Nextide

Nextide Inc. is a Drupal consultancy based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. It designs and builds web-based business applications and websites, and develops Maestro, an open-source workflow engine for automating business processes. The company reports more than 20 years of web development experience.

Nextide was formed in 2000 by a group of professionals interested in how businesses evolve and prosper, and since 2009 it has worked only on Drupal, with more than 15 years of expertise on the platform. Development follows an agile method with active client participation, showing results quickly and often, and the firm says it commits to delivering on time and on budget. Maestro comes with a visual editor, and the company's line is that anything that can be flow-charted can be automated with it.

• Drupal site building: responsive, mobile-focused site design and creative theming
• Custom development: custom Drupal modules and business functions
• Maestro workflow: process automation with an engine Nextide develops and maintains
• Integration and migration: connecting to third-party applications and moving content from other platforms
• Platform upgrades: version upgrades and site audits with recommendations
• Hosting, training and support: ongoing care for Drupal sites

Named projects on the Nextide website include a Drupal site with map-based listings for Lennard Commercial Realty, an internal field-service scheduling workflow for Cogeco Connexion, and a subscription and payment site for the Journal of Rheumatology. It also lists a media-rich site with geo-location for Smith and Andersen, a multi-site content publishing solution for AdvisorNet, and a gated product development workflow for Kruger Products.

Further clients include the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care for ongoing Drupal work, George Brown College for a migration of legacy sites to Drupal 9, the WTO for a Maestro-based Technical Assistance Management System, NASA JPL for Maestro-based change control consulting, the Perimeter Institute for employee portals, and Primus for a VoIP customer service portal with a SOAP API integration. The company says it is an Acquia partner and contributes to the Drupal community through modules, sponsorship, meetup talks and blogging, and its blog notes participation in the Vector Institute's FastLane program.