How Drupal Can Cut Time and Cost for Enterprise Applications

2011-03-06

Jitesh Doshi

How Drupal Can Cut Time and Cost for Enterprise Applications

Explanation of how Drupal's architecture enables faster and cheaper enterprise application development.

When I first discovered Drupal, I thought it was a very usable CMS (Content Management System) for building dynamic websites. Drupal does an excellent job as a CMS. But then I discovered something even better - these modules can be combined to create very powerful applications with complex data models, workflows and screenflows.

The hook system of Drupal allows you to insert/append your own functions at almost any point in the processing. This gives you a way of manipulating Drupal’s behavior in a very non-intrusive manner. The result of all this is that Drupal-based enterprise application development cuts time and cost in a big way.

  • Drupal core provides a huge amount of functionality that almost all typical web-applications need. In Drupal 7, even building custom content types has been moved into the core.
  • The great number, variety and quality of Drupal modules provides for most other needs that most web-applications have.
  • Writing your own modules using Drupal API and hooks allows you to add the functionality that is specific to your application.

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