What does Zaloni do and how do you work with Drupal?

Zaloni provides content management and collaboration solutions for research, higher education and enterprise clients. We help our clients develop and deploy new and innovative applications to automate business process, enable collaboration and reach and motivate new audiences. We work with clients in Basic sciences, Life sciences and Biomedical research to help them bridge departmental, institutional or geographical boundaries thereby increasing their research productivity. Many of our projects involve custom integration of Drupal with third party applications, so that our clients can leverage their existing IT investments. We are a global company with current projects in US, Australia, and Israel.

How did you first get involved with Drupal?

Our foray into Drupal started with volunteering for a website for a public elementary school. We were impressed on how fast we could put together the site and make teachers and staff update their own content. From that point onwards, we have used Drupal for all of our content management and collaboration projects. Drupal’s extensible framework along with the large number of community contributed modules makes it very attractive as a platform for deploying content management solutions with custom integration.

Can you tell us about a recent Drupal-based project that Zaloni did that was particularly interesting?

We recently developed a site for the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics (CMIP) at Duke University. This Center does cutting edge research on metamaterials that can make things invisible to electromagnetic spectrum. They have recently come up with a device that can make objects invisible to a wide spectrum of x-band microwave. Their goal is to do the same for the visible spectrum – Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak becoming a reality?

Other interesting Drupal projects include a multi-university Center sponsored by NSF and EPA to study the impact of nanoparticles on the environment. We are going to be collecting data from different gauges in several outdoor monitoring stations (mesocosms) and displaying them using visualization in a Drupal application for time series analysis.

What are you most looking forward to at DrupalCon DC?

We are looking forward to meeting other members of the Drupal Community. It will be a great learning experience to attend all the amazing sessions. We are also interested to hear about the road map and plans for Drupal 7 and beyond. This will be our first DrupalCon and we are really looking forward to it.