‘AMS Vendors’ Archives

Little things can make a big impact

I was recently helping a client of mine with an AMS system selection. After a thorough review of needs and potential systems, my client chose a vendor that she felt was their best match. The vendor was very pleased to hear that they had been selected. But rather than immediately signing a ...

Protech Launches New SaaS Product

Protech Associates, a long-time AMS vendor, has announced the release of their latest product line, Memberpoint. Memberpoint is a SaaS (Software as a Service) version of the Microsoft CRM product that has been Protech's primary product for many years. Like all AMS products, Protech's CRM for ...

New AMS Vendor Enters the Market

The latest product to be added to the large list of companies serving the association market is Membersuite. Membersuite is headed up by Andrew Ryan, who has a long history of software development in the association market. I've had a chance to see a demo of the new product, and at first blush, ...

Avectra Appoints New CEO

Avectra has appointed Richard Davis as CEO of the company. You can read all the details here: http://www.avectra.com/Pages/AvectraAppointsNewCEO.aspx Changes at the CEO level of AMS companies are exceedingly rare, in part because most AMS companies are privately held and the CEO tends to be the ...

CDC Acquires Computility

CDC Software has purchased Computility, an AMS provider. You can read more about the acquisition here. CDC also recently purchased gomembers, as noted here. As the press release explains, CDC intends to continue acquiring companies in the NFP/NGO space. Full disclosure: EDM is an ...

Another great idea from an AMS vendor

I like to give props to association management software (AMS) vendors when they do something really smart. Here's another great idea from an AMS vendor. I recently had the opportunity to see an extended demo of DAXKO Connect, DAXKO's association management software product. During the demo, ...

What Question Would You Ask an AMS Software CEO?

On Tuesday, January 26, 2010, I'll be moderating a panel of three association software CEOs for ASAE's Online Conference for Small Staff Associations. (You can see the entire agenda here.) If you had a chance to ask any question of the CEO of an association management system software company, ...

Aptify Users Conference 2009

I had the opportunity to attend part of Aptify's Users Conference this year, held last week in Washington, DC. I attended last year's event (which was Aptify's first second) in Chicago, and my primary criticism at that time was that the presentations were far too "vendor heavy" and didn't ...

Reflections on NiUG/Improvements in iMIS

I had the honor of speaking at the opening general session for NiUG International's Discovery Conference last week in Baltimore, MD. I really enjoyed the presentation and thought it was well-received. I also had a chance to sit in on a "What's New in iMIS 15.1" presented by Shaun Surette of ASI. ...

More Transparency from AMS Vendors

I like to give props to AMS vendors when they do something really smart. I've written about Avectra's publicly available wiki here. The wiki alone is pretty cool. But here is some content which I think is extremely useful and demonstrates nice transparency on Avectra's part. The wiki entry ...