Children International Selects Aptify for its Enterprise Management System

Aptify, a leading provider of enterprise Customer Relationship Management and e-Business software, has been selected to provide Children International (CI) with a software and e-Business solution on an enterprise-wide basis. The Aptify software will enable CI to provide responsive and personalized service for its sponsors, donors, and field offices worldwide.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 30, 2004 -- Established in 1936, Children International has been helping poor children around the world by providing them and their families to help break the cycle of extreme poverty. Through their sponsorship activities, Children International, which is a non-profit organization, aids needy children in nine different countries including Chile, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, the Philippines, and the United States. Sponsors contributions help provide poverty stricken children and families with necessities such as health and dental care, educational assistance, decent clothing, nutritional assistance, and most importantly, hope for a brighter future.

To advance their mission, CI underwent a diligent software selection process that included evaluating some of the largest vendors in the CRM and ERP market. CIs goal was to select a product that would unify its departments under one data source to provide a more streamlined process in responding to sponsors and donors. Along with these capabilities, CI sought a solution that will track marketing campaigns for sponsorships and donations, a reporting tool set, and fundraising management to handle donations and in-kind gifts. Additional emphasis was placed on finding a solution that would allow the organization to proactively respond to the ever-changing needs of its sponsors and donors. To meet their needs, CI chose Aptify for its rich functionality, its adaptability, and its proven record of client support.

Those of us at CI are very excited about Aptify. When we first started looking at 'package' software, people told us that there was nothing on the market that could address the unique system requirements for 1-to-1 child sponsorship. We were hoping to find a product that would address 70% of our requirements - out of the box. With Aptify, we believe we have found a product that will actually accommodate 80% of those requirements - out of the box, and then allow us to fulfill the rest of our requirements using Aptifys very flexible configuration and customization tools. We are very excited that the underlying Aptify 'tool kit will allow us to efficiently accommodate the remainder of our business needs, and to accommodate new products and programs aimed at helping our ever-growing mission of helping needy children in impoverished countries. With all of these promising benefits, we look forward to a long lasting business partnership with Aptify!" explains CIs IT Director Barry Sanders.

Children International has a wonderful mission and a dedicated team of people that Aptify is very excited to work with. Aptifys selection by CI is an indication of the proven technology provided by Aptify and our technologys ability to incorporate the needs of a dynamic organization like CI," says Aptify CEO Amith Nagarajan.    

Future plans for Children International include a roll out of the Aptify e-Business suite to provide an electronic community for sponsors as well as to support on-line sponsorship and fundraising programs.

ABOUT APTIFY
Since its inception in 1993, Aptify has grown to be a leader in enterprise application software for business. Aptify provides business solutions and e-Business applications for membership management, subscription and publication fulfillment, exposition and meeting management, along with a wide range of other business solutions. Aptify applications offer users greater flexibility, rapid implementation, scalability and lower cost of ownership.

Aptify Membership, one of Aptifys business solutions, is the most technologically advanced association management system available today. Aptify Membership meets the needs of associations and non-profits of all sizes with a comprehensive suite of business applications and integrated e-Commerce and Web-enabled applications. Aptify is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and maintains offices in Chicago, IL, Roseville, CA and Lebanon, PA. Aptify has received recognition from The INC500 for two consecutive years as one of Americas fastest-growing private companies.

Mission: To unlock the full business potential of our clients through flexible technology and world class service.