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8 Reasons Why Association Executive Directors Love iMIS

Executive directors share 8 reasons why they chose iMIS® as their association platform to achieve continuous performance improvement.


As every executive director knows, continually improving your organizational performance is critical to the future of your association.

And at the heart of your organization is your association software platform acting as its hub, its core, its nucleus. 

Ensure your association’s heart beats strongly by partnering with a technology solution that optimizes your performance. Transform your association into a learning organization, one that continuously learns from every member's interaction. This will help grow not only your membership but also your overall business.

iMIS is the perfect technology partner for association leaders. Here are the top 8 reasons association executive directors have chosen iMIS and why they love it:

 

8 Reasons Why Association Executive Directors Love iMIS

 

1. iMIS gives you an authoritative Single Source of Truth (SSoT) so you can fully trust your data.

One of the best ways to effectively run your business is to trust your data. Your member data has the power to give you insights into every aspect of their journey with you. This includes their interests, preferences, goals, and more.

If your data is stored in a separate CRM, AMS, CMS, accounting system, events platform, or in spreadsheets (the horror!) ... then how can you even begin to piece together a member’s journey with you? Siloed data can negatively affect and alienate your members since they can't easily see the value of your membership offerings.

iMIS holds all of your data from billing, events, spreadsheets, a CMS, and more.

By consolidating your data into the iMIS Engagement Management System (EMS) platform, you can begin to craft unique and personalized member experiences.

With every interaction, you’ll gain intelligence on their personas, website behavior, buyer habits, and more, so you can begin to predict their future engagement with you. You’ll have created an environment where you are learning from every touchpoint.

Learn more about the power of a Single Source of Truth with our free guide, "It's Not You, It's Your Data Silos."

 

2. iMIS is a membership powerhouse. iMIS has everything you need to run your membership, member portals, and websites.

Your membership is the lifeblood of your association. Ensure you provide the best experience possible by anticipating needs with personalized engagement, convenient self-service options, and accurate billing.

How personalized is your constituents’ experience when they log into your member portal?

Are you able to offer discounts to future events based on past attendance?

Can you automate alerts based on their interactions...or lack thereof?

Do you offer automatic renewal options?


These are just a few examples that highlight how to engage with your members on a personal level, based on their past behavior and stated preferences. iMIS allows you to personalize every engagement so you always exceed expectations.

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3. iMIS natively handles complex financial requirements with ease.

iMIS has everything you need to meet complicated financial requirements. It's built to handle the most complex pricing configurations, with the power to streamline your entire organization’s invoicing, natively and out of the box. Your membership data is always in sync with your accounting data so you can always be confident in your invoicing. Month and year-end processes are a breeze.

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Learn about the power of native accounting with our free guide, "Smarter Billing: Leveraging Native Accounting for Membership Success."

 

4. iMIS has the power to manage unique processes and business requirements out of the box. No code configuration necessary.

We've worked with over 4,000 associations, unions and non-profits for over three decades. We’ve built iMIS for the way these organizations work at their core, including required functionality for specialty organizations like bar associations, medical associations, clubs, regulatory bodies, international unions, dioceses, and many more.

We understand your business model. We’ve built iMIS to include configurable tools that flexibly fit your needs without reliance on customizations that break your upgrade path.

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5. iMIS is extremely flexible because of its web development tools.

Non-technical staff can add and edit their own websites with easy access to iMIS data.

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6. iMIS compatibility with best-of-breed app solutions and embedded modern technologies offers clients excellent choices to stay on top of a changing business and technical landscape. 

 

Best of Breed App Solutions

iMIS connects to your favorite apps, from solutions like Higher Logic online communities and email marketing, to TopClass learning management, to the year-round mobile app by Clowder. Experience optimized and powerful integrations with our growing best-of-breed app solutions directory, iMISMarketplace.com.

Go a step further by adding the power of automation to the iMIS platform with Zapier or Microsoft Power Automate. Automate your workflows, processes, data updates, and even Slack notifications. Your only limitation is the imagination.

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Business Intelligence

iMIS comes with powerful tools, like the Intelligent Query Architect (IQA) for building complex queries and configurable dashboards for slicing and dicing your member data.

Report Writer gives non-technical staff the power to create drag-and-drop BI reports and dashboards with interactive data visualizations, geo-maps, drilldowns, linked dashboards, and more.

