Drupal migration & platform engineering
Move to Drupal. Keep your content, lose the licence bill.
We migrate websites, portals and intranets from proprietary and ageing platforms to Drupal 11, then design them to run as enterprise applications: structured content, single sign-on, approval workflows and APIs for your apps and partners. You own the code and the data, and there are no licence fees to renew.
$0
Licence fees. Drupal is open source (GPL), for any number of sites, users and servers.
1 codebase
Many sites. Run brands, regions or departments from one install with Drupal multisite.
Repeatable
Migrations are code. Rehearse them as often as you like, and roll back cleanly.
API-first
JSON:API is built into core, ready for mobile apps, partners and front-end frameworks.
Migration paths
Where you’re coming from, and what changes
Every platform stores content differently. We map yours to a clean Drupal content model, so you get a better site, not a copy of the old one’s workarounds.
From Adobe Experience Manager
Enterprise features without the enterprise licence
AEM is powerful, but it comes with a large annual licence and a small pool of specialist developers. Drupal covers the same ground: components, digital assets, workflows and multilingual sites.
What we move
- Pages and components, rebuilt as reusable content blocks
- Digital assets with their metadata and tags
- Authors, groups and approval steps
Where you save: the licence renewal, plus the cost of specialist AEM staff.
From Sitecore
Stop paying for upgrade projects
Sitecore licences, and the major upgrades that come with them, add up. Drupal’s major versions are designed for smooth upgrades, and there’s nothing to relicense.
What we move
- Templates and items, rebuilt as content types and fields
- Your media library and taxonomies
- Personalisation rules, through modules or your existing tools
Where you save: licence and support contracts, and the multi-month upgrade projects.
From WordPress at scale
When the plugin list gets out of hand
WordPress is great for blogs. As a site grows into a platform, paid plugins, page-builder lock-in and loose permissions become hard to manage. Drupal builds structure, roles and workflow into core.
What we move
- Posts, pages, custom post types and custom fields
- Media, menus, categories and tags
- Users and their roles, with URLs kept or redirected
Where you save: premium plugin subscriptions, and the time spent patching them.
From Drupal 7
Off an unsupported version
Drupal 7 reached end of life in January 2025, so it no longer gets community security updates. Drupal’s core migration tools move most of the content automatically. We rebuild the custom parts properly.
What we move
- Content types, fields, taxonomy, files and users
- Custom modules, rewritten for Drupal 11
- Themes, redesigned or carried over as they are
Where you save: paid extended support, and the cost of a security incident.
From SharePoint & Confluence
Intranets and portals people actually use
Document-centred tools are hard to brand, hard to open to partners and customers, and slow to change. Drupal turns the content into a fast portal that keeps your existing sign-in.
What we move
- Pages, documents and their metadata
- Site structure and navigation
- Groups and permissions, linked to your directory
Where you save: add-on products and custom workarounds, and admin time.
From custom & legacy systems
Retire the code nobody wants to touch
Homegrown PHP, .NET or ColdFusion sites hold years of valuable content but depend on the few people who understand them. We pull the data straight from the database, files or APIs.
What we move
- Database tables, CSV and spreadsheet exports, XML and JSON feeds
- Files and images, de-duplicated
- Business rules, rebuilt as supported modules
Where you save: maintaining one-off code, and the risk of key people leaving.
Cost savings
Where the money actually comes from
Removing the licence is the obvious saving. Over time, the bigger ones come from running one platform instead of many, and from being able to hire for it.
We run our own products this way. MiniBizSuite serves several branded sites from a single Drupal 11 codebase with one shared configuration, deployed from Git, on standard cloud hosting.
No licence fees
No charges per site, user or server, and no renewal negotiations. Your budget goes into features.
Ordinary hosting
Drupal runs on standard PHP and MySQL, from a single cloud server up to autoscaled containers behind a CDN. There’s no proprietary cloud to buy.
One platform, many sites
Multisite and shared configuration let one team run every brand. You fix something once and it’s fixed everywhere.
Modules, not custom builds
Tens of thousands of community modules cover common needs, so custom code goes only where you’re different.
A wide talent pool
Drupal is built on PHP and Symfony, among the most widely known web stacks, so you’re not tied to scarce specialists.
No lock-in
You own the code, the content and the database. Switch hosts or partners whenever you want.
Enterprise application design
Not just a new website: a platform built to last
A migration is the best chance to fix the architecture. We design Drupal as the content and business layer behind every channel you run, not as a page builder.
Your systems today
Drupal Migrate API
Drupal 11 platform
Every channel
Content modelled, not pasted
Content types, fields and reusable components replace free-form pages, so content can be searched, reused and sent to any channel.
Headless when it helps
JSON:API in core, plus GraphQL when needed, serves apps and React or Next.js front ends from the same content, with no second CMS.
Governance built in
Draft, review and publish workflows with full revision history, plus fine-grained permissions for every role and team.
Your sign-in
Single sign-on through SAML or OpenID Connect with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google, with group-to-role mapping.
Config as code
Every setting is exported to Git, reviewed and deployed by CI with drush deploy. Environments stay identical, and changes can be audited.
Fast and secure by default
Layered caching, BigPipe and a CDN keep pages fast. Advisories from the Drupal Security Team and a regular update schedule keep the site secure.
How we migrate
Rehearsed, measured, and no surprises on launch day
Migrations are written as code and run many times before go-live. By cutover, the final run is routine.
01
Audit & inventory
We catalogue content, traffic, integrations and URLs, and decide what to move, merge or retire. Most sites carry years of content nobody reads.
02
Design the platform
We design the content model, roles, workflows, SSO and integration points, and agree on them before any code is written.
03
Build the migration
Migrate API scripts map every field from the old system to the new one. They’re tracked, repeatable and can be rolled back.
04
Rehearse & validate
Full test runs with record counts, spot checks and accessibility tests, plus a complete redirect map so search rankings carry over.
05
Cut over
A short content freeze, a final run for any changes since the last rehearsal, then the switch. The old site stays on standby until you sign off.
06
Support & improve
Security updates, monitoring and a roadmap, or a full hand-over with documentation to your own team. You choose.
Questions
What teams usually ask first
Will we lose our search rankings?
How much downtime is there?
How long does a migration take?
Can we keep our CRM, ERP and sign-in?
Is open source secure enough for an enterprise?
Do we have to redesign at the same time?
Free migration assessment
Find out what your platform really costs
Tell us what you run today. We’ll review your content, integrations and licences, and send back a migration plan with a fixed estimate and the savings you can expect. No obligation.
- A content and integration inventory
- A recommended architecture on Drupal 11
- A phased plan, timeline and fixed estimate