17 June 2008
The Confederation of British Metalforming (CBM) has selected
IRIS NFP Solutions, the leading software provider to the UK Not for
Profit sector, to supply the organisation with a web-integrated
membership database. CBM will deploy the Integra solution
from IRIS, enabling the Confederation to streamline business
processes and improve customer service.
Integra will provide CBM with a modern
membership relationship management solution specifically designed
for NFP organisations, supporting the Confederation’s continuous
growth. Helping CBM to gain a better understanding of its
membership through significantly improved information management,
the Confederation can build its services around its members’ needs
and develop stronger relationships with them.
Integra will replace CBM’s existing disparate
databases with a comprehensive, fully web-integrated solution
delivering the Confederation extensive operational efficiencies.
With Integra CBM can significantly reduce duplication of efforts
whilst driving its services online, providing its members with a
web self-service functionality. This will deliver considerable cost
and time savings as well as ROI to CBM over time.
Kirsi Lintula, Marketing & Communications
Manager at the Confederation of British Metalforming comments:
“We were well impressed by the professionalism and the sector
expertise of the Integra team as well as IRIS’s convincing track
record in the NFP sector. With the powerful reporting and analysis
tools as well as the high level of automation in the system,
Integra will enable us to further develop and grow as a modern
membership association”.
The implementation project is due to kick off
in mid-June with the go-live scheduled for October 2008. CBM will
deploy the Integra back office functionality in the first stage,
including core relationship management, financials and events
management, with the Integra web publishing tools implemented in
the second stage in early 2009.
Simon Fowler, Managing Director at IRIS NFP
Solution comments: “As the NFP sector specialists, IRIS can
offer first class support and in-depth expertise to the
Confederation of British Metalforming. Integra will enable CBM to
efficiently manage all their key business processes, providing the
Confederation with a single view of its relationships as well as a
future proof platform for its continuous growth for many years to
come”.
Kirsi Lintula concluded: “Integra will allow us to bring all
our processes in line and improve our stakeholder communications.
We’ve been very pleased with the quality of service IRIS have
delivered and long forward to a long and fruitful partnership with
them”.
About IRIS
IRIS is the largest privately owned software
business in the UK and has established itself as a sector
specialist with an exceptional reputation for delivering market
leading accountancy practice, legal and compliance, not for profit,
accounting and business and payroll and HR solutions to in excess
of 60,000 UK organisations.
The company has leading positions in a wide
range of specialist vertical markets, including:
- The No 1 Provider to the UK Not for Profit
Sector
- The No 1 Provider to UK accountancy
practices
- The No 1 Provider to UK law firms, barristers
and coroners’ offices
- The No 1 Provider of payroll and accounts to
GPs
- The No 2 Provider of Payroll and HR Software
Solutions
The merger of IRIS and CS Group in June 2007
brought together a number of specialist solutions designed
specifically for the voluntary organisation under the IRIS
umbrella, comprising fully web integrated Contacts Management,
Fundraising software and Accounting software.
