Avectra Highlights Customer Success at Upcoming Association Events

McLean, VA (Vocus) December 13, 2010

Avectra, the leading provider of web-based association management software (AMS), announced today the company will close out the year by attending the last two significant association industry events of 2010 – the ASAE Technology Conference on December 14 and 15 in Washington, D.C. and the Association Forum of Chicago’s Holiday Showcase on December 14.

“It’s been a remarkable year traveling across the United States and Canada demonstrating our proven membership management innovations and listening to countless examples of our customer’s membership success,” said Patrick Dorsey, vice president of marketing for Avectra. “These last stops of our 2010 Membership Success Tour are the pinnacle of an amazing cross-country journey where we met with hundreds of association executives who have been energized and inspired by Avectra’s ability to increase the significance, effectiveness and success of their organization’s efforts with Avectra technology and services.”

Exhibiting in booth #215 at the ASAE Technology Conference and in booth #340 at the Holiday Showcase, Avectra’s booths will include a Membership Success Center, where attendees can engage with experts, see demonstrations of today’s leading technologies and best practices, and presentations by Avectra customers and partners highlighting the success achieved with Avectra’s innovative association software.

Visitors to the company’s booths will see first hand, the company’s recent innovations including:
    netFORUM Team & Pro – the industry’s fastest growing on-demand membership management solution which recently released its fourth significant upgrade of 2010 as well as support for Canadian associations with Moneris payment processor integration and Canadian tax computations.     netFORUM Enterprise - the latest in innovative, customized membership optimization programs including the latest release of netFORUM Enterprise 2010 that features more than 65 system enhancements including iPad compatibility    The netFORUM and MemberFuse Integration - easy, automated and built-in Social Networking designed specifically for associations     netFORUM Pro for Real Estate Associations – The company’s 100% web-based AMS designed specifically for the needs of REALTOR® boards and associations

Avectra’s netFORUM association management software delivers powerful Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) membership management solutions for member-based organizations. With products designed to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes, Avectra’s innovative, web-based membership management tools integrate an association’s data, business processes and member services so busy association executives can focus on the more important aspects of managing their organization – engaging members and providing them with access to all the association has to offer.

“2010 was an outstanding year for Avectra and our customers. But, 2011 will be even bigger with enhanced fundraising, business intelligence, mobile solutions and the association industry’s first fully integrated social networking platform,” said Dorsey. “Events like the Technology Conference and Holiday Showcase let us connect with industry leaders and show how our solutions are positively impacting the efficiency, productivity, and bottom line of today’s most significant member-based organizations.”

For more information about Avectra’s membership management software or to sign up for a free online demonstration, visit http://www.avectra.com/livedemo.

If you are unable to attend either event but would like to receive information regarding netFORUM and Avectra, visit Avectra.com to contact us.

About netFORUM Team & Pro
netFORUM Team & Pro, as well as netFORUM Pro for Real Estate Associations, are Avectra's 100% Web-based association management software solutions. With complete association management functionality, both products are designed and configured to meet association needs without the cost or complexity of customization. Avectra Social Community provides netFORUM Team and Pro customers with social networking tools designed to improve the organization’s business, recruitment efforts, member communications, and results by inspiring conversations with and between members, building long-term loyalty, and forging deeper relationships with their members.

About netFORUM Enterprise
netFORUM Enterprise is Avectra's hosted, enterprise level association management that delivers advanced association management tools and the ability to be customized to meet the most complex business needs – all while remaining on the upgrade path.

With more than 30 modules designed for complete association management and Avectra's on demand SaaS (software-as-a-service) model, netFORUM Enterprise is accessible at any time, from anywhere. And customers can rest assured knowing that their data is safe, as all Avectra solutions run in a secure, world-class hosting facility with complete system redundancy, fail-safe power systems and full database backup.

In addition to Avectra’s internal development and implementation resources, the company also boasts a network of implementation and industry solution partners who work with the company’s customers to implement netFORUM Enterprise or extend the system’s functionality.

