Plone - Community Plumbing - or Just Content Managment !

[Aaron VanDerlip]

Peter,

Jon Stahl at OneNorthwest would be the person to talk to about 
Salesforce.  I know that they have been rolling out non profit clients 
on Salesforce for CRM duties.

Aaron

Peter Hollands wrote:
> Thanks everyone for some thoughtful replies.
> 
> I'm beginning to come round to the view, that perhaps the best way forward is
> "Integration of best of breed" rather than Plone trying to do everything.
> 
> Alex Limi says in the foreward to Martin Aspeli's book ....
> 
> "Speaking of which, how does the future of Plone look like in 2007? Web 
> development is now in a state we could only have dreamt about five years ago—
> and the rise of numerous great Python web frameworks, and even non-Python 
> solutions like Ruby on Rails has made it possible for the Plone community to 
> focus on what it excels at: content and document management, multilingual 
> content, and solving real problems for real companies—and having fun in the 
> process. Before these frameworks existed, people would often try to do things 
> with Plone that it was not built or designed to do—and we are very happy that 
> solutions now exist that cater to these audiences, so we can focus on our 
> core expertise. Choice is good, and you should use the right tool for the job 
> at hand."
> 
> (The full context of that quote is at
> http://limi.net/articles/foreword-to-professional-plone-development/  
> )
> 
> And of course, it not just about other software platforms anymore. It's about 
> the fact that so much of our world is now represented in datacenters on the 
> Internet. We are interested in connecting services not software.
> 
> The world seems to be moving towards service orientated architectures (SOA) 
> and using SOAP, REST, ATOM PUB to integrated large blogs of functionality 
> from different platforms. The world of Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) 
> will be a comfortable area for python / zope programmers. It's an object 
> orientated world. The marketing folks are using words like "mashups", "data 
> mashup" and "Business Mashups". 
> 
> If you are new to this world of mashups, then try .....
> http://www.serena.com/mashups/tv.html?bcpid=1321279998&bclid=1323277251&bctid=1328185438
> (7 minutes)
> Bear with the sales tone for the first two minutes, it gets better.
> 
> Sounds like NorthWest One has done some great work on a mashup with 
> SalesForce.com. I see it listed on appexchange.com at ....
> http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002QFi8AAG
> 
> Is there are a good "end user case study" of salesforce.com integrated with 
> Plone ? Is any non-profit on this list using this integration ? How is it 
> going ? 
> 
> As Paul Roleand said, the Plone community is an incredibly talented group.
> I suspect that this team is already very acomplished at mashups.
> We could all probably benefit from publisizing more widely  existing Plone 
> mashup case studies and the opportunities before us.
> 
> Peter H