"Right Hand" meet "Left Hand" - Turning business bottlenecks into streamlined Drupal data pipelines

Do you have projects that require multiple department to collaborate? Is it common that the "Right Hand" doesn't know what the "Left Hand" is doing? Does this issue cause duplication of effort, projects falling through the cracks. or information bottlenecks? We used Drupal and all its glory to integrate, streamline, and prioritize the business data flow!

Case Review:
Our case is surrounding a native american tribe and their cultural and natural resources management departments. The "Tribes Integrated Resource Management Planning Program" TIRMP is a tool that provides proactive, interdisciplinary, and publicly accessible resource planning guidance.

Presentation:
* We will discuss how the Tribes departments were failing and how Drupal centralized and exposed their stream or work. This also facilitated departmental and public transparency.

* We will demonstrate the Drupal technologies we implemented to allow us to integrate these departments into one lovely central repository using CCK, views, panels, rules, notifications, automodal, conditional fields, flexifield, and many more!

* We will demonstrate the challenges of a simplifying the interface to encourage adoption and consistent use.

* We will show how this case is actually a very common model and how we have modified this case to solve several similar situations.