Integrating Plone with Other Systems
From 'Plone Lovers Unite!: An Interview with Plone Conference Organizer Jon Stahl'
Integration with other systems: Plone is really good at connecting with other technology systems. For example, it's really easy to write content for an email newsletter in Plone, and then use a powerful email newsletter system like WhatCounts to "vacuum" content out of the Plone site and into an email newsletter template. We are about to release code that ties together Plone and the Salesforce.com relationship management database system. Plone is also able to easily connect to relational database systems, and to LDAP servers, which are most often found in larger organizations.