Palantir is Now a Top Tier Drupal Certified Partner

Palantir has been contributing to open source projects for over 25 years, and we’re one of the world's leading contributors to the Drupal project and community. Over the years we’ve channeled our expertise into creating key modules now incorporated into Drupal core and helping organizations across healthcare, government, education, and more with Drupal solutions tailored to their needs.

We’re proud to announce that Palantir was recently accredited as a Top Tier Drupal Certified Partner. There are currently only three other companies in the entire world who have achieved this status based on their contributions to the project and community.

What is a Drupal Certified Partner?

The Certified Partnership program arose within the Drupal community to recognize the efforts of agencies that significantly contribute to the platform. Drupal Certified Partners are service providers that demonstrate three key characteristics:

• A high level of expertise in Drupal
• Commitment to contributing to Drupal core
• Building the Drupal community

The program is overseen by the Drupal Association, which requires firms to demonstrate how they meet these criteria. Organizations looking for Drupal partners can trust Drupal Certified Partnership status to signal that the company leverages best-in-class Drupal expertise.

Organizations that work with Drupal Certified Partners can trust they’re collaborating with experts who not only build with Drupal— they help build Drupal itself. 

What are some of Palantir’s Drupal contributions?

At Palantir, we have a decades-long track record of building, maintaining, extending and promoting Drupal. As a Top Tier Partner, our clients trust us to maximize the platform’s capabilities to deliver best-in-class web applications—learn more about our Drupal consulting services today.

EditTogether

One of our most recent Drupal innovations is EditTogether: a free, multi-user editing solution that allows you to write and edit exactly where you publish. Rather than relying on external tools for collaborative editing, Edit Together allows you to edit, comment, and version control any field on your Drupal site. This eliminates the need for copy-pasting between your editor and publisher, avoids vendor lock-in, and allows you to take advantage of Drupal’s commitment to data sovereignty in your editing workflows.

EditTogether was conceived as part of our client work for a division of a state agency that provides Medicaid services to its residents. Their content workflows were high-friction and inefficient, relying on transferring content between several proprietary tools for writing, editing, and publishing. After auditing the available solutions, we realized there wasn’t a highly customizable, extensible editor in Drupal that could meet our client’s rigorous security requirements—so our team of developers and architects built a rich text editor using ProseMirror tools and connected it to Drupal via the Drupal Text Editor API.

After successfully delivering the EditTogether solution to the client, we’re currently validating EditTogether against other use cases and preparing for wider release back to the community.

Drupal.org modernization

When the Drupal Association needed to modernize their own site, they trusted us to deliver. In 2024, the Promote Drupal team wanted to migrate Drupal.org from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 to show off Drupal’s most recent capabilities. Drupal.org is the online home of the Drupal community—so they needed to balance modernizing the site for new adopters and evaluators with making sure the 12,000 pages of documentation and 50,000 modules on the site remained continuously available for the entire community.

The Drupal Association wanted to work with a firm that not only knew Drupal inside out, but could oversee an incremental development plan to deliver the new content as fast as possible while still maintaining excellent service for the existing community. They chose Palantir.net to tackle the job: we delivered their needed site modernizations, dramatically improved test coverage, and built a new components-based design system to make adding new content a breeze.

We’re continuing to work with the Drupal Association to enhance their development team with added technical expertise and strategic consulting for the next phases of the modernization plan.

Why are partnerships vital to open source projects?

Open source technologies give developers and communities greater levels of transparency, flexibility, and financial accessibility in their digital projects—but maintaining open source projects can be challenging. Funding is frequently tight, and governance organizations are often overwhelmed with support requests. Open source solutions rely on organizations contributing their time, expertise, and money back into the technology to keep the lights on. However, many companies view open source contributions as simply a marketing opportunity or a “nice to have”—and the first thing to get cut when to-do lists start to get unwieldy.

The Drupal project wanted to incentivize more people to become active open source contributors— and this is where Certified Partnerships come in.

Partnerships reward consistent contribution

In exchange for meeting certain requirements (for example, a specified number of code commits, or donating a certain amount of money to the open source foundation), organizations can become certified partners of their communities—and enjoy a range of associated benefits.

Certified partnerships are also advantageous to organizations looking for agencies with proven expertise in a specific open source technology. When you work with a certified partner, you’re working with a company who actively helps to build and maintain the software you need. Partners have an intimate knowledge of the software they contribute to, and how to make the most of its capabilities. This knowledge and expertise also enable them to build custom solutions that work well with the core technology.

What makes the Drupal Certified Partner Program unique?

The Drupal Certified Partnerships program recognizes companies and organizations that have “gone above and beyond to sustain and grow the Drupal program”.

Drupal Certified Partnerships don’t just recognize code contributions—they also reward active community participation and encouraging Drupal adoption. Organizations qualify for Certified Partnership through a number of criteria:

• Contributions and commit credits, weighted towards the aspects of Drupal that are most frequently used and need the most work
• Proven case studies and success stories of delivering Drupal solutions to clients
• Annual financial sponsorship of the Drupal Association
• Event organization, participation, and sponsorship
• Staff acting in contributor roles, such as board members, mentors, or content moderators
• Drupal Association members on staff

The partnership program bolsters the thriving community around Drupal. When organizations are looking to partner with service providers with deep technical expertise, they have a robust marketplace of partners to choose from across regional markets and industries. 

Drupal Certified Partners offer solutions you can trust

Open source software (OSS) offers rigorously maintained, transparent solutions, without the hefty price tags of proprietary software— offering organizations of all sizes many incentives to default to open. According to the MIT Technology Review, “The free and open-source software movement is not only alive and well; it has become a keystone of the tech industry.” Indeed, the US Digital Services Playbook encourages federal agencies to evaluate open source solutions at every level of their stack.

When organizations decide to partner with external agencies for their digital transformation and modernization projects, there’s good news and bad news. The good news: numerous agencies build with open source solutions. The bad news: numerous agencies build with open source solutions.

Working with Drupal offers you transparency, flexibility, built-in accessibility, and data sovereignty. Working with a Drupal Certified Partner means you’re working with the people who build Drupal—and who are uniquely positioned to make the most of its powerful capabilities. As Drupal Association CEO Tim Doyle puts it, “Drupal Certified Partners are esteemed agencies that exhibit a profound level of expertise in Drupal, representing a select group of contributors crucial to the vitality and future prosperity of the Drupal ecosystem.”

We’ve been trusted by clients across numerous industries—and by the Drupal Association themselves—to build and deliver highly customized, performant Drupal solutions prioritizing user-centered design, accessibility, and turnkey security.

Learn more about our modular approach to custom Drupal development, or get in touch to discover how we can tailor our expertise to your organization’s needs.