--- url: 'https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal' title: 'Drupal development partner, 15+ years' author: name: 'Jorge Tutor' url: 'https://metadrop.net/es/sobre/jorge-tutor' date: '2026-05-08T09:37:47+00:00' updated: '2026-08-04T11:19:01+00:00' type: article summary: 'Drupal development, upgrades, migrations, multisite and headless delivery from a Silver Certified partner, 15+ years in Drupal. 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[Digital Consultancy, Development and Support](https://metadrop.net/en/services) # Drupal development, solutions and support across the platform lifecycle Metadrop is a Drupal specialist that organizations in Europe hire as a single **Drupal development partner** across the whole platform lifecycle: architecture advice, build, multisite and headless solutions, version upgrades, and maintenance under a contractual SLA. This page routes each situation to the service that handles it. [Start with a Drupal review](#contact)[Explore](#scroll-to-content) ## Drupal development & support Drupal development, upgrades, migrations, multisite and headless delivery from a Silver Certified partner, 15+ years in Drupal. See where to start. - [**Drupal consulting**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal/consulting "Independent Drupal architecture review, technical governance and long-term strategy from senior experts — whoever delivers the development.") Independent Drupal architecture review, technical governance and long-term strategy from senior experts — whoever delivers the development. - [**AI-Powered Drupal**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal/drupal-ai "Orchestrating AI models within Drupal to automate workflows and deliver predictive user experiences.") Orchestrating AI models within Drupal to automate workflows and deliver predictive user experiences. - [**Upgrade to Drupal 11**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal/upgrade "Move from Drupal 8, 9 or 10 to Drupal 11 with content, integrations and SEO preserved — no rebuild.") Move from Drupal 8, 9 or 10 to Drupal 11 with content, integrations and SEO preserved — no rebuild. - [**Drupal Maintenance & Support**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal/maintenance "Preventive, corrective and evolutive Drupal maintenance keeping your platform secure, compliant and evolving long-term.") Preventive, corrective and evolutive Drupal maintenance keeping your platform secure, compliant and evolving long-term. - [**Drupal 7 support & migration**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal/drupal7-support-migration "Interim security support for Drupal 7 after its January 2025 end of life, plus a planned migration to Drupal 10 or 11.") Interim security support for Drupal 7 after its January 2025 end of life, plus a planned migration to Drupal 10 or 11. - [**Module development and third-party integrations**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal/integrations "Seamlessly connecting Drupal as the "brain" for CRMs (Salesforce), ERPs, and marketing automation.") Seamlessly connecting Drupal as the "brain" for CRMs (Salesforce), ERPs, and marketing automation. ## What a Drupal partner covers across the platform lifecycle A Drupal partner covers four phases in sequence: **architecture and platform decisions**, build and evolutive development, version upgrades and migrations, and ongoing maintenance. The same team can carry the platform through all four, instead of a separate supplier per phase. **Advice is separable from delivery.** Metadrop reviews architecture and platform decisions even when another supplier writes the code. Three engagement models combine freely rather than competing: a **dedicated core team on a monthly retainer**, strategic projects at a fixed price, and agile evolution on **prepaid hours**. **Maintenance is preventive, corrective and evolutive**, covering security and core updates, incident resolution under agreed response terms, and planned feature work. **A version upgrade is scoped as its own project**, deliberately excluded from every maintenance plan, and timed against the security-support end date of the Drupal branch in use. **An audit is a timeboxed point-in-time review**, and the ongoing consultancy loop that can follow it is contracted separately, so a review is never open-ended. Metadrop has been building Drupal platforms for **15+ years** and is a Drupal Association **Silver Certified Partner**. Platforms carried through several Drupal generations A global industrial manufacturer's corporate platform was migrated from Drupal 7 to 9, then progressively upgraded through Drupal 10 and 11 across several years, with maintenance, new feature development and accessibility remediation delivered by the same team throughout (2022 to present). A multinational home-appliances and HVAC manufacturer's European platform was taken over from a previous provider, stabilized, rebuilt as a multisite architecture, and upgraded from Drupal 10 to 11. It now runs preventive maintenance and evolutive development under one