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Technology

iModules builds web-based software that manages online communities. We believe our integrated design and hosted architecture gives you a powerful yet flexible tool to build connections with and between your constituents. Our systems are not a black-box; they include both member-facing and the administrative tools to run and grow communities.

Rather than selling our software as something you would install at your location on your own servers, we use a hosted model and market our software as a service. Generally, our monthly fees are priced according to the size of your organization. Since the product is a service, customer support is included as well as some ongoing integration support. If you prefer the convenience of a turnkey community we also offer custom design and setup services as well as ongoing "Best Practices" management.

Our Encompass product platform includes a wide ranging set of legacy and forward-thinking social networking features in addition to an interactive content management system.

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Hosted Design

You've heard all the buzzwords like "Software as a Service (SaaS)" and "Application Service Provider (ASP)" and  "web-based software" or "hosted solutions." Our product is essentially all of these and to you it simply means you access our product through your internet browser. We maintain, regularly update and backup the software and your data on our servers. This is a huge convenience for you that greatly decreases the overall costs for managing your online communities.

This sort of design has been used for decades by major enterprise software products and is essentially the foundation of how we use the internet today - searching with Google included. And this design also has the added advantage that administrators can access our product from nearly anyplace they have an internet connection and from mostly whatever type of computer they might use.

For those more technical, we designed our product to be flexible and secure. Early in development we chose to separate the presentation, database and back-end code base to make it possible to support highly customized solutions for each client. This layered design allows each of our clients to present their own brand and design to their users supported by a customized schema and administrator-defined queries. Each client has a dedicated catalog for their data which insulates content between customers. Our product is built with Microsoft® .NET technology running on Microsoft® SQL 2000 database servers.

We have redundant, secure hosting sites with firewall protection, intrusion detection systems, SSL encryption along with a variety of other security technologies and measures monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

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System Requirements

iModules Software's online communities are accessed by both members and administrators through a web browser. There is no implementation or complicated configurations or setup required by your organization's IT department or consultants.

Generally speaking, our products work best on the latest versions of major browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Safari for MacOS X. Because of the advanced functionality in our administrative tools, we recommend Internet Explorer 6.0 and above running on a Windows operating system.

Community Members

Internet Explorer 6.0 and above on Windows98 or later
Firefox 1.5 running on Windows98 or later
Netscape 6.0 running on Windows98 or later
Firefox 1.5 running on Macintosh OSX 10.1 or later
Safari 2.0 running on Macintosh OSX 10.4 or later

Minimum screen resolution of 800x600 with recommended resolution of 1024x768. Session cookies and Java scripting must be enabled. Other operating systems and browsers may be used with varying degrees of compatibility, reliability and functionality.

Administrators

Because of the advanced functionality in our administrative tools, we recommend Internet Explorer 7.0 and above or Firefox 2.0 and above running on a Windows operating system; or Firefox 2.0 and above running on Macintosh OS X.  The minimum system requirements for administrators are:

Internet Explorer 6.0 and above on Windows98 or later
Firefox 1.5 running on Windows98 or later
Firefox 1.5 running on Macintosh OSX 10.1 or later
Safari 2.0 running on Macintosh OSX 10.4 or later

Minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Session cookies and Java scripting must be enabled. Other operating systems and browsers may be used with varying degrees of compatibility, reliability and functionality.