Drupal is a CMS (Content Management System) which is software used for content management, and is the framework Proxous uses to build its websites and web applications. It can be used to manage everything from electronic files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often times be used as archival as well. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies using a CMS file share with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability.
Drupal is a proven open source framework that is extremely configurable and scalable.
Here is just a quick list of large websites that use drupal themselves:
As you can see, drupal is meant to scale. As your business grows, your website will grow with it. And why shouldn't it be that way? To have a system that adapts to how you do business instead of having to adapt your business to use software or the web in a particular way.
Drupal is meant to be extended and can be retrofitted to integrate with a lot of legacy systems or existing systems. Drupal is the perfect framework to help move all your data onto the web as you can easily pull the data back out if you ever need, you no longer have to suffer from vendor lock in. It is the perfect free and open source toolkit that can help move your business into the twenty first century and onto the web.
