Overview

Drupal is a powerful and free web based content management system that is used to power tens of thousands of corporate websites, non-profit websites, intranet applications, e-commerce applications, blogs, and other web related deployments. Drupal allows those who utilize the right platform to:

• Avoid Expensive Licensing Costs
• Utilize the Open Source Community
• Rapidly Develop New Modules and Functionality
• Increase Return on Investment

Please take a moment to review the complete feature set and contact a Solutions Architect to find out if Drupal is the right fit for your web initiative/project.

General Features

For a full feature list please visit Drupal.org. Comprehensive list taken from www.drupal.org

• Friendly URLs – Easy to manage and customizable URL re-writes focused on search engine optimization.
• Modules – A pliable framework with many options for community developed modules and a strong platform for custom development.
• Open source - The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2 (GPL). Drupal being open source means full access to everything you need without the confines of licensed software.
• Role based permission system – Using role based systems administrators can easily group people together alleviating the headache of managing individual permissions for access to key resources.
• Searching - All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times using the built in search module.

User management

• User authentication – Drupal supports a wide variety of internal and external authentication methods already. Among these is LDAP allowing the use of already in place enterprise authentication.

Content management

• Polls – Solicit and gather key information from your visitors using verbose polling features out of the box.
• Templating – Utilizing a fundamental architecture of separating content from design allows for easy management and more creative design.
• Comment Capabilities - Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling discussion on published content.
• Version control – Keep multiple revisions of published pages knowing who edited which version and roll it back to a previous version with the click of a button.

Forums and Blogging

• Content syndication - Exports your site's content in RDF/RSS format for others to gather. This lets anyone with a News Aggregator browse your Drupal sites feeds.
• News aggregator - Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for reading and blogging news from other sites.
• Permalinks - All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or "perma link" associated with it so people can link to it freely without fear of broken links.
• Discussion forums - Full discussion forum features are built into Drupal to create lively, dynamic community sites.

Administration and analysis

• Analysis, Tracking and Statistics - Print browser-based reports with information about referrals, content popularity and how visitors navigate your site.
• Logging and Reporting - All important activities and system events are captured in an event log to be reviewed by an administrator.
• Web based administration - Drupal can be administered entirely using a web browser, making it possible to access it from around the world and requires no additional software to be installed on your computer.