Improving Member Services with a Custom Modern Solution

Case Study

Improving Member Services with
a Custom Modern Solution

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The client is a national non-profit trade association representing 2,650 member companies worldwide, and its member services system ran on an outdated platform. i3solutions upgraded that application through custom application development on the .NET framework, modernizing the user interface for the association’s members and staff, adding integrations with other systems, and building custom reports and dashboards for key metrics. The upgrade improved system integration and data management between the association’s legacy systems, the new application, and its public website, and strengthened application security against unauthorized access.

The Customer

And Their Challenge

The client is a national non-profit trade association whose 2,650 member companies conduct business worldwide. The association was looking to upgrade their existing member services system to a modern platform that could deliver enhanced integration, robust security, and superior performance and scalability. This transformation was essential to meet evolving organizational needs and support future growth seamlessly.

Modern digital platform enhancing member services for an industry trade association.

The Solution

i3solutions upgraded the association’s custom member services application from an outdated platform to a modern, scalable solution built on the .NET framework. This transformation enhanced the system’s performance, flexibility, and features, ensuring it could meet both current and future needs.

As part of the upgrade, we modernized the user interface, making it more intuitive and user-friendly to improve the overall experience for the association’s members and staff. Additionally, we developed integrations with other systems, streamlining workflows and enabling seamless data sharing across platforms. To empower decision-making, we built custom reports and dashboards, providing clear visualization of key metrics and outcomes.

By leveraging .NET technology, i3solutions ensured that all future projects and enhancements to the association’s system could take advantage of its powerful capabilities, including improved data sharing, enhanced integration, better management of personal information, and robust security against unauthorized access. This modernization has positioned the association to scale effectively and remain agile in responding to evolving organizational demands.

Technologies

Used in the Solution

Modern data sharing solution for students and institutions using SQL Server.
Modern intranet platform streamlining legacy system integration for improved efficiency.
Custom modern software for enhancing member services and engagement.

Measurable Benefits
and Business Impact

Leveraging the .NET framework, i3solutions significantly enhanced integration between the association’s legacy systems and the new application and public website. The new custom system also strengthened application security, improved reporting and tracking capabilities, and enabled the rapid implementation of multiple functionality enhancements with greater reliability, scalability, and performance.

Data analytics and fusion tools for strategic awareness and analysis.

Improved reporting and tracking

Efficient Office 365 environment for seamless collaboration and productivity.

Provided additional member benefits with improved functionality

Data analytics and fusion tools for strategic awareness and analysis.

Improved integration between the back-end system and public website

Secure member portal with modern encryption and access controls.

Increased security

Frequently Asked Questions

What did i3solutions build for this national trade association?

The client is a non-profit trade association with 2,650 member companies worldwide. i3solutions upgraded its custom member services application from an outdated platform to a modern, scalable solution on the .NET framework: a modernized user interface for members and staff, integrations with other systems, and custom reports and dashboards for key metrics.

Will a modernized member services application integrate with our other systems and our public website?

That was a core requirement here. i3solutions developed integrations with other systems so data is shared across platforms, and the .NET framework enhanced integration between the association’s legacy systems, the new application, and the public website.

How does moving a member services application onto .NET affect security?

The new custom system strengthened application security, and the .NET framework brought better management of personal information and robust security against unauthorized access. Increased security was one of the association’s reasons for the upgrade and one of its results.

If your member services system runs on a platform that is costly to maintain and hard to integrate with, the friction usually shows up as staff workarounds, member-facing pages out of step with the back end, and reporting assembled by hand. A first conversation covers what your current application does, which systems and public pages depend on it, and which of those have to keep working on day one. You leave with a scoped view of the upgrade and the questions your board or membership committee will ask before it is funded, not a sales deck. Start the conversation

Membership systems tend to age quietly until the workarounds outnumber the features, and by then the staff have stopped reporting them. A senior architect can review what yours does for your members, what depends on it, and what would genuinely have to keep working through a rebuild.