The Third Quarter Release of MPX is Available for Your Production Environment!

Version 10.2.4288 is the official PCI Compliance release. All credit card numbers are now tokenized and are no longer stored in the database. Now when a credit card is entered into MPX, that number is sent to the payment processor for storage.

There were also over 60 enhancements made in this MPX release including the ability for the MPX user login process to use integrated Windows security. To enable this you need to set the following config setting both in the client and the server. Other highlights include distribution list updates, forms for postal code validations and exceptions, report enhancements, as well as a variety of donor and transaction screen updates that improve efficiency.

There is a change to downloading the MPX Release Version 10.2.4288 and it’s release notes. These can now be downloaded from Confluence, which requires a login. If you do not have a login, you can self-register. After you register, please email support@orangeleap.com and let them know your credentials so you can have the access to the MPX folders. Once you’ve signed up, you can access Confluence anytime or for a complete list of all changes and enhancements go directly to the MPX 10.2.4288 release files.

Orange Leap On Demand v14 is Here! What’s New?

We have made several improvements and incorporated new features throughout the product.  The following list highlights some of the major features and enhancements included in this release:

Redesigned user-interface 

A major improvement with Orange Leap On Demand has been the user interface.  All of the functionality is still available, however, how you access the information is redesigned to be easier and more user friendly.

Search Functionality

The search functionality is located in the same place — on the top right in the title bar area.  However, there are a couple of key improvements:

1. Search Auto-complete — As before, the default search is a fuzzy text search, however, as you type results will start to display records that match what you are inputting.
2. If the record you are looking for appears in the list, you can click on it to navigate directly to it.  If an exact match is not found, the constituent search results will display.

Import Functionality

The import functionality provides an auto-cleanse option to automatically cleanse the data and to resolve common formatting issues, such as dates and check box values, with imports. The check box associated with this feature is checked, by default. If you do not want to use the auto-cleanse feature and allow the import to work similar to how it was previously, you will need to uncheck the associated check box.

Events Module

Sections called Event Goals and Event Details have been added.  There are Event Goal Category and Event Attributes associated picklists for you to input the types of goals you might have for the event; there are also Event Goal Category Items and Event Attribute Details that have values dependent upon the Event Goal Category or Event Attribute Details that you selected. 

Sponsorship Module

Additional attribute grids are available on the sponsorable record, program, and home screens.  Their setup is similar to the additional constituent attributes.  There are picklists associated with each attribute list and attribute details can be added based on the selected attribute.

NEW Modules!

• Prospect Research: We have a new module, Prospect Research, the purpose of which is to give you tools to help you understand your donors and potential major donors and their ability and probability to give.  This module will often be used in conjunction with complementary products such as Wealth Engine or Donor Tools.  If the module is enabled, it renders as an item under the Constituent’ Profile menu.

The Guru

• Enhanced Charting: For all charts, you can now add a Title, Subtitle, an X-Axis Label, a Y-Axis Label, There are several new chart types supported, including 3D charts.
• Enhanced Postal Radius Criteria: The Postal Radius custom filter criteria is now available on the Constituent & Primary Contact data source.

For a more in-depth review of all the product and feature enhancements log on to confluence and view our Orange Leap On Demand and Guru Feature Release pages.

Orange Leap Announces Email Integration With 2Dialog

We are pleased to let you know about the release of 2Dialog’s integration with Orange Leap’s MPX and Orange Leap On Demand.

2Dialog offers a suite of online fundraising and e-Communication tools. One of2Dialog’s online communication tools, called Billboard, embraces all aspects of direct response marketing strategies. It enables organizations to easily create and execute effective email campaigns through the use of microsites and landing pages in order to maximize donations. 2Dialog has a lot of functionality in one stand-alone tool which now seamlessly integrates with both MPX and Orange Leap On Demand.

The benefits of the integration include:

Donor Data Synchronization

• Data segmentations created in MPX and Orange Leap On Demand are available in Billboard for emailing campaigns.
• Donors in MPX and Orange Leap On Demand are synchronized within 2Dialog.
• Important campaign data captured in Billboard is automatically transferred back into MPX and Orange Leap On Demand.

Email Deliverability System

• Ability to send email fundraising and marketing campaigns to your constituents and donors.
• Campaign effectiveness and donor behavioral analysis can be done within2Dialog, MPX, or Orange Leap On Demand.

Microsites/Landing Pages

• Quick deployment of e-campaigns through the use of campaign specific microsites/landing pages and forms created within the Billboard tool.
• Transactions done in Billboard are instantly available to be viewed in MPX and Orange Leap On Demand.
• Data captured within these pages are automatically transferred back into2Dialog, MPX, and Orange Leap On Demand.

Common Vision

• Business and Product Development Goals and future direction are shared between both partners.
• Relationship established in 2009. Product integration began in 2010 and was demonstrated with MPX at OrangeCon in 2011.

