if the module does not do exactly what you want, we can modify it or create a completely new one, which we can also contribute to the community.
Drupal allows you to configure and add modules outside of the application core, to achieve all your goals in the digital field.
Drupal is secure
Security is a super relevant aspect when choosing a web development platform and Drupal has everything in that regard. A dedicated team in the community is responsible for detecting vulnerabilities and quickly fixing them.
Thanks to strong results in adoption assessments in Forrester and Gartner's magic quadrants, Drupal has become a popular choice for banks and industries.
In fact, one of the sectors in which Drupal has become quite popular and with major league adoption is in the government agency sector, practically all over the world. Drupal's ability to avoid security issues is one of the great strengths for many of the governments that choose to use Drupal as a CMS.
Drupal helps you save costs
There is a real-life case that represented a savings of 14 million dollars, when the State of Georgia decided to migrate 65 websites to Drupal, to unify 65 of its main digital properties into an Open Source technology.
Software developed by the Drupal community is free to use in perpetuity, saving organizations the costs associated with licensing.
The nature of Open Source software, based on community contributions, makes the continuous improvement of the platform more evident. As more people and organizations participate, more modules and functionalities are available to the community, which It results in less spending on development for technology adopters and a real empowerment of digital innovation.
For all of the above, we want to invite you to take Drupal as an alternative for your digital developments, always accompanied by a specialized Drupal Agency and with end-to-end services; from analysis to production release and support, through design and infrastructure advice.
At SeeD we are experts in Drupal and we have been working with clients in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and the United States for 12 years, continually improving our processes and today we can guarantee the successful production launch of any type of digital project; from product sites to large-scale portals with cutting-edge software development processes.
If you are interested in supporting your next web project using Drupal we can help .
