Plone - Community Plumbing - or Just Content Managment !

[Andrew Burkhalter]

On Dec 12, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Aaron VanDerlip wrote:

>
> 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.
>

(Or I can chip in in a pinch on ONE/Northwest's work integrating  
Plone & Salesforce.com)

> Peter Hollands wrote:
>> 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 ?


At present, there is no "end user case study" that talks about  
integrating a Plone site with Salesforce.com.  That's because in the  
interest of "eating-one's-own-dogfood", we haven't used any of the  
tools on our client organizations and are just beginning to use them  
on ourselves.  Someday there may be a nice report.

There is a list and Google group dedicated to that very subject  
though.  If anyone here is interested, I'd invite you to join in the  
disscussion.

It's at:
http://groups.google.com/group/plonesf

At present, we're using PayPal's Instant Payment Notification to  
create a lead object.  This is unreleased, but we've been using it  
for several months:
http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/Paypal2SalesforceLead

We're also testing and waiting to deploy a custom adapter for  
PloneFormGen that puts the results directly into a chosen Salesforce  
object type.  This is in 1.0 rc 1 stage (help us test so the final is  
solid!) and can be found at:
http://plone.org/products/salesforcepfgadapter

There are other things in the works, which will see the light of day,  
hopefully soon, and custom applications can be written using the  
approach described here:
http://theploneblog.org/blog/archive/2007/07/17/plone-salesforce-com- 
using-salesforce-com-as-a-content-catalog


Hope this helps you get a sense for what's currently possible.

Andrew


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