team. ## Where to go next in the Drupal lifecycle Each route below is a full service page with its own scope, deliverables and engagement terms, so start from the one that matches the decision in front of you. Readers arriving with **no decision made yet** normally start with consulting or an audit, while readers with a **deadline** normally start with upgrade or Drupal 7 migration. ## They've Trusted Metadrop From manufacturing and energy to public administrations and international NGOs, organizations across Europe and beyond have relied on Metadrop for Drupal platforms in **50+ countries and 30+ languages**. Pause logos Play logos > One of Metadrop’s greatest strengths is its ability to abstract complex technical jargon. They translate technical constraints into clear, actionable business insights, allowing us to make informed decisions without getting lost in the code. This was particularly evident during our seamless migration to Drupal 11. Vicent Bastide Group Digital & e-Reputation Director > *Metadrop’s takeover of our legacy Drupal platform was defined by immediate ownership and technical proactivity. They ensured a seamless transition with zero downtime, providing total business continuity for our European operations from day one.* Nikita Patel European Marketing Director (HVAC) > The upgrade to Drupal 11 was an expertly managed process that went beyond a simple technical update. Metadrop stabilized our entire infrastructure, which serves as a reliable foundation for our digital strategy. Our multisite ecosystem is now a core strategic asset. It allows us to expand the Haier brand across different markets with professional consistency. Nikita Patel European Marketing Director (HVAC) > Metadrop was an important partner during the complex corporate split of Solvay and Syensqo. They managed the smooth transition of our entire country and brand website ecosystem, including the implementation of the new corporate site syensqo.com. Feys, Nathalie Digital Project Manager > Metadrop has been a key technology partner for Schär for over three years. We have entrusted them with some of our most critical digital initiatives, including the complex integration of our USA e-commerce platform and the complete re-architecture of our Lead Generation and user registration strategy. Giacomo Bisoffi Head of Global Digital Data & Platforms ## Drupal solutions we build most often Four platform patterns account for most Drupal work Metadrop is brought in for, and each one carries its own architecture trade-offs. - [**Drupal multisite**](https://metadrop.net/en/solutions/drupal-multisite): many brand, regional or departmental sites sharing one Drupal core and configuration, so a new site does not mean a new platform to maintain. - [**Headless and decoupled Drupal**](https://metadrop.net/en/solutions/headless-cms-drupal): Drupal as the content back end behind a JavaScript front end, chosen when the front-end experience genuinely needs it rather than by default. - [**Enterprise intranets**](https://metadrop.net/en/solutions/drupal-enterprise-intranets): internal platforms behind SSO, where role-based access to content and an audit trail over who changed what carry more weight than page count. - [**Drupal commerce**](https://metadrop.net/en/solutions/drupal-commerce-agency): catalogue, checkout and subscriptions on Drupal, including the European payment methods an EU merchant needs. **Editorial teams can retain a visual page-building experience** in each of these patterns, including decoupled setups where visual preview is often lost. Multisite and decoupled architectures in production A multinational appliances manufacturer's platform serves 3 brand sites, with more being added, in 5 languages, combining symmetric and asymmetric translation strategies on one Drupal base. A rights-management confederation consolidated 7 previously separate websites onto a single Drupal base in 2 languages, and an energy-sector multinational's platform spans 6 sites in 2 languages sharing one technical base. Another energy-sector platform that started as headless Drupal 9 was rebuilt as a coupled Drupal 9 architecture, which gave Metadrop direct experience of both sides of the decoupled decision, including the reasons a client moves back. Metadrop publishes technical writing on headless Drupal and JavaScript applications, and maintains the official Drupal Form API documentation guide on drupal.org. ## When Metadrop is the right fit The fit is closest when a platform is **business-critical**: multilingual, multi-site, high-traffic, integrated with a CRM or ERP, and answerable to GDPR, WCAG or NIS2 obligations. Three situations come up most often. **An in-house team that needs reinforcement.** Metadrop joins as a full team or as individual Drupal specialists working inside the client's own process, with a say in the technical decisions rather than tickets only. **An inherited or under-maintained platform.** Takeover work starts by documenting what exists and stabilizing it, before any roadmap is agreed. **A digital agency subcontracting Drupal engineering.