The open source nature of Drupal, being free to extend or alter it is massively important for us. We also use it to build communications. Not being tied to a single vendor means that we can have scale for developers.

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Drupal is an open source content management system which provides an easy installation process, a good range of modules for features' expansion, as well as a supportive community that will help resolve issues that you face with Drupal.

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The velocity of its extensibility and prototyping is a valuable feature. I can quickly take a concept and have a working prototype within several days, rather than in several weeks.

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We use a part of the solution called Acquia. The personalization portion of this is the most valuable aspect fo the solution.

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The ability to create a complex website with a few developments is the most valuable feature, that's what got me started. Of course, a lot of other things are valuable such as the use of Symfony as a framework, the user management system, Internationalization, community and so on.

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As an ASA. As a primarily back-end developer, the extensible OO architecture is the most valuable, along with the CMS and related services it provides, such as revisioning, workflow, translation, and API scaffolding.

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The best things about Drupal are its extensibility and plug-ability. You can get something going quite fast that’s feasible for clients to see.

It has a very good authentication/authorization system. For a few years, the application had a dedicated security team who took care of reported security issues with the Drupal core and even contributed modules. The vast user base is a big bonus. You have plenty people collaborating on many modules/plugins, so if you have issues, someone will step in quite fast to help you.

A lot of functionality has been added to the core since Drupal Version 6 allows for people who don’t have a strong technical background to build complex displays of data and pages just by using a WYSIWYG editor.

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Configuration API: Makes features configurable and easier to design custom applications. We were able to build several websites that utilize many custom content types. In other words, content that has many unique fields within the type. Drupal’s extensible nature allows me to easily integrate with third-party hosted systems and pull or push data to those systems.

Developing in Drupal is like constructing a custom-designed building from scratch, using all the raw materials and knowing how to put it all together.

Drupal 8 includes Twig for theming. Twig is PHP-based, flexible, fast, and secure. It's much easier to create more functional Drupal websites using Twig, as its templates are written in a syntax that's less complex than a PHP template or others while being more secure. Still, knowing how to tweak the core with PHP is a big advantage.

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• I appreciate the free software.
• This gives us the possibility to search deep in the core of the system in case of bugs.
• In addition, it enables you to improve the core functionality. This feature also helped the framework to be more secure because the Drupal community around the world is always checking, verifying, and fixing bugs in the Drupal core and in the contributed modules and themes.
• I am also grateful to the extensible framework. In some cases, just the Drupal and the contributed modules are not enough to build the client requirements.
• Drupal has provided us with a modular framework that we can enhance, where we can develop our own modules to give a required feature to the client.
• We can also contribute back with our module to the wider Drupal community.
• We also really value API documentation because if we need to develop some custom functionality or simply understand what Drupal is doing, we can go to the Drupal API documentation page,
  (https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal), or do a simple search in Google.
• The Drupal community is one of the biggest free software communities around the world. It is so valuable because it is responsible for organizing events around the world, training new developers, providing maintenance to the core, and contributed modules. We have a popular saying in the Drupal community, ”Come for the software, stay for the community”.

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I have been convinced since the start that Drupal's greatest asset is its community. Drupal's motto is "Come for the software, stay for the community".

But the community has, from the start, created modules that are now a deep part of Drupal core. They continue to innovate in a lot of different areas.

The web moves fast. Having a big community allows the software to be on top of things in a lot of different areas, such as technical and marketing areas.

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The new component-based content management is very helpful. It is cludgy at first, but maintenance is very nice among many content contributors.

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• Content type definitions: One of the best features of Drupal, and maybe the key differentiator to other solutions, is the way that content is structured and managed. In Drupal Version 8, this was improved. The global process of creating a content type with fields, relations, and translations is more refined and advanced than before.
• Views: In the Drupal Core, views are a quick and advanced way to create listings of content. When using the UI, it is possible to query contents and have the results sorted and filtered by any element. Combined with the template engine, the output can be easily transformed into whatever is required from the design.
• Inclusion of symphony framework: Drupal Version 8 shifted to a full OOP API. The inclusion of pieces from the symphony framework provided some modern patterns in the Drupal core.
• Configuration management: A CMI was implemented for Drupal Version 8, a centralized place to handle and store configurations. This is a huge improvement when compared to Drupal Version 7.
• Content moderation: This wasn’t included in the original 8 version but was incorporated later as an experimental module and will be released as stable on Drupal 8.3. The possibility to have custom workflow around the contents and different states (e.g. draft, published, pending, etc..) is critical for any medium/big website.

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Its ability to style the article module is the most valuable feature. It gives the developer the flexibility to show the articles the way he/she wants.

