Why It Is a Good Idea to Switch to Drupal 8?

Creating a website using a CMS platform is the latest trend and Drupal has always been a long time favorite of business owners due to its reduced cost and rich features that it offers. It is after a long wait that the Drupal community has finally released the latest version and Drupal 8 is now available for everyone in the market. But the question comes, why should you care for it?  Well, Drupal 8 has brought with it some much more powerful out of the box features than its predecessors and is ready to help your business move forward.

So, here in this blog, I will discuss how Drupal Development Company can help the business owners to create powerful sites and how customers can enjoy the change.

For the business owners:

Out of the box features: Drupal 8 has come up with more out of the box functionalities than with the previous versions. Some of the features include new fields, responsive images, multilingual options, ability to Quick Edit and more. There are more field types in the core and some other features related to the content include things like entity reference, email, link, date which can be added to create customized contact forms.

Future proof: The latest version of Drupal is not only up to date with the recent time, but it is also ready for the future. Drupal developers creating sites on the latest version will be able to evolve for years with only minor updates. The sites can use the built in user interfaces to translate anything in the system. This means that the companies that are willing to reach out to more users can now use Drupal to create multilingual sites.

Tuned to recent website’s needs:  Durpal 8 is finely tuned to the present website’s needs and is completely responsive and also helps to make edits to the site directly by using your smartphone. Making edits to content in Drupal has become easier as it has a new user interface that makes the work easier.

For the customer experience:

Cross channel customer experience: With Drupal 8, you can now understand your users better and send email communications to them instead of a text notification. An update in Drupal backend can now trigger a mobile push notification and easily integrate with the mobile commerce for better customer experience.

Conversational interfaces: These interfaces allow the users to have spoken experiences. Whether it is a Siri to set a timer or an app that lets you know the arrival of your customer, high level service is what customers wish from all products across any device. The Alexa integration module now connects Drupal 8 with Amazon Eco devices and this helps to gather appropriate information in a specific category and relays the information to the user.