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Media Release: ASI To Offer Non-Profits SOA Web Services
- New Web-Based Interface Enables Customers and Partners to Integrate Third-Party Applications into iMIS -

Melbourne, 11th August 2010 Advanced Solutions International (ASI), the largest, privately-owned global provider of web-based software for member and donor-based non-profits, today announced the availability of iMIS 15.1.3. The latest evolution of iMIS features a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) Web Services Application Programming Interface (API).

This new universal, web-based API allows customers and partners to easily integrate third-party applications into iMIS, regardless of technology or application platform, without affecting the product upgrade path. Developer documentation for iMIS SOA Web Services is available in the SDK Center of the iMIS Developer’s Community.

Media Release: Madison Down Under prompts largest round of ASI’s SMART Company Scholarship Fund
- Eight recipients and over $9000 awarded in June 2010 -

Melbourne, 3rd August 2010: Advanced Solutions International (ASI) today announced that the latest round of the ASI SMART Company Scholarship Fund has committed over $9,000 to the professional development of eight recipients working in the not-for-profit sector.

The largest round in the history of the Fund had applications requesting more than $80,000 of funding. Over half of the requests were to attend the Fundraising Institute of Australia’s (FIA) intensive fundraising educational program, Madison Down Under, which starts on August 13th in the Barossa Valley.

The Associations Forum National Conference 2010 was held at Crown Conference Centre in Melbourne this week. More than 400 attended the two days which was packed with great sessions. ASI was among 40 exhibitors at the conference. We had a great spot in the exhibit space & experienced good traffic. Click through to fill article to view photos from the exhibitor area.

Media Release: Paul Ramsbottom, ASI Asia-Pacific Managing Director, to present at the Associations Forum National Conference
- ASI To Drive Change In Membership Renewal Process For Not-For-Profits -

Melbourne, Australia, July 22nd –Advanced Solutions International (ASI) – the developer of iMIS -will explain how associations can improve their processes around membership renewal and reduce time inputting data and duplicating effort in a presentation at The Associations Forum National Conference 2010, taking place on July 27th and 28th at The Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne.

Paul Ramsbottom, managing director at ASI Asia-Pacific will discuss with association executives that the significant resources put into the renewal process and complex renewal forms are a thing of the past with the internet and electronic banking changing all of that, and that today a membership renewal is just a transaction where “less is more”.

Media Release: Advanced Solutions International Strengthens Asia-Pacific Team With Two New Business Development Managers
- Strong financial year for ASI supports a continued push for growth -

Melbourne, 15th July 2010: Advanced Solutions International (ASI) has appointed Ian Wilcock and Bob Ko as business development managers for the Asia-Pacific region in a move to grow its customer base further and expand the company into new markets and territories.

Based in Melbourne both Ian and Bob will be tasked with expanding sales for the company across Australia and New Zealand and further afield to South East Asia.

I posted about 6 months ago on moving from doing this blog to an internal tool called Yammer (www.yammer.com).

Part of that move was getting used to moving from a formal style of writing in this blog to the micro-blog format of Yammer, which I have been enjoying. The downside to Yammer is that it is only available to ASI staff.

I have been recently starting to move to Twitter which is fully open - anyone, anytime can read my tweets. There is still some confidential stuff on Yammer but as much as I can I will post on Twitter.

So please follow me - @PaulRamsbottom - at www.twitter.com/PaulRamsbottom.

We are pleased to announce the Review Panel for the 2010 ASI SMART Company Scholarship Fund.

Our Review Panel of Paul Ramsbottom and Julie Willett will be joined each funding round by a rotating panellist selected from ASI staff.

March 2010
Paul Ramsbottom - ASI Managing Director (and Chairman of the Fund)
Julie Willett - ASI HR/Facilities Director
Amanda Stenson - ASI Business Development Manager

June 2010
Paul Ramsbottom - ASI Managing Director (and Chairman of the Fund)
Julie Willett - ASI HR/Facilities Director
Nola Schembri - ASI Senior Consultant

September 2010
Paul Ramsbottom - ASI Managing Director (and Chairman of the Fund)

ASI is pleased to announce the recipients for the March 2010 round of funding for the ASI SMART Company Scholarship Fund.

The standard of applications was excellent yet again. The Fund is pleased to be able to assist six recipients from across Australia.

Recipients included:

PART A

Jennie Holdom, CatholicCare Hunter-Manning
FIA Skills 1

Nina Kovach, Asthma Foundation NSW
FIA Skills 2

Nicky Saville, Melbourne City Mission
FIA Skills 1

PART B

Patricia Murdock, Victoria Farmers Federation
Company Directors Course

PART C

Eve Jani, Bush Heritage Australia
Diploma of Project Management

ASI's SMART Company Scholarship Fund is again offering financial assistance for your professional development. The fund offers four rounds of funding each year (March, June, September & December). Applications for the current round must be received no later than Thursday 10th December 2009.

The Fund specifically assists staff working in Not-For-Profit organisations and has provided grants to more than 70 individuals over the past three years.

If you are not an ASI customer - we invite you to apply in this round for our fully funded scholarships to undertake the Fundraising Institute of Australia Skills 123 Training Courses (see under Program Part A).

Here are a few photos from our last Melbourne boardroom lunch for 2009 - held on Tuesday 1st December.

We like to celebrate our achievements at ASI and each month the Melbourne staff catch up for Friday night drinks and celebrate the previous month's achievement as well as staff birthdays, anniversaries and value award winners. Last month we decided on a 'beers of the world' beer and nuts evening. Here are some pictures! (ok yes they are mainly of the beer!)

Today we hosted a group of Membership Execs from the iMIS Community - here are some pictures from today:

The iMIS training class schedule has been updated for Oct - Dec 2009. There is a swag of At Your Desk and face to face classes scheduled.

At Your Desk (AYD) classes represent great value for money (only $165 - Australian dollars). The two hour courses cover a range of topics - including new courses in Customer Management. There are also AYD courses in Events, Billing-Dues, Orders, IQA, Business object Designer and AR/Cash.

Face to face classes have been scheduled for Melbourne including Web Content Management, iBO .NET and Task Centre.

Go to www.advsol.com/ap/learning for all the details.

Paul Ramsbottom: Bob just reported in from the iBEF Exec Forum in New York. He said it was going great; the best one yet!
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Martin Angelin: I have been working with a prospect in Adelaide calkled Trees For Life. Whilst iMIS is a good fit, they will need some custom development for some elements of their Land Management Programs. Interested in iMIS users, ideally in SA but anywhere really, who can show the way custom applications can be built on iMIS foundation. VECCI and AIM Vic with web sites are some. References from Avion (AFI maybe) or iServices would be useful. Any suggestions welcome. I will need to contact the customers early next week. « less