iMIS EMS is an Engagement Management System (EMS) – fusing database management and web publishing into a single system – to drive operational efficiencies, revenue growth, and continuous performance improvement. Harnessing the power of Microsoft Azure’s cloud platform, iMIS EMS is purpose-built to meet the most important challenge facing associations and non-profits – Engagement.
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Virtuous CRM
Score6.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Virtuous Software, headquartered in Phoenix offers a nonprofit CRM, fundraising, volunteer, and marketing tools used to create more responsive donor experiences and grow giving. The CRM unifies fundraising, marketing, and donor development activities.
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Pricing
iMIS
Virtuous CRM
Editions & Modules
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Starter (under 5K contacts)
Contact Sales
Up to 5 users and includes 1,000 supporter records
Platform (5K-30k contacts)
Contact Sales
Unlimited users and includes your first 5,000 supporter records
Enterprise (30k-Millions)
Contact Sales
Unlimited users and (potentially) unlimited supporters
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
iMIS
Virtuous CRM
Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
Required
Required
Additional Details
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Features
iMIS
Virtuous CRM
Communications and Marketing
Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of iMIS and Virtuous CRM
Feature
iMIS
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Ratings
Virtuous CRM
6.2
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Constituent engagement and marketing
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6.52 Ratings
Social listening
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5.01 Ratings
Digital advocacy enablement
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Reporting and Analytics
Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of iMIS and Virtuous CRM
Feature
iMIS
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Ratings
Virtuous CRM
5.3
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Reporting and data visualization
00 Ratings
6.02 Ratings
Wealth screening
00 Ratings
4.52 Ratings
Fundraising and Events
Comparison of Fundraising and Events features of iMIS and Virtuous CRM
Feature
iMIS
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Ratings
Virtuous CRM
4.2
2 Ratings
29% below category average
Online donation options
00 Ratings
4.52 Ratings
Event registration and ticketing
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4.52 Ratings
Text and phone donations
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4.02 Ratings
Volunteer shift management
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7.01 Ratings
Mobile event check-in
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1.01 Ratings
Security and Platform
Comparison of Security and Platform features of iMIS and Virtuous CRM
iMIS Engagement Management System is well suited for associations or other non-profits that operate without a lot of bells and whistles. So far in my experience if you want to do more sophisticated operations, marketing in my specific role, then iMIS Engagement Management System may not be the best AMS. It does the basics well but the more high-powered you want to get then the more it's going to cost by having your vendor of choice to work to enhance or upgrade what you have.
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Virtuous is a great tool for fundraisers and nonprofit organizations that want to keep all their donor records, gift transactions, donation landing pages, and reporting in one platform. It may not be well suited, though, for for-profit businesses, organizations, and agencies.
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One-stop-shop. I love that we have one system that will track our income, manage membership, email contacts, manage our website and pull reports.
Response time on support tickets. Whenever I have a problem using iMIS, I can either log into their support site to submit a help ticket or send it directly from my email account. Someone normally responds to me within the hour and then I will get a solution within the day no matter the time of day I submit the ticket.
Easy to use widgets. I love using widgets to pull a page together. They have slideshow widgets that use on a daily basis. There are also forum widgets and widgets to pull an already created query to a page you choose to display this information on.
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System Performance: iMIS has always seemed to have had performance issues....sluggish specifically. Though some of that may be in part to some of our customizations, but we don’t think so.
Integrations with 3rd Party Products: we would like to see more integrations with 3rd party apps.
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Virtuous only keeps track of contacts on forms for a given period of time, not the lifetime of when the form was deployed.
Virtuous Customer Support can sometimes lag, and you end up waiting days for a response to your inquiry or issue.
Virtuous reporting, while very detailed and segmented, can sometimes be a little overwhelming, and the terminology does not always translate to what you are looking to accomplish with your reporting outcomes.
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In my experience, Virtuous CRM has great self-marketing, talented salespeople, and a half-baked CRM that shows glimmers of competence but the actual experience is more akin the the scene in the Simpson’s when Sideshow Bob keeps stepping on rakes.
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I think both are great tools. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. I really like the CMS component that comes with iMIS. It is important for an organization to be able to quickly build websites to engage their members. iMIS provides tools to do this out of the box.
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In my experience, the sales pitch and demos are slick, but upon actual use there is a quick realization that no small or medium charity should touch this software with a 10-ft pole. In my opinion, if you have a large org with lots of cash, and a dedicated database manager who is tech-literate, you can make this work. HubSpot is by far my favorite but lacks the nonprofit features needed to truly manage donor relationships and portfolios.
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iMIS had a neutral impact on my non-profit organization's overall business objectives. Both the finance and department teams just worked around the limitations that iMIS had.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info