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Decoupled Drupal, also known as headless Drupal, is an architectural approach that separates Drupal's backend content management system from its frontend presentation layer. This separation allows developers to use Drupal as a robust content repository while building dynamic, interactive frontends with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue.js, or Angular. By decoupling, organizations can deliver content seamlessly across multiple channels, including websites, mobile applications, and IoT devices. Key Features and Functionality: - Content API: Drupal provides APIs such as JSON:API and GraphQL, enabling efficient content retrieval and manipulation for frontend applications. - Frontend Flexibility: Developers can choose any frontend technology, allowing for the creation of highly interactive and customized user interfaces. - Omnichannel Delivery: Content can be distributed across various platforms, ensuring a consistent user experience on web, mobile, and other digital channels. - Performance Optimization: Decoupled architectures can enhance performance by leveraging client-side rendering and integrating with content delivery networks (CDNs) for faster content delivery. - Scalability: The separation of concerns allows for independent scaling of the backend and frontend, accommodating growing user demands and traffic. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Decoupled Drupal empowers organizations to future-proof their digital presence by enabling design refreshes without overhauling the entire CMS. It facilitates the delivery of content across multiple devices and platforms, ensuring a cohesive and engaging user experience. By leveraging Drupal's built-in caching and rendering technologies, decoupled architectures can achieve faster content delivery, enhancing overall site performance. This approach also allows development teams to work in parallel, with frontend and backend developers focusing on their respective areas, leading to more efficient development cycles and quicker time-to-market for new features.

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Sushil Y.

Software Development Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/8/2022

"Drupal for webpages"

5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

Very easy to navigate, configure all items, standards being followed, preview of webpage for testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

Nothing major. Many clicks required, some of them can be avoided.Back button to previous set-up page would be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul C.

Co-Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/28/2022

"Drupal(wm)"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

Drupal is great robust content management tool. It's easy to use. It will save your time as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

Need to improve some features and something new in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zahin I.

Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/7/2021

"Quick and easy to edit and manage webpages"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

It's easy to learn how to use Drupal if someone doesn't have a lot of website-building experience. There are a lot of options for page templates which can be used used for different purposes. Making edits on web pages is also quick and straightforward. If I'm working on a page, I can save it as a draft before publishing, and I can also quickly access the list of all the pages that I've created/edited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

There's a limit to what can be done on Drupal. The interface is not the most user friendly and can take some time to get used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Drupal:

I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a lot of coding or website building experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've stopped using Drupal because I am no longer at the job that used it. While I was at the job, I used Drupal to create and edit webpages for my company's website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/15/2021

"Easy CMS for Large Orgs"

5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

The ease with which you can use Drupal. Though there is absolutely a learning curve, as with everything, Drupal organizes things in a way that make it clear to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

For larger orgs, customization is always needed and therefore a web agency is needed to ensure that what the client needs can be built out in an intuitive and easy manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Drupal:

Is this the right fit for your organization?

Do you have a strong agency to help support your needs?

What issues are you having with your current site and how can these be resolved with Drupal?

What hosting is needed? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content organization as well as ease of updates for the user. This allows users to quickly update content to ensure they are presenting what is needed to their clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shannon O.

Professional Learning Writer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2021

"Intuitive and Simple Web Service"

5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

Once you learn the basics of Drupal, you can quickly enhance your skillset. Plus, if you're unsure of changes/work you're doing, you can save as a draft and allow others to approve and push pages live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

The blocks section used to be very confusing, but fortunately they've made major updates to enhance usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Drupal:

Remind colleagues that custom URLs can be edited and created based off organizational needs. This proves critical when making pages updates/refreshes to annual events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were struggling to find a system that was easy for all skill --level users. Drupal proved to be the best. We were able to allow editors and employees with greater knowledge to review changes/additions before having them go live -- such an important element. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/6/2021

"Powerful and Secure Open-Source Platform"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

I love that Drupal is an open-source platform. It's great for creating large, complex websites (or simple websites too). Great community support, and powerful and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

It can be overwhelming and challenging at first, but if you stick with it, you'll soon realize the many benefits of this product! Because Drupal is so advanced, there are components to the CMS that your average developer may not have previous experience in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2022

"Powerful Open Source Platform"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

I love how powerful Drupal is and the vision that is in place for scaling the platform to meet the emerging needs of users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

It is somewhat complicated. If it were made to be a little more user-friendly, it may attract more companies to adopt it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/29/2021

"Drupal is your go to CMS for complex portals and websites"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

Drupal is more than just a CMS. It is a true content management platform (emphasis on platform). To me, the difference with Drupal is its ability to manipulate the content and have dynamic content which is different than just a CMS. That is, It is more than just a system to render the data onto a webpage with stylesheets, but a complete platform that allows a developer to manupulate data dynamically and render it dynamically on a webpage. Many people will compare Wordpress with Drupal. To be fair, they both do 80% of the same thing, but the 20% is what makes the difference. Drupal allows a developer to control data input and output at a level that Wordpress does not. It is a lot like the difference between iOS (Apple Phone) and Android phone. They both allow to make calls but how that call is completed is different to a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

The fact that you can do so much in Drupal is also its downfault. To a non-developer, it is extremely difficult to use. There is a steep learning curve, and it is not very accessible (i.e. user-friendly) to most people. Given this issue though, a developer can make it more user-friendly so that anyone can author in the system. In fact, a Drupal developer can enable such things as a Gutenberg module, which is the same editor in WordPress; thus making authoring accessible to non-developers. However, you will need a developer to enable Gutenberg in the beginning which makes Drupal more challenging to use for the average user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Drupal:

If you have a very complex site or content, Drupal is the CMS for you. You will need a development team to get the best use of Drupal. However, if you have a simple site that needs to be maintained, try looking at other CMS such as WordPress, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Drupal allows us to have a dynamic internal portal for communications and information in a large enterprise. Because of the amount of content managed, Drupal is the ideal platform because we can add recommendation engines, targeted content to specific users and dynamic content to the portal's functionality. Through having these functions, we can allow users to find content easier and also surface communications specific to each employee. We reduce the "spam" effect and make direct communications to employees more relevant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2021

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"Good for technical capabilities but poor for user experience"

1/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

Drupal has lots of functionality and you can do pretty much anything you can dream of - once you have developers at hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

The UX and UI of Drupal is difficult to navigate and feels like software from a decade ago. There are way better options in the marketplace Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shobhit M.

Team Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

"Excellent CMS"

4/5

What do you like best about Drupal?

I liked most of the feature of Drupal speacially flexibility and robustness of the platform, integration with third party apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drupal?

During my Experience I faced some issue with themes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.