Who Owns Your AMS This Week?
The renewal notice arrives looking exactly as it always has, except the legal entity name near the bottom belongs to a company nobody at your association recognizes. Here is how...
Read Article →Four of the AMS Platforms We Review Separately Now Have the Same Owner
You are three months into an AMS selection with four names on the shortlist, and it reads like a competitive process. Four of those platforms now answer to the same...
Read Article →What the AMS Vendors Actually Announced at ASAE
Your executive director came back from ASAE having heard agentic forty times in four days. The accurate version is narrower than the headline. One vendor launched agents, one launched an...
Read Article →The One-Developer Problem: When Your Integration Stack Is a Bus-Factor Risk
One person knows which API keys go where, which cron jobs run when, and what breaks if you touch the wrong config. If that person leaves, your integration stack becomes...
Read Article →What Happens to Your Integrations During a Website Redesign
Four weeks into your redesign, the agency delivers the news: reconnecting integrations adds six weeks and 25,000 dollars. Here is how to prevent that surprise.
Read Article →When to Build, Buy, or Connect: A Decision Framework for Association Integrations
You can buy a plugin, build custom, or connect through middleware like Zapier. Each option has different cost profiles and long-term implications. Here is a framework for deciding.
Read Article →The True Cost of an Integration: What Associations Actually Pay to Keep Systems Connected
Your developer quoted 20 hours to build the AMS integration. What nobody discussed is the other 80 percent of the cost: maintenance, monitoring, security, upgrade friction, and staff knowledge dependency.
Read Article →How Many Integrations Is Too Many?
Eight integrations. Twelve. Twenty. At some point someone asks: how many is too many? The answer depends on your capacity to maintain them. Here are the warning signs and what...
Read Article →Single Sign-On for Association Websites: What Your Members Expect
Members expect one login that works across your website, LMS, community forum, and event platform. Single sign-on delivers that experience using SAML, OAuth, or OpenID Connect -- here is how...
Read Article →Integrating Your Drupal Website with MatrixMaxx
MatrixMaxx by Matrix Group International includes IntegrationMaxx -- a middleware layer specifically designed to connect with CMS platforms. This makes Drupal integration more straightforward than AMS platforms without dedicated integration...
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