Educational Theatre Association Delighted with ClearVantage Implementation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4/10/2008 11:15:47 PM
Bethesda, Maryland - Euclid Technology (www.euclidtechnology.com), an industry leader in association management software (AMS) solutions, is pleased to announce that the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) has successfully “gone live” with Euclid’s innovative AMS, ClearVantage 7.
EdTA is the largest professional association serving the field of theatre education. Together with its student honorary organization, the International Thespian Society (ITS), EdTA offers a wide variety of benefits to its members, including publications, professional development workshops and festivals. Since its inception, nearly 2 million members have been inducted into ITS from the United States, Canada, and overseas.
“Before switching to ClearVantage,” explains EdTA’s Information Systems Manager, Sandy Morgan, “too much of our data was scattered throughout various databases of information. As a result, inefficiencies in our flow of business quickly became apparent. For example, our prior system forced us to create many external processes in order to access even the simplest of member information—leading to the creation of duplicate member records, a time consuming internal review process, and a tedious cross-checking procedure by different departments in our organization."
With ClearVantage 7, EdTA is able to effectively tackle these issues and more. By organizing all of the association’s information into one integrated, centralized source, ClearVantage increases data integrity across every level of EdTA’s organization. “One of the many things that has satisfied us the most about ClearVantage,” continues Morgan, “is its capacity to seamlessly create lists of information and extract data based on pre-selected criteria—without the need of intensive cross-checking by staff. In addition, ClearVantage allows us to delegate administrative rights and responsibilities, giving specified users the ability to access the information they need in order to quickly and efficiently accomplish the task that they are assigned. In other words, the tedious internal review of information amongst EdTA’s departments [that we were once accustomed to] is eliminated, permitting each department to focus on what it does best.”
In addition to their satisfaction with ClearVantage, EdTA staff has been particularly pleased with the level of service provided by Euclid’s team of professionals throughout the entire implementation process. “They really took a lot of time to fully understand our business processes,” notes EdTA’s Director of Membership, David LaFleche. “From effectively capturing our old data to ensure a smooth system conversion to providing thorough, step-by-step training lessons on how to use ClearVantage, Euclid’s team took the ‘extra step’ by making it their objective to give us the level of comfort we needed to move forward, and not leave us behind with just a training manual. Euclid truly offers the best support of any software company that I have ever dealt with, and that level of personalized attention has meant so much to our staff throughout the implementation and now after the go live.”
“I am thrilled that the implementation of ClearVantage 7 at the Educational Theatre Association went so well,” says Charlie Vinal, President and CEO of Euclid Technology. “We have worked hard over the years to develop and hone a methodology that allows our implementations to go so smoothly. This methodology ensures that we not only ask all the right questions but that we listen carefully to our clients. Of course, any methodology won’t work unless you have great people – on both the client side and here at Euclid. The success at EdTA certainly points to a terrific and committed association staff working closely with our experienced, dedicated team to get the project done right,” concludes Vinal.
About Euclid Technology:
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Euclid provides premier enterprise software solutions to associations and other member-centric organizations. Established in 1997, Euclid delivers superior products and services to such clients as: the District of Columbia Bar, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, the California Medical Association and more. To learn more about the products and services Euclid has to offer, please visit our website at http://www.euclidtechnology.com or call 301.657.8089.
About EdTA:
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) is a professional organization for theatre education founded in 1929. EdTA’s mission is to create a network for theatre arts educators, students, professionals, and enthusiasts to share ideas and support the effort to have theatre arts education (including film, television, and other related media) recognized in all phases of education and lifelong learning. EdTA operates the International Thespian Society (ITS), an honorary organization for middle school and high school theatre students. The organization also publishes Dramatics, a monthly magazine for high school theatre students, and Teaching Theatre, a quarterly journal for theatre education professionals. To learn more about EdTA, visit its website at edta.org .
