Why our agency loves the world’s leading open-source content management system

Drupal

The Drupal platform and its website development ecosystem is trusted by organizations such as the UN, the EU, national governments, academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies. We are proud to work with multiple clients like these to create great Drupal-based digital experiences.

SystemSeed has been building enterprise-tier sites with Drupal for over 10 years and we have 5,000+ Drupal open source commits under our belt. Our team are leaders in the Drupal community, regularly speaking at, hosting and sponsoring events in many countries.

Delivering excellence in Drupal development services and hosting is what our company is all about.

  • Powerful content management system (CMS)
  • PHP-based framework
  • Free and open source software (FOSS)
  • Well established & proven web technology
  • Trusted by the UN & governments
  • Vendor agnostic
  • Specialist Drupal agency & consultancy
  • Custom Drupal design & development
Why Drupal development?
Benefits of using Drupal
Faster builds

Thousands of developers around the world have contributed to Drupal distributions, modules, security patches and documentation. All of these are available for free, meaning that we don’t need to code everything for you from scratch. Drupal Core is a packaged platform with 200+ features out of the box.

Highly secure platform

There is a reason why Drupal is a standard for enterprise clients. Drupal is a mature, stable platform that has been designed with security as a priority. The Drupal Security Council oversees all issues of security, and the global community of Drupal developers are constantly fixing security issues as they are discovered.

Scalable & extensible tech

Drupal can support sites with constantly high levels of traffic, or just surges at any given time - in fact it’s used by some of the 100 busiest sites in the world. Drupal is also hugely extensible, with hundreds of APIs and integrations that already exist. Its architecture is such that developers should never end up hitting a wall that cannot be overcome.

Drupal expert consultants

We’re not only specialists in Drupal and its applications across multiple industries, but digital strategists too. That means we don’t just build well, we build right. We combine our technical excellence with strategic business and user-focused acumen to create award-winning sites.

Drupal is fully responsive and integrates well with leading technologies and wed development frameworks

Easy content management

A powerful content management system with an intuitive user interface. Authoring permissions and editorial workflows. Changes and revisions easily tracked. You can even create content in Drupal from a mobile device.

Mobile first

Fully responsive, so mobile sites are created quickly and look great. User experience is seamless, whatever sort of device they’re on. Want a web application? Drupal can do that too.

API first

APIs (application programme interfaces) connect marketing technologies and other business applications together. Drupal is designed to connect your content to other sites, and your tools together.

Flexible architecture

Multimedia (text, images, video, PDFs, etc.), customizable menus, context-specific content displays, and content architecture that’s editable from the admin interface. Drupal makes it simple.

Multi-site

A single platform to manage multiple sites across your organization, brands or locations. Drupal lets you create quickly and deploy easily.

Multi-lingual

Localisation works smoothly with Drupal. Installable in 94 languages. Translation workflows. Multiple admin languages. RTL (right to left) language content and admin interfaces.

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Concern Worldwide gains international reach with Drupal

Concern is a globally-active charity with a suite of sites that drive engagement, donations and gift purchases. We’ve been helping them deliver those activities using Drupal web development for the last 10 years. 

Managing millions of Euros in donations, contend with spikes of 500,000+ users at a time, and integrating with their other administrative systems, like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, is a big ask, but Drupal makes it easy.

Over our agency's 10 year relationship with Concern, they’ve benefited from the previous coding and development of the open-source community in reducing their costs, and are repaying that by allowing us to release much of the work we’ve done for them as Falcon, our CMS specifically for charities.

Concern Worldwide need their suite of sites to be super robust, highly secure, handle a lot of traffic, and also be easy for site admins to build pages and edit content. Drupal is the only framework that does all these things whilst being quick for us to build as well.

Kate Marshalkina
SystemSeed Tech Lead & PM for Concern Worldwide
Concern.net website screenshots using Drupal 9 web services
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FAQ
Does my Drupal version matter?

Yes, your Drupal version does matter. Not only does each new version of Drupal improve on its features and UX, if you use a version of Drupal that is no longer supported by the community (called 'End of Life') your site will be much more vulnerable to attack. Additionally, any issues found will not receive community attention, so you would have to get them fixed yourself.

What is the latest version of Drupal?

At the time of writing, the latest version of Drupal is Drupal 11. Drupal 10, Drupal 9, and Drupal 8 are still widely used, but it is much easier now to update a site from one version to another and organisations tend to update quite quickly. This is because from Drupal 8, all new Drupal versions are forward compatible, so you don't need to completely rebuild your site to move from one Drupal version to the next.

I'm still on Drupal 7. Is that a problem?

Yes, Drupal 7 is no longer actively supported by the Drupal community. This means your site is vulnerable to security issues and attacks. Unfortunately, Drupal 7 is not forward compatible. This means that upgrading a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8+ requires a site rebuild (and migration, if you want to retain all your site content and features. However, if you are unable to upgrade right now, there are steps you can take to keep your existing site secure. Contact us to learn more about that here.

What's the difference between Drupal Core and Drupal CMS?

Drupal CMS (previously called Drupal Starshot) is a new approach to creating Drupal sites. The intention is to make setting up a Drupal site much easier for non-technical users. Drupal CMS offers a much more plug-and-play process for site set up and will include Drupal Core and some of the most commonly used Drupal modules in one bundle.

Can I integrate Drupal with the rest of my tech stack?

SystemSeed has created a lot of integrations with Drupal for a wide variety of clients, and it is likely that any of your technologies can be integrated with Drupal. CRM and payment processors are some of the most commonly integrated technologies with Drupal, and we've even created some of the Drupal integration modules you'll see on the Drupal.org website.

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