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I currently work on a website with a company directory. The data of the companies is saved in different fields of a drupal node (the address is registered using the Location module). I would like to sync this data with CiviCRM. I'm however feeling a bit lost about which would be the best way to do so. Has anyone experience with a similar case?

There are two reasons for this: 

• Speed: The website runs on a rather slow server. I'm afraid that if data is extracted from the CiviCRM database it would be too slop. Am I right about this?
• It's a directory where people can comment and rate the entries

I've in the past set up a website where I used CiviCRM to put together a list with members of an association of companies. It was easy to display this list.

In the present context however, each entry has its own node with a short description, a photo album, address + map and the possibility for the users of the site to give comments and rate the company.

I see that with webform I can collect the data and save it into CiviCRM. But how can I then extract data (name of company + address + maybe map) from CiviCRM and include this in my drupal node? Can this be done directly with Webform?