Drupal 7 is wobbling towards end-of-life, with PHP 7.x close by its side. Webmasters, marketing and communications teams, and product owners everywhere are asking the same question: What’s next for my Drupal 7 platform?

Backdrop CMS is just one of a variety of upgrade paths for your Drupal 7 website — but in special cases it’s the right one. I’ll save you some skimming: Upgrading from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS is a good fit if you’re happy with your existing platform.

Why is that? The short answer is that Backdrop CMS is an upgrade-in-place for Drupal 7 that resolves end-of-life (EOL) concerns and facilitates further feature development. Importantly, it is dramatically more cost effective than the alternatives.