Inside ASI-AP

Customers that purchased iMIS 15 recently in the Asia-Pacific region include:

Malaysian Nature Society (live)
Starlight Childrens Foundation (mid implementation)
Leukemia Foundation (event pilot live)
National Breast Cancer Foundation (mid implementation)
Professional Golfers Association (PGA) (implementation not yet started)
Australian Film Institute (AFI) (live)
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (implementation about to start)
Australian Orthopedic Association (implementation just starting)
Aged & Community Care Victoria (ACCV) (live)

Please welcome all to the iMIS community!

One of our newest iMIS Friendraising customers took their first event live on the Friendraising platform last week. The event called "Light the Night" can be found here. You can tell it is an iMIS Friendraising site by looking at the URL - note the secure.imisfriendraising.com.au domain once you go past the initial landing page.

Vanessa spoke very highly of the LF team who have been running Friendraising-style events for over 6 years (World's Greatest Shave being their biggest!) and are very experienced in what they want and how they want it. The implementation was completed in just a few weeks.

Jason M travelled to Kuala Lumpur last weekend to spend 2 weeks onsite implementing our newest Malaysian customer - the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS - www.mns.org.my). MNS are starting with a basic iMIS membership system with plans to grow into a full iMIS web solution over time. The team at MNS have been great hosts for Jason as it is first time in KL - introducing him to local food and the local cinema. Jason will be finished the implementation later this week and then he takes a couple of extra weeks to tour around KL and Malaysia.

For the full 2007 calendar year 17 new iMIS customers joined the AP community. The average sale amount (licenses only, no services) was $72k. This was a decrease on 2006 where the average was $86k. Some other statistics below:

I wanted to take the opportunity to welcome new iMIS customers to the iMIS community from the last few months:

Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) www.ceda.org.au
Finsia www.finsia.com
Catholic Mission www.catholicmission.org.au
Law Society of SA www.lawsocietysa.asn.au
Children's Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation www.childcancerresearch.com.au
Australian Retailers Association www.ara.com.au
Lifestart www.lifestart.org.au
Risk Management Institution of Australasia www.rmia.org.au

The first 3 organisations listed above are currently in the middle of iMIS 15 implementation projects. CEDA will be the first of the new customers to be live on iMIS 15 later this month.

Last month the Law Society of South Australia (LSSA) signed contracts to purchase and implement iMIS. They start their implementation project this month, and have some pretty aggressive time frames to be live quickly. LSSA becomes the second state law professional body to use iMIS in Australia, following on from the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) who successfully implemented iMIS about 18 months ago.

I wanted to welcome all of our new customers that joined us in 2006 by listing them out below for everyone to recognise.

Last week AIM Vic/Tas switched over from TASS to iMIS for membership and customer management, with a second live cutover in January for the financials. Congratulations to the ASI and AIM project teams! You have all done yourself proud.

On the ASI side, the project team was lead by Marilyn and included all of the Southern team at various stages of the implementation.

I am looking forward to joining them all for lunch on Friday to celebrate the success of going live.

Bob, Keith and I today visited our new and first KL customer - World Wildlife Fund Malaysia (WWF) www.wwfmalaysia.org. We met with the fundraising team, lead by Bow, and Melinda and Shani.

We were taken on a tour of the office to start with, including the program areas where current major projects include tigers and turtles. They are expanding in the program and fundraising departments and have just recently taken over some adjacent office space to give them more room.