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Have we reached Peak Drupal?Where Drupal 8 sits in the CMS landscape.

Owen Lansbury - PreviousNext

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Owen LansburyCo-founder & Managing Director

Looking outside the Drupal bubble...

Have we reached peak Drupal?

“Drupal powers over a million websites!”

https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

Riding the Hype Cycle

Not to be confused with the “7 Stages of Grief”

4 4S

“Drupal powers 30% of the Top 10,000

websites”

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management

––––Drupal!

––––Wordpress

https://trends.builtwith.com/cms

What we can be confident of...

● Drupal’s total market share is declining

● Currently sitting at 3-7% market share

● BUT! Drupal 8 adoption is growing steadily, especially at the higher end of the scale

The CMS Market

Open Source CMS

Factors driving Wordpress success

● Provided free with many hosting accounts

● Very easy for novices & small agencies with limited dev skills to use

● Strong “plugin” ecosystem & e-commerce

● Smooth maintenance & upgrade path

● Excellent SAAS platform at Wordpress.com

Open Source CMS

Commercial Open Source

SAAS CMS

Headless CMS

+

Custom CMS Frameworks

Enterprise CMS

Enterprise CMS - The Rest

Gartner Magic Quadrant

Drupal’s Path Ahead

“Drupal is for ambitious digital

experiences”

#Driesnote - Drupalcon Vienna 2017

So, what’s Drupal 8 not ideal for?

● Brochureware, Blogs, Small Business: Wordpress, Squarespace, Blogger etc.

● Non Profit / Fundraising: Nation Builder

● Online stores: Shopify, Magento, Woo, SAP

● Custom web apps: Debateable!

The Drupal comfort zone

Government

Media & Publishing

Higher Education

“Challenger” Enterprise

Technical Attributes

● Large scale, complex content requirements

● Public users and community features

● Scalability for high visitor traffic

● Multi-site management

● Custom features & 3rd party integration

Operational Attributes

● Established internal Web & IT teams

● Ambitions to be self reliant

● IT team managing cloud hosting

● Cost savings from open source software

● Agile delivery

● Speed to market

Where Drupal is Competitive

“Digital Experience Management”

The Big League

“The leading digital experience management solution that helps your business deliver compelling content across experiences — such as web, mobile, and the Internet of Things (IoT) — at the scale you need to

build your brand and drive engagement.

“The Sitecore Experience Platform is a connected platform that gives marketers everything they need to understand visitor needs and intents for delivering a more relevant, personalized experience—from initial

visit to post-purchase engagement and nurturing.

“With the Acquia Platform, organisations can realise the vision of personalised, contextual and real-time

customer engagement for the right person, at the right time, on the right device.

Enterprise software purchasing

● CIO/CTO/CMOs drive tech strategy

● Long term relationships with major suppliers

● Global technical decisions rarely made in AU/NZ

● Platforms in place for 5-10 years or more

● BUT! Drupal gaining Enterprise legitimacy, pushing large vendors to respond with services

Where does this leave us*?

*The smaller independent Drupal shops tucked at the bottom of the world

Best of breed services + Drupal 8

Marketing Automation

PersonalisationCloud Hosting Services

Email Marketing

Enterprise Search

Machine Learning / AI User Analytics

Customer Relationship Management

What we can expect for Drupal 8

● Overall market share reduces as smaller sites move to Wordpress and other SAAS platforms

● Drupal 8 will maintain or grow within its existing “Comfort zone”

● Growing market share in larger Enterprise

What you can do now...

● Focus on Drupal 8

● Keep servicing the “Comfort zone” clients

● Diversify into technologies and services that complement Drupal 8

● Partner with larger digital agencies to provide Drupal 8 expertise

Contribute!

owen@previousnext.com.au

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