iMIS

It's very user-friendly and consistently tries to improve the user's experience with outreach, as provides a vast learning section with training modules for newcomers. It combines our membership and conference registration information with a single sign-on, and makes for easy exporting to external sites. I also like the store feature for our products. We're in the process of also integrating Open Water to allow for abstract submissions as well. My one complaint is not being able to delete contacts when they are no longer relevant.

iMIS is great so long as you understand the workings of databases and are comfortable with website work. You need a bit of I.T. savvy to bend it to your will. But with that expertise, iMIS can handle just about anything you want it to do. Complex dues structures can be handled, including a multitude of member types, chapters, categories, and voluntary contributions, subscriptions, etc. 

The system can be configured for many uses - so the flexibility of the system is great. It has the ability to store so much information.  The product is best suited for very large organizations that have a tech team devoted to managing the performance and configuration of the system as the system needs to be reconfigured everytime IMIS pushes out an update. Overall the system is slow.  Some days are better than others, but most are mediocre for speed.

Within the past year iMIS became our primary database management system.  iMIS is a very robust program with powerful features.  As the Membership Coordinator, I primarily handle all the membership profile accounts and generate reports (a.k.a IQA’s) for all our staff members.  The IQA’s are at first daunting, but once you have the knowledge of utilizing them, you can obtain the most complex search results immediately at your fingertips. Although I was asked to review this product, I was not asked to write a positive review.