Access: Anytime - Anywhere - Anyplace

netFORUM is delivered via the Internet through nothing more than a Web browser, giving association staff easy access to the system from wherever they may be—whether they are on site at a conference or meeting or just working from home for the day, users have access to 100% of the functionality they have at their desktop in the office.

Access isn’t just bound to the computer though. netFORUM Mobile, the industry’s first mobile solution, provides information on the go. netFORUM Mobile delivers time-critical information from your central netFORUM system to your cellular phone or PDA. Look up contact information, query individual and organization records, view event registrants and committee participants, and quickly retrieve snapshot reports on key financial data and membership metrics.

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Ease of Use & Online Training

netFORUM is more than just an application – it is membership management, content management, e-commerce and e-marketing all in one comprehensive solution that was designed with the end user in mind. Clean interfaces, intuitive navigation, and powerful wizards make netFORUM simple for any organization staff member to pick up quickly and easily.

Everyone has questions at one point or another, but Avectra makes sure the answers are truly helpful and convenient to access. netFORUM utilizes context sensitive hyperlinks as well as the ability to launching help from the help icon. In addition, all netFORUM end-user documentation are conveniently provided online. Customers have full access to these resources and may print copies from the online documentation.

Managed Hosting, Including netFORUM Software Updates

Avectra realizes that customer’s web sites and association management system need to be available to service their members around the clock. Avectra has developed processes ensuring the successful delivery of hosted membership solutions and now has more amassed than 10 years of reliable hosting experience. Organization can rest easy knowing that their membership data is safe with Avectra. All netFORUM solutions run in a secure, world-class hosting facility with complete system redundancy, fail-safe power systems, and full database backup.

Technology changes at the speed of light, and a key component to enhancing a software investment is receiving regular upgrades as the product expands. To ensure that all of our clients are kept up to date with the latest netFORUM technology, Avectra takes the responsibility for all upgrades at no additional costs to our clients. Avectra has become proficient at making upgrade delivery a smooth process that causes little disruption to the client’s production operations.

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Community Support: AUG, the Avectra Wiki, and AUDC

Avectra is pleased to have a valuable community of users that volunteer their time to support the long-term success of Avectra clients and Avectra. The purpose of the Avectra Users Group (AUG) is to share solutions, pool resources and information, and provide a unifying voice. The AUG supports the long-term success of Avectra’s products by providing feedback to Avectra from product testing, making new feature requests, and giving general product and service improvement suggestions.

Avectra takes community support and collaboration so seriously that in 2007 it launched the very first public wiki to support an AMS product. The Avectra Wiki is hosted by Avectra for the use of its staff, clients, prospects and partners to share and expand the knowledge of netFORUM. The Wiki includes useful information for both users and developers. This dynamic resource continues to grow daily as more knowledge is shared by the netFORUM community.

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In addition to the AUG and the Avectra Wiki, The Avectra Users and Developers Conference (AUDC) is an annual event that brings together Avectra customers, partners, industry consultants, Avectra executives, and key development and training resources. Filled with informational training sessions, workshops, and networking, the AUDC grows every year in popularity.

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For IT staff – Toolkit, xWeb, PartnerNET (** for Enterprise and Pro editions)

Avectra knows that organizations often have special needs that may not be included in our baseline products.  Avectra's PartnerNET takes advantage of netFORUM’s underlying technology to offer our netFORUM Enterprise and netFORUM Pro clients a universe of optional, add-on, mix-and-match products and services that they may find complementary to netFORUM’s own ever-expanding functionality.

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As the core of many associations operations, netFORUM Enterprise and netFORUM Pro are designed to easily integrate with various other software systems using Avectra’s XML API integration (xWeb). Avectra certifies integrations with PartnerNET vendors to ensure that data is transferred correctly and the integrity of the system is maintained.

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For organizations that want the ability to tailor netFORUM exactly to how they like it, there is the netFORUM Toolkit. The netFORUM Toolkit provides netFORUM Enterprise clients unprecedented ability to extend, integrate, and configure the system, all without leaving the upgrade path. The netFORUM Toolkit eliminates the organizations reliance on the software vendor. Once trained, the customer can extend the product or engage a variety of Avectra partners to complete the work on their behalf.

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