About Avectra
For the last 16 years, Avectra has been translating our customers’ needs into market-leading association management software – whether our customers serve members by the hundreds or hundreds of thousands. Our 100% Web-based technology integrates data with business processes and then automates it, so our customers can engage members, provide access to all of their resources and get more done. Each of our solutions is continually refined by the user community, ensuring that we have the features our customers need to run their businesses and lead their industries. With ongoing, automatic upgrades that won’t disrupt service or incur additional costs, we keep our customers current with the latest technology. Avectra is headquartered in McLean, Va., with a regional office in Chicago.

To explore the netFORUM family of products, please visit http://www.avectra.com, or call 800-858-8272.

Media Contact:

Patrick Dorsey
(703) 506-7037
pdorsey(at)avectra(dot)com

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Report Indicates Project Resource Management, Project Success is...

Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 11, 2010

Cognitive Technologies– a consulting firm specializing in project management, collaborative processes, and organizational effectiveness for federal and state government and Fortune 1000 companies – publicly released the findings of their annual Project Resource Management survey of project-centric U.S. organizations this week at the PMO Symposium in Dallas. Among the findings, the 2010 survey results confirmed a discrepancy between how upper-level executives and project management practitioners view resources management and how they perceive project success.

The full report on the findings, which can be downloaded at http://www.cognitive-technologies.com, also reveals the following project resource insights:

-- Organizations with higher project success rates are more likely to have standardized resource management tools and are more likely to believe their tools provide sufficient and timely information.

-- Upper-level executives are more likely to believe projects are more successful than their project management counterparts believe.

-- Executives are more likely to view project resource management-related challenges as less severe than project managers view them.

-- Executives in 2010 are less optimistic and more educated about current resource management challenges and processes than in 2009.

-- Respondents in 2010 ranked their projects as being less successful on average than respondents in 2009.

-- Larger organizations are more likely to have more sophisticated tools and processes, but are also more likely to experience project resource management challenges.

-- Organizations with fewer people working on projects are better able to track and status projects at the task level and are more likely to use past project data when planning future projects.

-- Since 2009, large organizations have decreased use of past project data when planning future projects and are now more likely to reallocate resources without permission from existing projects.

-- Organizations experiencing fewer resource management challenges are significantly more likely to employ standardized resource management tools and processes.

-- Organizations that report project managers “have a voice” when management wishes to move resources are more likely to report higher rates of project success.

One notable difference on this year’s results from last year, was an improved awareness of resource management challenges company-wide. This signifies that resource management has become a more conspicuous issue, and one that organizations are beginning to recognize to a greater degree.

However, while organizations in 2010 are more aware of resources management challenges than in 2009, there has been little to no improvement in the resources management processes employed. This year, organizations reported lower rates of project success, were more likely to agree that project managers struggle to find available resources, and exhibited higher levels of internal competition between managers for available resources.

“This report shows that, while project resource management is gaining respect, there is plenty of room for improvement,” states Bruce A. McGraw, PMP and executive vice president of Cognitive Technologies. “Organizations that embrace and employ mature resource management processes are succeeding, but those organizations are still outnumbered. On average, resource allocation is ad hoc at best – with little tool standardization and even less standardization of tool usage.”

About the Survey
This is the second annual Project Resource Management Survey that Cognitive Technologies has publically released. The 2010 Project Resource Management Survey included both upper-level executives (49 percent of respondents) and project management practitioners (46 percent of respondents) in the United States. A total of 250 complete surveys were analyzed. Of the responding organizations, more than 80 percent classified themselves as commercial companies (44 percent commercially public, 39 percent commercially private) and nearly half (44 percent) report annual revenues of more than $1 billion. The top four most represented industries were: Financial Services, IT/Technology, Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals and Consulting.

About Cognitive Technologies
Cognitive Technologies, Inc. is a certified WBE/DBE consulting firm specializing in project management, collaborative processes, and organizational effectiveness. Cognitive delivers appropriate solutions to improve the performance of business units through the application of expertise in projects, people and technology. We are a certified Microsoft Partner. Visit our blog at http://www.fearnoproject.com and connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@cogtechinc).

Download the full report
The entire report can be downloaded at http://www.cognitive-technologies.com.

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