Built on Microsoft .NET technology, issociate can extend any association management system (AMS) so that in includes social networking and collaborations tools to allow your membership to begin to self-create content and self regulate communities. Specifically, issociate provides:
There are no software or system requirements for the association. issociate is powered by Higher Logic which is Saas, software-as-a-service, completely hosted. The only requirement for a subscribing association is Web access.
The system is being used by over 450 membership organisation, some very large sending 100,000s of messages per had and handling large volumes of documents. Some customers have over 400,000 members.
Overall the system's maximum capacity is unlimited. We host on the Amazon Cloud. Each customer has limits on their contract but only to protect against abuse. If extra space is needed (which is rare) that can be arranged).
We do new releases about every 6 – 8 weeks. We do them for our clients and it is part of the monthly fee. Typically change management is rare; changes made to the system are more configurations and handled by the customer or through the customer support team. Major changes are done through the customer support team.
The ever-evolving software suite is delivered via a Saas (software-as-a-service) model to ensure customers receive continuous updates to their products and never have to undergo costly upgrades or require staff to take on additional software maintenance tasks. New features and capabilities are released to customer sites on a frequent basis without any additional fees. Best of all, the tools as so easy to use that there is close to zero staff or member training required which translates into faster user adoption, lower total cost of ownership and higher return on your investment.