While Drupal can handle many tasks like content management and user experiences, it is not well-suited for everything such as email, payments, analytics, video, and complex customer relationship management. Over the years, Drupal has evolved to more easily integrate third-party services through features like core fields, custom entities, and an entity API in Drupal 7, and in Drupal 8, it aims to serve as a central hub that connects to other applications and services.

1. Drupal Integrations!

2. Wait, can’t we just do
everything with Drupal?

3. No! For example:
• Email
• Payment processing
• Analytics
• Video conversion and streaming
• Complex customer relationship management

4. A Brief History of Drupal
and 3rd Party
Integrations

5. D6: Check out what I have!

6. D7: Lets Share!

7. Sharing Made Easier
• Fields in core
• Custom entities
• Entity API

10. D8: Drupal as a Hub

11. Credit: Dries, State of Drupal, DrupalCon Austin

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