29 Mar 11 ALA Migration Report#2

I am delighted to report that the upgrade to our association management system was successful. A team led by Tim Smith, Assistant Director of ITTS began the work on Friday March 18 at 5:00 PM and completed at about 11:00 PM on Saturday. Jeff Dong, our Database Adminstrator was essential to the upgrade’s preparation and implementation.

Staff access to the database required in-person visits to their computers to properly remove the previous version and install the new one.  Member and Customer Service and Accounting were updated by Monday morning and all other staff who needed access were updated by Friday, March 25.

This upgrade will make it possible for us to move forward on a number of initiatives.  The most immediate impact is improved security procedures for password resets. The underlying infrastructure change makes more web services possible, which will enable us to proceed with improvements to the website and ALA Connect, and eventually, our e-commerce system.

Sherri Vanyek
Director, ITTS