Why Choose Donor Management Software from Compass?

400 million Outlook users worldwide can't be wrong!

You and millions of others fire up Microsoft® Outlook first thing every morning. But did you know that nonprofit organizations can now use Outlook to dramatically improve donor relationships and fundraising results?

Donor Management Software That's Robust and Easy to Use

Compass CRM™ for Fundraisers is the ONLY end-to-end, closed loop fundraising and donor management software solution for nonprofits that runs entirely within Microsoft Outlook and is built on the industry-leading Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM platform.

You already spend most of your day in Outlook. With Compass CRM for Fundraisers, you can use it to get real-time access to donor data and send the right message to the right person at the right time -- every time.

Why consider any other donor management software?

It works the way you do

• Donor management software with a native Outlook user experience -- e-mail, tasks, calendar, and even contacts are fully integrated with Compass CRM for Fundraisers
• Full range of mobile solutions
• Live links into Microsoft Excel
• Familiarity and ease of use mean significant increase in user adoption for staff and management, as well as a reduction in training time

It works the way your organization does

• Configurable workflow model supports flexible transaction processing
• Configurable events, alerts, and activities can trigger processes
• Forms, entities, tables, business rules, queries, views, and reports can be customized without programming

It works the way IT wants it to

• Web services architecture -- connect multiple systems in real time.
• Outlook online, Outlook off-line, browser and mobile user interfaces.
• Native Microsoft Exchange integration.
• Security model fully integrated with Active Directory.
• Metadata repository based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Fast installation.
• Flexible data import capability.

It is more cost effective than competing products

• Low operating costs.
• Low implementation costs.
• Low capital expenditures (depending on the deployment model).
• Very CFO-friendly transaction.
• A 2004 study by Gartner found that Microsoft CRM, the foundation of our donor management software, had the lowest TCO profile among competing mid-market products -- including Salesforce.com Enterprise Edition and Siebel CRM Midmarket Edition.

It is backed by the largest software R&D budget in the world

• Microsoft spends over $6.5 billion annually on R&D -- more than any other software company in the world.
• A 2007 study of CRM vendors by an indepedent research firm named Microsoft CRM, the foundation of our donor management software, a mid-market leader.
• Exceptional platform tools built by Microsoft are the foundation of Compass CRM for Fundraisers: screen forms, workflow, programming API, database, security, connectivity, and synchronization.
• Integrated functionality both now and into the future represents a low-risk decision.