Plone Salesforce Integration is a group dedicated to the open source effort to integrate the open source content management system Plone with the Salesforce.com CRM. Components of this project were started in 2006 with a project grant from the Salesforce.com foundation and is continued by the community.

The Plone/Salesforce integration project comprises of multiple software products that will allow you to interact with Salesforce.com directly from Python code in Plone. At a bare minimum, you'll only need Beatbox to interact with Salesforce.com within your Plone-based website or from general Python code for that matter.  Salesforce Base Connector improves the experience from within a Plone-based site.  The other products are optional features that can further enhance your experience integrating Plone & Salesforce.com. 

The following image provides a visual overview ot the components that make-up this project:

The full list of tools is as follows:

• Beatbox (Python Package Index listing)
  
  • this is the Python toolkit for the Salesforce web API. It was originally written by Simon Fell.
  • it allows arbitrary connections to Salesforce from Python code
• SalesforceBaseConnector
  • a Zope 2 wrapper product for beatbox
    
  • manages credentials and connections to beatbox
  • extends the Salesforce.com API to the protected Python space of Zope 2 python skin scripts
• SalesforceAuthPlugin (Python Package Index listing)
  • this is an Authentication plug that uses Salesforce as a Plone member repository
  • Relies on SalesforceBaseConnector & Beatbox to interact with Saleforce
• Salesforce RSVP (Python Package Index listing)
  
• Lightweight event registration/rsvp system
• Relies on SalesforceBaseConnector & Beatbox to interact with Saleforce
• Optionally enhanced with the use of SalesforcePFGAdapter & PloneFormGen for the building of customized and complex "registration" forms 
• PayPal2SalesorceLead
• Paypal provides a service called Instant Payment Notification (IPN) which can notify a URL when a payment is made.  Paypal2SalesforceLead is a very simple Product for Plone which sets up a listener for IPN, and adds a new Lead to a Salesforce.com account using a Salesforce web-to-lead form whenever a new payment is made. 
• it relies on SalesforceBaseConnector & Beatbox to interact with Saleforce 
• SalesforcePFGAdapter
  • this is a tool that uses Plone Form Gen to create web-to-X forms in Plone without any coding necessary
  • Relies on SalesforceBaseConnector & Beatbox to interact with Saleforce