Derek is a software and web developer in Orlando, FL. Check back often for updates on Orlando and Technology.
The Lehman Associates have released a study on the use and satisfaction of AMS systems among large associations in North America. iMis ranked at the top among the available solutions out there. iMis holds a 37 percent market share and ranked at the top in implementation experience and product satisfaction. The study was done using national and international associations in North America with budgets greater than $2 million. iMis rated higher than others in stability/reliability, cost and ease of implementation, time, upgrade path options and performance.
Personally, from a developer’s point of view, I think iMis has plenty of room for improvement but I am probably inserting opinions based on areas I view as more important being a developer (like structure, simplicity, etc.) and not on how it is actually used by an association. All in all, it actually provides a pretty strong back-end to a CMS for an association’s website. Since it contains all the data for an association’s events, members, products and finances, and it provides a decent COM API into that data we can setup websites to be administered directly from iMis for the most part. We are actually in the process of integrating the ACTE Website directly into their iMis system. Integrated features include, membership management and registrations as well as registration for events and conferences. Check out more that NFi can do with iMIS
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Frank Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Your comments on iMIS not being ideal from a developer’s standpoint are dead on. We’ve run into the same issue - it is not simple, it’s structure is confounding - the opposite of what you’re looking for. How are you integrating sites with iMIS in regards to language? Looks like several of your NFi sites are php. Do you do the same for iMIS sites or are you relegated to switching to Coldfusion or .NET with those?
derek Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:04 am
No. We still use PHP even when integrating with iMIS. We use iBO to communicate with iMIS. Since iBO is COM based we just need to make sure we are on a Windows server.