AGENCY & BUSINESS - Finding The Best Drupal Partner With Your RFP

This talk focuses on effective strategies and best practices for navigating the Request for Proposal (RFP) process to identify optimal Drupal development partners for business needs. The speaker discusses critical areas to optimize RFPs and assess potential vendors, including the design of the admin experience, content migration strategies, and large site management techniques. Attendees gain insights into evaluating a vendor's portfolio and understanding the importance of a collaborative relationship between developers and content authors, ensuring a user-first approach to content authoring and scalability.

Key to the discussion is the necessity for vendors to demonstrate experience with enterprise-level solutions, third-party integrations, and effective data management methods. The speaker emphasizes the importance of a vendor's hosting capabilities, problem-solving approaches, and knowledge of security practices, including data encryption and compliance standards. Attendees leave the session equipped with a checklist of essential criteria to evaluate Drupal vendors, ensuring the chosen partner can provide flexible, scalable architecture while maintaining security and performance.