Drupal for Businesses

This session will describe experiences over the last year using Drupal and Ubercart for galileoscope.org, a not-for-profit e-commerce site which processed over 25,000 orders in its first year. We discuss the site’s planning, implementation, and evolution, as well as challenged faced, lessons learned, and future directions.

SalesForce.com offers a robust, software-free Constituent Relationship Manager (CRM) platform. Via SalesForce's API, third party applications like Drupal offer limitless opportunities to engage your constituency. This session will offer a overview of SalesForce CRM + Drupal solutions including a crash course in Salesforce API, an overview of Drupal modules and solutions that implement SalesForce.com's data API, and demonstrations.

The Economist Group has chosen Drupal as its platform for the next version of its flagship site, Economist.com. We have 17 developers spread across five time zones, and chose Agile (specifically Scrum) to manage it all. I'll show you how we leverage industry best agile practices, including Test Driven Development (via SimpleTest, JMeter and Selenium), and Continuous Integration (via Hudson, Drush, and EC2).

Being an independent Drupal Developer or Consultant can be a rewarding way to make a living ... and can mean a nice six figure salary too. But it can also be a huge challenge to go at it alone. Everything from balancing your client load to getting by without the support you find working in a web shop to keeping up with technology. This session is for Independents, people think about being Independents, or those just curious. No experience required.

Companies, startups, and nonprofits often decide on Drupal for a project, but they don't always have a clear idea about how to hire a company/developer with Drupal expertise. This session will answer questions about hiring a Drupal firm; it will provide tips on how to streamline the process, learn about Drupal (in order to communicate effectively with developers), and do everything possible in order to increase the chances that the project will go smoothly and achieve the desired results.