Comments on: dotproject and Salesforce hookin’ up

By: gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Bye bye dotproject

gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Bye bye dotproject — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:34:38 +0000

[...] I wrote earlier about our integration between Salesforce.com with dotproject, an open-source project management application. Well, after 3 years of using dotproject the integration is no longer. I’ve rewritten the dotproject functionality that we were using directly into Salesforce.com. [...]

By: gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Continually blown away…

gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Continually blown away… — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:46:12 +0000

[...] Now we’re in Salesforce.com. All our funder records are in Salesforce.com. All our projects are available in Salesforce.com via an integration with our project management system. So we took a look at the problem again and spent an hour talking it through in detail. [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:07:29 +0000

I have written up my thoughts on platform selection–check it out if you’re interested. One key part of the equation is that sf.com is donated to nonprofits, so the combination of quality and price was hard to beat.

One thing about sf.com that will hamper you building a domino-type bridge is that you can’t invoke events on add/edit/delete of sf.com records. They’re going to add that functionality (hopefully this year) but that greatly limits the tightness of the integration you can do right now.

By: Keith Casey

Keith Casey — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:01:54 +0000

Steve,

Thanks for the note, I will make a point of looking at the SF API. Quick question though… what made you choose SF over the other CRM systems out there? I’m not being critical, just wondering.

Thanks,
Keith

By: Kingsley Joseph

Kingsley Joseph — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:07:25 +0000

Steve, it’s great to see you hack together things that I would otherwise think were really complex. I’m really buying the power of 80% solutions.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:57:59 +0000

I think the main difference between my code and to domino bridge is that mine is totally hacked together and your’s actually works. My goal wasn’t to make a great integration but get it close enough to give us the benefit of one place of truth, and the functionality available in both systems. I have a bunch of ideas for how to make it better, more real-time, and easier to maintain as codebases change, but since it’s an internal project that probably won’t happen as it doesn’t pay the rent.

You should look (if you haven’t yet) at how hard it would be to make the domino bridge work between dotproject and Salesforce.com. The Salesforce.com API is great and there’s a PHP toolkit which makes it really easy to work with it in PHP. Let me know if you need a beta tester…

By: Keith Casey

Keith Casey — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:02:56 +0000

Core dotProject contributor here…

Hey, this looks pretty cool. I’ve been waiting to see who else would do something similar in this space. How do you handle the changes in the codebases and such?

And yes, I am a bit of a competitor. My team and I built the Domino Bridge – http://blogs.caseysoftware.com/?q=node/167 – to do the same thing with SugarCRM. I think the main difference between your and our implementation is that 1) the Domino Bridge happens in realtime, 2) you can use either interface and things stay sync’d, and 3) we had to add a bit of code to each of the systems. Luckily it was only 4 lines!