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Plone Integration for Salesforce.com on the Appexchange

plonelogo.pngThere is now a public listing for the open-source Plone Integration for Salesforce.com project. Started with funding from Salesforce Foundation in 2006, the project has since taken on a life of it’s own. It’s now a group effort between ONE/Northwest, NPower Seattle, and the Web Collective, with other interested folks starting to join in at the new Google Group for the project.

So what is it? Plone is a great web content management system. With this project, you can have it talk to your Salesforce.com instance in a number of ways. At this point you can:

  • Use Salesforce as your website member database, allowing you to give your Contacts access to special content on your site
  • Display Salesforce data on your site, like a list of major donors, or a profile page for each nonprofit that you work with
  • Easily, and I mean easily, create forms on your website that write data directly to Salesforce

I created a page on the Salesforce Developer Wiki for the project, and you can find all relevant links there, including two demos.

Thanks to everyone at Salesforce, ONE/Northwest, Web Collective, and NPower Seattle who made this project what it has become, with special shout out to Steve Wright who bought in early and got us going. I feel like we’re just at the begining of some really exciting innovation, and I can’t wait to demo some of this functionality at Dreamforce to anyone interested!

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pm and is filed under CRM, Technology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Plone Integration for Salesforce.com on the Appexchange”

  1. Chris Says:
    September 19th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Steve, you’ve poured tons of effort into this integration (as it sounds like others have). I’m curious, how does the introduction of Salesforce Content impact your work going forward? Is there overlap?

  2. Steve Says:
    September 20th, 2007 at 7:35 am

    I’d say there is a larger possibility of overlap with Customer Portal than with Content. Part of what we’re doing in the Plone Sf.com integration is making it possible to build an extranet for your Contacts–essentially the same functionality as Customer Portal. When you guys figure out how to push public content out of Sf.com in some native way, with no login necessary, and come up for a pricing model for that, then it could be possible to use an Sf.com instance as a public website, customer portal, and crm. I see a nice diagram of concentric circles there…

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