Press Release
ISGsites Delivers Collaboration Workspaces for Association Committees,
Chapters, SIGs and Executives
ISGsites is powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and delivered in the cloud
to provide a cost-effective collaboration solution for associations
Rockville, MD (December 16, 2010)—Associations can now provide online
workspaces to working groups such as committees, chapters and special interest
groups (SIGs) to make it easier for them to collaborate, manage documents and
network with other members of the group. ISGsites, a new suite of modules from
ISG Solutions, takes advantage of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technology and the
cloud to provide associations with a cost-effective way to provide four types
of workspaces:
- Committee Workspaces – Committees tasked with preparing an official
document, such as a set of bylaws or industry standards can have a website
with shared resources, document versioning, automated workflows for
getting feedback and approvals, and project management tools that help
track tasks and action items.
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Chapter Leader Workspaces – Chapter leaders can have their own
workspace to manage chapter activities and events. They can post
announcements, agendas and minutes; they can create wikis, blogs, surveys
and discussion forums for chapter members.
- Special Interest Group (SIG) Workspaces – SIGs
can have a workspace with a document library and other shared resources,
discussion forums, blogs, surveys, news feeds, and a searchable member
directory. Meeting web parts let members see announcements, agendas, and
who else is planning to attend.
- Executive Workspaces – Dashboards provide business intelligence
to association executives, delivering the most important data at a glance:
memberships, dues, meeting registrations, exhibitor revenue, and more.
ISGsites is built on top of Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and draws on
SharePoint 2010's capabilities to deliver a full range of collaboration,
document management and reporting capabilities in each workspace. The
association can decide which capabilities to include in their workspaces.
Options include document libraries, group calendars, member directories,
blogs, wikis, discussion forums, announcements, and much more. Dashboards
are available in each workspace to provide up-to-date reports on the
statistics that matter to each group. MySites allow group members to
develop rich, association-centric profiles that support networking
professionally and confidentially within the context of the association
and the workspace.
ISGsites is tightly integrated with iMIS, drawing member information
directly from iMIS and then sharing that information with SharePoint, so
the right people automatically have permission to the appropriate
workspaces – without creating extra work for association staff.
"We developed ISGsites as a cost-effective way for associations to
leverage all the member and event information stored in iMIS, and use that
data to help manage websites created with SharePoint 2010," said Charles
Oakley, CEO of ISG Solutions. "With ISGsites it will become
substantially easier for association working groups to find the
information they need when they need it, get their work done faster and
achieve greater satisfaction."
ISGsites is delivered as a hosted solution using cloud infrastructure
and Software as a Service (SaaS) technology. Associations pay a
predictable monthly fee – there is no large, up-front investment. This
allows associations to save money, reduce their investment in IT
infrastructure, and get web initiatives deployed faster.
About ISG Solutions
ISG Solutions develops, sells and supports software
for associations. ISG's flagship product is ISGweb for iMIS, a suite of
Web-based software modules that extends iMIS, allowing associations to
take advantage of the information stored in their iMIS database to provide
better service to members on their websites. ISG also implements and
supports the iMIS association management software, and is one of the
largest Authorized iMIS Solution Providers (AiSPs) in the world. More than
300 clients have chosen ISG as their technology partner. ISG Solutions is
headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, and maintains a website at
www.isgsolutions.com.
Contact: Phil Varady, ISG Solutions, 301-519-3776 x148,
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