Discover hidden trends in your association's data with TIMSS.

You may have heard association executives discussing TMA Resources and wondered what it offered to associations. Here's your answer.

TMA Resources Inc., McLean, Virginia, can provide your association with the total solution to its complex needs - a total solution that includes four unique components: * TIMSS. A powerful association management software, TIMSS is a flexible membership database, an indispensable management advisor, and a powerful communications tool. TIMSS not only stores all of your member management information, but it also allows you to organize it into relevant, accessible data that you can use to make important decisions for your association.

"TIMSS can deliver information when you need it, enabling you to make critical management decisions," says Tom Brantigan, senior vice president, product development. "Expertly designed as an intuitive package, it can be implemented easily and operated reliably, making your association more efficient and more responsive."

Easy-to-learn software

Because TIMSS adapts to your association's operations and not the other way around, your staff can easily learn how to operate it. Efficient navigation capabilities let your staff move quickly from answer to answer. An open architecture facilitates integration of third-party products, such as postal management software, desktop word processing, and fax/e-mail systems.

Whether you are handling publication subscriptions or dealing with a complex week-long annual conference, TIMSS helps you support your members with complete, reliable information. The three TIMSS core modules - customer service, accounts receivable, and system codes and security management - form the foundation of a comprehensive suite of modules.

Each application module handles a specific task, such as managing your exhibitors, customer service, marketing, certification, advertising, continuing education, speakers, fund-raising, and government relations.

1. TIMSS@Association Intelligence. Powered by the industry's best report-writing tools, TIMSS@AI allows you to discover hidden trends and patterns and unearth previously unsuspected correlations within your information. Imagine being able to determine why your Kansas chapter lost 20 percent of its members over the age of 40 last year. Or how you could raise an additional $500,000 next year in your fund-raising.

2. TIMSS@net. Do your members want to communicate directly with your integrated TIMSS database to provide seamless, secure communication on the Web? Now they can. Your members can buy a book, register for a meeting, pay their dues, or update their membership files via the Internet, thus increasing your association's efficiency and accuracy. In addition, prospective members can browse your Web site, see what they're missing by not being members, and apply for membership right there.

TIMSS@net also allows you to provide up-to-date information to all of your chapters and members quickly and easily, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

3. TIMSS@InTandem. A Web-based collaboration and information management offering, TIMSS@InTandem provides a fast and simple way to securely publish information to select audiences. TIMSS@InTandem is an integrated suite of Internet/intranet/extranet software applications, including file sharing, threaded discussion forums, contact management, searchable libraries, and group scheduling.

TIMSS@InTandem can help you generate additional nondues revenue through advertising sponsorships, subscriptions, service fees, and affinity marketing. It will also empower your staff and membership to share ideas and work collectively with each other regardless of time zone, distance, or computer platform.

A perfect match

TMA Resources was formed in 1996 when Technology Management and Analysis Corporation joined with Resources, Inc.

"The union of these two companies was a perfect match of technical expertise and in-depth knowledge of association management," says Edi Dor, president. "As a result, our company has the technical and financial resources to invest in a wide range of areas, including the Internet, telephony, integration with groupware, and other third-party products."

Facts about TIMSS

Design features of TIMSS include:

* Off-the-shelf - it ships on CDs

* Modular and integrated

* Powerful Oracle database

* Full integration with desktop PC

* Scaleable and customizable

* True client/server architecture

* Relational and object oriented

* Easy-to-use Windows interface

* Open-systems-interface compliant

* Year-2000 compliant