Let's take it step by step...
2009
Bmeme's birth year
Bmeme and Drupal
Drupal lovers... since the beginning
Our story
It is truly difficult to separate our company's history from that of the Drupal CMS.
Not because Bmeme was founded with the purpose of offering professional services for the product, but because Drupal represented our first testing ground, our first corporate challenge, the first independent choice we made in terms of technological investment.
We proudly stand by this choice because time, the product's success, and the results we have achieved have proven us right.
In 2009, when Bmeme was founded, our mission was to bring the technical knowledge and practices we had acquired in our enterprise careers to the web market.
Our interest was to position ourselves not just as a web agency, but as a specialized software development factory for web solutions.
We found this market segment interesting, suitable for our professional path, and still underrepresented.
Finding the right software product
This (also) meant being able to propose adequate tools.
We aimed to identify a robust software product for developing medium to large-scale B2B portals, capable of supporting even complex custom logic.
The constraints we set in our software selection
01
It had to be open source and free-of-charge software, with a strong community behind it for solid reasons
We didn't want to create any kind of lock-in for our clients on proprietary platforms.
We didn't want licensing costs that would increase the overall cost of the projects.
We had grown professionally in the world of Open Source and appreciated the quality of the products, their robustness, flexibility, and the ethics of the movement.
02
It had to be built on top of a robust framework
Able to bend for any project needs without compromising its integrity.
03
It had to be written in PHP
A robust and widely used language, which we knew well, easy to deploy and capable of ensuring a rapid development pace, accelerating the introduction of new solutions in an often very challenging environment.
The choice: Drupal
Drupal perfectly met all our needs, being robust, flexible, and clearly suitable for solutions for large companies and complex projects.
With a massive community behind it, the possibilities for extending its basic functionalities were practically endless.
An open source project that had already been around for nearly 10 years and promised solid expansion
Drupal lovers
After all these years, we realize it was not so much an adoption as it was a love affair.
We began working on projects, joined the community, and actively participated in many events, both as speakers and organizers.
Today, this is evident from our contribution to the Community: Bmeme is among the Italian companies with the highest number of Drupal Modules released on drupal.org, which we continue to develop and maintain.
Bmeme and Drupal: growth and innovation
2009
Product adoption
As the adoption of Drupal grew in Italy and Europe, becoming a preferred choice for Public Administration and large companies, Bmeme seized the opportunity to innovate.
Today, Drupal is a fundamental component of our offerings, enabling us to create tailor-made solutions for high-profile clients.
2015
Growth
Our external image evolved, transforming us from simple web developers to Drupal product experts.
We have been involved in ambitious projects with prominent clients such as Eni, Samsung, European Commission, World Food Programme, AgID, Lottomatica, Senate of the Italian Republic.
The generational and technical leap experienced in the transition from version 7.x to version 8.x of Drupal did not catch us unprepared and further solidified our position as leaders in the sector.
2024
Transformation
With the changing technological landscape, Bmeme has evolved by introducing new frontend development tools, adopting Single Page Applications (SPA), Agile culture, and DevOps practices, and gaining experience in developing micro-services and cloud-oriented platforms.
Today, Bmeme continues to explore the boundaries of innovation, keeping Drupal at the core of its solutions and constantly adapting to new technological challenges.
Drupal in continuous evolution
Increasingly integrated into more complex software solutions, Drupal abdicates its independent and monolithic function to become an editorial service integrated with next-generation frontend applications and/or backends that ensure fully customized logic and processes.
Bmeme remains an important and recognized competence center for Drupal in the Italian landscape.Over the years, we have changed a thousand times and we are sure we will continue to do so.
Drupal has been and still is our distinctive feature, accompanying us throughout our journey and we are sure it will continue to do so for a long time.