SaaS offerings ae often associated with a businesses non core activities, shifting these over to specialist service providers who will provide their customer with functionality within their Intranet for HR, Call Centre Management, Service Management and Purchasing.

Not all organisation are of this size that warrants such high levels of attention for these non core activities, however small organisations have high functionality demand coupled with lower volumes. How do you reconcile the Premier Footballs Club requirement for ticketing and supporter marketing with a local club side with a couple thousand supports. There is just not the resources availble within the club to develop a tailored system for their supporter management.

At the grass roots club level their survival is dependent on the supports gate and their annual membership subscriptons, as well as following up on their sponsors from last year to support this.

For NfP and Charities, the situation is different but the application of IT is similar, volunteers, helpers and supporters are listed and communicated with, they provide their help and money because they feel your cause is worthwhile, this communication should be frequent with a purpose but not demanding. Again in-house systems are often expensive  and without the range of functionality needed to run a slick operation.

• SaaS can provide a greater range of services for a much lower price along with chargin models that give the user more visiblity over the costs than with a in-house system.
• SaaS can give you a range of flexible working options that are not easily available wth the in house solution, working at home, remote office or lunch hour.
• SaaS solutions can provide a increased transparancy of operational details, and membership levels without pestring other volunteers for their elements of information.such as current donors or members.
• SaaS can give you higher levels of systems resliences and security of data, in particular when a PC contains your database and gets stolen or left on the train.

As well as these advantage, probably the most significant will be the ability of other services to integrate via webservices providing more avenues for exploitation of existing services.

If you work with or for an organisation that has a membership list or sponsors, if you are colleting subscriptions or donations, if you are running events. You should learn more about Objective Internets SaaS Solution

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