Rely

How can a powerful multisite ecosystem transform the digital presence of a cutting-edge energy tech company? This is exactly what RelySolutions, a joint venture between Technip Energies and John Cockerill, set out to discover. With an unwavering commitment to reshaping the green energy transition landscape, RelySolutions needed a robust, scalable, and future-ready web platform to support its groundbreaking mission. Our Drupal-driven solution became the cornerstone of their digital presence.

A Digital Platform for a Company Transforming Energy

RelySolutions was born in November 2023, a powerhouse collaboration aiming to revolutionize the green hydrogen and Power-to-X sectors. With its headquarters inaugurated in Brussels in June 2024, the company embarked on a mission to offer innovative, safe, and scalable solutions for green hydrogen production.

Focused on delivering advanced technologies in green hydrogen production and Power-to-X solutions, RelySolutions needed a digital presence that could reflect its technological prowess and provide an exceptional user experience. They needed a solution that would be flexible, scalable, and responsive to rapid changes in the fast-evolving energy sector.
 

Why Drupal: A Multisite Ecosystem with Unmatched Flexibility

Drupal was the perfect choice for RelySolutions because of its unique multisite capabilities, enabling RelySolutions to leverage the existing features of the TEN.com ecosystem. This choice allowed them to enrich and extend their current multisite platform, a critical factor given the scale and complexity of their needs.

Drupal offered:

• Multisite Ecosystem: The multisite functionality allowed RelySolutions to integrate their new project into the existing TEN.com ecosystem, ensuring a streamlined and consistent user experience across different sites.
• Flexibility in Page Composition: Drupal’s flexibility empowered RelySolutions to create and manage pages with ease, catering to both the technical and non-technical users.
• Enhanced Editor Experience: The user-friendly editor experience ensured that content updates and management were smooth, which is crucial for a rapidly growing enterprise.
• Speed to Market: By inheriting features from existing sites, the multisite ecosystem enabled a fast time-to-market for RelySolutions' digital platform.
   

Building the Future: Project Goals, Requirements, and Features

From the beginning, the goal was to create a digital platform to support RelySolutions’ ambitions as a global leader in green hydrogen production. The project had several key objectives:

Scalable Multisite Integration: RelySolutions needed to integrate into the TEN.com multisite environment. This required a seamless creation of new projects over the existing platform, ensuring compatibility and consistency with the overall ecosystem.

Advanced Content Flexibility: RelySolutions required new components built around Drupal’s paragraphs module to manage the complexity of their content. This allowed them to create highly customizable page layouts, enhancing their storytelling capabilities with features like video animations, CSS transitions, and interactive carousels.

Evolution of Existing Features: The project also involved evolving the current paragraph structures to support new content possibilities, such as animated videos and more dynamic elements.

Custom Theme Development: A unique theme was developed, extending the multisite base to reflect RelySolutions’ brand identity and vision while maintaining technical compatibility with the overarching TEN.com ecosystem.

Interactive and Promotional Features: A sidebar contact form was implemented across the site, making it easy for potential customers to engage with RelySolutions. Additionally, animated components were added to make the website visually engaging and informative, from video integrations to vertical carousels that present complex information in an easily digestible way.

Acquia Hosting for Stability and Performance: Hosting on Acquia ensured stability, security, and superior performance, essential for a business as mission-critical as RelySolutions.

Key Modules and Technical Tools That Powered the Project

The RelySolutions platform was built on a robust stack of Drupal modules, ensuring the site was feature-rich, secure, and optimized for performance. Some of the critical modules included:

• drupal/paragraphs: Enabled the creation of flexible and customizable content structures.
• drupal/simple_sitemap: Helped with SEO, ensuring that the site is discoverable by search engines.
• drupal/acquia_search: Integrated search capabilities across the site, offering users a seamless experience.
• drupal/acquia_connector, drupal/acquia_purge: Ensured compatibility and integration with Acquia's cloud platform for performance optimization.
• drupal/blazy: Provided lazy-loading for images and videos, ensuring fast load times and improved user experience.
• drupal/config_split: Managed configuration across multiple environments, critical for maintaining the multisite ecosystem.
• drupal/scheduler: Allowed content to be published and unpublished automatically, streamlining content management.
• drupal/honeypot, drupal/antibot: Enhanced security by protecting the site from spam bots.
• drupal/xray_audit: Aided in code auditing and performance enhancements, keeping the platform efficient and scalable.

Community Contributions: Improving the Drupal Ecosystem

Our team also contributed back to the Drupal community through this project, particularly by creating patches and improving the drupal/xray_audit module. These contributions helped optimize the audit capabilities for RelySolutions while benefiting other Drupal users in the broader community.

The Final Outcome: A Platform Ready to Scale

The outcome of this project was a cutting-edge digital platform that positions RelySolutions as a leader in the energy transition industry. With advanced green hydrogen and Power-to-X solutions, RelySolutions now has the digital infrastructure to communicate its expertise effectively. Their new website supports their long-term growth by being scalable, easily manageable, and perfectly aligned with their future vision of a cleaner, greener world.

This project illustrates how the flexibility and power of Drupal’s multisite ecosystem can be leveraged to deliver a fast, efficient, and scalable digital experience. It allows RelySolutions to innovate, communicate, and scale their green hydrogen solutions as they lead the charge in transforming the global energy landscape.

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