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Drupal/Salesforce Integration

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A bit over a year ago, I wrote a post about the status of Drupal/Salesforce Integration. At the moment, if you want to integrate Drupal and Salesforce, you have three options: Use the contributed modules (or have a developer install and configure them for you). So what is the status of the Drupal modules?

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WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

x something, and a developer and user of Drupal since 4.7, I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. A caveat: I have more experience, especially with larger sites, in Drupal than in WordPress, so there are things that I may be missing. Community Blogs.

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Optimize Drupal with Pre-rendering

3rd Sector Labs

The importance of optimizing Drupal cannot be overstated. The “academic” debate around Drupal typical centers on whether Drupal is a Content Management System (and hence primarily for standard website) or an Application Development Framework (and hence ideal for data-driven, application production). The Application.

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Why use contributed Salesforce modules for Drupal?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I wrote a blog entry a while back on the state of Drupal/Salesforce integration. What I didn’t say is that a number of shops that have done Drupal/SF integration for production sites chose not to use the contributed modules – they built (or are building) their own custom Salesforce/Drupal integration modules.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Because of this, the deck has always been stacked against open source tools in this arena. However, Salesforce in particular has a leg up that most other proprietary tools don’t have, because of their open APIs and their incredibly robust development platform. It’s got a great community of developers and users.

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Architecting Composable Digital Experiences

Forum One

And the step of integrating the front-end with templates tied to the back-end disappears as well. If you’re just looking to stand up a quick, no-frills website without personalization or other integrations and services, it likely isn’t the most economical solution at the moment. for Drupal.

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Choosing a CMS: 3 Tips for Your Nonprofit

Top Nonprofits

Integrations with your social media pages, email marketing platform, CRM, and any other digital systems you use. For nonprofits, two CMS platforms stand out as the most effective, well-rounded systems for long-lasting websites: WordPress and Drupal. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Comparing both platforms.

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