iMIS vs. Nimble AMS

iMIS is great for membership associations who need one place. I love their contact database, I just wish we could pull reports easily from their system and publishing would not freeze when making changes to our website. Everything that does work correctly is really easy to set up.

Incentivized

It seems Events/Products/Exhibitors and Programs seem to work fairly well in this system. They are very functional out of the box and I appreciate the ability to customize without having to do it with code. I'd like to see more attention focused on Donation functionality, i.e. pairing a donation with a merchandise purchase, ability to match a guest donation with a current person account, ability to have multiple entities and use recurring donations. I'd also be interested in seeing the Community Hub Management tool be expanded to allow for more flexibility and customization of pages and their underlying fields and data sources.

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• iMIS has many modules that can be purchased seperately based on the organizations needs.
• The CMS component enables you to build member websites to display member profiles and implement business processes for the members.

Incentivized

• Responsiveness
• Knowledgeable employees.
• Thoughtful solutions.

Incentivized

• It was difficult for various departments to customize the functionality of iMis without it impacting the organization as a whole.
• I often felt restricted and limited when using iMis. I do not feel that this software is current with today’s technology.
• It did not sync well with Authorize.net. Therefore, I had to do double data entry. This let to me needing to hire on more staff.

Incentivized

• More thorough and updated online help documentation.
• Larger focus on building out Donation module and making it more seamless with the Accounting module.
• More modular on-demand training, focusing on specific parts of Nimble AMS that are used most or are most challenging.

Incentivized

I wasn't involved with the selection process, but for anything that I have experience with that is specifically for associations, iMIS Engagement Management System stacks up pretty well. It doesn't compare well to the others like a Salesforce or Marketo, but it's not really meant to. Many times those products are out of the price range for associations.

Incentivized

Nimble AMS was much further developed while other groups were just beginning. Their continued growth and moving forward over the years have lent them a degree of expertise I have not yet seen in comparable groups.

Incentivized

• We measure ROI in terms of changed lives, not revenue since we are a church and a non-profit organization. As our church has grown, we have been better equipped to identify new visitors, follow-up on the physical and spiritual needs of our membership and give away leadership to our members.

Incentivized

• It's made a significant impact on the way we approach strategic decisions due to the data we're able to collect and analyze.
• It's allowing us to automate processes that we never thought of automating in the past, freeing up staff resources to focus on other tasks
• Our initial implementation was a bit messy, but working with the Nimble AMS team to analyze and rethink our strategy with a clearer vision has been very positive

Incentivized