10 Ways to Lower Your Integration Costs

Taking control of the integration process

March 2008 Minnesota Council of Non-Profits - MAP Technology Conference

Thanks to Rick Birmingham for all his support and suggestions on this presentation.

We live in a world of ever-increasing expectations from our stakeholders.  Driven by the ability of web technologies to not only make communication more efficient but, also, to make it possible to build on-line communities. Most nonprofits need to cost effectively integrate a variety of applications with web sites, web content management systems and member/donor/client management systems, not to mention their accounting HR system/s and others.Giving vendors a blank check to build an integrated solution can reach well beyond the budget of most nonprofits.

In this presentation we will discuss 10 pro-active steps organizations can take to lower the cost of building a seamless experience for their members.  These steps include not just a listing of technologies but actionable tasks for project managers responsible for integrating many systems.