Atom - Drupal Specialist

Secure online platforms start with Atom

Employers, employees, and occupational health specialists who can find the right interventions with a single click to prevent absenteeism. Citizens who learn online how to deal with dementia. Students who improve their reading skills thanks to an online learning environment. That is digital service delivery that works. Atom makes this possible. Specializing in the design, development, and management of Drupal platforms, Atom delivers exactly that. With a team of 26 specialists in Rotterdam and Zwolle, Atom creates digital environments that SMEs, healthcare institutions, non-profits, and (semi-)public organizations rely on every day.

The deliberate choice for a niche

Atom was founded by Justin van der Raaf, who is also its owner. From a young age, he was fascinated by the web, and combined with his entrepreneurial mindset, starting his own (Drupal) agency was a natural step. Justin deliberately chose a niche: developing platforms using the Drupal CMS. A smart choice, as Atom has since become the largest fully Drupal-specialized agency in the Netherlands. As a Platinum Partner, Atom is the preferred choice for leading organizations seeking digital platforms that meet the highest standards in security, performance, and reliability.

Why Drupal?

“Our customers operate in environments where continuity and security are crucial,” Justin explains. “Drupal provides the perfect foundation for that: it is open source, stable, and continuously improved worldwide. This allows us to build platforms that last for years, scale easily, and comply with strict privacy and security regulations. Drupal is also evolving strongly toward the integration of AI applications and features a unique, dedicated security team that makes the CMS exceptionally secure compared to other systems. Because we focus exclusively on Drupal, we know the system inside out. That makes us fast, efficient, and capable of delivering complex challenges and large-scale platforms. That complexity often does not lie in the design, but in functional requirements: think of extensive roles and permissions structures, integrations with external systems, multilingual setups, multisite or even multiregional environments with diverse workflows and data flows. This demands knowledge, experience, and focus — exactly what we offer with Drupal.”

& Fundaments

A secure platform, however, is an illusion without secure hosting and monitoring. That is why Atom values its collaboration with Fundaments. Justin explains: “We both have our certifications (ISO, NEN) in order, which makes Fundaments an obvious choice. Their response speed is also spot on — an absolute must, because hosting is a business-critical element of our services. Fundaments almost always detects issues with a website or web application faster than the customer does. And when we indicate that the cause does not lie with the application, there is no ‘are you sure?’ — Fundaments immediately takes action and resolves it. In short, our collaboration is based on trust and runs smoothly and naturally. We see it done differently elsewhere, for example when clients select their own hosting provider. But we have been working with Fundaments for fifteen years now, and it continues to work extremely well.”

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