Building world-class platforms takes time. Dropsolid CEO Dominique De Cooman takes us behind the scenes to give some insight into the Dropsolid Platform and how it has evolved into a prime digital experience platform for enterprises.

Recently, a client of ours shared with us their frustration that their website’s internal site search results didn’t display the most relevant items when searching for certain keywords. They had done their homework and provided us with a list of over 150 keywords and the expected corresponding search result performance. Their site was built with Drupal 7 and relied on Search API & Search API Solr for content indexing and content display.
 

Last September Dropsolid sponsored and attended Drupal Europe. Compared to the Northern America’s conferences, getting Europeans to move to another location is challenging. Certainly when there are many conferences of such high quality that compete such as Drupalcamps, Drupal Dev Days, Frontend United, Drupalaton, Drupaljam, Drupal Business Days. I’m happy for the team they succeeded in making Drupal Europe profitable, this is a huge accomplishment and it also sends a strong signal to the market!

At Dropsolid, we spend a lot of time to build your web experiences. Back in the day we decided to do this in Drupal. 

At the time that we decided this, the best CMS to build these digital experiences was Drupal 7 by far. The system had everything you could dream of to develop and deploy websites which were both powerful and flexible. However, time and technology are moving on and the users of websites have more demands today than they used to have.

Recently, I was invited to go on the Modern CTO podcast as a guest. We talked about developer culture, how to measure efficiency and velocity and, more importantly, how you can make the teams as independent as possible without losing that team and company feeling.