For more information, please contact orangeleap@2dialog.com.

Orange Leap — Simple

A simple explanation of how Orange Leap On-Demand software can help organize and manage constituent and donor relationships for non-profit fund raising organizations.

Tanzanian rats sniff out mines (and they use Orange Leap as their CRM solution!)

A project in Tanzania is teaching rats how to save human lives. Blessed with a keen sense of smell, they are being trained to detect land mines and have so far helped clear nearly two million squared… Find Out More

Dallas Contemporary Chooses Orange Leap to Enhance All Aspects of Member Marketing, Events, and Fundraising

DALLAS, TEXAS (October 18, 2010) – Dallas Contemporary — a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging exhibitions from regional, national and international artists — has selected Orange Leap On Demand as its platform for managing the growth of their member marketing, events, and fundraising efforts.

Orange Leap provides a highly innovative and easy to use software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that strengthens relationships between an organization and its constituents and donors. Used by organizations around the world, Orange Leap On Demand is a powerful, full featured, constituent relationship management solution designed specifically for nonprofits.

Having recently moved into a beautiful new facility in the vibrant “design district” and with the addition of new Executive Director Peter Doroshenko (recently President and Artistic Director at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev), Dallas Contemporary finds itself in a wonderful position of growth and change.

“In the past we’ve had a donor database which holds donor information and gift history — with Orange Leap we’re adding a solution that not only captures all our constituent information, but also automates our member marketing and donor fundraising efforts both online and off”, noted Database and IT Administrator Christos Polemenakos.

He continued, “In addition to a powerful business rules engine which gives us room to grow without adding staff, Orange Leap On Demand is easy to use and manages our online marketing and fundraising without having to build and manage complicated integration between Orange Leap and our website”

Dallas Contemporary is another example of a nonprofit organization who has grown tired of the expensive and complicated standard offerings for nonprofits and selected Orange Leap over competitive constituent management solutions because of the powerful automation, ease of use, and robust feature set – all in a true online software-as-a-service platform.

“This is clearly an exciting time for Dallas Contemporary, and we are very honored to partner with them in their growth”, said Randy McCabe, Founder and CEO of Orange Leap. “With our innovative product that actually automates a lot of the fundraising and communications delivered in a true software-as-a-service platform, more and more nonprofits are recognizing that moving to Orange Leap is the smartest and safest thing they can do to help them grow.”

About Dallas Contemporary

Dallas Contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging exhibitions from regional, national and international artists. The institution is committed to engaging the public through exhibitions, lectures, educational programs and events. Recently relocated in a repurposed industrial building at 161 Glass Street in the Design District, Dallas Contemporary is a unique artspace with a rotating schedule of dynamic exhibitions. For information, please call 214-821-2522 or visit www.dallascontemporary.org.

About Orange Leap

Orange Leap energizes nonprofits, making it easier for them to achieve mission success. The Dallas-based company (formerly known as MPower Open) offers innovative yet simple to use software-based solutions that strengthen relationships with constituents and other nonprofits. Orange Leap’s ever-growing community collaborates on advanced technology and smarter practices using Orange Leap’s open-source code. Nonprofits big and small, with a wide range of missions and constituencies, choose Orange Leap to move their organizations forward.
For more information, please visit www.orangeleap.com.

Orange Leap Announces 100% Sales Growth

DALLAS, TEXAS (October 12, 2010) — Orange Leap, a leading provider of automated constituent relationship management solutions for nonprofit organizations, today announced sales results for the third quarter 2010 in which they achieved significant growth both quarter over quarter and year-to-date over 2009.

• New users added during the third quarter were 30% greater than the same quarter last year.
• New sales booked during the third quarter were 41% greater than the same quarter last year.
• New users added year-to-date are 30% greater than year-to-date for 2009.
• New sales booked year-to-date are 100% greater than year-to-date for 2009.

Orange Leap provides a highly innovative and easy to use software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that strengthens relationships between an organization and its constituents and donors. Used by organizations around the world, Orange Leap On Demand is a powerful, full featured, constituent relationship management solution designed specifically for nonprofits.

“We are thrilled about our sales growth for the quarter and the year-to-date trend that continues to validate our Orange Leap On Demand product and software-as-a-service business model,” said Randy McCabe, Founder and CEO.  “It is refreshing to see so many forward-thinking nonprofits who are discarding the labor-intensive manual techniques of passive data repositories in exchange for active automation that allows them to focus on their mission.  At the same time, we are humbled by the trust these new customers are putting in our organization.  We are grateful for their business and will continue to work aggressively to honor their decisions.”

About Orange Leap

Orange Leap energizes nonprofits, making it easier for them to achieve mission success. The Dallas-based company (formerly known as MPower Open) offers innovative yet simple to use software-based solutions that strengthen relationships with constituents and other nonprofits. Orange Leap’s ever-growing community collaborates on advanced technology and smarter practices using Orange Leap’s open-source code. Nonprofits big and small, with a wide range of missions and constituencies, choose Orange Leap to move their organizations forward. For more information, please visit www.orangeleap.com.

