Inside ASI-AP

Last but not least in a big few weeks of iMIS Friendraising launches (see posts on Pink Ribbon Breakfast and Light the Night), the Cancer Council Victoria (CCV - www.cancervic.org.au) launched their latest fundraising event "Girls Night In" at www.girlsnightin.com.au. The Victorian home page is shown below:

CCV is part of the national Cancer Council group that are deploying the Artez online fundraising solution all around Australia. In Victoria, since CCV are also iMIS customers, they are also implementing the iMIS Friendraising bridge.

Two big website launches this week for iMIS 15 .Net Content Manager. I already posted about the AFI website launch, and then just 3 days later the Global Illumination website www.globalillumination.org.au - went live for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF www.nbcf.org.au).

This website was launched hot on the heels of the Pink Ribbon Breakfast website that I posted about here and rounded out a big couple of weeks for our teams.

The first event run by our new iMIS 15 customer - the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) www.nbcf.org.au - is now live online and ready for registrations, sponsors and donations. The Pink Ribbon Breakfast is a well known annual event with many high profile stars as ambassadors led by chief ambassador Sarah Murdoch.

The Pink Ribbon Breakfast website www.pinkribbonbreakfast.org.au went live this week using the iMIS Friendraising module. The registration home page is shown above.

The Australian Film Institute (AFI) purchased iMIS 15 earlier in the year. They went live with their back office system back in May to support their membership, events and the voting for the annual AFI Australian Film Awards - with Leo doing most of the project. For those that don't know much about the AFI, and if you like films, their annual membership of just $55 per year is a great deal - since it gives you discounts at all cinemas plus a chance to attend the screenings of Australian films in the lead up to the awards.

This week they launched their new .Net website - www.afi.org.au - using the iMIS 15 Content Manager module. The website was implemented in just a few weeks by Nasser and his team at Avion Software. This week was a soft launch with just content only available so far; later in the month the functional pieces we be added including the member only area, online join, online renewals and other functions for competition and voting registration.

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.

Finsia (www.finsia.com) - a new iMIS customer - this week launched their new website based on iMIS 15 and the iMIS 15 .NET Content Manager. Finsia - Australia's premier membership organisation for financial services professionals - went live with iMIS 15 in the back office in April, and quickly followed with their website this week.

In addition to Content Manager, they have implemented the new iMIS 15 public views for Customer Management, Billing and Events - giving members the ability to renew online, update their profile online and register for events online. New members can also join online and in fact 7 new members joined online in the first day the site was live.

Clubs NSW - a long time iMIS customer - recently decided to refresh their website and implement iMIS Content Manager. They upgraded to iMIS 15 last month, and this week launched their new www.clubsnsw.com.au website using the latest Content Manager version and .NET templates. They are the first customer in the AP region to use both the .NET Content Manager and iMIS 15.

The website implementation was done by Glass Onion, and (formerly) our own Nasser did much of the template coding.

With my absence over the last couple of months I was out of the loop on some of our customers' iMIS website upgrades - using iMIS Content Manager and iMIS Business Objects (iBO). Some of the most recent ones are listed below.

Victorian Golf Association (VGA) - www.golfvic.org.au - launched their new website based on iMIS Content Manager, e-Customer Management, e-Events, e-Communities and e-Orders. Note the dynamic home page showing upcoming events live from iMIS.

Thanks to dedicated efforts of courage and excellence from our marketing and IT teams, the new ASI websites are live. Using our own iMIS Content Manager, the upgrade went smoothly and to time over the weekend.

Of particular note is the launch of the new iMIS Product Portal website. In our new site architecture, everything you need to know about learning and using iMIS can be found at the www.advsol.com/iMIS product portal (in our previous design, iMIS product information was scattered throughout the corporate ASI website). You will also note that the iMIS Product Portal website matches the interface used in iMIS 15, so that we can deliver a consistent and seamless experience across our products and websites.

Announcing the launch of the new IPWEA (Institute of Public Works & Engineering Australia) website - http://www.ipwea.org.au. The Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia (IPWEA) is a professional organisation providing member services and advocacy for those involved in and delivering public works and engineering services to the community.

This is an iMIS Content Manager site, using the iMIS Template Gallery with some customisations. The use of Content Manager will enable IPWEA to standardise their branding and communication across the National body and each individual State. This is a significant milestone for everyone involved.

Caritas launched their new website this week www.caritas.org.au, powered by iMIS, iMIS Content Manager and iMIS Template Gallery. Caritas selected a standard template from Template Gallery and worked with iMIS authorised partners Carnival Media and iServices to produce the final site; Carnival Media provided creative services and iServices technical services. Also thanks to Nasser from ASI who helped with the final cutover and the issues list, and Sarah ASI's project manager.

A great article in this months NZICA (NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants) Journal, written by their CEO (Garry). A PDF scan of the whole article is attached below. The article covers the launch of their new iMIS powered website, and their next phase. Read on!

The NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants launched their new iMIS Content Manager powered website on Friday, complete with new look and feel - www.nzica.com. Nola assisted with early prep work, iServices built the templates, Leo was there in the last weeks helping resolve last minute issues, and of course the whole NZICA team who led the project from start to finish. Congratulations!

Marilyn, Mick and I attended an all-staff lunch at AIM Vic/Tas today. The purpose of the lunch was to celebrate the success of the iMIS project and the successes of AIM generally in the 2006 year. About 60 people all up were in attendance, and included an opening address by the AIM CEO and a follow up vote of thanks from the AIM President/Chairman.

Susan (AIM's CEO) gave particular thanks to Eddie and the AIM/IMS project team, and made special mention of our own Marilyn as being outstanding. Richard (AIM's President), who is a Partner at KPMG, also made special mention of the iMIS project, and in particular that it was delivered on-time and on-budget, and just how important that was to the Board and the organisation generally. He has been involved before in numerous IT/CRM implementations and knew from experience what a challenge they can be, so his congratulations to the project team were from a position of knowledge.

The new www.aracy.org.au website went live overnight. This website is deployed using iMIS Content Manager and Template Gallery. It looks great!

ARACY is the Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth, and they are about working together to enhance the wellbeing and life chances of children and young people.

Bilal was praised highly in the work he did on the web project. This is what Linda from ARACY said in an email yesterday: