DrupalCon New Orleans 2016: The Story of Successful Drupal Integrations in 3 Acts

This talk explores the successful integration of Drupal with various platforms, highlighting three distinct case studies. The speaker discusses the MailChimp and Mandrill integration, which originated from a need within the Drupal community and has since grown significantly due to collaboration with MailChimp. The session also covers the iATS Payments integration, developed to meet the needs of nonprofits requiring payment processing solutions, demonstrating how ThinkShout partnered with iATS to create the Commerce iATS module. Finally, the talk delves into the Salesforce integration, showcasing how the speaker rewrote the Salesforce Suite to facilitate a powerful bi-directional connection between Drupal and Salesforce, serving larger clients' needs effectively. The common theme emphasizes creating flexible integrations that can cater to diverse use cases, with or without the backing of service providers.