We have been faced with the situation where we have to explain to our clients why we might recomment using Drupal as a platform. In many cases however, client knows the Drupal is proving its way high up in the list of CMS platforms.

But in cases where Drupal still needs to elaborate on its advantages then google is the best way to do a research. We have come up with a small list of the most important factors as to WHY DRUPAL?

recently was asked by a client to provide some ammunition for selling Drupal to his management team.  I found plenty info using my friend Google, but ultimately had to spend an hour or so organizing it into a concise list of bullet points that I thought addressed the broad spectrum of benefits that Drupal can provide.  I thought I'd share with others who may need something similar at some point.Without further ado...

First, it's Open Source:

•     Low or nil cost of ownership:No proprietary licensing fees
•     Backed up by large developer community
•     Portable and easy to install and configure
•     Extremely secure
•     Super functional custom modules to accomplish practically any task
•     Performance and scalability achieved via built-in caching and integrates easily with 3rd party caching mechanisms
•     SEO and Google Analytics right out of the box
•     standards-compliant HTML/CSS
•     Flexible and powerful theming possible to enable a rich presentation and look&feel
•     Easy to install and support, runs on Windows or practically any AMP (Apache, mySQL, PHP) stack

    
Web sites running on Drupal include:

•     Whitehouse.gov
•     US House of Representatives http://house.gov/house/news.shtml
•     US Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/
•     Digett, http://www.digett.com
•     Fast Company, http://www.fastcompany.com
•     The Pulitzer Prizes, http://www.pulitzer.org
•     Churchill Downs, http://www.churchilldowns.com
•     The Kentucky Derby, http://kentuckyderby.com (built by Digett 2004 - 2008)
•     Warner Brothers Records, http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com
•     AOL Corporate, http://corp.aol.com
•     Popular Science, http://www.popsci.com

 For a more elaborate list on government websites on Drupal please check out http://groups.drupal.org/government-sites.

Lifestyle driven vertical sites like

•     Running.Zappos.com
•     Outdoor.Zappos.com
•    Clarks.Zappos.com
•     StuartWeitzman.Zappos.com

Gaming Websites:

Drupal isn't only for work: it's also for play, as "FarmVille" creator Zynga proves. While their games usually appear as apps on social networks such as Facebook, its main site is on Drupal.
 

After all the successful examples would you need to be convinced more ....

For all those who have the new year's resoltion as planning to redesign and migrate your current CMS rethink Drupal!