Unlike other software engineering areas, Drupal demands your expertise in multiple fields. Let us check why a developer should broaden their horizon with Drupal in this age of digital transformation.
Drupal
We have come across security issues where the 'install.php' or 'update.php' files present in the Drupal website are accessible even after setting up the website. We will need to make sure that access to these files is restricted.
Drupal is a very secure content management system and provides a lot of security for website owners out of the box. Drupal 8 and 9 come with flood prevention capabilities that protect against brute force login attacks on your website. However, if you want to go that extra mile and prevent access to the user/login page to anonymous users, you can use Disable Drupal Login Page module.
What is CMS?
CMS or Content Management System is software that is extensively used for the creation and management of digital content on a website. The most significant advantage of a CMS is that it allows website owners to manage their website and its content without needing any extensive technical knowledge in coding and website development. A CMS handles all the web infrastructure and back-end parts of the website. At the same time, you are only required to provide the content that needs to be published on the website, making website building faster and easier.
Content, commerce, and data are something that always gels together in the context of the web. One of the success factors behind the ticket selling platform I have architected a few years ago is a good example of effectively utilizing this combination.
The key idea was to implement a system that is capable of spawning any number of front end portals - through which users purchase entry passes for events and a single backend system that can be used for publishing events, manage prices, manage orders as well as allocate entry passes associated with the event.
The latest version of Drupal - Drupal 9 - will be released in June 2020. If you are on Drupal 6 or 7, you can either move to Drupal 8.8 now which is in all intents and purposes Drupal 9 itself and let it be auto-upgraded onto Drupal 9 or you can wait till the Drupal 9 release in June 2020 to do the upgrade [You should wait only if you want to deny your organization the benefits of Drupal 8 & 9 for another 6 months.]. The move to Drupal 8 will offer you a set of serious benefits for your Digital Transformation initiatives including preparedness for a world of mobility, intuitive content authoring experience, and great performance and speed. The next upgrade from Drupal 8.8 to Drupal 9 will be a simple affair like applying a regular security patch and will offer you a highly efficient codebase.
Digital technologies are reshaping industries and organizations are responding to it by going through their own Digital Transformation journeys. In a general context, Digital Transformation can be defined as the integration of digital technology into the overall business process of an organization to create a radical change in the fundamental business model and the way in which it delivers value to its customers.Some of the key technology enablers for digital transformation are Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, SaaS Platforms, Web Service Integration, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Predictive Analytics, and Business Process Automation.
Problem Statement
Department of IT and Telecom (DITT) being the nodal department for IT infrastructure had the responsibility of managing the websites of different government entities. While there were many common features to these websites, they were built using different technologies, and therefore, maintenance was difficult costly. In the present case, the 24 websites of the Dzongkhags and Thromdes were developed on different technologies with different designs and functionality.
Organizations use to deliver annual reports to their different stakeholders to describe their operations and financial conditions for the past year. This is a routine activity for all Medium to Large scale organizations. Even in this digital era, organizations use to create these reports in PDF format, targeting users who use to print these reports to read them. Being in PDF format, users find it difficult to read online. Here comes the need of presenting it in an interactive format, where users can read it effortlessly and navigate to different sections as per their needs.
As the GDPR comes into effect, businesses are scrambling to take measures to become compliant with the regulation. If you are maintaining a Drupal website and would like to know how easily you can make your website a GDPR compliant one, read on.
This article focuses on the contributed modules available in Drupal.org, which are aimed at helping website owners become compliant with the new rule.
EU Cookie Compliance
Module: EU Cookie Compliance