What is Drupal?
Drupal is a web content management platform that allows IT professionals, website developers and business managers to use content management for powerful online platforms. With Drupal you can create hands-on tools with which digital transformation and online ambitions can be realized. Drupal offers unprecedented possibilities for this with out-of-the-box functionality and more than 20,000 plug-ins (modules).
Scalable
Scalable
Even for websites with high traffic demands, requiring rich user experiences, Drupal offers options to ensure that your website remains accessible, available and fast. Thanks to a flexible and scalable design, both websites with a daily load (such as Weather.com) and websites with a peak load (for example Grammy.com) continue to perform smoothly.
Mobile First
Mobile First
Drupal is mobile-first and offers ample support for responsive design templates. This way you can serve a broad target group, regardless of time, place or (mobile) device. This way you guarantee a seamless user experience for customers and users.
Integrate everything
Integrate everything
Drupal offers standard integration options for your back office, email, marketing automation or CRM. An API-first focus that is supported by both the development community and suppliers offers many opportunities to integrate Drupal with traditional and modern backend applications. This separates content from presentation, allowing mobile apps, ERP systems and other applications to use the content that your website offers.
Secure at its core
Secure at its core
Drupal offers a proven, secure application framework on which robust, business-critical applications can run. A permanent team from the Drupal development community is continuously working on the security of Drupal, in accordance with strong code standards. They continuously ensure timely signaling and implementation of security updates to keep websites and online Drupal applications safe and secure.
Easy and powerful content creation
Easy and powerful content creation
Drupal provides essential tools for content creation and publishing, including a flexible WYSIWYG editor, a flexible roles and permissions system as well as supporting custom workflows. Marketers, editors, website administrators and developers all use Drupal to meet the needs of their organization, where everyone has the right access to use Drupal for what they need it for.
Flexible content structures
Flexible content structures
With Drupal's intuitive content management environment you can convert the most complex information architecture into flexible content structures. Content editors can use the tools that Drupal offers as standard for content creation, workflow and publication. For example, permissions and roles, menus and content previews can be configured from the graphical interface. Drupal offers device-independent support for almost all common media types including video and PDF documents.
Multisite
Multisite
Drupal offers many options for managing multiple websites in a single instance, allowing business units, labels, countries and campaigns to run independently on one and the same platform. This way, content can be published quickly and easily across multiple segments and the management burden is significantly reduced.
Multilingual everything
Multilingual everything
Multilingual audiences that are part of a region-based content strategy can be easily reached with Drupal. Specific content as well as entire websites can be managed quickly and easily in multiple languages. The content management interface can also be translated for use by local teams.
Business tools without restrictions
Business tools without restrictions
Over the past decade, Drupal has become increasingly aligned with the needs of marketing departments with business and commercial objectives and measurable Return on Investment (ROI). Where traditional CMS platforms often require organizations to adapt to the software, Drupal offers a flexible basis with which the variety of requirements and wishes can be met without the organization having to adapt.
Using the tried and true LAMP Stack
Using the tried and true LAMP Stack
Drupal uses the modern LAMP stack with Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP by default. Many organisations and agencies worldwide use this stack to build fast, agile digital applications that enable them to grow with their online ambitions.
Content as a service
Content as a service
Because content in Drupal is stored according to a structured data model, content can be presented in any form and layout, responsively and flexibly. The content can also connect to mobile apps and other applications through Drupal's built-in REST services. With open source APIs, available out of the box, Drupal can be connected to other data sources to exchange data, content or functionality with, among others, marketing tools and CRM systems. Because content is separate from presentation, it can be presented in any form, on any desired channel, in any desired format.
A large community with talent and experience
A large community with talent and experience
With open source software you can use software that has been created by thousands of people and organizations. The international Drupal community shares its experiences and insights with customers and (potential) users. This means that every Drupal professional has access to frequently used channels where the global network of knowledge and experience can be directly consulted. Which supplier can say this?
Accessibility and inclusivity
Accessibility and inclusivity
One of Drupal's core values is that everyone can participate. In the community, this is reflected via a strong focus on inclusivity.
Drupal core complies with the WCAG 2.0 and ATAG 2.0 guidelines. By using Drupal, you make both the site and the CMS accessible to everyone without any extra effort. This makes obtaining an accessibility statement - mandatory for many organisations and their sites - much simpler.