In a session at the recent Abila Users and Developers Conference (AUDC), a speaker from the American Hospital Association (AHA) was discussing their work on a data governance plan for the association. The speaker said the following: “Data governance is not a technology issue, it’s people and communications.” Truer words were never spoken. While technology …
I had the opportunity to attend the Abila Users and Developers Conference (AUDC) last week in Austin. During the roadmap session on future enhancements to their netFORUM product, Abila outlined that they would be enhancing the user interface for staff, as well as focusing on a better user experience for customers. This is all good news. …
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend MemberSuite’s Meetup 2015, their first user group meeting. MemberSuite had nearly 50 association executives in attendance, a very respectable turnout for their first user group meeting. Andrew Ryan, MemberSuite’s president, highlighted the growth of the company and some plans for the next year. In terms of company …
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Personifest wrapped up yesterday, and while I wasn’t able to attend all three days, I did get to see the kickoff and attend some breakout sessions. Some of my takeaways: Rick Smolan was the opening general session speaker, talking about the Human Face of Big Data. His talk was simply fascinating. He discussed multiple stories …
Last night kicked off Personify’s rebranded annual users conference Personifest. Eric Thurston, Personify’s CEO, discussed several issues related to the ownership transition at Personify over the past year. But the most important announcement from my perspective was that Personify has begun a partnership program where companies outside of Personify can be “certified” as implementation partners. …
I had the opportunity to attend Protech’s Annual Users Conference in September, and one of the overriding themes from Brian Bruffey’s (Protech’s CEO) keynote speech was transparency. As Brian explained it, Protech is focusing on creating greater transparency for their customers into how Protech works as a company, and how its product will be improved …
I had the opportunity recently to attend ASI’s iNNOVATION Conference in Florida. This conference is for ASI’s partners and re-sellers. (Though I’m neither a partner nor re-seller, a handful of industry consultants were invited to the conference.) The focus of the conference was on ASI’s flagship product, iMIS 20. ASI is positioning iMIS 20 as …
And a final note on the AUDC. This 10th annual event is its last, in this iteration. With the acuisition of Avectra by Abila, the AUDC will be blended into Abila’s user conference, the next of which will be held roughly a year from now in Austin, Texas. It’s certainly been an interesting ride for …
Over the course of 2 ½ days at the AUDC, more than 60 sessions were presented, ranging from how to use certain modules or tools within the netFORUM products, to case studies on how associations are leveraging the products. I attended several sessions focused, broadly, on business intelligence and communications. I found three sessions particularly …
Abila hosted two sessions on the first day of AUDC, one focused on the netFORUM Pro roadmap, the other on Enterprise roadmap. Here were some notable takeaways from these sessions: netFORUM Pro Over the course of the next two years, Abila will be focusing on the user experience from both the staff side and the …