Silbury, a leading German digital integrator focused on sustainable digital solutions, is using Dropsolid Experience Cloud to deliver seamless omnichannel digital experiences to its clients. With their Headless Drupal Blueprint, a model that extends Dropsolid’s DXP, they make it possible to (co)create next-level and future-proof digital experiences.
Silbury Develops Headless Drupal Blueprint
Dropsolid Experience Cloud is a DXP: an integrated and cohesive piece of technology for engaging with multiple audiences across a broad array of digital touchpoints. Meaning organizations use it to build, manage, deploy and continually optimize their contextualized digital experiences across multiple channels, such as websites, portals, and mobile apps.
Dropsolid Experience Cloud, with Site Builder & Layout Builder, allows marketing teams to (co)create and publish professional and powerful websites in the shortest time possible. However, if one wants to use the platform headless, when the front-end is decoupled from the back-end, additional components are needed. E.g. to implement an omnichannel strategy without manually distributing content and analytics across multiple platforms.
With the Headless Drupal Blueprint based on Dropsolid Experience Cloud and the Next.js framework, Silbury has developed a model that extends the DXP. This is all while still retaining all of the platform features headless-enabled while being fully supported by Dropsolid.
Content delivery across any channel
Traditional content management systems not only manage content, but they also handle the ‘assembly’ and delivery of websites to the browser. Delivery via other channels - e.g. mobile apps, in-store systems, or similar - is often not foreseen in these CMS. Delivering the pages also places a greater load on the systems and can lead to noticeable speed losses at peak times.
The Headless Drupal Blueprint consequently separates content management from presentation and formatting, allowing flexible reuse of this content on any conceivable channel. The use of Next.js significantly reduces the computing effort required to deliver the pages, so that even large traffic peaks do not lead to system overload and a slowdown in access times.
With the work of Silbury, additional sites, apps and portals can be added even faster and in a consistent way.
Dominique De Cooman
CTO and Co-founder Dropsolid
”Headless is the future for digital experiences as businesses are adding more and more touchpoints to their digital portfolio,” explains Dominique De Cooman, Dropsolid founder and CTO. “Our DXP allows marketers to bring content and customer data together to deliver personalized experiences across all channels. It also enables development teams to create, deploy and manage both Drupal and Next.js projects in a similar way on one platform. With the work of Silbury, additional sites, apps and portals can be added even faster and in a consistent way. This is really what digitally ambitious businesses need today and is the foundation for future digital experiences.”
Headless Drupal Blueprint already field-tested
The performance of the Headless Drupal Blueprint is well received by online marketing professionals. Several customers have already had their portals implemented by Silbury headless on Dropsolid Experience Cloud. Most recently in December 2022, the websites of a leading outsourcing provider of business processes and innovative services went live. They are happy with the speed of implementation, the performance of the websites, and the ease with which the accessibility requirements could be implemented.
The future is headless
“With their Headless Drupal Blueprint, Silbury has proven to combine technical expertise, fast implementation, and more importantly they are a guiding partner to help their customers get the best possible digital experiences with the DXP. This is really what we value in our partners,” says De Cooman.
The close collaboration with the Dropsolid team allows us to go the extra mile, evolve our services and drive the product roadmap to keep meeting the ever-evolving needs of our customers.
Kolja Eigl
Managing Director Silbury
Kolja Eigl, Managing Director at Silbury confirms: “The close collaboration with the Dropsolid team allows us to go the extra mile, evolve our services and drive the product roadmap to keep meeting the ever-evolving needs of our customers. We see the need for similar headless implementations at many digital ambitious brands and (non-)governmental organizations in the year(s) to come.”
About Silbury
Silbury is an expert in sustainability through digitalization.
For more than 10 years, they have been designing IT projects and managing far-sighted solutions to make their customers fit for the future and strengthen them in the long term. They accompany their customers in all phases of digital innovation and transformation. They support them in the initial potential analysis and develop process automations as well as prototypes all the way to digital product innovation. Thanks to their IT consulting, processes are digitalized in a targeted manner, and the degree of sustainability is increased in a far-sighted way. This is not just about conserving resources, but about greater efficiency in all areas. Silbury designs customized solutions for this purpose. By digitizing sustainably, their customers invest in their own future in order to be economically successful.