Convio, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Common Ground™ the company's revolutionary, new, web-based constituent relationship management (CRM) system for tracking all interactions with donors and other supporters. Built and delivered natively on salesforce.com's Force.com Platform, the product leverages cloud computing to deliver a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that easily integrates with other open systems including Convio's online fundraising and marketing applications. The complete on-demand solution offers simple and flexible tools that help nonprofits focus on their mission, fundraising, advocacy and communications results instead of managing and maintaining software and technology infrastructure.

Washington DC (PRWEB) September 17, 2008 -- Convio, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Common Ground™ the company's revolutionary, new, web-based constituent relationship management (CRM) system for tracking all interactions with donors and other supporters. Built and delivered natively on salesforce.com's Force.com Platform, the product leverages cloud computing to deliver a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that easily integrates with other open systems including Convio's online fundraising and marketing applications. The complete on-demand solution offers simple and flexible tools that help nonprofits focus on their mission, fundraising, advocacy and communications results instead of managing and maintaining software and technology infrastructure.


"Our charter program clients have been delighted with the simplicity, flexibility and functionality of Common Ground," said Gene Austin, CEO of Convio. "By listening to the needs of nonprofits, then bringing innovation, technology and our vast experience in serving the needs of the market together, Common Ground delivers on their need for a simpler, more affordable, and better way to manage relationships."

Harnessing the power of cloud computing, Common Ground is delivered as a service via the Internet to provide a better, more efficient way to build and manage constituent relationships. The evaluation process, ownership experience and the application put the nonprofit in charge by changing the rules for the way nonprofits try, buy and use software to derive value from their most important data. Through "clicks, not code" people across the organization can scrutinize performance metrics, view the most accurate information possible and measure results using an intuitive tool designed for real people, not developers. The innovative approach and technology behind Common Ground removes the limitations, inflexibility, hassles and headaches of legacy donor database systems. Nonprofits no longer pay to store and maintain information; they use technology to build relationships, manage resources and move people in ways that change the world.

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