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November 02, 2006
La Leche League International Selects Kintera Social CRM System for Member and Donor Management
SAN DIEGO --(Business Wire)-- Kintera(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) today announced that La Leche League International has selected Kintera's social constituent relationship management (CRM) system for its core member and donor management needs. La Leche League International is a multinational organization that helps mothers worldwide breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information and education.
Kintera and ooTao Inc. - a leader in identity and data interoperability infrastructure development - have signed an agreement to jointly integrate La Leche League International's open source authentication and data sharing standards with Kintera's social CRM platform, Kintera Sphere(TM), enabling data to be shared between Kintera Sphere and other systems used by La Leche League International. The project will provide distributed open source authentication and data interoperability, including single sign-on capabilities for members to access information across multiple systems, such as Kintera Sphere, using one login.
"Kintera continues their market and technology leadership with this joint project. At its successful completion, they will be able to offer unparalleled standards-based data integration to all of their clients," said Andy Dale, founder and president of ooTao Inc. "This is a great example of a vendor putting their customers first and, in this case, enabling a lot of mission-based organizations to succeed."
"The Kintera Sphere social CRM system provides our organization with a single, interactive system to manage relationships with both donors and members," said Barbara Emanuel, Interim Executive Director for La Leche League International. "Providing a total view of a constituent's relationship with La Leche League International, Kintera's social CRM system provides us with the critical data needed to build relationships with members and donors, so that they have a more powerful experience with our organization."
Kintera's comprehensive social CRM system enables organizations to drive all interactions based on comprehensive knowledge of constituents and unites their online and offline experiences into one database. Built on Kintera CRM and comprised of Donor Management, Member Management, Prospect Management, Participant Management and Volunteer Management solutions, the system uses meaningful communications to create a more positive giving experience.
"La Leche League International's adoption of the Kintera social CRM system demonstrates the market need for comprehensive member and donor management on an integrated software as a service platform," said Harry E. Gruber, M.D., Kintera CEO. "In addition, Kintera acknowledges the importance of the open source movement within the nonprofit community. Our open source integration work with ooTao will enable La Leche League International to seamlessly share data between Kintera Sphere and its other systems."
About La Leche League International
La Leche League International is the world's most extensive resource for breastfeeding and related information. Founded in 1956, the nonprofit organization provides information, education and support to women in the United States and sixty other countries. Each month, accredited volunteer counselors assist over 300,000 mothers worldwide through meetings and telephone support. The organization distributes more than three million publications each year and provides support through its web site and volunteers who answer breastfeeding questions on-line.
La Leche League International is recognized by the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics as expert in the field of lactation and mother-to-mother support.
For more information about La Leche League International and its services, visit www.llli.org.
About ooTao Inc.
ooTao Inc. is an industry recognized leader in identity and data interoperability infrastructure development. Through its i-names-based EZiBroker product line, ooTao continues to advance the user-centric identity movement by providing scalable, robust and innovative systems to their customers.
As a major contributor to many of the emerging identity and data sharing standards at OASIS, Eclipse Foundation and Apache Foundation, including XRI, XDI, Higgins and Heraldry (OpenID), ooTao is uniquely poised to assist enterprises as they integrate emerging standards into their products and services.
For more information about ooTao's products and services, visit www.ootao.com and www.ezibroker.net.
About Kintera, Inc.
Kintera(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) provides an online solution to help nonprofit organizations deliver The Giving Experience(TM) to donors - providing giving convenience, financial transparency, feedback about the social impact of their gifts, and a sense of belonging and appreciation.
More than 15,000 accounts in the nonprofit, government and corporate sectors use Kintera's "software as a service" innovations, including Kintera Sphere(TM), an enterprise-grade software platform that provides a secure, scalable and reliable system for contact relationship management (CRM), a Web content management system (CMS), eMarketing and directed giving applications. Additionally, Kintera FundWare(R) provides award-winning financial management software developed for nonprofit organizations and governments.
For more information about Kintera's software and services, visit www.kintera.com.
Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Friends Asking Friends, The Giving Experience, GivingFund, and FundWare are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Kintera, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements (including, without limitation, express or implied statements regarding the adoption of software solutions by nonprofit organizations) that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date hereof. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: our limited operating history; our history of losses; our dependence on increased acceptance by nonprofit organizations of online fundraising; lengthy sales cycles for major customers; our need to manage growth; risks associated with accounting for and processing large amounts of donations; the rapidly changing technologies and market demands; and other risks identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
(source: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-la-leche-league-international-selects-kintera-social-crm-/2006/11/02/2033153.htm)
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