A migration that does not become its own multi-year project.
A Drupal migration for pharmaceutical companies moving off the platform: usually because a major version upgrade would effectively mean rebuilding, and that rebuild budget is better spent moving to a platform with lower ongoing specialist dependency.
Drupal major version upgrades have historically required substantial rework rather than incremental updates, which means companies on an older Drupal version are often facing a full rebuild regardless — the question becomes what to rebuild onto, not whether to rebuild.
A review of the current content types and taxonomy structure, a recommendation for what to migrate onto, the move itself with full URL mapping, and a post-launch check that indexed content and rankings carried across intact.
Drupal administration and module development are not something we take on. Our part is getting the content — and the taxonomy relationships that organise it — off Drupal cleanly, so nothing that depended on a content type or term reference silently breaks.
Drupal sites often carry a genuinely structured taxonomy — therapy areas, audiences, content types cross-referenced in ways a simple export loses. We map that structure onto the target platform’s own fields rather than flattening everything into plain body text.
See WordPress vs Drupal for pharma for the fuller platform comparison.
The scope our Drupal migration work has operated within.
The trigger differs by company. A Drupal migration starts from what actually forced the decision.
What comes up when moving off Drupal.
Not always – a major Drupal version upgrade can involve as much module and template rework as a full migration, especially once custom modules and a deep taxonomy structure are involved. We assess your current version, module inventory, and content-type complexity first, then compare that rework cost against migrating to a platform with lower ongoing specialist dependency.
Rankings are protected through a full URL and content mapping exercise before launch. Every Drupal node, taxonomy term, and content-type archive gets matched against its new equivalent, since Drupal’s path structure and taxonomy-driven URLs rarely align directly with the new platform’s routing. We build 301 redirects for every mapped URL, keep XML sitemaps in sync, and monitor Search Console for crawl errors after the switch.
Pharmaceutical WordPress is our default recommendation, though we size that answer to your actual content model rather than applying it automatically. The taxonomy and content-type audit we run at the start of a migration tells us whether your current structure – node types, fields, and multilingual setup – maps cleanly onto pharmaceutical WordPress and ACF, or whether a different platform fits your case better.
Most custom Drupal functionality can be replicated, though we reassess each module rather than rebuilding it exactly as-is. Many custom modules were originally built to work around a specific Drupal limitation, and the replacement platform may not share that constraint, so a simpler native feature or plugin can often do the job. We flag those cases during the technical audit before development starts.
Drupal migration connects closely with these related technology pages.
A Drupal version reaching end of life, or a platform your team cannot maintain independently. Tell us your current setup and we will tell you how we would approach the Drupal migration.