Administration and work organization

CRI is changing quickly and now has to deal with growing administration demands : finance management and HR management software, office software for staff, event organisation, meeting scheduling and ressources reservation, online form processing and process automation, etc.

As our aim is to keep CRI up-to-date and scalable, all our future administration apps should be completely online. It will also help us to seamlessly move in Charles V new building.

Administration software

Currently used applications :

Excel is used for most financial documents and processes (budget, reporting, etc.)
Accounting is done with a local client software.

What we need :

A Customer Relationship Management Tool (CRM) to follow our contacts with financers and all external partners, current and potential.
An integrated Finance management system.

Finance and IT teams are working on functional and technical specifications.

Office software

Currently used applications :

Microsoft Office,
Google Apps

Recommandation :

CRI members should use Google apps whenever possible, to have truly collaborative documents where many persons can update the document at the same time. In Microsoft Office, version conflicts are very common.

To achieve this, some training might be necessary for the staff.

Form tools

Currently used applications :

JotForm
Google Forms
Wrike Forms
WordPress forms

What we need :

Compatibility over Google Apps to transform the results into a excel sheet
CRI ID compatibility
User-friendly interface

Easy scheduling

Currently used applications :

Doodle,
Foodle,
FramaDoodle,
Google Calendar

What we need :

A user-friendly tool with clear interface, well integrated with Google Calendar. In most cases, Google Calendar itself can do the job nicely, if people use it as their main pro calendar with their CRI account.

Event organisation

Currently used applications :

EventBrite,
Meetup,
Doodle pro,
Facebook events

What we need :

A user-friendly unified system that we can modify at will.
Multiple ticketing systems for each events, with integrated online payment.

Recommandation :

In concertation with the communication team, IT Team installed Attendize to organize events and sell tickets. It's an opensource solution that is engaging, powerful easy to customize and free. Meetup can be used to mobilize communities for our events.

Digital tools library

Since we have a great number of apps, we might use an app directory or an ENT (Digital Work Environment in french university mumbo-jumbo). The easiest way to achieve this would be to integrate the most critical apps to the CRI Google App Store.

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