APPLICATION HOSTING BENEFITS
When you run software over the Internet, you
save money and free your staff to focus on the
needs of your members.
Implement Web initiatives faster
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The Internet offers exciting opportunities to
provide new and better services to your members and to be more responsive to
their needs. If you've been frustrated at how long it takes to implement the
great ideas you have, running your member management software over the Internet will let
you put new features and new functionality to work faster.
Work anywhere
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Instead of being tied to their desks, your staff can work
anywhere they can connect a PC or laptop to the Internet. No matter where
they are, they have the same access to programs, contact databases,
historical records, and work in progress that they would if they were
sitting at their own desks in the office.
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Those traveling on business are no longer limited in what
they can accomplish while they are away from the office.
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You can easily implement a telecommuting program, or let
people work from home when the weather is bad or they have a personal
emergency.
Offer relief to your IT staff
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Your Information Technology (IT) staff is being pulled in a
dozen different directions. When you run your software in our application hosting facility, you
are able to transfer some of the responsibility for managing IT functions.
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We manage updates and upgrades to your
software so you can take advantage of the latest technology without the
hassles of doing the upgrade yourself.
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We also keep everyone in your office on a standard set of
applications, which makes working together much easier.
Have experts on call
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Our entire focus is on implementing, integrating, and
supporting applications. Because of this, we can justify having many more
experts on staff than you ever could.
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Your questions get answered faster and problems are resolved
more quickly, letting you get back to work.
Keep your old PCs and Macs
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With the Citrix technology we use, you don't need powerful
client PCs to run your applications. Any PC or Mac that can access the
Internet is good enough to use for a workstation, saving you money and
hardware upgrade headaches.
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Neither do you need to upgrade your PCs on a standard
two-year schedule; the processing load is carried by the servers, so you get
much more life out of the hardware you now own.
Improve conference registration
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Keep your members and your staff happier at your next
on-site conference. When you maintain your member database in our hosting facility, your
registration team can work with your actual database—current to the minute—instead
of a copy that may be old by several crucial days.
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The security features of our data center give you a higher level of
security than you would normally have over a dial-up connection.
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You can
arrange for support from our staff during whatever hours you need.
Work efficiently and affordably with state/local affiliates
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If you share information with state and local affiliates,
running your association management software in our hosting facility can
help make monthly payment vouchers
a thing of the past. We can offer you a way to bring state affiliates
together under one master contract. This makes it economically feasible for
smaller state affiliates to use the same software you do,
so management of your customer databases can be centralized and the updates
can be synchronized.
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