Origins of Pose
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Back in 2004, Sydney Festival had 7 different software programs used by different departments to manage the data for festival planning, VIP invitations, sponsorship, marketing etc. If one person changed the description for an event, there was not an automatic flow through of that information to all other staff who used it. Not everyone had access to the festival schedule. It was a nightmare scramble to communicate late changes to all who needed the data. Sometimes changes just fell through the cracks. Ian Marks was the accountant there. He received a flyer in the mail from Just For You Software promoting their total business management software. After looking at the version available back then, Ian said, “Love the functionality, hate the look of it! My people are in the arts. They’ll never use it.” The Sydney Festival had evaluated an off-the-shelf solution. However, its customisation cost alone to meet the Sydney Festival’s requirements would have been more than twice as expensive as Just For You Software’s custom solution. So Sydney Festival commissioned Just For You Software to create a custom program specifically for festival management. The result of intensive planning and liaison between the developer and Sydney Festival, POSE was implemented, module by module, as the year progressed. Just For You Software delivered a production management module within four months, and modules for event planning, people management, VIP management, organisational contacts, and sponsorship management followed within a year. It was also part of the brief that the new software could be used on the Festival of Sydney’s existing three year old hardware infrastructure and maintained by a non-technical person. POSE is running without the need for a database administrator or additional hardware costs. POSE has been significantly expanded and refined over the subsequent years to provide the user experience most festival planners only dream about. POSE now more than replaces the seven separate systems that were used by different departments with a single integrated event management solution used by the organisation’s entire staff. What next?Just For You Software have a copy of POSE available on a public facing server. If you would like to see what POSE looks like and put our event planning software through its paces, just drop us a line and we will be happy to walk you through a demonstration of it.
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