5-Star Service For Defaqto
Client:
Defaqto CMS Professionals provided various resources and services to Defaqto, the financial products review people and home of the “Five Star Rating”, when they decided to switch over to Drupal. The work included development of a suite of websites showing Defaqto content, bespoke microsites on the same platform and there was integration with existing Microsoft applications and infrastructure in to the bargain. They also needed a media delivery system, publishing news from a central point via web services to other sites, something we've now done more than once.
But we didn't just provide development services. We also provided development team management (our Managing Director was their interim Head of Development), systems architecture consultancy, setting up of open source version control and project management solutions and Drupal consultancy and staff training, all on site over an extended period.
Here's what Matthew Castle, Defaqto's Head of IT Development, has to say about CMS Professionals:
“CMS Professionals provided some great assets to the team here at Defaqto. Greg personally managed a team of three Drupal developers and was instrumental in the delivery of our new public facing website.
His documentation, attention to detail, and ability to capture business requirements translating them into functional delivery in Drupal have been excellent.
CMS Professionals clearly have a high level of technical expertise in Drupal and their consultants have the ability to communicate their ideas to both other technical staff and the business. I would not hesitate to use them again.”
Contributions:
We don't just take modules, we give back too. Defaqto are a shining example of embracing the open source model and we love that in a client.
Not only did we make extensive contributions to the fledgling Services module during this project, we also created a new Content Distribution module (Services based data sharing between multiple websites) and a simple Known User Role module to achieve a cookie-based "Welcome back Joe" style login block.
We also contributed several new features to the Nodequeue module and commercially tested the SOAP Client module, probably for the first time. (It passed!)