The iMIS development team is always looking to enhance iMIS with the latest tools to help you optimize and gain insight into your organization's performance.

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The AI-Powered EMS

We believe the work of associations and non-profits is vital to the world. We've built the iMIS Engagement Management System® to empower our clients to fulfill their missions every day. Since day one, our vision is for every client to become a learning organization, one that learns from every member and supporter interaction. Our artificial intelligence (AI) strategy takes this vision even further.

iMIS boasts an extensive library of help documentation, providing the largest data set in the association industry to train AI. The AI-empowered iMIS EMS is supercharged to support your growing needs.

We believe in making AI powerful yet accessible to all our clients, regardless of their size or technical expertise. Our AI-driven features enhance predictive analytics, automate routine tasks, and provide deeper insights, enabling clients to streamline operations and focus on strategic decision-making. Learn more about iMIS + AI.

 

7. Choosing iMIS means that when you’re ready, you can easily add any ASI-owned complementary products to your tech stack.

Advanced Solutions International (ASI), the developers of iMIS, has three additional app solutions in its product lineup that are critical to the needs of membership organizations: TopClass learning management, OpenWater application and review software, and Clowder mobile engagement management.

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Learning Management System

OpenWater

Application & Review Software

Clowder

Mobile Engagement

 

These solutions complement the iMIS Engagement Management System platform with unique, best-of-breed functionality. All three are seamlessly integrated with jointly-aligned product roadmaps.

Your staff will not only have a complete picture of your membership’s engagement with you, but confidence that as ASI's products evolve, they will grow stronger together.

 

8. iMIS is a stable, supported, and scalable solution powered by Microsoft Azure.

iMIS puts its trust in Microsoft, the most successful business technology company.

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Powered by Microsoft Azure.

By harnessing the power of Microsoft Azure, iMIS keeps clients current with seamless, automatic updates and best-in-class data security to relieve IT burden for staff.

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Configured for peak performance & security.

ASI invests over $2M+ into iMIS security each year, including secure development practices, multiple layers of protection with iMIS, and Microsoft and data security experts on staff ensuring 24/7/365 security and performance monitoring.

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Extend with powerful business apps.

iMIS offers seamless integrations with Microsoft’s Office Suite of apps and endless automation capabilities with Microsoft Power Automate.

 

iMIS has a proven track record

In 1991, ASI launched iMIS, the world’s only complete, and all-in-one packaged solution, for association management that followed industry standards as a software product. iMIS was also built from day one with a linear upgrade path so all iMIS clients could enjoy the newest and latest technologies, without having to implement a new solution, because the iMIS upgrade path ensures that no one is left behind.

In fact, our first client still uses iMIS today. The Texas Land Title Association became the first association to trust iMIS to manage its association. Today, they are live on the latest version: the iMIS Engagement Management System in the cloud, having used nearly every version of iMIS along the way.

We’re committed to providing award-winning solutions, services, education, training, and resources to ensure our clients can achieve continuous performance improvement.

When you join the ASI family, you’ll instantly tap into a network of thousands of association and non-profit professionals, hundreds of industry technology experts, consulting partners, and more. We offer the highest level of education for all product lines, including a variety of technical and strategic certifications, learning pathways, exhaustive documentation, and award-winning support.

Innovation continues to drive the evolution and excellence of iMIS. The entire iMIS team is proud that iMIS continues to be recognized as the leader in association software.

 

Achieve More with a Platform as Unique as You 

You can’t afford to be held back by complicated systems that weren’t originally designed for you. Only iMIS is purpose-built for the way associations work and designed to meet your unique core membership needs with the flexibility to extend and grow, all with automatic continuous upgrades.

iMIS is purpose-built for the way associations, unions, and membership organizations work so you can:

Get a complete picture of your membership with a single data source.

Easily handle your complex billing and pricing structures.

Delight members with personalized web experiences through microsites and member portals.

Eliminate expensive layers of customizations with native CRM, AMS, CMS, and accounting functionality.

Extend the iMIS platform with support for powerful best-of-breed association and business apps with the iMIS Marketplace.


See why over 2,500 organizations trust iMIS as their platform. Watch a 2-minute quick tour now or request a personalized demo from our team to see how iMIS is purpose-built to handle your complexities from its core, freeing you to focus on your mission, not your technology.

 

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