# New open Microsoft-based CRM/MRM system for charity sector

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/10/17/new-open-microsoftbased-crmmrm-system-charity-sector/
- Published: 2005-10-17T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Centrepoint Computer Services will next month launch its eTarget® product, an open
customer/membership relationship managment system for the charity sector based on
Microsoft’s Smart Client® and .Net technologies. Designed specifically for both 
office and remote working, Centrpoint claim this is the first product of its kind
for the UK charity sector.
eTarget’s open architecture uses XML and Web Services
to allow charities to integrate membership data with websites, partner organisations
and other systems “in a controlled and secure manner”.

The company developed the membership database based on feedback from charities that
said they were finding their current ‘closed’ membership solutions were preventing
them from exploiting the commercial opportunities offered by commercial partnerships
with other organisations and web interaction with their membership.

Centrepoint say that the product is “a fully scaleable application that can accommodate
organisations with 100 to 10 million members.”

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eTarget will be offered both as a traditional on-site server application and as 
an application service provider (ASP) service from a data centre.

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