Advanced Solutions International: iMIS Delivers--Executive Portfolio and e-Communities.

"We've had our iMIS system for years," says Angie Farinas, director of finance and administration for the American Financial Services Association, Washington, D.C.

It's been eight years to be exact, and for enterprise software that's a tong time. However, for iMIS, it's about standard--maybe even on the short side. That's because iMIS was built to support continuous upgrades and new technology, while other systems have obsolescence built in.

Only iMIS offers flexible architecture combined with a software development approach that ensures continuous, efficient upgrading. These seamless software upgrades are based on the latest technologies and on input from 20,000 users worldwide.

The latest round of upgrades for iMIS supports this strategy. It delivers technology to help associations better manage data to gain true knowledge and then use that knowledge to deliver better, more cost-effective services to members by harnessing the power of the Internet.

Executive portfolio: new user interface turns data into knowledge

Provide your organization with knowledge using the iMIS Executive Portfolio, a new user interface that presents the user with a high-level view of its data. In today's association management infrastructure, the database plays a key role in day-to-day decisions. The ability to make sense of data transforms the raw facts and figures stored in your database into knowledge that benefits the association.

By combating data clutter and helping you better organize and view data, the Executive Portfolio becomes a powerful strategic knowledge tool that adds value for your members by allowing you to better support them with faster and more accurate answers to inquiries and more effective knowledge distribution.

The Executive Portfolio helps association leaders be more effective by turning their data into useful knowledge, benefiting both the association and its members. The whole picture of managing an organization includes member service, effective decision making, and time efficiency. If you aren't seeing the whole picture clearly, you are clearly missing the big picture.

e-Communities: new online community management solution brings members together

Bring your members together on the Internet with iMIS e-Communities. Are your members getting the most out of their membership? Logistically speaking, it is difficult to give a personal touch to every member through association events, conferences, and publications. The challenge is uniting a large group of people effectively, conveniently, and economically.

Enter the online community. Many successful corporations have already built online communities to facilitate better communication and company loyalty among their employees and customers. Now associations can accomplish the same thing and achieve the same results. The latest round of iMIS upgrades contains support for a new iMIS e-Series Web-based module, iMIS e-Communities, that allows you to easily set up and maintain multiple online communities, giving members exactly what they want out of their membership and making sure the information that pertains to and most interests them is more accessible.

Integrating such an online community with the existing database is what sets iMIS e-Communities apart from other online community software. iMIS e-Communities uses the central iMIS database to manage and track access to your online communities, simplifying management and improving performance by providing members access to relevant information about the association, fellow members, and themselves. Moreover, this integration makes it easier for the association to proactively serve members who use the e-community. Members can be pushed information that serves their individual needs.

The online community is obviously an invaluable asset to association professionals. By giving your members a 365-day-a-year window to the organization, you are truly maximizing the membership experience. The potential for knowledge that can be shared via this technology is infinite, and, in the end, your members will thank you.

Only the "i" has it--get the facts today

Only iMIS offers flexible architecture combined with a software development approach that ensures continuous and efficient upgrades, providing customers with new features and functions such as the Executive Portfolio and iMIS e-Communities. Get the facts today. Visit www.advsol.com, or call toll free 800-727-8682 to request a free brochure, "10 Things You Need to Know about Keeping Your Software Forever."