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Drupal is one of the most robust content management systems. My favorite features are:

• The ability to create content types using Drupal's field system
• A robust categorization tool provided by Drupal's taxonomy system
• Access control using the user roles and permissions
• Extensibility using thousands of contributed modules

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• The robust API and the large number of contributed modules created by the community
• The API uses a consistent hook system to allow you to build custom modules which "hook" into Drupal seamlessly. For example, these could be used to add new user permissions, page blocks, or to simply alter the text on a form button.
• The Drupal contributed modules are those that are built and maintained by the community members. There's a saying in the Drupal community "There's a module for that." Quite often, there is already a module for the functionality that you need, or one very close to it.
• The key contributing modules are views, panels, Ctools, token, and Pathauto. A number of key contributing modules have ended up in the Drupal core in recent years.

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<ol> <li>Feature-rich</li> <li>Open source </li> <li>Highly extendable</li> <li>Being actively developed</li> <li>Helpful, collaborative community</li> <li>free</li> </ol> View full review »

1. The amount of functionality provided, both in the core product and in the thousands of community-developed modules.
2. The ability to review – and edit -- the code when needed.
3. The ability to find independent organizations and individuals who provide Drupal services.
4. The community, and its helpful, collaborative nature.

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It is a very powerful tool for the developer's hands and also, it's very easy for the content editors to use.

It's a framework integrated with CMS. The advantage of having a framework with CMS is that you make the software useful for both the developer teams and the content editors, at the same time. You can create rich experiences by allowing the developers to extend what is already provided and at the same time, making the CMS experience even richer.

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• The most valuable features are flexibility, robustness, and community support.
• Has a very customizable web platform. You can build a lot of different solutions on top of it.
• It is robust, secure, and maintained by a very large community of developers.
• Community: The most important feature. The Drupal community is awesome and will provide you with all the support, training, and answers you might need when using it.

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• Ease of use: Drupal creates easy authoring workflows, flexible content architecture, and allows you to publish content on a single site. You can also publish across multiple sites, with multilingual and multi-device support.
• Flexibility: With Drupal, unlike proprietary CMSs, you are not restricted to a fixed set of features. You have the freedom to choose from numerous plug and play modules. You can create a CMS with the exact feature set that’s relevant to your digital strategy.
• Scalability: Drupal is built to scale up with your business requirements, with seamless additions of new features and functionalities as you grow. Unlike proprietary CMSs, you will not pay a heavy license fee for usage and upgrade.
• Security: Drupal is a proven, secure CMS, with a global team of security experts who validate and respond to security issues. This, coupled with an active, open source community, ensures that you will have a security patch available, even before you know of vulnerability.

• Community: The open source community drives Drupal. With over 23,000 contributed modules, there’s a high chance that any feature you want has already been built, and is available for you to use at no cost.

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Content creation and management is highly robust with the ability to add any content type you could think of whether it be text, video, imagery, or more functional content like polls or forums. View full review »

• Custom distributions: Supports multiple sites that share functionalities
• Localization: Provides content solutions across different regions and languages
• Analytics: Enable page load and event tracking
• Robust Permissioning: Facilitates different users to get different permissions
• Organic Groups: Supports the sub-groups within an organization
• Workbench Moderation: Supports the editorial workflow
• Flagging: Empowers the site's audience to positively affect the content
• Rules: Provides a framework to transparently automate tasks
• Messaging Notifications: It is a powerful tool that supports workflows

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The hook system. This makes Drupal highly extensible and allows even custom modules to be easily extensible themselves.

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The most valuable are the security features and a wide array of available modules, or extensions, that can be used to add functionality to a Drupal website.

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- Ease of Customization

- Expandability

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Module system.

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The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS. And I like that it's a good product to manage complex digital solutions.

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• It's extensible with so many modules.
• The environment allows for rapid prototyping.
• It provides security updates more often.
• It has a huge community and support from all over the web.

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The themes and modules are valuable features of this product. We can easily enhance the application's performance.

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• Content management: It helps the end user to input/update the content on his own without approaching the developer, once the site is built.
• Awesome community.
• A large number of modules which help in extending the functionality.
• An open-source solution.
• It is a secure solution.
• There is a constant development of new core features.

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Views, terms, panels, and entity conception. It is a very useful and fast solution to build successful web applications.

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Drupal is the most powerful and flexible CMS. We can extend it to any level of complexity. 

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Its scalability, content management practices, security and the community are valuable features.

The product is very well-supported. Every day, the Drupal community all over the world posts new updates along with the bug fixes and security updates. So, the product is getting better and better each day.

After many years of development (it has already reached version 8), Drupal gets great content management schemes and processes. Data is well-structured and controlled from any part of the code.

In the case of the required changes in some part of the functionality, you can apply changes without rewriting the features from scratch.

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• Flexibility
• A vast number of contributed modules
• Good support

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It is easy to build and maintain a web page.

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• It is very developer friendly.
• You can build websites on it very quickly.

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