How to keep doing business with small clients/companies in times of Drupal 8

With the upcoming changes in Drupal 8, most of the current users see it as more of a bussiness tool, oriented to companies working with big budgets and having an IT department focused directly on working with the project.  And it is not a completely crazy idea, because one of the big strenghts Drupal has always had is working on the enterprise side.  And some workshops and companies even see small clients as a problem, rather than an opportunity (because of the effort and time in contrast to the ROI).

So, as a workshop working with small clients and companies should we ditch D8 as a tool for them? Should we stick to D7 for as long as we can, or should we focus on a completely different tool for the job?

This session tries to propose a different aproach, based on our experience as a workshop located in South America, where budgets are tight, customers vary in size and is not as easy to get into a vertical market, where we have been working with small and big customers at the same time.  The idea is to have a tight integration between a tool that is more suited for small clients (Impress Pages) and being able to take advantage of D8 and the previous knowledge we already had as a drupal workshop to create faster results, tighly connected to the bennefits that a strong tool as Drupal already provides.

During this session we will get a glimpse of what are the main issues with this approach, and how to solve them, such as:

• Constant changes in clients websites.
• Making the website administration training a repeatable and easy experience.
• To focus more on the inner client (marketing, communication and sales departments).
• Allowing to create a front-end almost with an entirely wysiwyg tool.
• Converting Drupal into a decoupled data producer and workflow integrator.