Why Top Drupal Talent and Digital Agencies are Standardizing on Pantheon

Pantheon is a pure technology company. While we provide full support services for our platform, we do not provide professional services such as Drupal consulting, project management, or site development. Instead, we are building our business on subscriptions to our unique Internet-scale platform. There is no “channel conflict” between us and our partners — it’s a natural fit.

Here is the joint service we offer together with our partners:

• Agencies provide the Drupal architecture, development, maintenance, and support services for sites.

• Pantheon brings the industry-best platform, developer tools, and on-call support via our 24x7x365 Drupal DevOps team.

• Website customers get the winning combo: top Drupal agency talent, and the world’s best website platform.

We’re now seeing much of the world’s top Drupal talent standardizing on Pantheon as a replacement for in-house Drupal development tools and infrastructure.

Here are four reasons why:

1. Pantheon grows your business.

Here’s a simple ROI calculation for owners and executives at Drupal shops and digital agencies:

• Add up all of the hours spent on internal developer tools and infrastructure per year.

• Multiply this by your company bill rate.

• The resulting dollar amount is the yearly net margin cash-flow that’s now available for growth by standardizing on Pantheon.

Shops with 10+ employees can easily burn more than $100,000 in billable hours a year this way. Pantheon allows them to keep this capital and reinvest in growth. That’s why agencies that build with Pantheon grow faster than those that burn billable time managing in-house DIY servers and developer tools.

2. Pantheon frees up critical technical resources — your Senior Developers and Drupal Architects.

Who’s responsible for managing your developer tools and infrastructure? Usually, it’s your top Drupal architect or most senior engineer.

Drupal architects are frequently the single-most critical, over-booked resource in the company. They provide unique strategic value in meeting with clients, architecting solutions, and navigating complex technical challenges.

Burdening this person with the responsibility of caretaking internal developer tools cuts exactly against the strategic interests of agencies and their customers.

3. Clients want the benefits of SaaS instead of the burden of managing DIY developer tools and IT infrastructure.

Clients hire Drupal talent and digital agencies to create the best customer experience possible through their online presence. This is a high-level, creative marketing endeavor.

The further up the stack you can operate, the closer you get to your customers’ needs. Every hour saved managing developer tools is an hour you can now spend solving clients’ problems and helping them build their business online.

This is why the benefits of software as a service are so meaningful to marketers. It frees them from age-old burdens, and enables them to make good on the promise of the Internet: Four billion people are coming online, and each one is a potential customer!

Drupal talent and agencies that understand this — and can make it real to their clients — do right by their customers and win more business.

4. Pantheon has your back.

Every day, we help Drupal talent and agencies deliver in ways they weren’t able to before. For example:

Can you scale to > 100M pageviews on your launch day?

You bring the Drupal site and we’ll provide the platform via the world’s single largest Drupal infrastructure.

Can you provide the world’s best cloud based website development tools and workflows for your customer’s team, now and down the road?

Build your client’s site on Pantheon and you will.

Can you launch and manage hundreds to thousands of Drupal sites without the complexity and failings of Multisite?

You can with smart Drupal architecture and Pantheon One.

Do you have world-class Drupal DevOps on-call support for you and your customers?

That’s what we provide for our developers and clients, 24x7, 365 days a year.

Our world-class engineering team has invested millions of dollars and dozens of person-years of effort into the Pantheon Platform.

It’s available for you to use today, for free.