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Drupal Drifts towards Subscription Economy: 5 Benefits

In a world, where you can subscribe to your favorite music or movie, own a home on rent, hire a car, get cloud-based backup and website hosting services and do much more against a flexible pay-as-you-go model, why can’t you own a web development framework, its resources or a complete website against a subscription? Drupal 8 distribution by Nasdaq draws on the similar concept.

The web-based resources offered by Nasdaq will enable their clients to build their investor relations websites and have them up and running in no time. Here Nasdaq has chosen Acquia as its Drupal distribution delivery partner. Acquia is offering the service through its flagship Drupal site building environment dubbed as Acquia Cloud Site Factory. The services are customized under three categories including: Pure Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and SaaS+. Interestingly, all are equipped with a range of multi site management tools. Let’s take a peek into the potential benefits of adopting the Drupal distribution model.

Dependency on Drupal Developers Got Reduced

Clients will have the freedom from the hassles involved with Drupal website development, maintenance, update and upgrade tasks as all stuff would be managed by the service provider. Thus, the quest of a Drupal developer every now and then for these jobs will soon be a past. Using an open source framework like Drupal has its own merits as advanced modules, enhancements and security patches are frequently made available by the experienced members of the community in the greater interest of the Drupal users.

2. Time to Market Got Cut

Time is critical in the business ecosystem. After a great and collaborated team work, you get a product built or manufactured. Enormous effort goes into its enhancement or update. But to honour every bit of effort that was put into to get the final product, you need to push it to the market, to the right audience. And here comes the role of a website. With this Acquia Cloud Site Factory Drupal distribution system in your favor, it has become relatively easier and faster to build a website or make changes to it so that the sales and marketing or other purpose is served without fail. There are ready-to-go templates, a common site architecture with validated code and proven testing methodology to check or avoid any downtime.

3. Managing Online Digital Assets Got Easier

According to a Forrester Research, on an average, every enterprise owns 268 macro or micro websites of varying complexity. For every discrete job, product or business vertical, they have a website. Handling the growing number of websites and their intricacies is a real challenge. Fortunately, Acquia Cloud Site Factory (ACSF) has got the remedy for all. It provides an effective platform to manage the growing digital portfolio. Whether it’s building or managing a brand site, a corporate website, a customer support community, a commerce website, an intranet, etc., or on the top of all keeping them connected has become easier. The availability of basic to advanced yet easy-to-use Drupal web development tools is an icing on the cake. Thus, comparatively a fewer resources would be required by enterprises for getting their online digital assets managed.

4. Content Authoring and Management Across Multiple Sites Got Seamless

Content is king. This is what connects a business to its stakeholders and contributes to or makes business transactions happen. Now, with ACSF, it becomes easier and faster to author new content, discover existing content, and make them viral across all targeted sites as and when required. With little efforts required in managing content, content developers, marketers, and business heads can focus better on their core job.

5. Personalization Got Easier and Better

This Drupal distribution platform is competent in delivering real-time, contextual, and personalized experiences to the website users or audiences. Interestingly, the relevancy of content is pivotal in driving meaningful user engagement, thereby converting site visitors to customers.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Saroj Kumar .