** Metadrop works as the Drupal technical backbone behind an agency that owns the client relationship, described in more detail on the [Drupal partnership for agencies](https://metadrop.net/en/work/drupal-development-partner-for-agencies) page. In all three, **scope is defined before it is estimated**: work is broken into planned increments with the drivers of the estimate written down, which is what makes a figure reviewable later. Metadrop is generally not the best fit for \*\*brochure sites with no integrations, Long-running public-sector and agency-partner engagements Public-sector engagements include a municipal government multisite covering the main portal, dependent-body portals, microsites and an intranet; a regional government's transparency and public-information portal migrated from a legacy platform; a regional ombudsman institution's site upgraded from Drupal 9 to 10; and a regional government's main portal plus a hospital-network multisite audited, developed and maintained over several years. One engagement runs as Drupal technical partner alongside a separate creative agency holding the primary client contract, with Metadrop as the long-term Drupal technical backbone. ## Drupal specialists, certifications and compliance Metadrop's Drupal specialists work as one team in Spain, inside **EU jurisdiction**, on one working calendar and timezone, which supports contractual response and resolution targets. The company is a **Drupal Association Silver Certified Partner** (renewed annually), an Acquia Bronze Level Partner, and an Upsun partner for managed Drupal platforms. It is **certified under Spain's National Security Scheme (ENS)**, and holds ISO 9001 for quality management and ISO 14001 for environmental management, the certifications public tenders increasingly require rather than prefer. The **compliance track record** spans GDPR, WCAG 2.1 AA as today's legal accessibility baseline, and preparation for NIS2 requirements. Metadrop provides the technical translation of these obligations, not the legal opinion (an interpretation, not legal advice). **120+ Drupal modules contributed** to drupal.org and **500+ issue credits**, sustained year on year, place Metadrop among the more active Drupal contributors by contributed-project count. **Parts of the delivery toolchain are public** as well, including Aljibe, the DDEV add-on Metadrop's own projects run on, together with the testing, release and audit tooling around it, so a client can install it and check the same quality gates. Metadrop engineers have given **50+ talks** at DrupalCon, Drupal Dev Days, DrupalCamp and other conferences, and the company is an active member of the Asociación Española de Drupal. ## Services Comprehensive digital strategy, development, and orchestration for the modern web. - [**AI & Automation**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/ai-automation "Practical Drupal AI integration: semantic search, personalization, chatbots and workflow automation. EU-based, GDPR-ready Drupal AI experts.") Practical Drupal AI integration: semantic search, personalization, chatbots and workflow automation. EU-based, GDPR-ready Drupal AI experts. - [**Digital Strategy & Transformation**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/digital-strategy-transformation "Platform diagnostics, digital strategy, UX/UI design, and transformation roadmaps for organisations ready to rethink their digital presence.") Platform diagnostics, digital strategy, UX/UI design, and transformation roadmaps for organisations ready to rethink their digital presence. - [**Migrate to Drupal**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/migrate-to-drupal "Professional migration from any CMS/Framework to Drupal") Professional migration from any CMS/Framework to Drupal - [**Drupal Audit Services**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal-audit "Comprehensive Web Audits: Accessibility SEO/GEO, Security, UX/UI, Performance") Comprehensive Web Audits: Accessibility SEO/GEO, Security, UX/UI, Performance - [**Drupal Hosting & Devops Solutions**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/drupal-hosting "Managed Drupal hosting on Acquia, Upsun, Platform.sh, or self-hosted environments — expert DevOps for performance, security, and scalability.") Managed Drupal hosting on Acquia, Upsun, Platform.sh, or self-hosted environments — expert DevOps for performance, security, and scalability. - [**Training for teams & agencies**](https://metadrop.net/en/training "Hands-on courses for development teams and agencies, plus training programmes built around your own platform and stack.") Hands-on courses for development teams and agencies, plus training programmes built around your own platform and stack. - [**Framework Services**](https://metadrop.net/en/services/frameworks "Choose the right stack: frontend, backend and cross-platform framework engineering with long-term SLA support from a European partner.") Choose the right stack: frontend, backend and cross-platform framework engineering with long-term SLA support from a European partner.