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User Experience
The interface lacked engagement and intuitive navigation.
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NASSCOM Community
The community portal for India's technology industry, rebuilt on Drupal 11
community.nasscom.in
Built for finding things
- Search with fuzzy matching and filters
- Member blogs reviewed before they go live
- Sign in by email code, Google, LinkedIn or Twitter
Industry
Client
NASSCOM
Platform
Engagement
Rebuild & Maintenance
Stack
Drupal 11 & Alpine.js
Team
3 to 5 people
The challenge
Who they are and what they needed
NASSCOM Community calls itself "The Official Community of Indian IT Industry": a technology knowledge-sharing platform where experts and organizations publish blogs, reports, events and LeaderTalk.
NASSCOM represents India's technology industry. Its community portal serves "technology professionals, organisations, start-ups, students, researchers and industry leaders," in the words of its own About page.
Bluelupin rebuilt NASSCOM's existing community portal, community.nasscom.in, on Drupal 11 and Alpine.js, and maintains the front-end theme, an editorial review workflow for member blogs, sign-in by emailed one-time code or Google, LinkedIn and Twitter, site search, and hosting and DevOps.
The old portal held reports, blogs, events and LeaderTalk, but its navigation and search made them hard to find.
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Search Performance
Drupal's built-in full-text search was slow and inefficient.
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Content Discovery
Search was limited, with no fuzzy search or advanced filtering.
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User Engagement
Community members struggled to find relevant content efficiently.
What we built
Platform capabilities in production
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Search with Filters
Search on community.nasscom.in is faster than it was on the old portal and supports fuzzy matching. It filters results by content type (reports, blogs, events, webinars, LeaderTalk and users), by date range from today to the last year or a custom range, and by theme.
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Member Blogs
Members submit their own blogs, which go to review and, in the site's words, "will be live after approval."
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Sign-in
Members can sign in with a one-time code sent by email, with Google, LinkedIn or Twitter, or with a username and password. Accounts can be set up for an individual or an organization.
How it fits together
From user touchpoints to core services
Members use an Alpine.js theme on Drupal 11, which handles content, accounts and the editorial workflow, with sign-in and search alongside. Bluelupin runs the hosting, DevOps and maintenance.
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Visitors and members
Technology professionals, organizations, startups, students, researchers and industry leaders on community.nasscom.in.
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Alpine.js front-end theme
Interactive UI elements, layered on Drupal's own pages.
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Drupal 11
Content, accounts and the editorial workflow, with content types for blogs, reports, events, LeaderTalk and library items.
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Sign-in
Members sign in with a one-time code sent by email, with Google, LinkedIn or Twitter, or with a username and password.
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Search
Fuzzy matching, with filters by content type, date range and theme.
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Hosting, DevOps and maintenance
Run by Bluelupin for the live portal.
How we delivered
How the project was delivered
For NASSCOM Community, every decision started from what a member came to find: a report, a blog, an event or a person.
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Discovery First
We planned navigation, page layouts and search around the report, blog, event or person a member needs.
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Rebuild on Drupal 11
We rebuilt the portal on Drupal 11 so NASSCOM's team has a CMS they can run, with content types for blogs, reports, events, LeaderTalk and library items, and a review step before member posts go live. Existing content and member accounts were migrated from the old portal, including topic communities, member blogs, reports, events and LeaderTalk.
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Front End
The front-end theme uses Alpine.js for interactive UI elements, layered on Drupal's own pages.
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Run It After Launch
A team of three to five people at Bluelupin delivered the work. We now handle application support and maintenance for the live portal.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Bluelupin rebuilt and maintains NASSCOM's existing community portal at community.nasscom.in, covering the front-end theme, the CMS and editorial review workflow, sign-in, search, and hosting and DevOps.
NASSCOM Community is NASSCOM's online community for India's technology industry, which the site calls "The Official Community of Indian IT Industry," with member blogs, industry reports, the Nasscom Library, events and webinars, LeaderTalk and 30 topic communities.
It uses Drupal 11 for content, accounts and the editorial workflow, and Alpine.js in the front-end theme.
A member submits a blog, and it goes live after review and approval.
Members sign in with a one-time code sent by email, with Google, LinkedIn or Twitter, or with a username and password. Accounts can be for an individual or an organization.
Yes. We rebuilt and maintain NASSCOM Community, built CII's smart manufacturing platform, and built the IndiaAI national AI portal for MeitY.
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