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EMIS National User Group

EMIS National User Group is an organization primarily of local GP Practices (Doctor's surgeries) in the UK, that are users of EMIS a software products used to manage GP surgeries and patient records.

They have 1400 primary members (organizations) and upwards of 8000 other members by employer relationship to pimary members. The solution enabled the organization to manage it's membership much more effectively and to begin the planned delivery of membership benefits.

 

Fremantle Chamber of Commerce

Background

The Fremantle Chamber of Commerce (FCC)  champions policies and strategies that improve the business environment in Fremantle, enhance community prosperity and develop a sustainable mix of business and lifestyle opportunities for Fremantle’s future. They act as an advocate for the business community, a conduit for information and a promoter of Fremantle’s position in the regional landscape.  The Chamber currently have over 500 members, ranging from major corporate organisations to small micro-businesses.

CRM Solution

Hosted CiviCRM at Koumbit.org

Published
2011-11-14 12:42
Written by
sfyn
We've been offering CiviCRM consulting and hosting on a per-client basis for some time now, and as we have grown, we have started to feel the need for greater automation and consistency in our hosting offerings and contracts. Koumbit is currently in the midst of developing a comprehensive hosted CiviCRM offering, with the support of a few courageous clients.
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1.7 Alpha Sandbox

Published
2007-03-12 10:18
Written by
Dave Greenberg
We launched the 1.7 alpha sandbox this weekend. The site is designed to allow community members and developers to explore the new features in the 1.7 release and help us identify bugs in the release prior to the Beta launch (current 1.7 release schedule). Pounding on the sandbox will help enormously in improving the quality of the beta and final releases - so if you're interested in using the new features in 1.7 and contributing to CiviCRM - this is a great way to help.
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The Givewell questions ...

Published
2007-02-24 23:44
Written by
lobo
I recently cam across Givewell.net, a group that has recently stirred some activity in the non-profit blogosphere. For more information and details you should check out the Givewell blog. They ask non-profits some specific questions and expect specific answers. Being a non-profit and an open source organization, I figured it would be a good exercise for us to answer those questions. Note that like most of my other blog entries, this is a quick unplanned writing exercise ...
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CiviCRM ACL's (Access Control List) explained ..

Published
2007-02-22 17:28
Written by
lobo
Good background reading for ACL's can be found in the Wikipedia entry Permissioning is quite important in CRM systems. CiviCRM used Drupal's permissioning system and stretched it a fair amount till v1.6. It had two major disadvantages: One, our joomla users do not have access to the permissioning model. Two, the Drupal model did not scale very well from a user interface perspective. This was primarily because it displayed all the permissions as a grid. If you had 300 roles and 300 smart groups, drupal displayed a table with 90,000 checkboxes. The browser would definitely not be happy with this chunk of HTML
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Release Schedule for v1.7

Published
2007-02-21 20:18
Written by
lobo
Here is a tentative release schedule for v1.7. As in any software project, these dates are tentative and subject to delays. UPDATE: I've updated to our latest dates
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Cool Features in the Upcoming 1.6 Release

Published
2006-11-27 15:06
Written by
Dave Greenberg
We're pretty excited about the cool new features in the upcoming 1.6 release (now in Alpha) - and want to encourage folks to check out / play with these features on the Public Sandbox. So... open the sandbox in a separate window - then login (user = demo, password = demo) and try these out...
  • The quick "Contact Search" block in the left column uses a suggestive search widget which finds contacts as you type in letters. Try typing in "ada" and see what happens.
  • Site Administrators no longer have to struggle with editing civicrm.settings.php to set and modify site configuration. Most settings are now controlled from the Admin Control Panel » Global Settings section.
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CiviCRM Architecture - Templating System

Published
2006-11-14 09:36
Written by
Dave Greenberg
This installment of our architecture series will introduce the templating system used by CiviCRM as the presentation layer (e.g. to actually render forms and pages). Every CiviCRM screen is "composed" from one or more template files. These files contain a combination of HTML tags, text, variables and (often) some code to control presentation logic. CiviCRM uses an open-source templating engine called Smarty. If you are planning on examining, debugging and/or and modifying CiviCRM screens - you'll want to spend some time reviewing Smarty's online documentation.
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