Playing Nicely With Others: Integrating Drupal with Third-Party Data

In this Webinar, experts from Palantir.net will join members of the Acquia team to explore some of the ways that they’ve integrated large amounts of third-party data into Drupal, leveraging the platform’s tremendous flexibility and bringing additional value and opportunities to higher education, publishing, and museum clients. If you've got a basic understanding of Drupal concepts and terminology and want to learn how to take the system to the next level, come join us!
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Topics to be explored will include:

  • Strategies for importing content from legacy systems.
  • Using SOAP to authenticate users managed outside of Drupal’s user system.
  • Using Views and other Drupal modules to customize the display of third-party data and make it fit seamlessly within your site’s design.
  • Enabling Drupal to co-exist with other content management platforms without the user ever noticing.
  • When to work with Drupal’s node system and when to abandon it completely.
  • Why organizations are adopting Acquia support to ensure optimal performance of their Drupal site.
Date & time: Thursday, December 3, 2009
1:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: George DeMet, Founder and co-owner, and Larry Garfield, Senior Architect, Palantir, and Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing, Acquia