FocusDriven the Platform to Manage Communications, Marketing, and Fundraising

FocusDriven is a fast-growing advocacy group for victims of motor vehicle crashes that involve drivers using cell phones. The company recently selected Orange Leap (News – Alert) On-Demand as its platform for managing the growth of their constituent relationships, communications, and fundraising efforts. Read More

101 Open Source Apps for Enterprises: Orange Leap is on the List!

54. Orange Leap

Orange Leap claims to be the first full-featured CRM package aimed at non-profits (in this case, the C stands for “constituent” not “customer”). It’s Web-based and includes profile personalization (to make it easy to tell donors from volunteers), correspondence and payment history, and built-in reporting and scheduling. Operating System: Windows. Commercial Support Available? Yes

Check out the whole article: 101 Open Source Apps for Enterprises

Orange Leap Newsletter August 2010

We thought you’d want to be kept up to date with some of the latest news and events in the Orange Leap Community.  Here’s what’s hot at Orange Leap as we melt in the heat of the summer of 2010.

• Refactoring MPX
• On Demand Version 11 Release
• Orange Leap Mobile Application
• Online Tools
• OrangeCon2010 (Online Free) Sign-Up
• Featured Partner: Donor Trends

Giant Leap Forward in Integration and Automation – MPX Refactoring!

MPX has been undergoing quite an overhaul with two main purposes; the first is to give MPX developers, customers, partners, and other third party developers an easier code base to add on to, integrate with, and develop around.  The second (and perhaps more important to MPX customers who don’t have as many IT resources) is to make it easy for our internal team to release all the cutting edge technology we’ve built for Orange Leap On Demand to MPX as well.  While MPX will always be our On Premise product, this refactoring enables MPX to take advantage of powerful new technologies that didn’t exist when MPX was originally released just several years ago.  Technologies like Business Rules, Active Messaging, and the Online Tools talked about in this newsletter. Read more about the MPX Refactoring here

Easier to Navigate, More Rapid Deployment of Features, and a New Events Module – Orange Leap On Demand Version 11

Orange Leap On Demand hasn’t been sitting still either.  Version 11 is our most ambitious release since Orange Leap On Demand was born.

• If you thought our user interface was easy to navigate, just wait until you see V11 – we’re simplifying Orange Leap On Demand to put the right things at your fingertips where they make sense and do you the most good.
• We’ve found the secret to screaming fast deployment of new features and modules – creating custom modules through a collection of custom tables, reporting views, and business rules.  This means we can create new features, screens, and even modules by our product analysts through administration screens instead of just developers through engineering efforts.  What once took “man-months” now takes hours.
• In fact, our new Events Module was created using this new functionality – in three weeks.  Let us know what you want to see in Orange Leap On Demand next.

Read more about Orange Leap On Demand Version 11 here

The Power of MPX or Orange Leap On Demand Wherever You Go – Introducing the Orange Leap App!

The Orange Leap App is for nonprofit professionals who need the power of MPX or Orange Leap On Demand at their fingertips wherever they go by accessing and acting on real time their constituent data through their iPhone, Blackberry, or Android smart phone. Find out more about our new Orange Leap App here

Make Your Website Smart by Putting the Power of Orange Leap On Demand or MPX Behind It – Introducing Orange Leap Online Tools!

Every organization struggles with the problem of keeping your offline and online data in sync.  Whether you maintain a real time integration between the two or batch upload from one to the other, let’s face it, it’s the biggest problem facing the multi-channel marketing, communication, and fundraising world we now live in. Orange Leap has turned that problem on it’s head by creating a suite of Online Tools that literally “extend” your Orange Leap On Demand or MPX database online.  Tools that are easy to deploy and give your website the ability to serve your constituents better by taking donations, giving donors view and print access to their giving history and the ability to update their contact information, and even letting them register for events online and directly into Orange Leap On Demand or MPX. Read more about Orange Leap Online Tools here.

OrangeCon2010

Orange Leap Invites you to join our team, our customers, our partners, and the rest of the Orange Leap community for two days of Education and Collaboration.

November 3rd and 4th, 2010

OrangeCon2010 is a two day educational event focused on helping users and developers to get the most from Orange Leap On Demand, MPX, and The Guru. By attending OrangeCon2010, you will learn, grow, and inspire your organization to build better relationships with your constituents and raise more money to fuel your mission! Click here to learn more and pre-register Registration: $100/person to attend in person and free for customers to attend online.

Featured Partner: Donor Trends

Imagine if you had access to information that would show you who else your donors are giving to, the size of their contribution, the type of gift and much more.  OrangeLeap has partnered with DonorTrends to bring every customer a complimentary Giving Analysis Profile (GAP) report that will reveal never-before seen fundraising insights.  Click to find more