If you use a website to capture leads and you’re looking for a smoother, more effiicent way to integrate all the information you pull from the web into a contact relationship management system, then look no further than SalesForce.com.
Here is the blog article from Steve Anderson:
The Salesforce.com Foundation announced today that a plucky band of techno-strategists up in Seattle
will get a $25,000 grant to build integration between the open source Plone content management system and Salesforce.com.
We’re very thankful to the Foundation for funding this project, and really excited about what this means to the nonprofits we work with (and anyone else using Plone and Salesforce.com!). What does it mean? With Plone and Salesforce.com integrated:
- Someone who signs up for your Plone website will be automatically dropped into your Salesforce.com database
- Any data you collect (interest area, newsletter signup, etc.) on your website will be recorded in Salesforce.com
- You can use all that data, and the constituent’s email address, to drive communication through any number of email marketing services that integrate with Salesforce.com
- If you desire, you can allow your constituents to view and change the data you have in Salesforce.com
We are going to be working with Enfold Systems on this project – they are some of the smartest Plone minds out there. We’re shooting for an October release, with lots of milestones along the way. If you are interested in this project, let me know in the comments. We’re very interested in getting input from a variety of folks along the way.
We now get to integrate the leading hosted CRM solution with the leading enterprise-grade open source CMS. We’re pretty darn excited about it!
You’ll find more details at http://www.onenw.org/about/news/one-northwest-salesforce-plone/
This is very good news. Steve works with John Stahl
, and I plan to create a podcast with them in May to find out more about this development. I’ll have to say I’ve been inching my way toward using a CRM package. I was looking at SugarCRM, but I might now consider Salesforce because all my sites are in Plone.
I’m excited too, Steve.
Tom
